I could cut the cord easily. I've been trying to ween my wife off of the satellite dish. Took it down for roof repairs on June 5th and haven't made time to put the dish back up. We have a Roku on each television. Been watching mostly Netflix and Amazon recently. Probably my only problem with dumping my DirecTV is that I like having the option to stream stuff that I pay for anyways like HBO, Showtime, A&E, etc. The Roku lets me stream just about everything I pay for through my satellite provider and I'd rather watch shows and movies streaming because I can watch them whenever I want instead of having to wait for them to come on at certain times.