Let’s get ready to bundle! Later this month, Xfinity internet customers will be offered a discounted TV bundle consisting of Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+. The first pricing tier has been announced, as well as the name: StreamSaver.
Yes, StreamSaver, which sounds more like a home carbonated soda maker you’d buy on Amazon. But what are we? TV experts?
Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts made the announcement at last week’s MoffettNathan Media, Internet & Communications Conference. StreamSaver will be available to all Xfinity internet customers, no matter which plan they have. Roberts also said that the bundle will “add value to consumers” while helping to retain Xfinity’s internet subscriber base.
The big question right now—besides why CableTV.com wasn’t invited to the MoffettNathan Media, Internet & Communications Conference, whatever that may be—is how much StreamSaver will cost. As with previously announced bundles from Max (which wraps in Disney+ and Hulu) and the Venu streaming sports combo from Disney, FOX, and Warner Bros. Discovery, no one’s talking money yet.
Peacock starts at $5.99 a month, Netflix at $6.99 (both are ad-supported plans), and Apple TV+’s only plan is $9.99, which adds up to about $23. On the higher end, Peacock’s most expensive plan is $11.99 a month, Netflix’s is $22.99 (both sans ads), and Apple TV+ still costs $9.99 monthly, adding up to around $45 total per month.
What are the discounted price points that will entice Xfinity customers to jump into StreamSaver? We say:
- Peacock (with ads), Netflix (with ads), and Apple TV+: $14.99/mo.
- Peacock (no ads), Netflix (no ads), and Apple TV+: $19.99/mo.
- Peacock (no ads), Netflix (no ads, 4K), and Apple TV+: $24.99/mo.
Of course, our projected bundle prices are likely lower than what the suits at Xfinity have in mind for StreamSaver—but we did base our numbers on Disney’s established Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+ bundle tiers, so we might not be far off. Plus, Roberts emphasized that the StreamSaver bundle will “come at a vastly reduced price to anything available today.”
Shots fired at Mickey? Stay tuned.
Bill Frost has been a journalist and TV reviewer since the 4:3-aspect-ratio ’90s. His pulse-pounding prose has been featured in The Salt Lake Tribune, Inlander, Coachella Valley Independent, Las Vegas Weekly, and many other dead-tree publications (see BillFrost.tv). In addition to being a Senior Staff Writer at CableTV.com, Bill is a syndicated streaming TV columnist forSalt Lake City Weekly and other alternative weeklies, and host/producer of TV Tan Podcast. By night, Bill cranks a Flying V with his band at the bar.
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