Comparing a stack of unbundled $5-$20 items to a monolithic bundle isn't very wise.
That $75 bundle is one thing: a service with channels.
Each one of those items is a thing like that: a service with channels. It's almost like those 8 services that add up to $89 are 8 different cable boxes in one (and in theory you could own 8 streaming boxes and install each on a separate one).
Pick one or two and be happy.
You can share passwords with friends and family members easily on some of them to save money.
I don't know about cable everywhere, but cable boxes in Canada are tied to a particular subscriber line. You can't just put one in your suitcase and watch your stuff in another location, like a hotel room.
They have shitty, antedeluvial remote controls with way too many buttons, which are hard to use. The software is garbage.
You can't go back in time to view programs, except ones you've laboriously arranged to be recorded.
The Shaw cable boxes don't even have their own HDMI-level volume control. The volume control on the remote sends IR commands to the friggin' TV to change the TV volume.
With any decent IP streamer, that's not the case; you set the TV volume to 80% or whatever, and then forget about it, using the streamer's own volume control: the quick, responsive Bluetooth-based volume control that doesn't need a line of sight to an IR LED, and doesn't go through 100 steps.
I don't understand why that has any customers at all, or any who are under 75.
That $75 bundle is one thing: a service with channels.
Each one of those items is a thing like that: a service with channels. It's almost like those 8 services that add up to $89 are 8 different cable boxes in one (and in theory you could own 8 streaming boxes and install each on a separate one).
Pick one or two and be happy.
You can share passwords with friends and family members easily on some of them to save money.
I don't know about cable everywhere, but cable boxes in Canada are tied to a particular subscriber line. You can't just put one in your suitcase and watch your stuff in another location, like a hotel room.
They have shitty, antedeluvial remote controls with way too many buttons, which are hard to use. The software is garbage.
You can't go back in time to view programs, except ones you've laboriously arranged to be recorded.
The Shaw cable boxes don't even have their own HDMI-level volume control. The volume control on the remote sends IR commands to the friggin' TV to change the TV volume.
With any decent IP streamer, that's not the case; you set the TV volume to 80% or whatever, and then forget about it, using the streamer's own volume control: the quick, responsive Bluetooth-based volume control that doesn't need a line of sight to an IR LED, and doesn't go through 100 steps.
I don't understand why that has any customers at all, or any who are under 75.