With more people cutting the cord, streaming TV prices keep creeping higher
The Streaming TV Industry is Not Exempt from Inflation
Constant price increases that used to plague cable TV subscribers are coming to a streaming service near you
It used to be a simple decision. Cable TV was too expensive, so no problem just switch to streaming TV. In the early days, all you needed was a Netflix account to stream as much great content as one could desire. Sadly, this may not be the way for too much longer.
Because, as more people dump cable television and with the explosion of streaming TV content providers each wanting a piece of the pie. The price of streaming television programming is no longer as inexpensive as it once was.
Now cord cutters are finding they need to subscribe to several streaming services to access the same content that in the past they could watch it all from Netflix. As content providers started up their own streaming services, they began pulling their content from Netflix in order to have their own.
Sling TV To Raise Their Price Again
When Sling TV, an offshoot of Dish Network, first came out with their basic streaming plan, it was only $20/month. Then raised it to $30 and now another price increase is coming in August which brings it up to $35/month.
YouTube TV and others have also followed suit, and their live TV streaming plans cost even more. Some as high as $65/month.
3 Ways to Become a Better Frugal TV Streamer
1. Lose the Cable TV Mindset - The most frugal cord cutters give up on live cable channels altogether once they cut the cord. Learning to watch on-demand content available from streaming services like Hulu, Amazon Video, and Netflix has some real advantages. First off, you won't spend half the time watching commercials. Commercial free plans cost a little more with services like Hulu, and others like Netflix, Apple TV+ and Amazon Video don't show ads. Once you learn the art of binge watching series after series, going back to live TV becomes a lot harder.
2. Rotate Plans - One really nice thing about cord cutting is you can say goodbye to extend contracts, and service connect fees. This makes it easy to subscribe to three different content providers for three or four months at a time and only pay for one. This gives you access to much more content and lets you try out different ones. At some point, you may even find it worthwhile to subscribe to several at a time.
3. Check Out Our Latest Tool! - We have been working hard on building a nice shopping tool for cord cutters that will make it easy to see how much it will cost to subscribe to several streaming TV services. It's ready to use, it will instantly caclulate the cost of various streaming TV plans to fit your budget. Try it here!
Our web app will let you select from various streaming plans and services and then give you a running total monthly cost based on the plans selected. It's going to be another outstanding tool in the old cord cutters tool box.
So even though the price of stream TV is increasing, we still have many wonderful options available to us and that will help keep the cost of streaming TV much lower than paying for television through a cable TV provider.
Free Streaming TV Channels The Best Alternative for Frugal Cord Cutters
One other significant thing about cutting the cord is there are now many free streaming alternatives available as well. Apps like The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Crackle, Tubi, Locast and more offer a lot of great content. And this won't cost you any monthly fees. But they are all ad-supported, so that means it will cost you a little of your time.
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