The Beginner’s Guide to Cord Cutting Entertainment

With the pace of technology moving so fast, it is hard to keep up and it doesn’t take long before “the next big thing” is seen as a blast from the past. But while hardware quickly becomes obsolete, from smartphones to games consoles, other inventions go from strength to strength. Cord cutting entertainment services aren’t showing any sign of slowing in popularity – the number of households using only streaming services for entertainment, with no traditional cable and analogue TV services at all, has tripled in the last 5 years in the US alone. In the UK, there are now more people using streaming services than there are subscribers to ordinary pay TV.The concept of “cord cutting” may be fairly new, but it refers to something that many of us have been moving towards for some time. If you’re unfamiliar with the territory, here are the facts on what it is, how it works and the pros and cons of cutting the cord. The term ‘cord cutting’ refers to entertainment services which rely on your internet connection rather than a fixed satellite dish or aerial. This includes online streaming of entertainment, through services like Chromecast, Amazon’s Firestick and Roku. As well as plug-and-play streaming tools, subscription streaming channels like Netflix, Hulu and NowTV also fall into the cord cutter category.