<story><title>TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/cord-cutters-and-the-death-of-tv-2013-11</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shiftpgdn</author><text>Good riddance.  I cut the cord about a year and a half ago and replaced my cable box with a Roku box.  There was a brief period where I missed the background noise but now I find broadcast&amp;#x2F;cable television unbearably grating. Frankly I think the cable companies brought it upon themselves with the constant loud commercial interruptions, the garbage programming, and the utterly miserable cable box interfaces.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>interpol_p</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m in the same position. I cut the cord five years ago and have just been using Apple TV for Netflix.&lt;p&gt;TV commercials are impossible to put up with. They are almost painfully annoying. When I&amp;#x27;m visiting my family I just have to turn off the TV, it&amp;#x27;s impossible to concentrate on conversation otherwise.</text></comment>
<story><title>TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/cord-cutters-and-the-death-of-tv-2013-11</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shiftpgdn</author><text>Good riddance.  I cut the cord about a year and a half ago and replaced my cable box with a Roku box.  There was a brief period where I missed the background noise but now I find broadcast&amp;#x2F;cable television unbearably grating. Frankly I think the cable companies brought it upon themselves with the constant loud commercial interruptions, the garbage programming, and the utterly miserable cable box interfaces.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jseliger</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Good riddance&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The downside is that cable subscribers subsidize the handful of TV shows I actually want to watch. Individually, every person who quits makes a rational decision, but when everyone quits we don&amp;#x27;t get a lot of good shows.&lt;p&gt;Maybe Netflix or Amazon or whoever will take up the slack. Or maybe those shows will just go away.</text></comment>