But people want live TV and sports. It used to be there was sticker shock at the price of Hulu plus Live or Sling. But people say it’s less than I’m paying now. Looking at their website, a bundle of Hulu + Live no ads with Disney+ and ESPN is $96/mo. Even with ads it’s something like $83.
People must love their sports. Otherwise, I don’t know what they watch. I watch one show on Paramount and 2 on Hulu, don’t watch live TV any more, no sports. That must just be me, because other people obviously are streaming many hours per day. At the cost of streaming sports, I could see going to a sports bar, paying for pizza and beer and watching their TV. From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 1:00 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] when did sat TV get so expensive? I think I started with netflix for like 3.99 a month. that was back when its bulk programming was good and you could order a dvd. i recently moved down from the 27 or whatever it was to the ad version. Id rather watch ads than the handful of new content thats worth watching a month. I think theyre a higher percent foreign films now too. Its a shame hollywood has shit the bed because these foreign films are beating them in quality often now. I just wish I could watch them and do something else instead of reading subtitles. I think the threshold is in the 15-19 dollar range where the visibility returns. That 2 opens eyes On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM Bill Prince <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: I think the 10-20 dollar individual streaming packages are almost invisible to consumers. Get enough of them, and it starts to add up. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 9/23/2025 10:42 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: I keep getting customers telling me they are switching to streaming because they are paying $200/month for DISH. When did satellite TV get so expensive? I figured they must have 4 receivers and getting every sports and premium channel available. But looking at their website, it seems like prices start around $100/mo. Is it just inflation? Or the addons for sports and additional receivers? Or people don’t play the game any more of switching every 2 years between DISH and DirecTV to get the promo price? $200 seems like a lot. I keep warning them they’ll have to pay more for Internet and probably $90 to $100 for streaming packages, but they don’t care if their reference point is $200. -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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