I’ve been streaming content over 20 years. I stream content to my cars so I don’t need Sirius/xm.
A couple of points:
1) it’s a fallacy o think you can save money by streaming. You need internet whether you stream or not so forget about those costs. Any streaming service costs is over and above your internet costs.
2) it’s also a fallacy that a single streaming service will provide you with all the content you will need.
3) watch out for certain services if they are legal. Some of these you better be using vpn so your tv ip addresses cannot be tracked.
Every year for over a dozen years, I compare most streaming services to what I currently use. And to this date, I would be spending more money and get less functionality compared to what I have today, what I’ve had for decades. I can be anywhere in the world (if have done this for over a decade) and watch live tv or watch anything that I’ve recorded on my Terabytes of storage.
Before cutting the cable tv service, you need to sit down and come up with a list of all the channels your shows come on. My wife and I have a long list and it takes multiple streaming services to get what we want. I think it took 4 or 5 providers to get all the channels we like to watch. When you add all these costs up, it was more than our current service. For a couple decades I have negotiated a monthly cost for my tv channels. A couple years ago, we did switch to these 4 or 5 providers to get everything we watch and it cost more and it was a mess. We use Apple TV 4K boxes so every provider had an app so it’s easy to get to each provider and Apple TV devices have more smarts in them compared to your Roku or fire sticks. YouTube tv doesn’t provide everything but it’s a good start. So if you want to watch a different channel, you had to get out of the YouTube app and then get into say Hulu or shudder or paramount+ or Apple TV and others. Then you have to remember that this show is only on Hulu or it’s only on something else.
Then, the recording functionality of some of these providers don’t exist. Right now, I can record 15 different shows at the same time to a number of hard drives, a lot of the providers don’t provide recording and don’t buy off that you can always get to a show/concert because it’s online, because that’s also a fallacy. So after using many streaming providers for almost a year, we went back to our provider we used for ma y decades. I still have some streaming services because they are free from our cell phone provider, but overall, it’s a much simpler environment to use daily.
There is always an option to go with iptv to get thousands of channels for the cheap. If you do, you better use a vpn service for every tv or you could get a surprise knock on your door.
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