Save money, ditch your cable

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	Scott Ard CNET.com Save money, ditch your cable The Great Recession--or Depression 2.0 as some call it--has everyone looking for ways to save some Benjamins. For many households, the entertainment line on the budget is swollen by the high cost of cable or satellite TV. All those HD channels, DVR fees, and bedroom boxes are a fiscal drain that can easily total more than $100 a month. While it's advice that surely won't help everyone, CNET's Molly Wood demonstrates in this how-to video several ways to slurp in video content that could actually result in you unplugging your cable or using your pizza-size sat dish to actually serve pizza. Watch now As seen on CNET TV Loaded with spam Your iPhone could be hacked without you knowing it, spam is at an all-time high, and China bans violent video games online. Watch this video Today on CNET CNET Reviews HP Mini 5101 HP's biz-minded Mini 5101 is a successor to one of our all-time favorite Netbooks. It looks and feels great, but for a premium-price Netbook, we expected to get more features, not fewer. Read more CNET News Hackers talk shop This week's Black Hat and Defcon gatherings in Las Vegas are where to be for those who want to know how to break into electronic gear--and how to stop those break-ins. Read more CNET Crave Nikon D3000 Nikon launches its new $600 dSLR kit, replacing the D40 with updated autofocus and higher resolution. Is that enough to inspire you to upgrade? Read more CNET Reviews Samsung's iPhone clone? The Samsung Jet is a powerful multimedia phone with decent performance and a few welcome user interface upgrades. But don't mistake it for a smartphone. Read more What's new on CNET Canon PowerShot D10 It might not look quite right, but the PowerShot D10 is a solid entry into rugged cameras for Canon. Read more  Check prices Nokia Surge 6790 (AT&T) The Nokia Surge offers AT&T's younger customers an affordable, feature-rich smartphone, but it has a number of design and interface issues. Read more  Check prices Toshiba E105-S1602 Toshiba improves on last year's excellent Best Buy Blue Label laptop by slashing the price while serving up a nearly identical machine. Long battery life, a lengthy warranty, and a backlit keyboard highlight Toshiba's winning Satellite E105-S1602. Read more  Check prices Crave corner The iPhone's best neo-retro game: Space Invaders Infinity Gene Scott Stein Senior associate editor While Taito has already released an iPhone port of the original Space Invaders, we'd recommend you slide past that and buy, instead, a spectacular revamp that launched this week on the App Store by the name of Space Invaders Infinity Gene. Read more CNET's top-rated 23-inch LCD computer monitors 1. Dell SP2309W 2. Asus VH236H 3. Samsung SyncMaster P2370 4. Acer H235H   Related Newsletters Stay informed on the tech topics that matter to you most CNET offers a wide variety of newsletters on everything from tech industry news to the latest games and gear. Browse the entire list now. Manage newsletters Other CNET resources  CNET.com  Latest CNET reviews  CNET Tips and Tricks  CNET Living With Technology  Top 10 must-have gadgets  CNET Editors' Choice winners
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