THB #353: A Sunday Cord Cutting Update

I laid this out for my brother-in-law today, who has been a DirecTV guy because of Sunday Ticket for years, as I had been. Maybe it will be helpful to some of you…

I’ll start with the punchline… if you get YouTubeTV (replacing cable), Netflix (basic - no ads), Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+ (no ads), HBO Max (w/ads), Showtime/Paramount+ (no ads), Netflix (no ads), and Peacock (no ads), your monthly bill would average out as $131.22 a month.

AT&T has not announced how it will handle no-ad MAX as of year… might be an added charge.

That leaves Prime, which is the same price regardless of your other choices, and AppleTV+, which you can decide matters to you or not. (My household particularly values iCloud, Apple Music, AppleTV+, and Apple News… so it works for us.)

I am not aware of any cable or satellite offering that delivers anywhere near that much content (especially without ads) for anything close to 132 bucks a month.

Yes, you need home internet for all of this. I suggest a minimum of 300 mbps. But …