Cable companies still advertise prices far below what you’ll actually pay, and some of them avoid revealing their true prices until the last possible moment.
While Discovery+ offers some of the same content that currently airs on cable, it doesn’t include the live cable feeds themselves or new episodes of hit shows such as House Hunters International or Chopped.
Netflix has drastically scaled back its integration with the new Chromecast with Google TV, so its original programming no longer appears on the home screen.
If there was any doubt left about how the pay TV industry would respond to cord cutting, this latest price hike makes the endgame clear: There will be no pivot toward flexible packages, lower prices, or the mythical a la carte cable TV service.