Let me entertain you (or life without cable)

Posted by Alli on July 30, 2009

When America made the switch to digital television (it’s a law, ya’ll!), we ditched our cable and hooked up an antenna on the top of our house. We get a very clear picture on the stations we currently get (14 total). With the reduction in channels, it is very easy to turn the television off because there isn’t much on.

But that doesn’t mean we are missing television shows. Thanks to the power of the internet, I’m pretty much caught up on popular and entertaining shows from any station.

Hulu.com handles my enjoyment of Royal Pains. And Psyche. And Monk. And House. And Glee (which is a whole other post. Because I love me some Glee.).

Damon and I used Amazon’s Video on Demand for watching all of Dexter, Season 2. Yes we had to pay for it, but if we had Showtime we would be paying and if we had rented it we would have paid for it. So, paying for it on Amazon was just fine with me. It allowed us to “freebase” Dexter in one week. (And we really, really liked it!) The Video on Demand service is really easy to use and sometimes you find free things like the first two episodes of the original Transformers. We are thinking about checking out The Tudors or Nurse Jackie someday.

In most cases we use my laptop to hook up to the television and see everything on the “big screen.” It works well, even though I then can’t multitask watching and using the laptop. Which is fine, since just cutting down to one activity rests my brain even a little.

So, there is television entertainment without cable. And we are pretty happy with it. Do you still need cable television?

[tags]digital television, internet television, hulu.com, Royal Pains, Glee, Amazon Video on Demand, Dexter[/tags]

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