We cut the cord about 6 weeks ago at my house and the wife and I are loving it! We subscribed to Britbox and Acorn through Prime. There is more good stuff on those two services than we will ever be able to watch and they cost $13 a month combined.
Our Cox bill was $365 a month for cable, phone and internet. We had all of the movie channels (HBO, Showtime etc) and landline phone which really boosted the size of our bill. It is now down to $100, paying for internet only. We pay $45 a month for Hulu with live streaming, Netflix which I think is $14 and the Britbox and Acorn through Prime and that’s it. Equipment cost was 5 Roku boxes for $37 apiece for all of the TV’s that were hooked up to cable. We now have more content than we will ever need that we can get rid of easily if we want to try something else. I will miss the NFL Network and the Pac12 network when football season starts but I will live without those.
One other thing that I did decide to get was Apple Music. Access to 55 million songs for $10 bucks a month has been awesome so far. I used to spend at least $10 each month buying stuff from iTunes and now it is unlimited. I am enjoying that service tremendously.
Oh my gosh. 365 dollars? That’s the highest I ever heard anyone pay. I refuse to pay more then 200 to Comcast and currently pay 186 which is sick too. But I have for tv’s with HD, internet with a good speed so for now we’ll keep it. But if I have to continue fighting, I’ll drop the cable. I figure that eventually the price of just internet will be the same as having cable. They can’t keep seeing cord cutters and survive.