As traditional television evolves to keep up with the new paradigm of binge-watching made popular by the Netflix phenomena more and more of your standard network television shows are being made available as soon as the day after airing for you to watch when you see fit. In fact it's becoming unusual not to find the show you want somewhere online within a day or two.

This is a great change for consumers. We no longer need to be chained to the television to watch our favorite shows only when they are scheduled to air. And therein lies the real benefit.

What this frees us up to do is to cut out our cable tv channel line-up altogether. I recently cut my "triple-play" down to internet only service and cut my monthly bill from about $130/mo. to only $55/mo. Honestly, I thought I'd miss the ability to flick around the channels as we've all grown up doing but I don't.

My one "must watch" channel that I absolutely cannot live without (FoxNews) I now stream live through a web browser on a spare mac mini that is now dedicated to streaming content from the web to my "Smart" TV. The rest I watch by finding my other shows archived online. The many services like Netflix and Hulu are huge providers of what I'm calling archived content of your favorite shows and between them and Amazon Prime there's not much you can't find.

So if you're willing to take the leap and "cut the cord" by cancelling your regular TV service and relying entirely on internet sources for content you're looking at savings from $25 to $100 per month!