Are you spending more on TV than ever?

[The Curmudgeon]

The TV is on a LOT in the Curmudgeon's house. It's been said before that we are now in a new Golden Age of television, and the ease and availability and choice we have now is like nothing we've ever seen before.

But man are we paying for it. I loathe piracy, and I don't understand people who "love" a TV show but are happy to sit hunched around a laptop watching an illegal torrent of it. So that means if I DO want to enjoy the shows I like now, it means I'm paying more than ever for it.

Consider this.

I pay £49 a month for my Sky subscription. That's including movies, sports and Sky Atlantic (HBO, basically).
£10 for HD.
£5.99 for Netflix.
£5.99 for the WWE Network.
£3 for a monthly unlock service to help me get American content from the Network (the UK doesn't technically get it yet) and Netflix.

That's not even counting my internet, that we need line rental for and pay extra to get Fibre Optic as well.

In short, its a lot of money every month, and we get our moneys worth, but being able to watch all the best stuff out there, Game of Thrones, WWE, Breaking Bad etc etc costs big ol' bucks, and its costs we didn't have even three years ago.

So are we alone here? Is the rising cost of entertainment hurting your pocket?

[trashcanman]

So. Fucking. Much. Be prepared to pay sepperately for HBO next year too. They're splitting off from cable to give Netflix a run for their (your) money. There's a lot of rumbling that cable/satellite as a format is on the way out and this prospect pleases me to no end. We pay about the same (more for Netflix because I get DVD's as well as the streaming service) for cable minus HBO, but our service just dropped Cartoon Network which angers me to no end. So sick of this shit. Now I'm paying for hundreds of channels I don't watch while one of the few I do is made unavailable and it happens regularly. Thankfully, most of CN's Toonami programming ends up on Netflix, but I'm still pissed off I can't watch it when it airs.