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It's even more expensive. There are all sorts of service fees and equipment rental fees on top of these prices. It's a scumbag way of increasing the costs while
by the_snooze 5y ago
It's even more expensive. There are all sorts of service fees and equipment rental fees on top of these prices. It's a scumbag way of increasing the costs while still advertising artificially "low" prices.
- chrisseaton 5y agoYou don't get many 'cable cutters' in the UK because it's just £120 total a year, and like many people I pay it even though I almost never watch TV, but you can see why do you in the US.
- vel0city 5y agoFWIW, in metro areas there's free over-the-air TV, there's no license fees for that. In my metro area there's easily 80 or so OTA channels I can pick up for free. So one could argue TV in the US is actually £120 less than in the UK, from that perspective. Here you can own and watch TV without paying anything other than the upfront cost of the TV and a wire (the most basic form of antenna). This would be more like paying for Sky TV subscription.
- Stevvo 5y agoHow much is your time worth? US TV has 16 minutes of advertisements per hour, while UK has 7, not counting the BBC channels, which do not have any.
- vel0city 5y agoI really don't watch much TV either way, as I agree advertising is atrocious these days. Still, in US there's no TV license you have to pay like in the UK. So if you don't want to pay for TV service in the US, you don't have to. In UK, if you own a TV you pay for TV service, it's the law.