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Cable TV alternative goes live in L.A.

By Jon HealeyEditorial Writer 
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How much would you be willing to pay to slash your cable TV bill? That’s the question posed by Sezmi, a low-cost substitute for cable or satellite TV that goes on sale Thursday at Best Buy stores in Los Angeles and parts of Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.

Sezmi charges only $19.99 a month for about 75 channels, most of them from local broadcasters, plus free and pay-per-view programming from the Internet. The monthly fee drops to $4.99 for those not interested in the 15 cable networks Sezmi carries. But the equipment required for the service costs $299.

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Read more about Sezmi’s launch at the Times’ Technology blog.

-- Jon Healey

Healey writes editorials for The Times’ Opinion Manufacturing Division. Follow him on Twitter: @jcahealey

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Jon Healey

Jon Healey writes and edits stories for the Los Angeles Times’ Fast Break Desk, the team that dives into the biggest news of the moment. In his previous stints, he wrote and edited for the Utility Journalism team and The Times editorial board. He covered technology news for The Times from 2000 to mid-2005.

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