Last month when my cable bill went up again to about $55 a month (thanks Comcast), it occurred to me that it might actually be cheaper for me to just buy TV shows from iTunes... today I decided to see if this was true. It turns out that the shows Kathy and I watch would cost either $35 or $45 per season, for a grand total of $220 for seven shows for one season. As compared to $660 for standard cable for a year that's only a third of the cost... there's enough savings to pay for an AppleTV in the first year.
Also, I could just copy the video files to my iPod to watch, and there would be no commercials to skip through like I have now with the TiVo.
Unfortunately, this isn't all the TV we watch... iTunes doesn't yet have Smallville or House, and doesn't have much content from Discovery Channel or much variety of sports content, so for the immediate future we're stuck with Comcast. Still, it's an interesting option.
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7 years ago
2 comments:
Hey you guys have to keep cable until at least after we go back to Australia apple TV does sound appealing though, so does the new Iphone are you thinking of getting one of those Jason? Regards Darren see you in about six weeks..
I'm not going to give up cable since I like to watch sports and stuff on Discovery Channel which iTunes doesn't have. Not sure yet on the iPhone... I want to play with one after it comes out to see how I like it.
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