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Step 3: Drink from the stream, or jump through Hulu’s hoops. Most networks offer similar online programming, though availability is unpredictable and can vary without warning. Watching "The Daily Show’s" previous three weeks is as simple as going to, and the entire season of Louis C.K.’s scabrous sitcom "Louie" is available via FX’s website, along with more limited samplings of "Rescue Me" and "It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia." Needless to say, both sites and many more like them offer plenty of non-broadcast content, from extended "Daily Show "interviews (more Blago!) to deleted scenes. In a good number of instances, individual episodes and even whole seasons are available to watch on the show’s own website. So before you walk down this road, ask yourself: How important is morning-after chatter? Is it worth $100 or more to avoid having to screen your Twitter feed for spoilers? If it is, then you’re already right where you belong. By holding off until at least the next day to offer episodes for sale, they preserve their first-run ratings while reaping the benefits of individual purchases.
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They know that if you could download "Glee" simultaneous to its network airing, their advertising revenues would plummet. (This doesn’t have to apply to the traditional broadcast networks, but we’ll get to that in a moment.) The networks may be blinkered, fighting a rear-guard action against the march to an on-demand world, but they aren’t stupid. It may take several hours or several months, but some sort of delay is inevitable, and deliberate. Whether you’re downloading, streaming or watching the DVD, getting to your favorite shows is going to take some time. (That goes double for televised sports and 24-hour news.) But allow us to make a heretical, even treasonous suggestion: If you need to Facebook your friends the second "True Blood’s" credits roll or you can’t live without the morning-after water cooler discussion of last night’s "Breaking Bad," then you’ll have to pay the Man for the privilege. Cutting the cord isn’t just a matter of liberation, but weaning. When it comes to disconnecting yourself from pay TV, the umbilical metaphor holds true down the line.
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So we set out to discover whether it was possible to cut the fabled cord and pay only for the TV you actually want to watch. Inertia kept us hooked to our television IV, but when we moved, the specter of a cable company drilling holes in our nice new walls was more than we could stomach. (Tina Fey, who grew up just beyond the city’s borders, has had a field day taking potshots at the monopolistic practices of the barely disguised "Kabletown.")
We live in Philadelphia, Comcast’s company town. As for other cable providers, no such luck. Paring back wasn’t really an option - Comcast’s unadvertised network-only plan would have deprived us of "Mad Men" and "The Daily Show," and we’d still have been paying through the nose - and satellite wasn’t much of an improvement. Sure, "Lost" looked pretty in HD, and "24" wouldn’t be the same without hearing that post-credits “whoosh” in 5.1 stereo, but simple arithmetic revealed it was costing us something like $5 for each episode of "30 Rock," which is a lot to ask for 22 minutes of laughs. We’re not browsers - Dad has too much appointment TV and too many DVDs stacked by the set for that - which means we were forking over more than $1,000 a year to watch a handful of regular shows.
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Before I cut the cord early last year, my family was paying Comcast upward of $100 a month for a spectrum of mostly unwanted channels, plus add-ons for digital cable, high-definition and the monthly rental on a DVR. HD, of course, costs extra, as does everything else. More than 100 million households get their TV from cable and satellite, and while (relatively) low-cost analog packages are still available, there’s not much point in shelling out for a flat-screen if you’re not going to feed it digital high-definition programming.
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Media conglomerates may have lost their grip on music profits and, to a lesser extent, movie grosses, but where television is concerned, they can count on having most Americans over a barrel.
With the proposed merger of Comcast and NBC Universal progressing apace toward the approval of the restraint-averse FCC, the cost of TV is sure to keep rising.
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