I've been on hulu's "basic" plan for about 2 years @ 6.99 a month and have been happy with their service. However I just received a notice that they are raising the price to 7.99 next month, about a 15% increase. Not bad IMO, an affordable increase unlike my house insurance which jumped 35% (after 28 years I am no longer with them )
I wonder if all these companies raising their prices are raising their employees wages by the same amount?

I "cut the cord" in Oct 2015. My internet has been thru Charter Spectrum the entire time and has been $80 per month the entire time. They are the only high speed provider but its ok as my service is fantastic. That $80 per month - I'd like it lower but it's fine. It not only provides my viewing television entertainment but I pay all my bills online as well as the entertainment on my laptop and phone. I pay for several streaming services. I could get by with just YouTube and one other service but I'm happy with my current lineup. No frickin 22 minutes of commercials in a 1 hour time slot and no direct funding of MTV CNN MSNBC ESPN TrueTv ..................ect.

My sister signed up for 200 MIPs Metronet fiber optic last year for $80 per month.

When a nearby construction crew cut the 1000 pair underground telephone cable on purpose because they had a time deadline to complete an Amazon warehouse foundation we lost service for 44 days, and switched to $45 per month 100 MIPs service, and found that the 2 unit Eero brand WiFi system Metronet uses is also a nice touch.

I have had a Mibox 3 Android TV for awhile, and a Sony Google TV before that.

There is so much praise for the $20 Walmart ONN box online
that I have been thinking of trying one,
especially since hackers have “rooted” it and expanded what can be done,
such as instal Linux, run the Kodi media player, etc.

I get how annoying cable TV can be. I had it, too, and got tired of the high prices and the issues like the screen freezing and getting all pixelated. I wasn't into getting satellite, either.

So, I switched to iptv kopen. It's been working out great for me. I paid 60 euros for six months, which is pretty cool. With this, I get a bunch of channels - over 7000! Plus, there are loads of movies in HD, 4K, and UHD. It's got everything from sports and news to movie channels and stuff like MotorTrend and A&E. I can watch it anywhere, on my TV at home or on my phone when I'm out.

I just 'cut the cord' on Direct TV a week ago. I now need to find a reasonable internet provider other than the great satan (AT&T).

I just went and hooked up to my antenna that's been in the attic since the 70s. I get 54 channels in digital quality. Antennas aren't like they used to be, with the balls of aluminum foil trying to improve the signal and the digital broadcast television even comes with a program guide. You get a lot of movie channels, such as Grit, some military channel, Ion, and lots of others. Before I made any decisions I'd go get a $10.00 set of rabbit ears from Ace Hardware to see what happens. I may or may not have it any better, but our broadcast antennas are on Lookout Mountain a few thousand feet above Denver, so they really reach out. You never know until you try, but you can't beat free. If I need to see the game when it's on ESPN or something, I can go to the bar, but for the most part, things are great.

When CBS and Direct TV were having their contract dispute my brother called and asked me what commercial antenna he should buy.
I told him I had two different Terk models or an effective old Radio Shack double bowtie in front of reflector screen that I would give him on his next visit, or that I had stored “The World’s best 14 element UHF Yagi” in our other brother ‘s basement.

In the meantime I suggested he just improvise a “coaxial dipole” by stripping back 20 inches of 75 ohm braid and and taping it back on the cable to expose the inner conductor - nearly free antenna if you have some 75 ohm coax.

Instead he bought a $15 flat HDTV antenna and did a scan and got 60 total channels.
He was also surprised that his fairly new HDTV could had a feature to replay 10 minutes of over the air HDTV TV using internal memory, so he could even rewatch sections of the game or skip forward of ADs.

As luck would have it CBS and Direct TV settled their dispute a few hours before that football game.

We have used to pay $300 per month:

300 mps internet, six TV’s (four Spectrum DVR cable boxes, and two non DVR boxes), no land line.

About a year ago, we turned in all box’s.

Got six Roku 4+ devises at about $35 each (Amazon}.

Went with “Spectrum Select 25 streaming plan”

I think it’s around $35 per month.

You pick your most desired 25 non-premium cable channels, and a host of more common channels are automatically included.

Cloud DVR recording is an option. We pay $10 per month for that (you can store 100 recordings which are held for a year). Delete as desired to free up space.

There is a $5 version available: 50 recordings can be stored for six months.

We pay approx $140 a month for Spectrum Select 25, plus 300 mps internet.

Occasional pixelating, but tolerable. Exception: The CHARGE channel goes pixel wild from late morning to early afternoon. Can’t figure out why it’s only that Channel.

The Roku’s have all the premium channel apps: like Hulu, Slng, Netflix, Fubo, and a host of others. There is often some free programming on them, but you pay monthly for full app access individually. No contracts, so you can jump around them if you wish.

We have a roof antenna for power outages when we switch to generator. Hate the channel availability, but at least it’s something. We go to DVD’s a lot in those rare circumstances.

T Mobile is our cell provider.

Spectrum keeps trying to hook us on their cell plan via their “Second line free for 12 months” bait.

I ain’t biting as T Mobile has much better State to State coverage when we road trip.

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Do you have a "smart tv?"

If so, download the apps for all of the free tv you can find (Pluto, Plex, Tubi, Freevee, etc...).

If you don't have a smart tv, you'll need a router and a ROKU or similar device to hook to your TV. Once you have that, then you can download the free tv apps.
But even with all of the free tv, you'll probably want at least one pay app for live streaming news and new tv shows. I have Hulu. Not perfect, but it's enough for me. My sister recently hooked up Hulu and she got 1 year for a dollar a month (or something ridiculously cheap). If you don't like it after a year, try something different...

About a year ago we got new Verizon phones(existing Verizon customer) and switched to their 5g internet.$125/month for unlimited on both phones(Samsung S23) and internet. It's been flawless. We use Firesticks and stream Hulu and Netflix ($25/month for both) and I put an antenna in the garage for local stuff. If you have Samsung TVs try Samsung TV Plus....literally 100s of channels...free! Don't miss Spectrum in the least!!

I dont know the distance of your garage from your homes wifi router- but I installed a range extender in my garage and enjoy great internet in my garage. I bought a Roku Ultra for my garage TV (Ultra is about $90 and are wireless OR wired) and connected it via ethernet cable directly to my extender and have flawless streaming and great wifi out there.