She canceled her home telephone service for a time and is considering dropping cable.
The chief threat is consumers' dropping cable subscriptions, known as cord-cutting, or à la carte pricing for networks.
It is a fantasy shared by many Americans: dropping cable television and its fat monthly bills and turning instead to the wide-open frontier of Internet video.
HBO, owned by Time Warner, will launch HBO Now next month, a service aimed at consumers who are dropping cable TV packages and getting their media solely from the internet.
Give the wrong response, and the clue's dollar value is subtracted from the responder's tally (even into the negative, shown in red), and the other players get another crack at it.On a conservative estimate Babbage has watched over 2,000 Jeopardy episodes, although not many in recent years after dropping cable and satellite television.
This was tossed over the top of a chimney by a deep-sea vehicle steered by remote control from the surface; once dropped, cables inside the device were tightened around the chimney.
Mr. Britt sounded skeptical about the concept that households would drop cable en masse for Internet alternatives, known as cord cutting.
But the provider, and others like it, could change the pricing plans if many people begin to drop cable TV— essentially making up for losses on the television side by making broadband more expensive.
"Enough people drop cable and switch to DirecTV just for football that we have been able to notice it," said Fred Dressler, the executive vice president for programming at Time Warner Cable, the No. 2 cable provider.
The loss of exclusive access to HBO is likely to contribute to increased numbers of cord-cutters – as people who drop cable packages for standalone broadband access are known.
