Streaming is great, but it’snot the home run it used to be.
In fact, I made the decision to switch back to cable.
My experience with most of these services has been very positive.
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The early days of streaming live TV was great.
The channel packages were small and very affordable.
Most services let you choose from add-on bundles to expand your channel list.
It was pretty easy to get the channels you wanted without much extra “fluff” jammed in.
The dream of “al la carte TV” never really materialized.
This brings us to today, where streaming live TV is not much different than cable TV.
For live TV, I typically get YouTube TV or Sling TV during sports seasons.
I hadn’t looked into it in a long time.
Ah, but I’ll need a clunky cable box again, right?
Turns out Comcast finally gives you the option to only use the Xfinity Stream app.
As much as I don’t like Comcast, it was hard to pass up this deal.
I never thought I would say this, but I am a cable TV customer again.
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Is Cable TV Better Than Streaming?
It may sound like I’m giving cable TV a glowing endorsement, but that is not the case.
This is more of a condemnation of the state of streaming live TV services.
It’s gotten to the point where cable TV is the more appealing option.
Those early days of getting a small bundle of TV channels are long gone.
Even Sling TV’s smallest package has over 30 channels now.
And these services are proud of that fact—that’s what they advertise.
It’s a competition to get the most channels, just like cable TV.
I’m not happy about switching back to cable.
I wanted streaming live TV to be better than it turned out to be.
Unfortunately, it wasprobably never going to be the savior we thought it would be.
All hail the cable companies.
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