Cord Cutters Tightening Their Belts During Record Inflation
There's no better time than right now to be a cord cutter
Cord cutters hit by record high inflation are cutting back on their streaming TV budgets. With news of ever-increasing prices for food, clothes, fuel and everything else these days. Cord cutters have one big advantage compared to those still connected to a TV cord.
They have flexibility to start, stop, or throttle down on the amount of streaming channels and services they subscribe to. This is impossible to do with cable or satellite, because stopping and restarting these services usually comes with additional fees. Not to mention equipment rentals, which amount to a box rental fee for every television you own.
No Fees and No Hassel to Start and Stop Streaming TV Services
The key advantage to cordless streaming is the ability to start and stop a streaming service at a moment's notice. This gives cord cutters more alternatives which also decreases monthly costs.
For example, if you were to subscribe to Netflix for only 4 months of the year to catch up on your favorite TV shows, then subscribe and alternate between Disney+, Apple TV+ and HBOMax, and Parmaount+ for the remaining 8 months. This gives you a huge selection of content to choose from. While greatly reducing your monthly cost as compared to cable or satellite.
Increased Piracy Another Effect of Rising Costs
Piracy decreased early on during the golden days of streaming TV. Industry greed has been the primary contributing factor. Where you once used to watch everything from Disney and others on Netflix. Now more streaming services are building their own competing services competing for dwindling dollars. This is making piracy much more attractive.
The television and film industry hasn't yet learned the lessons from the music industry that now offers several services with huge libraries of content. If a service were to come along, this could offer content from all of today's top streaming services for a lot less money than subscribing individually, it would undoubtedly be a huge success.
FREE Ad-Supported TV
Another great option for cord cutters is the huge amount of free ad supported streaming TV that is available. To help you find them, here are several great resources for the best free streaming sites available. So while it may not be as easy or cheap as it once was, cutting the cord is still your best option to make your dollars stretch further. And carefully managing the number of streaming services you subscribe to each month, can help your money go even more.
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