Legacy cable company comes up with $180-a-year streaming package

If you’re a Comcast internet or Xfinity TV customer, you now have a new streaming app bundle available at a discount. For $15 a month, Xfinity StreamSaver (because you can’t sell something that already exists without giving it a funny name, apparently) combines Netflix, Peacock, and Apple TV+. Everything will be available on Comcast hardware, of course, but also on other platforms.

The three services alone would cost at least $23 per month. That’s $7 for Netflix with ads in 1080p, $6 for Peacock Premium with ads, and $10 for Apple TV+. As it turns out, this is the same level of service you’ll get with StreamSaver, saving you about $96 a year. And if you want to get rid of ads or get 4K resolution on Netflix, you can pay the difference for a higher tier of service.

Comcast also says you can bundle with NOW TV (Xfinity’s own live streaming solution along the lines of YouTube TV or Hulu With Live TV) for another $30 a month.

“StreamSaver is a platform for consumers seeking the highest levels of entertainment and live sports, and for our world-class partners Peacock, Netflix and Apple, who benefit from the reach and depth of our entertainment platforms and the Xfinity marketing engine,” Dave Watson, CEO communications and platforms for Comcast, the press release said. “StreamSaver also adds value to our broadband products by offering customers new ways to save money on streaming entertainment over the best and most reliable network in the country, at home and on the go.”

We joke a little about how a legacy company like Comcast – which remains one of the largest cable companies in the US – is sort of reinventing a la carte streaming in the form of a new cable TV package, and that’s not entirely wrong. But it can also make a lot of sense if you are (or intend to become) a customer.

In fact, it makes sense to at least exactly $8 per month.