The traditional cable package was built on the assumption of an average household, a hypothetical family that watched a bit of everything and would pay for a bundle covering all of it. The trouble is that this average household does not really exist; every real household watches its own specific mix, and pays for a great deal it never touches. Streaming ends this. Building a setup around a free tv streaming iptv service and the specific on-demand apps a household uses means paying for exactly what it watches, not a generic bundle designed for nobody in particular. When I reorganised ours, discarding the one-size approach in favour of a setup tailored to our actual viewing cut the cost sharply while covering everything we watched. I confirmed the live channels across a two-week trial before committing. The lesson is that the one-size bundle was always a poor fit disguised as convenience. Every household is different, and a setup assembled from a live-channel service and the specific apps you actually use fits your household precisely, rather than charging you for the imagined average. Tailoring the setup to real viewing, rather than accepting a generic bundle, is where both the savings and the satisfaction come from.