What cable does is force you to buy basic cable, plus a bunch of regulatory recovery and other fees, to get cable's real equivalent to streaming services which were the pay movie channels.
I'd rather pay $80/mo. for Internet, then jump in an out of STARZ and other services for $10/mo. instead of paying $80/mo. for Internet, $100/mo. for TV+basic cable (which I don't watch and TV is free OTA), and then the movie channels on top of it.
Plus the streaming services work on my phone which is pretty neat when I'm stuck somewhere.
> Plus the streaming services work on my phone which is pretty neat when I'm stuck somewhere.
FYI, that’s true of most cable networks now as well. They’ve all developed apps that are hybrids of (legitimized) IPTV streaming of their live broadcast of the channels available in your package, plus VOD catalogues of seemingly-random seasons of shows (i.e. the ones they happen to currently have licensed for syndication at any given time.)
I'd rather pay $80/mo. for Internet, then jump in an out of STARZ and other services for $10/mo. instead of paying $80/mo. for Internet, $100/mo. for TV+basic cable (which I don't watch and TV is free OTA), and then the movie channels on top of it.
Plus the streaming services work on my phone which is pretty neat when I'm stuck somewhere.