You’d think Comcast (or any cable provider) would want to incentivize you to go “all in” with their company and have all of your eggs in one basket. Here’s why I don’t.
Take that DirecTV bill above, thats $110.36 and it has Starz, Max(HBO not Cinemax), and Showtime with Paramount+. I have DVR and its accessible from the app as well. One physical box, apps in every other room either on Apple TV or Roku.
For Internet with SECV its $71.96 for 1000/100 mbps speed.
Add them together its $182.32.
If I try to configure the same thing on Comcast, its 206.99 after I ensure Max, Starz and Showtime/Paramount+ is added. But then I read on another forum even if you have this on Comcast you can’t use your Comcast credentials to log into the Paramount+ app? I mean I can use my DirecTV credentials to log into the Paramount+ app? So what do you get for the extra $24.67? 300+mbps of upload instead of 100mbps of upload? Nice but not worth that. This is also the one year plan so the Comcast price would go up. If I pick the 5 year price lock its already more per month off the bat.
Sorry, they are losing customers because this just isn’t really a value to many of us. I’ll stick with two providers and not have all my eggs in one basket. If there’s a cable cut, at least my TV with the box will still work thanks to the satellite. Even then I only have TV because my wife wants it. If it were just me, I wouldn’t subscribe to any video provider. I’d use OTA and maybe a small streaming service and call it a day.
Even if I remove Paramount+ with Showtime and Starz its $184. Remove the special Max/MGM+/150 Hours DVR bundle, then I have to add 150 hours of DVR manually for $10/m, so were at $164, but thats no premiums and in Comcasts nature a very over compressed and washed-out picture quality by cramming HD down to 3mbps streams whereas on DirecTv they are 6 to 8mbps.
