How Cable Companies are Coping With Cord Cutting

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/13/4427070/at-the-cable-show-an-industry-fights-cord-cutting-with-technology

The politics and alliances are interesting.  As a person who cut the cord (more tomorrow), seeing it from the outside is fascinating.

– Steve

 

How Cable Companies Can Adapt . . . Maybe

So I killed my cable.  Dead.  Gone.  No more.  Hulu, Netflix, and gizmos for me, thanks very much, that’s how I’ll get my video.

So now, based on my experience that cable is unnecessary (and financially unsound) for most households, what can cable companies do to become something more modern and useful?  What does it mean for us?

(This, by the way, assumes said companies will embrace change.  Cable companies have ,at times, followed in the steps of others, but I can’t say they’ve actually been enthused or active dealing with change.  But one can hope.)

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