Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[payn]

The selection is still better than anything we got with cable. We choose whether or not we really want to have The Office at our fingertips 24/7. I think the counter to that is what they’re doing to sports like football, where watching a season of ball requires 3 to 4 services.

Even on the 2-3 you can watch sports games, it often requires upgraded and premium packages to watch them. So, it easily hits cable levels of cost.

 

[TiQuinn]

Even on the 2-3 you can watch sports games, it often requires upgraded and premium packages to watch them. So, it easily hits cable levels of cost.

Yeah, that’s an area where companies identified that fans will pay through the nose to be fans, and for lack of a better word, punish you for being fans.

 

[Velderan]

You know, when my wife moved in with me ten+ years ago, she convinced me to cut the cable. We have Netflix, the Max/Hulu/Disney package, and Amazon Prime (about $50 a month total), and they STILL cost less than my cable package did ($125 a month, and no premium channels, just the basics). Either people are misremembering how much their cable bills were, or they were seriously screwing over the people in my area with the cable bills.

You can definitely approach the typical cost of a cable TV package if you subscribe to a lot more streaming platforms than you have listed, which a shocking amount of people seem to do. Personally we save a lot with the streaming model, but we currently only have the Disney/Hulu/Max ad-free bundle which is ~$30 a month. We'll eventually drop those and pick up Netflix when there's enough to watch there.

The last time we had cable I think we were also paying $125 a month for TV and a crappy internet package, but there were definitely things we could have added to make that cost more.

 

[Velderan]

Even on the 2-3 you can watch sports games, it often requires upgraded and premium packages to watch them. So, it easily hits cable levels of cost.

The worst part is you usually need to subscribe to multiple platforms at those premium tiers to watch an entire season of a specific team, or at least that's the case for the NHL.

 

[Ryujin]

I mean, I knew the answer when I typed it. The Cable Monopolies have done a number on us.

We just get hosed on both cable/internet and cellular service, in Canada. Something about infrastructure needing to span vast amounts of empty territory.