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Originally Posted by nfotiu
4 or 5 providers at 10-20$ seems excessive for most people. But still, it is far cheaper than cable tv plus 4 $10 stb rentals, plus $10 dvr service, plus $10 for HD, plus $5 broadcast tv fee, plus $8 rsn fee, plus $3 line recovery investment fee plus a lot of people are already paying for a streaming service or 2 on top of cable. I cut the cord and have about 3-4 streaming services and am saving about $80 per month. I don't see any need for any new streaming services on the horizon.
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I cut the cord and I'm definitely saving money today. But the current streaming model won't last much longer. Content creators are all starting their own services. Netflix is cutting its catalog by thousands of items a month, and has half the content it did several years ago. The reason it's going full-bore on creating its own content is in anticipation of a future when all it will have is its own content, and where viewers will have to pay a subscription to Disney for Disney content, CBS for CBS content, Amazon for Amazon content, etc.