As many predicted, and as I had feared, streaming TV services simply aren't ready for prime time. So we've gone crawling back to cable TV.

It wasn't supposed to be this way: As I've written over several articles now in this series, Paul's Tech Makeover: Preparing to Cut the Cord, Paul's Tech Makeover: A Cord-Cutting Update, and finally Paul's Tech Makeover: TV Terribleness, we attempted to cut the cord and use streaming TV services instead of cable.