• @[email protected]
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    312 years ago

    Sorry I am not rooting for streaming increases but this is a bunch of baloney. One, few people have all the services listed in the article concurrently. And secondly, they are comparing to the average cable bill which wouldn’t include content like HBO and would likely be well over $100 probably much more for an equivalent amount of content. Hulu alone covers like three quarters of cable content in most markets.

    Seems to me like they could still raise another 20% before they are truly on an equitable par.

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      32 years ago

      would likely be well over $100

      In the US, sure. But other countries had much cheaper “cable” and now have the same prices for streaming services

      I’m British, the last time I had Sky which is basically our version of cable, it cost me just over £20/month. And now its £30/month

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        22 years ago

        True, I just assumed it was about the US because it was priced in dollars. Is your cable and internet tied together like it is/was in most of the US?