| As mentioned last week, I’m going to keep this Christmas Day newsletter short. But since I’ll be off next week, I wanted to share my 2020 cord-cutter awards with you all before the year wraps up.
While the circumstances were hardly ideal, 2020 was a big year for cord cutting. Streaming services like Netflix and Disney+ saw their subscriber numbers soar as people looked for ways to pass the time at home, and the temporary suspension of live sports accelerated the decline of traditional pay TV bundles. While not coronavirus-related, this year introduced two major new streaming services in HBO Max and NBC’s Peacock, and we saw some bold attempts to rethink the streaming device with Google’s new Chromecast and the TiVo Stream 4K.
Recounting the year’s best developments has become an annual tradition for me over at TechHive, and this is the fifth time I’ve done it. For all my favorite streaming devices, services, and innovations of 2020, read the full column over at TechHive.
A couple quick news items:
Last call for Netflix + Chromecast:
Google’s new Chromecast with Google TV is still available in a bundle with six months of Netflix for $90. but only through December 31. You can apply the $83.94 in Netflix credit to an existing subscription, which effectively brings the Chromecast price down to $6.06. Per the cord-cutting awards above, this was my pick for the year’s best new streaming device.
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