Yep, cord cutters will save a ton of money by moving from their $200 cable or satellite service to 30 different streaming services at $6.99/month. We're hosed either way.
I was a very early cord cutter. My Roku was a real early one (but dammit, I missed the stock). When we quit, our cable bill was $85 a month/$1,020 a year. This was around 2007 or '08. We went to antenna and Netflix at $9.99 a month/$119.88 a year. We watched zero commercial TV and we were happy. This year, we got the Acorn bug, so we added it at $60 a year. The Netflix went up to $10.99 a month, so our annual expense now is $191.88.
One time recently, we thought we wanted to watch a show on commercial TV. We turned it on and within about 20 minutes, we had picked up the Roku again. The show was OK, but the incessant yammering commercials with their cartoonish colors turned up to max to get your attention just shut us down. When you never see commercials, it is so very difficult to go back to that crap. Really.
As far as we are concerned, we are getting more great quality programming, now including global programming with production values that often put US programming to shame, for a very reasonable price. Every once in a while, I want to see a game on commercial TV, or watch golf (I don't play, I just enjoy watching - yes, it is very strange). That's the extent of our exposure to commercials. Sometimes a Budweiser commercial slogan or something will catch fire with people at work, and I'll be like, "What the hell does that mean?"
So, if my old cable programming had not gone up at all in 12 years - right - I would have paid $12,240 for it. At the higher price we just started paying this year, over those 12 years we have paid $2,303. Giving a big benefit of the doubt to the cable fees, I kept around $10 grand.
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