Cutting the Cable

A poor, unnamed Reuters writer:

The number of households in the United States that own television sets is estimated to have declined for the first time in 20 years, according to forecast figures from the Nielsen Co that were released on Tuesday.

The switch from analog to digital broadcast in 2009, the economic downturn and the trend among consumers to watch TV programs across other platforms, including computers and tablet devices, were given as reasons for the shift.

Still, it was estimated that in 2012, some 96.7 percent of U.S. households will own televisions, down from 98.9 percent in 2011.

I’m in the tiny percentage without a television in the home. We use our 27-inch iMac to watch DVDs, stream video from Netflix and Hulu and play music. It gets the job done, without the extra 128 channels of crap we would never watch.