Literally the ultimate cord-cutter (not literally).

This Dell USB TV Tuner has no sharp edges that can physically cut through cable. But it’s one part of the metaphorical cord-cutter’s liberation from cable TV.

You plug it into your USB port and install the app. You get your hands on an over-the-air digital TV antenna (not included but not hard to find) and connect that to the tuner. Then you watch and record free over-the-air channels on your computer, including all the channels that they’ve added since over-the-air TV went digital back in 2009.

Yes, extra free channels. If you’ve always had cable, that might be news to you. But in every city there’s, like, some extra PBS channels, some classic UHF-style channels that show old movies and TV reruns, maybe some Spanish ones, some religious ones, even the occasional oddball sports channel.

Anyway, between those, Netflix, maybe Hulu Plus or Amazon Instant Video, you not only don’t need cable - you don’t even need a TV.

Imagine not having a room in your house devoted to the television. When you want to watch something, open your laptop wherever you are; when you don’t, put it away. What would you be missing? First-run episodes of shitty reality TV garbage? OK, some sports are only on cable, but that just gives you an excuse to go out to a bar and watch.

Even those of you who are sticking with cable win, because the more people who walk away from the cable giants, the more pressure they’ll feel to stop overcharging customers for crap they don’t want. As opposed to Meh, where we undercharge customers for crap they don’t want. Huge difference.