With the high cost of cable TV you may be looking for a less expensive alternative.  If you have internet, an idea is to cancel your cable all together.  No, you don’t have to watch TV on your small computer monitor.  Newer computers have an “HDMI out”, so you can send streaming video to any TV that was bought in the past ten years.

ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS all have free TV shows.  Click here for a list.

Hulu, Netflix, Redbox and Amazon Prime all have libraries.  They each cost about $8 a month.  Hulu is biased toward newer TV shows.  The Free Trial is only onee week but some shows are free.  Netflix has more, older movies.  Redbox is new.   It is an expansion on their successful DVD vending machine business.  The Streaming video is in partnership with Verizon. 

I have Amazon Prime.  It is now easy to find the videos.  You pay $80 a year and get free shipping and access to their video library.  There is a lot of free content but not as big as Netflix.  Unlike Netflix, not all of the videos are free with the membership.  What aren't included in the annual price can be as much as $4 to rent for a day.

All of them have a free trial period.  Try one after another and cancel after a month.  That is almost four months of free movies and TV.  After you have tried all four, sign up with the one you like best.

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