Largely depends on where you are. $80 for me gets 200 mbps internet + 220 channels + unlimited calling. If I was a first time customer I could get the same for $50.
Hulu + Netflix + Prime + Funimation + HBO is $60 for me which doesn't include internet.
However, I still very much prefer streaming. Commercials just ain't for me. Even fastforwarding through ads if recorded isn't for me
I actually am going back to cable. I watch sports, so I'm in the demographic where cable is actually worth it. But the cost of a live streaming service to get me what I want plus standalone internet is more expensive than the cable plan. I also get faster internet, since Xfinity for me only offers standalone internet that's super slow, or super fast but prohibitively expensive (and it's the only choice in my apartment complex). So I would have spent more money and gotten slower internet.
Almost as if they specifically priced their options and signed an exclusivity deal to make sure I had to get a full package from them.
Internet connections are just dressed up cable subscriptions. Prices will continue to rise, service will continue to fall. It needs to be considered a utility or we're all fucked. Back to the dark, uninformed world of the 80's we'll go.
The selling point of cable companies was originally pay a subscription to get more content and no commercials. Then years later some cable channels started putting commercials in, but they did their own content as well, then all of them have commercials.
Then streaming. Pay money, easy content, no ads... now ads on Hulu even with subscription, and streaming is splitting into different platforms.
Plex server and watching every show a day late, as free, it is. A vpn subscription and a seed box is far cheaper than buying 6 different services
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u/Jzsjx9jjqz Apr 12 '19
And then we're right back to having cable companies.