As TV options grow, cable must go a la carte: Your Say

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I couldn't agree more with a la carte options for cable.

I only want seven channels, but I'm paying for more than 60 on a basic bundle plan and not getting three of the seven I want.

—@HMOORE123

Ditch cable, get Internet-only service, throw in a Leaf antenna if you are within 25 miles of a large city, then get Hulu and Netflix (or Amazon Prime). You'll pay one-third of what you did for cable.

Cable companies are stuck. They can't afford to do what they need to because of contracts.

They plan to milk consumers for as long as possible to make shareholders happy. Each year, subscribers will pay more and get less as commercials take up ever more of each broadcast hour.

—William Travis

Clearly, nobody wins if the cable companies can't or won't go a la carte. There's a large and growing fraction of the population who just won't buy the whole package. If the cable companies don't change, they're going down within the next few years as the online options continue to improve.

—Sam Good

I hope they change because these prices are ridiculous. And while I do enjoy ESPN, I can get my sports elsewhere.

—Carlos Comacho

We dumped cable and bought a Tablo DVR, Netflix and Hulu. We also got rid of the landline that hadn't had an outgoing call in over two years.

We now save $100 per month. We DVR everything we watch, so we don't deal with commercials. After looking at what we watched, it was local channels, ESPN during college football season, TNT, AMC and FX, and for that we paid $180 a month to get the dreaded bundle.

—Gordon Green