Apple+ and Paramount+ are also free for 1 year with T-MobleNetflix is free with my T-Mobile plan.
I have Preferred Xtra / HR54 / AM21 and with my DirecTV promos I'm paying $91/mo out the door. No RSN fee on this package. I also have Cox Gigabit + digital phone (Cox makes you take it or the internet is higher lol) for like $119 I think, but it has a 1.25TB data cap and to get rid of that for streaming is an extra $50/mo. No thanks. Plus, no streaming service has all the Los Angeles locals and I'd lose the OTA integration. Plus Preferred Xtra has a lot more channels. Don't care about sports, so love that I don't pay the $12/mo RSN fee on this package.Just a total falsehood.
First off, only $100 for a cable package?
Average pricing for DirecTV is over $130 a month, even with any services from cable/Sat. you can have Broadcast fees, RSN fees, DVR fees, Box fees.
This is what I have Streaming, no Live TV service and it includes the vast majority of content on Live TV except certain sporting events.
All in yearly prices because of some deals, all commercial free except ESPN+
Hulu with Disney, ESPN+ -$240 (need ESPN for the Red Wings).
Paramount+ with Showtime-$129
Peacock-$50
HBOMAX-$149
AMC+-$30
Apple TV-$44 ( bought gift cards when on sale at Costco, paid up until 2026)
MLB-$59 ( wait until May for the better price) need it for the Tigers since I live in Florida now.
Netflix-$240
So, $941 divide by 12 is $78.42
Show me one cable package that is that price with HBO and Showtime.
Then of course, with cable/sat Netflix and Apple TV is not available
So, without the premium stuff, but including sports because DirecTV/Cable has the RSN-
Hulu with Disney, ESPN+ -$240 (need ESPN for the Red Wings).
Paramount+ -$99
Peacock-$50
AMC+-$30
MLB-$59 ( wait until May for the better price) need it for the Tigers since I live in Florida now).
So $478 divide by 12 is, roughly, $40 a month.
Not. OTT is generally "skinny" packages. On DirecTV Stream the top package is less channels then on my lowly Preferred Xtra. The comparable priced package is 105 channels vs. 220+ on sat. Also, nobody streams CW and some don't have some other channels like PBS.(same thing, different delivery method)
Hey, somebody finally gets it. I probably watch NOTHING that Bender watches and he probably watches NOTHING that I watch.After reading dozens of threads like this, I'm convinced that what works for some, doesn't work for others, and what's cheap for one person isn't cheap for another, depending on your situation. Cord cutting works for some, not for others, Sat or cable work for some not for others
You started off so well and then you went off the rails again.The quality of what we get on linear services has gone downhill as these companies have ported their best stuff to streaming for a lot of reasons
You went off the rails here again. EVERY single streaming company (except for Netflix) is bleeding heavily. Did you not see Disney's losses last week? Did you not hear the CEO got fired over it? I've told you countless times that video distribution via the streaming/cloud is much more expensive then traditional. I've also mentioned that satellite is probably the cheapest since you just launch a sat and you're done and it scales to infinity (extra outlets don't put strain on the system). Cable/fiber have to tear up streets and scale up infra, streaming has massive hardware and personnel requirements, has to constantly scale up as they give stuff away for below cost to attract viewers. People have no clue how much more effort it takes on the backend of a streaming service vs. traditional. You think you just get a video from somewhere and plop it into the system and its ready in 30 seconds?, not the least of which is guaranteed direct payment for what they show and/or produce rather than having to fight with cable and satellite companies tooth and nail for rights fees among other things.
News to the rest of us. I watch first run shows on History, Discovery, ID, Science Channel, NatGeo, channel 204, I forget what its called lol and VH1 (and probably a few others). Although I don't watch them, USA & TBS also have first run shows as does CNN (non news).With the cable networks abandoning first run programming the cable channels will mainly have nothing but reruns and old movies.
I'd hardly call it innovating if the new app isn't as capable as the old apps. I'd certainly buy "consolidating" but I'm not sure what the point would be other than to shorten the hop to the STREAM product.However, I do like that DTV is innovating again with the new DTV APP and maybe having the C71KW work with DTV>