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Well It’s been a long time since I’ve updated my blog. So for all the cord cutters, its been about a year now since I have cut the cord on cable/DirecTV, and I’ve not looked back. It’s been fantastic and saved me money more importantly. At work we have been working on videos for a big pharmaceutical company for one of their sales meetings. We’ve had puppets made that look like some of the managers. We recorded the managers lines from the scripts and It’s been my job to animate the puppets. Since I am the only one in the office who has performance experience. It takes me back to my entertaining days. Though it’s not really been that long. I’ve got so many things I want to do right now. It’s hard to find the time to make them all happen, maybe it’s time to narrow my field.

It’s been a whole half year since my household cut the cord. We have received several calls from DirecTV and Time Warner asking if I would like a TV bundle, I literally laugh at them. They ask what I am paying and I say, “well $8 for Hulu, $14 for Netflix, and nothing for my antenna.” Then I ask if they can beat that price. The answer is of course, no. I’ve rented a couple movies from Amazon which didn’t cost really anything with the promotions I’ve opted into.

Ok my first concern was, where am I going to get children’s programming for my son? Not long after we started it all, it was like I struck gold: Amazon had “Sesame Street” episodes, then Netflix got more episodes, plus “Yo Gabba Gabba!”, and tons of other PBS stuff.

Next I was worried about missing current shows, Hulu Plus is still catching up on this one, but it’s also pretty easy to catch a show on when it first airs via the antenna.

We have since saved some $360, give or take, since we cut the cord. The Roku has more then payed for it self, along with the subscriptions.

Over all the experience has been great, no issues. But as I have said before, it’s not for everybody just yet.

Most of the motion for MatthewWorley.com has moved over to my LDS blog at MormonCast.org. In addition, I’ve been working on a short story, and we recently submitted Mouthbreathers to the LA Webfest. It’s still a work in progress and we plan on updating the episodes with a few more things,  we just had to get them out to the festival before the deadline.

Thats about it for right now.