{"id":4909,"date":"2020-07-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviancetechnologies.com\/blog\/blog\/nine-great-things-that-cord-cutting-brought-us\/"},"modified":"2020-07-09T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T10:00:00","slug":"nine-great-things-that-cord-cutting-brought-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviancetechnologies.com\/blog\/nine-great-things-that-cord-cutting-brought-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine great things that cord-cutting brought us"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nine great things that cord-cutting brought us<\/h2>\n

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For those who\u2019ve been trying to escape cable or satellite TV, the last week brought a lot of doom and gloom.<\/p>\n

First, YouTube TV announced its biggest price hike ever, from $50 per month to $65 per month. FuboTV followed suit, raising prices from $55 per month to $60 per month. Sling TV has also hinted at price hikes to come, saying it will lock in today\u2019s rates until August 2021<\/a>, but only for those who subscribe by August 1. (Sling says it currently has no plans to raise prices within 12 months, despite the offer.) Disney is rumored to be raising prices for ESPN+ as well<\/a>, from $5 per month to $6 per month.<\/p>\n

All this of course prompted the usual wave of hot takes about how the cord-cutting dream is dead<\/a>. We were promised a la carte TV<\/a><\/em>, a chorus of jaded pundits said, but instead we got a system that looks a lot like cable<\/a><\/em>. (In truth, the expectation of a la carte cable channels has always been unrealistic, but that\u2019s another story.)<\/p>\n

Me? I\u2019m not feeling quite so glum. While there\u2019s no sugarcoating the price hikes, cord-cutting only counts as a failed experiment if you ignore all of the good it\u2019s done\u2014and is still doing\u2014for the state of television. In the interest of looking on the bright side, here are some examples of how cord-cutting has made TV meaningfully better.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more to watch than ever<\/h2>\n

At the end of last year, Variety reported an eye-opening statistic<\/a>: Netflix alone released more original programming in 2019 than the entire TV industry did in 2005.<\/p>\n