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francine hardaway in Midcentury ModernJan 303 min read

Cutting the Cord is Not Just for Millennials

Dear Cox: If you annoy me enough, even I will leave the land of cable. Signed, the Baby Boomers

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Nick GrossmanFeb 23

…on open set-top boxes

“Asking a cable company to compete is like asking water to be dry. It is simply not supported by nature.”

Inside the FCC’s audacious plan to blow up the cable box

Nilay Patel, www.theverge.com

Alexis PereiraNov 1, 20155 min read

Nice Try, Time Warner Cable

Getting cable is harder than I thought.

I decided it was finally time to order cable TV. I was tired of praying that Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime would suddenly have a show that premiered within the last two years. Also, I’m an adult now — I can’t be…

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D Steven LedinghamJan 41 min read

Netflix is on F***ing Fire

James McNab

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I so much prefer my services of Netflix, Amazon and Hulu over both time warner and dish. What I want, when I want it, limited commercials (or none) and no need for a DVR.

When I first “cut the cable” I was really surprised by going through “withdrawal”. I was actually Jonesing for my “Entertainment Fix.” Yes I felt kind of…

Audrey MullenJan 315 min read

FCC targets cable set-top boxes — why now?

by Steven Titch, Associate Fellow, R Street Institute

With great fanfare, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Thomas Wheeler is calling for sweeping changes to the way cable television set-top boxes work. In an essay…