Our family of five cut the embilical cord and have successfully entered three digits without the tube. We still watch TV, but have not had a cable or satellite TV package for 100+ days. We don’t even have an over the air antenna setup.

We might go back someday, but nobody is missing TV service that much yet. I was a little bummed that the NFL wasn’t going to be streamed (in the US) in that Yahoo deal, but other than football there has been very few reasons to add $50-$100+ to the monthly bills.

Kent explained recently why he dropped DirecTV. Kent, you could go TV-less and get your signal over the air for free and pick from the variety of legal video services online. I wonder if he thought about that option. So many other things families can do besides watch TV. There are games, DVDs and plenty of videos on the internet.

I wonder if this played on any level into the thinking behind Google buying YouTube that they figured more and more people would be ditching cable and satellite packages to view content over the web? This reminds me a little bit of when we switched our online business telephone to VoIP. Not a lot of people were doing VoIP back then but it’s more mainstream these days.

You can follow along on the Hmm home page exactly how many days we’ve been TV-less in the lower left margin. As of this writing the counter is at 114 days and counting. A couple guesses of 30 and 45 days from other Hmm readers have long since passed. Will we make it a full six months? A year? More? How long could you go without a TV package in your home?

• Attempted to drop DSL for cable for our offline business yesterday
• HBO On Demand deals with age old cable frustration
• Cable moans and groans — switch from Satellite or not?
• Update on (maybe) ditching cable for satellite
• Loren looking for firsthand Vonage experiences
• Life after TV = IPTV?