No cable company charged $200 a month for basic cable only. I pay $160 after taxes for high speed internet (150mb down and 10 up, never get throttled), basic plus package so I have most every normal channel, and I get HBO, Cinemax, Starz and Encore for free. This is also for 3 set top boxes. I own my own modem and router. So for $160 I get my kick ass solid and fast internet and all those channels. My internet alone would be like $79 a month. It's Comcast and everyone wants to shit on them, but where I live I am fine compared to fucking pirating, paying 10 different streaming services $10 a month, and paying for the internet separately. I have a remote and a guide and can easily search for anything. I don't want to Google shit, find torrents and then get it to my big tv. I have Netflix and Amazon Prime as well. So with all that, I am below $200 a month. Nobody pays $200 a month for just cable TV unless they have every single package there is to offer. You can get Comcast Xfinity Stream and other basic cable packages for like $15-49 a month. Netflix was great but now the majority of their programming is fucking garbage. Birdbox was good.