r/peacock • u/crookshanksfuzzytail • 11d 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/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/deeeb0 10d ago

Same strokes different cable folks haha