Bryan O'Malley
“…and if I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know.”

In a contemporary review for The Dark Side of the Moon, Lloyd Grossman of Rolling Stone described “The Great Gig in the Sky” as a track [Pink Floyd] could have “shortened or dispensed”. However, in a readers poll from the same magazine, the track was selected as the second greatest vocal performan...

Interviewer: I did notice the camera footage was still professional level quality despite the webcams.

Yeah, the truth of the matter is we shot everything on the iPhone. At the risk of sounding like a commercial for Apple, we could not have done it without the technology of that company and thos...

This is the fourth part in my series on cutting the cord. If you're just visiting for the first time, you may want to start from the beginning. At minimum, I would strongly suggest you read Part 3: The Players where I discuss all of the major hardware, service, and streaming bundle alternatives...

This is the third part in my series on cutting the cord. If you're just visiting for the first time, you may want to start from the beginning.

Part 3: The Players

This is the big one folks. I'm going to run through all the major streaming boxes, content marketplaces, streaming services, premiu...

This is the second in a four-part series on "cutting the cord". For the beginning of the story, where I explain what brought me to decide it was time to leave cable, see Part 1 - Cutting The Cord.

Part 2: The Alternatives

So here's the thing: part of what makes cutting the cord so difficult is...

For the first time since the '80s, I no longer have a cable television bill. I have cut the cord.

To many of my friends in the tech industry, this is hum-drum news. After all, we've been talking about "cord cutters" since broadcast subscribers began to decline back in 2010. What took you so long...