Netflix, Hulu, iTunes...Oh My!

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The economy is still in the dump, which means that disruptive technologies have a great opportunity to succeed by using the demand to save money to promote change. Netflix, Hulu and iTunes are offering a different way to view and pay for television content. And apparently a few hundred thousand people are taking the plunge and dumping their cable service. Earlier this year The Yankee group said that 1 in 8 Americans will cancel their cable subscriptions before the end of 2010.

In theory the move makes sense. Cable bills can range from $40 to $240 a month. That's a lot of content by a pay per view standard. THe additional force at work is that social networks and the internet are also cutting into tv time as a source of entertainment. So when many people count up the shows they can't do without and add up how much it cost them to purchase those shows, stream and download. They see real savings.

Have you thought about dumping your cable bill and saving a few bucks?