Note: this is not a “you should stop paying for cable right now!” post. I’m legitimately interested in why people pay for cable TV. I personally don’t and I never have, but I have good reasons for this:

• I don’t watch much TV at all. This is reason #1 and probably the main one. It’s simply not worth shelling out however much it is for cable with as little TV as I watch.
• For most of the TV I do watch, I don’t mind watching it after it airs, either on Netflix or Hulu.
• The only TV I really like watching live is sports. I can watch all the Braves games I want with my MLB.tv subscription, and I can watch just as many NFL games in HD as someone who pays for cable with my rooftop antenna.

So … I guess if you do pay for cable, it’s probably for the opposite of one of the above reasons, right? Maybe you like several of the shows you can’t get on Hulu, like “Breaking Bad” or “Mad Men”, and you can’t wait for them to come out on DVD. Maybe your favorite baseball team is local, and you need to get cable to watch them live (with MLB.tv, local teams are blacked out, which is ridiculous, especially if you live in Las Vegas or Iowa). Also, maybe you just love your TiVo? Though I guess that’s not really an excuse anymore.

So! Why haven’t you cut the cord?