A few days in the past, I noted that notwithstanding the reality that we now discover ourselves with cable TV provider (after Cablevision made us a package provide we couldn't refuse), I did not anticipate to use it very an awful lot. The maximum critical purpose I did now not see a good deal gain to cable is that I've emerge as acquainted with watching TV by myself time desk thru the magic of the Internet. When we track into Hulu or visit one of the networks' websites, we will pick out any to be had episode of any available display and watch it then and there. After a few years of this, I did not expect I should cross lower returned to being constrained to something occurs to be on at a given time.
Well, it seems that I don't need to...Exactly. Perhaps because of the truth I'm not the only individual who dislikes being tied to a time desk, Cablevision offers a issuer known as
Of course, in order to watch this way, you need a way to get online. But fortunately, we already have a way to hook up our TV set to the Internet: our little media computer, the very same one we've been using up until now to watch TV for free. So it looks like we might actually get some use out of our cable service after all—but ironically, we have less reason than ever to actually turn on the cable box. Doing that can only give us the shows that are on right now; going through the Internet instead can give us any show we like. So it looks like the cable service is really more of an upgrade to our media computer than an alternative to it.
