I “cut the cord” two years ago. I was paying about $110 a month for satellite channels. Now I have Amazon Prime ($10*), Netflix ($10), Disney+ ($8) (I also have a “free” Discovery+ trial.) So I am paying less than $30 a month, with more content than I can watch. However, I don’t get to see a lot of stuff (Yellowstone, Ray Donovan,etc.)
How many services do you have? It is kind of annoying that there is so much proprietary stuff on other services. But what’s the point of cutting the cord if you subscribe to every service?
Prime and Netflix. I also have Hulu, but it stays suspended for long stretches, as they don’t have much in the way of new material. I’ve had others from time to time, but that’s it at present. But I haven’t ‘cut the cord’ and pay an exorbitant amount to Comcast for a whole lot of programming that I never watch.
Netflix
Prime
Paramount+ (temporarily)
HBO Max (Free with my cell phone plan)
Peacock (I actually haven’t “cut the cord” yet and Peacock Premium is included with my cable package)
I have Netflix and Disney+. I also have prime, but i have it for the delivery. I wouldn’t pay for it for the TV content. But since i have it, i sometimes watch it.
I have a ton of them, and probably more than one of some, since I can never remember if I already had an account and sign up again. I have a smart TV but it doesn’t always remember the account credentials for each service (perhaps it’s not as smart as it claims)
Acorn, BritBox, Prime, and Hulu. Hulu is free with my cell phone package, and I had Prime for the shipping before it streamed stuff. I just canceled Netflix.
Netflix, Disney+, Roku channel, and Amazon Prime. We’re not big TV watchers in our house and we’ll usually go weeks or even months without turning on the TV so we have no real incentive to subscribe to any others. I occasionally ponder the cost savings of dropping Disney and Netflix but then I find something new on one of them and the decision is kicked down the road, ultimately never to be made.
In a larger, existential sense I object to the Balkanization of streaming TV and wouldn’t subscribe to a dozen services even if I wanted to. (Which occasionally I do, I see stuff available on Hulu that I wouldnt mind watching but I’m not willing to subscribe to yet another service for it.) My wife has floated the idea of subscribing to BritBox so that may be the one we do get at some future date. But for now its just the 4. Frankly the Roku channel is just because we have a Roku TV and Prime we pay for to get the free Amazon shipping, so really we made a deliberate decision to subscribe to two. The other two are just perks.
Netflix
Hulu
Prime
Peacock Premium (free with my Internet subscription)
Honestly could do with pruning a couple of these.
I don’t think I’ve ever paid for cable television. My parents had it when I lived with them but when I moved out I really didn’t miss it, I guess. This would’ve been back around 2008.
we pay for baseline cable because it’s bundled along with phone and internet in such a way that it’s actually cheaper than paying for phone and internet standalone. At least until next year (each year) when we have to call up and threaten to cancel the cable because they’re about to raise the price, and then they give us a “new introductory deal” so that it’s once again cheaper to stay on the bundled plan.
I’m in Europe, so most of the US-based services (like HBO) are unavailable/blocked here. I don’t care enough to go to the trouble of setting up a VPN to get them, either. The only one of these that annoys me, and for which I have occasionally considered making an exception, is Criterion.
Also, for the record, we have local cable TV, to allow our multi-lingual kids to watch broadcast shows in various languages; it’s a super-cheap add-on to our internet service so we don’t mind the expense. Their Smart TV portal includes a bunch of streaming options as well, so I guess that counts.
Netflix and Disney+. I did have Paramount for the free month (watching Star Trek:whatever), and paid for HBO to watch the final season of GoT (and the first season of Westworld) but let those drop.