r/peacock • u/crookshanksfuzzytail • 12d ago

News Price increase email

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I got this at 2 am and I thought it was quite a jump

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u/No_Oil3233 11d ago edited 11d ago

Streaming has started become prohibitively expensive… if only there was a solution to bring all content into a single lineup for a cheaper cost :P (ahem, traditional cable).  Enjoy the NBA on Peacock or NFL on Netflix now…..the content and media space is such a fractured mess now because everyone hated cable (btw- this price increase is brought to you by Comcast ironically)

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u/katchoo1 11d ago

Correction: it’s because everyone hated cable and cable refused to allow a la carte packages and raised rates to obscene levels. I’d happily have continued subscribing if I could have picked a package of favorite channels plus local for say, 25 bucks per month with no friggin contracts.

I haven’t had cable since around 2005 (ditched it for the highest number of Netflix DVDs tier and never looked back) and I think if I continue using a mix of streamers bought on deals, and FAST channels for the rest of my life, I will still spend less in inflation-adjusted costs than I would have for traditional cable for the last 20 years.

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u/No_Oil3233 11d ago

You’re not wrong.  But I think the net net output we’re approaching is worse than the initial solution….  Can’t stand how fragmented sports are, it’s bloody god awful

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u/PirateJen78 11d ago

I think people forget how expensive and useless cable is/was. You could have every channel and there still wouldn't be anything worth watching, and you would be paying a lot more than if you had a select few streaming services.

I got fed up with cable because I wanted the science channel, but it was part of a high-tier premium package. And yet stations I did not want (like the music channels) were part of the expanded basic cable package. Like you said, if I could have picked what I wanted, I would have kept cable.

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u/katchoo1 11d ago

Exactly. I don’t give a tiny little rat’s ass about sports but to get anything I did want to see (science, history, more obscure and classic movies) I had to get the package with a gazillion sports channels that I never watched. And all the useless crap like home shopping and a dozen Jesus shouter channels could not be rejected.

I’m sorry that the cable disruption has finally come for sports and it does suck to have to follow your favorites from streamer to streamer. But I’m mostly annoyed to be forced to again help subsidize something I only truly care about for a month every two years when the Olympics come around.

The one thing I did miss was flipping through channels when bored and wanting mindless distraction to stumble onto the second half of a favorite movie or an episode of a game show I hadn’t seen since the 1980s, and I was delighted when Pluto came along with a reasonable facsimile of that experience as well.

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u/deeeb0 10d ago

Same strokes different cable folks haha

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u/deeeb0 10d ago

That part