A couple of months ago we upgraded our Xfinity service to get 105mbs (real world around 80mbs. still not bad). We also got all the premium channels and more.
NO CONTRACT!. We can cancel or downgrade anytime.
The premium channels are useless for us. They will go away.
Mrs p6 does like some of the HD channels but we can downgrade and keep them.
So far it has been worth it. IIRC we pay !$160-180 a month BUT that is all we do. At our age we don’t go out much and if we do it’s with our kids and grand kids.
We cut off the extra cable outlets in the bedrooms BUT we can watch most of what we like via the Xfinity app to devices OR OTA.
We will be cutting back as long as the 105mbs service stays the same. If not we’ll have to keep it.
Also I like to watch some channels carried by Xfinity locally like the Pennsylvania Cable Network - mostly for the farm show - as well as watching the ponies run at the local harness racing track.
Can’t get them anywhere else. That said we really don’t NEED all this. We have done without before and I’m sure we will do without again. As long as we can afford it we’ll keep it. When we can’t, we won’t. No tears.
Oh we like the DVR feature too.
Just wait until the bundling (if you have it) expires. The bundling discount expires at the end of the term if you don’t add something else to the bundle. I always thought that the bundling discount is indefinite — it isn’t.
And it can get really expensive each time you add something else and it expires a year later.
But that is part of their game.