Cutting the Cable Guide

[jz0309]

And just this morning got an email from Peacock about a $3 price increase ;(

 

[maflynn]

Before with cable, it was 200 subscribed channels, 10 watched… 🤔

No question, now there's 10+ streaming services to watch a handful of shows that your family is interested in.

 

[maflynn]

And just this morning got an email from Peacock about a $3 price increase ;(

Youtube TV went up in January, and I was seriously contemplating going back to comcast. Right now youtube tv has a slight edge cost wise, but the not much. If they raise the price again, I can see myself switching back. The wife and I watch more traditional type tv channels, discovery, science channel, HGTV, food network, cooking channel, etc. It won't be much of a push for me to leave.

 

[Huntn]

I can say, after one year, we are still glad we did what we did. My bill is still cheaper and what I have found, is when a particular show is done on a platform, we cancel it that platform. This is usually done with HBO or Showtime. But overall my bill is still cheaper then what I was paying for with Frontier, and we don't miss it at all. We also have found that Youtube and Hulu take up a bulk of watching still.

No complaints and glad we did it. Wish we would have done it sooner.

And in many cases you can hit and run subscribe. Just did this with HBO. Unfortunately the wife makes me keep things like Disney and Britbox all the time. Now that football is starting, Peacock and Paramount, plus we have Sling, although I’m angling to get rid of that after football.

 

[Huntn]

Youtube TV went up in January, and I was seriously contemplating going back to comcast. Right now youtube tv has a slight edge cost wise, but the not much. If they raise the price again, I can see myself switching back. The wife and I watch more traditional type tv channels, discovery, science channel, HGTV, food network, cooking channel, etc. It won't be much of a push for me to leave.

What about Sling in comparison? Of course it depends on what you or she watched…

 

[maflynn]

What about Sling in comparison? Of course it depends on what you or she watched…

I had looked at sling and it didn't measure up. Tbh, I forget why now.

DirectTV has seemingly launched some new services, but so far I don't think that fits the bill, though I'm still looking into it.

My wife and I watch such a wide swath of channels, it seems to break some of the packages that hulu, sling, directv offer. We watch local, home improvement, sciencey, and sports. Cable, Youtube tv, and directv seems to be the only ones the eclectic mixture of channels, with DTV being the most expensive.

 

[jz0309]

Youtube TV went up in January, and I was seriously contemplating going back to comcast. Right now youtube tv has a slight edge cost wise, but the not much. If they raise the price again, I can see myself switching back. The wife and I watch more traditional type tv channels, discovery, science channel, HGTV, food network, cooking channel, etc. It won't be much of a push for me to leave.

That list of yours - have you checked out Discovery? Right now the ad-free Discovery+ is still $9.99

 

[maflynn]

That list of yours - have you checked out Discovery? Right now the ad-free Discovery+ is still $9.99

No, thanks for the heads up

 

[Boyd01]

FWIW, I originally paid $7 for discovery+ but bailed in 2023 when they raised it to $9. Guess they had another increase to $10 since then. Being able to watch those shows without ads is certainly much more enjoyable, but there aren't a whole lot of current shows which interest me and I already watched all the old episodes before cancelling my subscription.

Michael and I actually discussed discovery+ earlier in the thread.

 

[OverTheHill]

Not really.

Do you plan on canceling all your streaming services and subscribing to Cable?

You have to consider value, not just a direct cost comparison.

Also, you don’t have to sign up for a bunch of streaming services at a time. Just Disney and YTTV alone will offer basically everything that Cable does, and a whole lot more over cable. And it would be cheaper.

Unlike most cable services, you can cancel and resubscribe very easily with streaming services, often getting a good deal with it.

I haven’t paid more than $6 a month on my family’s Disney/Hulu and in at least the last 3 years. Why are you paying $17 for it?

Another thing, your prime includes a lot more than just prime video. Prime alone would offer much more than a cable sub.

We consider Prime a zero cost service. With what we save on shipping, we probably make money off of it.🤣

Finally sat down and figured out what we are saving using streaming services vs linear. It’s $900 a year.