All Articles Tagged Cable Cord

Rachel Cericola | 04/05 09:42 AM, 4 Comments

People apparently weren’t all that mad at Netflix for raising its prices last year. The Convergence Consulting Group (via Entertainment Weekly) reports that about one million people dropped cable and satellite services in 2011 and turned to Netflix, Hulu and iTunes for their content. The report says 2.7 million U.S subscribers have said goodbye to cable and satellite services over the past three years. However, a million of those were just in 2011. The CCG says that 900,000 more will follow this year. Of course, that’s just a drop in… View this story

Rachel Cericola | 10/11 07:19 AM, 4 Comments

A new report by MagnaGlobal says almost 9 million homes will drop traditional pay TV services by 2016. But that doesn’t mean those homes will go without or even go the OTA (over the air) route. About 4 million of those homes will turn to the web for their entertainment needs. This is quite the increase, considering the magic number for 2011 was about 455,000 households. It helps that consumers no longer have to huddle around a computer. In July 2011, DisplaySearch said more than 25 percent of the TVs… View this story

Rachel Cericola | 08/15 07:24 AM, 16 Comments

While many consumers have threatened to cut cable or satellite TV, there are plenty of people out there that have already made that move. According to GigaOM, 193,000 subscribers recently cut ties with pay TV in the U.S. in Q2 2011. The report seems to think that those 193,000 households just didn’t think what they were paying was worth it. After all, how many of your service’s 200-plus channels do you actually watch on a regular basis? Source: GigaOMAnother reason could be that consumers have more options than ever. Despite… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 07/13 04:55 AM,

With Hulu Plus and Netflix, I was so close to cutting the cable cord. But now Netflix has gone and raised prices by 60% -- from $9.99 per month to $15.98 per month – for unlimited streaming and one disk per month. You can have one or the other – streaming or hard disk – for $7.99 per month. Here’s how the email exchange went with my husband: Him: [forwarding notice from Netflix] Netflix raising prices Me: [expletive] What would you like to do? Just streaming? No hard disks? We… View this story