So the same stuff at a savings of 240 bucks a year? That sounds pretty great to me.
Cord-cutting isn’t about matching “basically what I can do with cable right now,” though. That’s how the cable companies get you to stick around, by throwing 300 channels at you that you never actually use.
My current expenses are:
Hulu: 12 bucks a month. Could be 6, but I like the ad-free version.
Netflix: 13 bucks a month. Could be 9, but I like the HD streaming.
Antenna for broadcast television: 0 bucks a month.
A “basic cable” package from my local grifters is 88 bucks a month, and is of course missing content that I get from Hulu and Netflix. A package that covered all non-original content from my current services would be much more than that.
This isn’t about being smug, it’s about not being held hostage to cable companies who want me to pay for 200 channels even if I only want to watch 10 of them. There is no world, no combination of channels and packages, where traditional cable would be cheaper for me than simply purchasing what I want, a la carte, from various streaming services.
And why would I not want to save money? Even a “whoop-de-friggin-doo” twenty bucks a month?
Paying 15-25 dollars a month for a bunch of shows I don’t watch makes worlds more sense, to me, than paying $90-150 dollars a month for a bunch of channels I don’t watch.
Also, having the entire library of shows like Star Trek (Tv and Movies), Twilight Zone, Nature docs, etc… makes it worth it to me. Even if they never added new content, I’d probably still pay the monthly fee. Lol
Here’s what Seth said at Comic Con when he made the announcement that it was moving to Hulu: “The Orville has been a labor of love for me, and there are two companies which have supported that vision in a big way: 20th Century Fox Television, where I’ve had a deal since the start of my career, and FOX Broadcasting Company, now FOX Entertainment, which has been my broadcast home for over 20 years. My friends at the network understood what I was trying to do with this series, and they’ve done a spectacular job of marketing, launching and programming it for these past two seasons. But as the show has evolved and become more ambitious production-wise, I determined that I would not be able to deliver episodes until 2020, which would be challenging for the network. So we began to discuss how best to support the third season in a way that worked for the show. It’s exactly this kind of willingness to accommodate a show’s creative needs that’s made me want to stick around for so long. I am hugely indebted to Charlie Collier and FOX Entertainment for their generosity and look forward to developing future projects there. And to my new friends at Hulu, I look forward to our new partnership exploring the galaxy together.”
For the record I also pay $0 in cable. I have Netflix and OTA. I did subscribe to HBO Now for the final season of GOT (with the free week, I paid for one month to see all the episodes "live’)
The thing with cable is you pay AND get commercials. With Netflix and HBO I paid but no commercials. With OTA it is free but commercials.
The $11.99 Hulu doesn’t have commercials, but I’ll probably pass
I signed up for Hulu on August 2nd, and watched everything I wanted to from it (except some very long network sitcoms, like Community) and cancelled it yesterday.
When I went to cancel it yesterday, the account page said the next payment was due September 2nd. Cool, I thought, I’ll have Hulu until Monday. I went ahead and cancelled it, remembering your post here, thinking about whether I’d watch any Hulu this weekend.
After cancelling, I no longer have access to Hulu. It’s possible I’m doing something wrong, but I would’ve been super pissed if I cancelled on day 2 and didn’t get my free month at all.
I was excited to see this bumped, hoping there’d be info on Season Three. Sigh, I’ll keep waiting…
I just noticed this. Did you just go out of your way to refer to your wife as your third wife? Does she know you do this?
Inquiring minds want to know: do you introduce her at parties as your third wife?
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(Fun memory: back in the day (the '60s Mad Men Cocktail Party days), my dad would introduce my mom with “Oh, Bob and Barb, have you met my first wife Marie?” and people would stammer, wondering why he was there with his ex-wife…)
My parents knew a woman who referred to her husband as “the incumbent,” and another guy who referred to his one and only wife up to then as “my first wife.”
