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[QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 1995074, member: 3609"]
I need an explanation of "cord cutting".  The only thing I understand about it is that you're not getting the games via Comcast, FiOS, Time-Warner, etc., because you're no longer their customer.  Now here's where I lose understanding of what's going on.  To watch the games that only appear on one of the ESPNs you have to get Roku, etc., plugged into your TV via some port on the back of the TV.  My understanding is that Roku, etc., are not free.  If they're allowed to transfer ESPN's games to your TV don't they have to pay a fee to ESPN?  Everyone says "ESPN is losing subscribers."  Are they really losing them if everyone who has one of those devices gets ESPN?  Or is the point that they don't get as much money from Roku, etc., that they did from Comcast, FiOS, and Time-Warner, etc.?  Ms. Hoo's That wants to end our cable subscriptions, but she also fully understands that I have to have the ESPNs and Comcast SportsNet (our RSN for the ACC games).  If we do that am I no longer a subscriber to the ESPNs and CSN even though I'm getting their content coming into my TV through a different port?
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