For Millennials, the End of the TV Viewing Party

A decade ago, a home -- even, in many cases, a dorm room -- without a television would have seemed virtually unthinkable, like a house without a telephone. And, that, in a sense, is the point. Just as the landline went from household staple to quaint anachronism seemingly overnight during the last decade (acquiring a profoundly uncool air along the way), the television set has started to look at best like a luxury, if not an irrelevance, in the eyes of many members of the wired generation, who have moved past the “cord-cutter” stage, in which they get rid of cable, to getting rid of their TV sets entirely.