A cord-cutting wish list for 2018

Although cutting the cable TV cord can save you lots of money--and provide non-monetary benefits as well--there's always room for improvement. Hardware can get better, channel bundles can get more flexible, access to the content you want can get easier. To that end, here are eight things I'd like to see from streaming and over-the-air video in 2018, a year that's likely to record numbers of people abandon traditional pay TV services. Although a la carte cable channels are still just a fantasy, 2017 brought unprecedented fracturing of the TV bundle as audiences dwindled and networks entered panic mode. The most notable example: AMC, Discovery, A&E, and Viacom, all frustrated over their exclusion from various streaming bundles, got together to launch Philo, a $16-per-month sports-free streaming package.