Streaming Is Raising Prices Faster Than Cable Ever Did
robtherobber
16 points
7 comments
September 10, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)
orionblastar
Everything has a subscription now. It used to be that you subscribed to Cable and picked a bundle of channels. Now the major streaming services raise prices unless you wait for black friday to subscribe at a discount. Even TNA has its own subscription service for Professional Wrestling, and for WWE you need Netflix, Peacock, ESPN, and the USA Network carries SmackDown. AEW is on TBS, and its pay-per-view is on HBOMax. I liked it when we just had Cable and picked the channels we wanted to watch.
mrnobody_
Good times for self-hosting.
add-sub-mul-div
Even worse are the qualitative changes. DVRs and skippable commercials were traded for unskippable and hypertargeted ads.
kazinator
Before, you "cut the cable". What is the idiom now? Do you still cut something, or is there some other verb?
JohnFen
That's one of the reasons that I won't do streaming. The streaming industry as a whole has brought back every single one of the bad things about cable that they promised to save us from (and introduced a few new bad things on top of that). The cost/benefit ratio is very unfavorable.