• ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Exactly. Cable had contracts for X months, and everything was packaged so you couldn’t just get one channel you liked.

    Now streaming is splitting off into a bunch of services. That’s not great but on the other hand I’m not on a contract. I can stop and start whenever i want. I spend anywhere from $12-25 a month. All i ever wanted was for cable services to be unbundled. If I’m wanting to be subscribed to every service all of the time then yeah that’s going to get expensive. But if i just want to watch 1-2 shows at a time then I’m still much better off streaming than i would’ve been with cable 10+ years ago.

    Edit: and when i cut the cord in 2010 my cable bill was $120/mo for basic cable + 1 package iirc.