On: HBO Max taking on Netflix with human curation inst...

[giancarlostoro]

By the time you check you might be paying more than cable. We all hoped to have a cheaper alternative to cable. Not a fragmented variation of it.

[jeromegv → giancarlostoro]

How much is cable those days? That would require at least 10-12 streaming services.

[giancarlostoro → jeromegv]

Throw in one of the streaming services that support 'live' cable TV and that hikes up the prices, plus adding things like HBO, Showtime, etc to a Hulu subscription, and you get there rather quickly.

Personally I try to keep the number of services I'm subscribed to to a sane minimum.