Philip J. Fry from Futurama once said, "Sheesh! Forty thousand channels and only a hundred and fifty of them have anything good on." And honestly, that's exactly how cable television was starting to feel. There were hundreds of channels, but very few actually had the shows we cared about. Trends come and go in mainstream media, but we kept coming back to our favorites shows like Futurama, Better Off Ted, tech and history shows, and yes, maybe a few things about cats. So when it was time to rethink our "Triple-Play" cable bundle, we decided to drop everything except internet service. The home phone had already been forwarded to voicemail for years because it was nothing but junk calls. The people and companies who actually mattered knew how to reach us anyway. As for television? By that point we were only watching three shows: Two of them we could record with our over-the-air HDHomeRun, and the third was available for free on streaming. That was true for most of the entertainment we…
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