When cord-cutting became a thing, it was all about saving money. Now, cord-cutting costs are catching up with cable.
Just Disney Plus is $8 a month with its must-watch package of Marvel Universe, Star Wars, and Disney films. Netflix starts at $10 a month, too. Plus, with internet TV streaming services such as YouTube TV, which costs $65 a month, your streaming bill can easily climb up to $80 or more, which is within spitting distance of a cable TV bill.
You can save some money by going with an inexpensive TV-bundling service like Philo TV. At $25 a month for up to five simultaneous streams of 58 popular channels -- including AMC, Comedy Central, Food Network, IFC, Nickelodeon, Science, and The History Channel -- it's a steal.
There are plenty of good free services to try, and good old-fashioned over-the-air (OTA) antenna TV. Yes, you do have to put up with commercials on all of these -- and none of them includes DVR features -- but they are free. The key feature in this category is the combination of how many channels you get and whether you like them. With so many selections to choose from, I can guarantee you'll find something to watch that won't hurt your pocketbook by even a single penny.
Tubi TV[1], a Fox Entertainment division, is one of the better free VoD services. It comes with perhaps the biggest video library of any of the free services, with over 45,000 titles. That's thanks to its access to Lionsgate, MGM, Paramount Pictures, and Starz Digital's libraries. Recent popular selections include Anna, Stars fell on Alabama, Queen of Hearts, and all the Twilight movies. It also offers not quite a hundred live