# Explain Cord-Cutting (Cable, Satellite) To Me, In The Simplest Terms Possible

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 12, 2017, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-cord-cutting-cable-satellite-to-me-in-the-simplest-terms-possible/791133 "2017-07-12T22:18:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-cord-cutting-cable-satellite-to-me-in-the-simplest-terms-possible/791133/41 "2017-07-18T17:10:39Z")

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I haven’t had cable in over twenty years; it just didn’t work out price-wise for me and what I wanted to watch, which is lots of movies, a few TV series that proved popular enough to com out for home viewing, and zilch sports. I got disk-Netflix when I got a DVD player and the rental brick-and-mortars started collapsing. Between that and the disks I’d bought, I had plenty to fill my viewing hours. It did mean for popular TV programs like _Game of Thrones_ and _Walking Dead_ I had to wait a year later than everybody else was talking about it and studiously avoid spoilers. It worked because theRed Weddingwas as shocking to us as it was a year before.

Now I have both streaming and disk Netflix; I’d noticed less than one in eight movies in my queue was streamable when I was contemplating the upgrade. Disks are still mostly movies; streaming is mostly older TV shows (They have every _Star Trek_ ep. available, I think) and documentaries, which are harder to find on disk. GoT I still have to wait for the disk to come out because HBO isn’t letting stream (on Netflix, at least). It’s handy for the TV eps because I don’t have to wait for the disks to travel back and forth when I want to binge.

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