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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Should You Cut the Cord on Cable? [Watch (HLS stream): Should You Cut the Cord on Cable?](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/pqmHwOaI.m3u8) (3:38)  _Published 2015-02-05. MONEY's Jake Davidson and Taylor Tepper debate whether paying for cable television is still worthwhile._ --- Jul 27, 2023 5:53 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [MONEY's Best Places to Retire](/video/CT0oNUGL/) ### MONEY's Best Places to Retire [Financial Fix: Help Me Cut My Cable Bill](/video/QerleNF0/) ### Financial Fix: Help Me Cut My Cable Bill [Cord Cutting: 5 Ways to Ditch Cable](/video/Nz5NzJXZ/) ### Cord Cutting: 5 Ways to Ditch Cable --- ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Hello, I am Taylor [ Tepper ?]. I'm Jake Davidson. And this is Millennial Money Minute. And we are here talking about cable television and whether or not you should cut the cord. I have cable, Jake doesn't. That's right. Basically, it comes down to the fact that I just like not having to work. To watch television. I like that I can watch live sports. I like watching all those things as they're happening. And I like doing it from my couch on to this big awesome. Clear television. I don't like watching TV on, like, my 17 inch screen computer on my bed, as, like, my laptop heats up and, like, burns my stomach. That's what I don't like. Why am I being wrong? Well, my, my favorite part of watching on a computer is the, is the burning sensation. [ LAUGHS ] But, I think the, the difference here is, it j, it depends sort of first what your budget is and second what kind of T. TV watcher. Like, if you're a big sports fan and you need to be watching every NBA game, you need to be watching the MLB games, NFL, you're a big soccer fan, a lot of sports, then it makes sense cuz then you're getting kind of value. Cuz you can't get a lot of sports at a really cost effective way. But, if you're not paying for cable. But if you look at the average price of a normal extended cable plan is around $ 65 a month. You add that up over a year. You can get Amazon Prime Hulu and Netflix. And you still have like $ 400 left over. Right. So I think in that case then you can start buy, you can buy like a TV series. You can by NHL Game Center. I agree that it makes a lot of sense. And I agree that. Cord cutting is, for a lot of people and for us too, it's a lot of ways to save money, and I think as people get more and more comfortable with this technology, and sort of enjoying television and enjoying entertainment from a bunch of different systems. I think that's fine, I think its legitimate. The one thing that's not legitimate. One thing that sort of gets stuck in my craw is that, people coming over and watching live events. And I think that's fine and like, I'm a social person, I like having my friends over. I think it's really, it's nice to be around people, but. They are the moochers. You are the moochers. Yeah. I'm totally mooching, but, like- And I am the one being mooched. I just want that acknowledged by the core cutting class. Are you, are you asking me to pay, like $ 400 more per year to watch the Super Bowl? Like, I'm not going to do that. I'm not ask, I'm not asking you to pay for anything. I'm not asking for people who come over to my house to watch television give me money. I just wanted to, I just want to acknowledge. Like the [ UNKNOWN ]- No, no, no. I just want to acknowledge that, like, just as the guy driving the car who's like paying for the gas, I'm the guy paying for the cable and paying for your hour and half, or if it's football, four and half hours of enjoyment. I think, you know, that's modern welfare distribution, right there. All right well I think it's, I, I think, I think we came to a nice point where it sort of depends on where you are in your life and what you need this entertainment be. If you need it to be something that's more passive and something that you can just sort of experience and not have to go through the trouble of finding. It's maybe you pay the premium but if you just don't mind negotiating these different disparate systems, just, you know, save the money. Yeah, and I also just think like the trend of technology is, these services right now it really does [ UNKNOWN ]. Try to integrate them but even that's getting easier. Yeah, it's better. So I think over the next God knows how long, but. Yeah. It will become possible for you to just search like, I want this show, and it will check, and then some services already do this. Yeah. Check all these services and make that easier and, and I think that's happening faster than Cable's becoming attractive. That's true. And also, Cable is notoriously, and from first hand. It's true. Cable is very difficult to deal with. Yes. Okay. 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