Cord-cutters’ leaving cable and satellite
Over-the-air free TV clear in some places, not others
Full Article go to : https://www.dcourier.com/news/2018/jan/21/cord-cutters-leaving-cable-and-satellite/
James Todd of Arizona TV Worx in Prescott is staying busy these
days from “Cord Nevers” and those wanting to save money on their TV use.
(Les Stukenberg/Courier)
With the trend toward so-called “cord cutting,” cable and
satellite TV operators may have a legitimate worry about declining
subscriber numbers.
In 2017, 22.2 million U.S. adults cut the cord on pay TV services, like cable or satellite, in favor of online streaming or over-the-air TV. That’s a 33 percent jump from the 16.7 million who left in 2016.
And then there’s the incoming wave of “cord nevers,” composed primarily of millennials, who have never paid for TV, estimated at 34.4 million.
All of this is, of course, good news for over-the-air television broadcasters, who, at one point, were thought to be in trouble, in light of the burgeoning satellite and cable rosters.
You can still get TV, very good quality high-definition TV, over the air, said Rich Howe, general manager of Prescott’s lone TV station, KAZT.
And, in fact, for those connoisseurs of high-quality pictures and sound, over-the-air signals “when you’re not having to pass through any type of ‘pipe,’ like cable or satellite, you’re going to get a purer signal,” Howe said. “There’s no compression, and cable and satellite have to compress their (HD) signals to fit into their pipeline ... but with over-the-air (TV), there is none.”
In 2017, 22.2 million U.S. adults cut the cord on pay TV services, like cable or satellite, in favor of online streaming or over-the-air TV. That’s a 33 percent jump from the 16.7 million who left in 2016.
And then there’s the incoming wave of “cord nevers,” composed primarily of millennials, who have never paid for TV, estimated at 34.4 million.
All of this is, of course, good news for over-the-air television broadcasters, who, at one point, were thought to be in trouble, in light of the burgeoning satellite and cable rosters.
You can still get TV, very good quality high-definition TV, over the air, said Rich Howe, general manager of Prescott’s lone TV station, KAZT.
And, in fact, for those connoisseurs of high-quality pictures and sound, over-the-air signals “when you’re not having to pass through any type of ‘pipe,’ like cable or satellite, you’re going to get a purer signal,” Howe said. “There’s no compression, and cable and satellite have to compress their (HD) signals to fit into their pipeline ... but with over-the-air (TV), there is none.”
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....If you don’t want regular free TV, streaming services abound; with a
device like the Google Chrome (about $35) plugged into your TV, your
phone can send Hulu, Netflix, and many others right to it. That includes
YouTube and Google Play, which allow you to rent movies without a
subscription and play them on a TV via your phone. Services like Philo
offer packages of multiple channels for considerably less per month than
cable or satellite, so if the channels you usually enjoy are in the
package, you could stand to save hundreds of dollars over the course of a
year.
There are many such services to choose from, but they all have a
couple of things in common: you’ll need to have a high-speed internet
connection and you’ll have to be at least a little tech-savvy to set
them up and troubleshoot them.
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