I haven't paid for cable or satellite for 7 years. I was a major TV watcher and most of the shows I watched were not on broadcast. I was able to cover almost all my needs with, Netflix or Hulu and broadcast TV through an antenna.
Here are the categories that need to be covered:
- Movies
- Prime time TV
- Sports (Football, C-Football, Baseball, and basketball, Olympics)
I'm currently using the following services
- Prime (Mostly for Grand Tour)
- Hulu (All prime time shows)
- Netflix (Movies)
- Broadcast and locast for sports
- Crunchyroll
- Freeform
- CW Seed
There are so many services their is no way to list them all but here are the big ones
- Disney+ 7.00 - My guess this will be big all Disney content
- Apple+ - 4.99 - unknown if this will be good
- ESPN+ - 4.99 - Sports
- Prime - 10 - Some original content
- Netflix - 8.99 - movies, orig tv shows
- Hulu - 5.99 - a must for prime time stuff
- YouTube TV - 50 - A little bit of everything
- Crunchyroll - free - Anime
- Freeform - free- movies
- CW Seed - free- Good shows
- Locast - local broadcast as a tv service when reception sucks.
- HBONow- 14.99
- Starz- 8.99 - movies
- crackle - free
Some of these have paid premium option, but never pay extra to remove commercials. Not worth the cost.
Honestly with all these options I don't know how cable companies are going to survive. But if you are not careful all these services will quickly exceed your cable bill making the whole thing pointless.
UPDATE - I found out how they are going to survive. They also hosting internet services and are capping you downloads at a Terabyte and charging huge fees for going over. This is going to happen with more 4k shows,
I have Apple TV and Fire Stick. They are very similar I prefer Apples interface a little more, but I like to take the Fire stick on travel. The biggest problem I have had with cord cutting is I don't have an easy way to find the shows I wanted to watch across all the apps. Apple does a good job, but doesn't search netflix or Prime. I've played with Roku, but doesn't have any apple content.
UPDATE - I found out how they are going to survive. They also hosting internet services and are capping you downloads at a Terabyte and charging huge fees for going over. This is going to happen with more 4k shows,
I have Apple TV and Fire Stick. They are very similar I prefer Apples interface a little more, but I like to take the Fire stick on travel. The biggest problem I have had with cord cutting is I don't have an easy way to find the shows I wanted to watch across all the apps. Apple does a good job, but doesn't search netflix or Prime. I've played with Roku, but doesn't have any apple content.
Bought movies became easier recently. Somehow I don't know if it is Disney or some other magic, but Movies Anywhere ties all your movies together across all your platform. Meaning all your movies in apple will show up on prime and vise versa. This is the only thing I've seen do this since the death of UltraViolet.
Olympics will mostly be on broadcast with an antenna or you can use a free streaming service like locast.
Don't get crazy. Keep it simple find out what you really watch sign up for that one or two services then enjoy.
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