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Originally Posted by curves2000
This times 10. I don't understand sometimes this obsession with cutting traditional cable as a cost cutting measure when comparing apples to apples. Nothing is cheap anymore but I pay $143/month for cable/internet TSN/Sportsnet and associated million channels, HBO, Crave and a international channel that normally goes for $17/month.
When you factor in upgraded internet packages and adding up all the streaming services and specialty channels, I don't see any sort of big savings at all from cutting the cord. I think a lot of people just fail to shop around or just do the simple math.
Friends of mine laugh that I still have the old school Shaw PVR system but it's reliable and a much better deal. I think my cable portion of the bill is approx $75/month for everything I described and here we are talking about a single Sportsnet app costing 40% of that.
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Yep, I just re-negotiate my same full TV/medium internet/crave HBO every two years at around $90-$100 a month and be done with it. Then I see everyone around me talking about the joys of cutting cable and then starting with an $80/mth internet before they even start paying for their streaming services. Or they're just paying for internet and stealing everything else, which whatever that's fine. But don't hold that internet plus pirating against internet plus cable TV package like it's equal, lol.