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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Except cable was $30. And internet was another $30. Now both are double that.
And there are six streaming services at another $10-25 each.
Sure we get more content but it costs way, way more now. Even people who had fancy cable packages paid way less in total 15 years ago.
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It really doesn’t. People don’t think of how much renting multiple movies a week at $4 a pop added up to. And forget how common buying DVDs and boxed sets at $20-$40 each was. Hollywood relied on those sales to make many movies profitable. I worked out what I spent on video entertainment 15 years ago:
Mid-tier cable package (no movie channels): $60/month
Internet: $30/month
3 movie/TV season rentals a week: $12/week or $50/month (not including late fees)
Buying 1 DVD or 1 season of a TV show every month or two: $20/month
Total: $160 in 2007 dollars, or $225 in today’s dollars.
Our expenses today:
Cable: 0
Internet: $90
Netflix+Crave+Disney+Apple: $60
Sportsnet or DAZN (seasonal): $30
Total: $180
And that’s with the largest item, internet, providing far more utility than it did 15 years ago, with a vastly larger catalogue of content to choose from, and far more convenient ways to access that content.