tst123Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits
KhalicHow is streaming more expensive than cable? Am I obligated to pay disney+ to see something on TV+?
They compared a basket of streaming services to an average-priced cable package, which loosely makes sense. Individual streaming services are usually only a fraction of the content of a cable package, so if you want to compare prices, comparing the price of a comparable-size bundle of goods is a good place to start.
It all varies from market to market, cable is quite cheap where I live and these numbers wouldn’t hold up in my market.
But who wants to pay money for cable TV when they push as many ads as they do?
I upvoted for generally a good point but the comparable size bundle of goods does not really make sense here - no one will do that.
For me the most comparable bundles were:
Cable TV with HD, 100mbps internet
1gbps internet, with 2 streaming services
While from the cable perspective those do not represent the same thing, they are what I was willing to exchange for, and the second option is still significantly cheaper. I tether probably needs to be included because I needed more bandwidth to support streaming (although not that much more). I would not have considered option 2 with a bundle with the same “channels”: they are not equivalent value to me as a viewer
This is basically an article bought and paid for by cable. Streaming is only expensive if you own everything. The benefit is you have far more options and control over the content you pay for. There is no "crash". These services are all stable or growing still. Cable is still what is dying though the industry will try all it can to presume otherwise.