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Cutting the cable: should you?

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We all love watching TV, but that experience isn’t very cheap. Therefore, many online companies have started offering online streaming services. We’re all familiar with online TV show streaming services such as Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Hulu Plus. As it grows in popularity, there are many new streaming services, such as: Sling TV, CBS All-Access, PlayStation Vue, and Apple’s streaming service.

Here’s top streaming services:

  • Amazon Prime: $99/year, includes: TV shows, movies, and original series. Also, it includes fast (usually 2-day) shipping on most Amazon items. This package couldn’t get any better as it also includes unlimited ad-free music, unlimited photo storage, and over 500,000 free ebooks.
  • Hulu Plus: $7.99/month, includes: TV shows, movies, and original series.
  • Netflix: $7.99/month, includes: TV shows, movies, and original series.
  • Sling TV: $20/month will get you access to best live channels such as ESPN, Food Network, TNT, Disneny channel, Lifetime, and many more. You can also add more channels for extra charge; HBO is extra $15/month and extra sports or kids channels are only $5 extra per month.
  • CBS All-Access: for $5.99/month you can get access for over 6,500 episodes on demond and watch live CBS broadcasts on any mobile device.
  • PlayStation Vue: Available on PlayStation three and four, Vue offers 55 channels of live TV, movies, and sports for $49.99/month. You can upgrade to $59.99 or $69.99 to more live channels. There is no long term commitment.

Almost all services include DVR service for recording, no long term commitment, 7-day trial, search, and browse their channels, movies, or TV shows.

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