Anybody thinking about cutting the cable/satellite cord, just know the 'tv' portion of your bills are going to continue increasing as more and more people actually do cut the cord.
Somebody's got to make up that revenue loss and that somebody is you.
The costs of streaming is held in check because it's competitive. You can change streaming services from month to month.
Whereas cable tv is a monopoly, and satellite tv basically is too, unless you want to change out antennas and boxes. Not to mention you're stuck in one year contracts with them, otherwise if you're month to month they really stick it in your ass.
I'm out in rural America and there are 3 different satellite dishes (and an old aerial) on my roof from the previous owner. They look like hell, but the roof's in good shape so I won't have them removed until I get reroofed here in a few years.
My local cable company is fiber, but I don't use their tv service because it's also a monopoly. I only use their high speed internet. I have my own wi-fi modem (Walmart) to run multiple devices in my house. I don't need a separate fucking decoder box for every tv that's already a smart tv with internet access.
Maybe cable/satellite tv will eventually start getting cost competitive with streaming services, but it's not gonna be anytime soon. Because they don't have to as long as the die-hards keep footing the bill.
