Month One Without Cable TV
I just realized it has been a full month plus without cable TV. To say I did not miss it is an understatement. It is possible my bird missed watching Dirty Jobs or Mythbusters, I sorta did. But, overall I watched as much of the Olympics as I wanted to. The local news is visually sharper over-the-air so I liked it better. I watched the same number of Netflix DVDs as before so I did not increase my viewing time.
What it comes down to is I missed a few cable only programs that I might have enjoyed watching, but those will be on podcasts or Itunes at some time in the future.
I did have to adjust to watching Rachael Maddow and Keith Olbermann on podcasts the day following the broadcast. Which was only a few hours later than laying in bed half asleep at 1:30 in the morning maybe seeing the reruns. So I do get to watch the podcasts when I am awake.
Although I started with a powerful computer I upgraded with Windows 7 and a few new cables for HD and Dolby. The video and audio cards did not need changing out since I built my computer with the good ones a while ago. The output from online video and audio can be as good as over-the-air.
Yesterday I built a simple media computer to take the load off of my laptop computer for my bedroom viewing. The motherboards available today are excellent for audio and video without having to purchase separate items. So I could make an very nice media computer using just a motherboard, processor, memory, DVD drive and hard drive. Sweet!
This experiment was super nice when I wrote the cable payment too.