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Comment by sambroner | Hacker News Reader

Will we end up paying Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Sports streaming the same amount we paid for cable?

Maybe we get more granularity, but that comes with the overhead of managing more subscriptions.

Who will laugh when we end up paying for a bundle of streaming services?

Probably more, since your cable company (sorry, that should read broadband provider) will raise their rates to make up for the lost revenue in TV services.

This is actually not true. Smaller cable companies (so anyone smaller than Comcast) traditionally make very little if any profit on cable TV. The entire cost of the cable TV package is made up of the licensing and distribution fees charged by the studios. A (will remain) unnamed provider in the northeast region actually looses money per cable TV subscriber so they can stay competitive against Comcast. They're very excited for the day they can drop their Cable TV packages entirely and solely become a pipe.

I subscribed to Direct-TV-Now to save money on television but then hit the bandwidth cap of Cox Cable internet and so now I pay an extra fee for unlimited bandthwidth. I never realized there was a cap until we had multiple tv sets streaming HD video on top of other Internet use.

You also get choice, ability to cancel stuff you don't like, avoiding ads (at least for now, and then you can cancel if it starts back up again), access whenever you want wherever you are, etc. Many more benefits than the old model.

I definitely prefer their product placements over traditional ads. Some of them are very jarring though, and you can feel the actors' pain reciting the lines -- like the KFC in season 2 of Stranger Things, in a dinner scene all the shots are obviously centered around a bucket of KFC. For some reason they felt that wasn't enough and drag you straight out of the scene saying "finger lick'in good!!!".

If I were paying for Netflix (it’s free from T-mobile), I would be paying roughly $55 for all of the streaming services we have DirecTVNow, Hulu, and Netflix. On the surface that’s the same price as bundled cable. But with cable I would also be paying for multiple cable boxes each month, network access fees, regulatory fees (not state mandated taxes), etc. by itself that would be an additional $50.

You could rotate Netflix, HBO, and Hulu as long as they retain their libraries.

Truthfully I couldn't be arsed to see 99% of Netflix shows leave. I will pay for a subscription to watch one show then change to a different provider when I'm done and want to watch another. Cable doesn't let you do that.

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