I was already on the fence at $50, as I don't watch many of the channels. Primary use was for local, and just a couple of other channels. I'll keep it for July, and then use that time to get an attic antenna setup, and then look at an antenna + Sling option, or some other setup.
Overall, they need to split into multiple offerings so they can still present some value options. I don't watch sports, so that was already a waste of money in the subscription for me. These new channels do not add anything I'll be watching either.
Hmm really? I guess I'm among the minority on this one then. There's really only a few channels I'm interested in, that I can't get online. I'd gladly pay $10 for 2 channels rather than $35 for 10... because I certainly won't be watching the other 8 channels.
To be a little more correct, that $233 doesn't actually buy you those 50 channels. You still need to get a cable or satellite subscription, since all you can pick up off the air are the aforementioned cheese documentaries.
All you're buying for the license fee is a break from the constant stream of anger and threats from the TV Licensing people.
I rage quit when they raised the price to $65/month with no grandfathered legacy pricing.
I joined when it launched at $35/month, and it was amazing. While perhaps loss-leading, it was an unbeatable deal for cable TV, which I barely watched, but enjoyed from time to time—particularly during breaking news or major live events (SuperBowl, Oscars, etc.).
But after adding more useless channels and nearly doubling the price, I was immediately out. CableTV with ads is a garbage experience, and at that price I still can't justify it.
Sunday Ticket is not going to be cheap, either. $65/month for YTTV, PLUS Sunday Ticket, PLUS Netflix, HBOMax, Disney+, and whatever other streaming services you subscribe too—who has the money to justify all of this?
I had basic cable (required for later parts) @ $50, "HD service" for $10 (OTA channels only) and another $10 for mandatory HD-DVR. I paid for additional HD channels like Discovery/History, but I forgot how much it was. When I dropped CATV/HD/DVR I saved roughly $80 per month. I figured I could just buy the boxed sets of my favorite shows on DVD for that price. (I haven't - I just torrent the shows and then delete them)
Once the cable company builds the infrastructure to send 300 channels to houses in your neighborhood, their costs for you are the same whether you want 1 channel or all 300.
That's a prime recipe for bundling. You think you are "paying for all these channels you don't want" but that's not the reality. Just like I'm not paying for the tens of thousands of Netflix shows I will never ever watch but nonetheless get by paying one monthly fee.
If you're paying more you're probably getting more.
Old cable TV had about 5 channels that I ever watched and 50 that I did not care about.
A sports network + Netflix is not more than cable. If you subscribe to much more than that, you're probably getting more than a bundled cable deal used to provide.
I always said that I'd gladly pay for cable when they let me pick and choose what channels I get. I refuse to pay $50+ when all I really want is maybe 5-8 channels out of the 120 they offer.
I get more than 50 HD channels for free over the air and I watch only 3 of them.
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