It used to be simple: Netflix for on-demand movies, Hulu for on-demand TV, all for about twenty bucks. As we increasingly grow accustomed to not paying for things (or paying very little), I think many of us naively expected a future where these two services would be just about all we needed, accumulating more and more content, the Coke and Pepsi of cord-cutting (or maybe the peanut butter and jelly), the de facto winners in the fall of cable TV whose low fees and internet-first approach would permanently simplify how we pay for and consume TV.
Things aren’t panning out quite how people seem to have imagined, as NBC readies taking The Office to its own streaming service, leaving Netflix without one of its most streamed shows. Meanwhile, there’s currently a CBS blackout on AT&T services like DirecTV Now. It turns out à la carte TV may be more cumbersome and expensive than we thought. Maybe somebody should bundle all these channels together and sell them to us in one big package?
Another solution: grab an antenna (the best-selling Mohu antennae are currently 40% off with promo code “Mohu10Years”), a Blu-ray player (Wirecutter’s picks are $70 or less), and a copy of The Office on DVD for fifty bucks.
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