I think you're talking about un-bundling services such as channel offerings and streaming. Cable companies years ago priced their offering by channel and for a while the FCC required the companies to allow customers to subscribe to just the channels they wanted with some exceptions. Apparently that's gone. Comcast in my area offers about half dozen packages.That is all fine and good Flop, and if that floats your boat and you want to spend the money, that's up to you. but as I alluded to above, I worked in the global telecom and electronics industry for years and am not a consumer. I get more TV programming than I can shake a stick at for free. And I have literally about 1600 premium select movies and other programming I can view at will WITHOUT going on the web or any cloud plus hundreds and hundreds more saved on other media. I have absolutely no need for streaming.You can get access to streaming services through Comcast. I get both Netflix and Amazon Prime through Comcast. Although Comcast does not charge anything, you still must have a sign on to the streaming services. It's a bit expense but really nice to be able watch all the content from streaming services as well as all the Comcast content on a single big screen TV without messing around with the Internet or computers. So if I want to watch a movie or a series, I can just speak the name of movie or series into the remote and it will search through both Comcast and the streaming services. When found, I just click on it and the selection and it plays.
Comcast has apps for about 20 streaming service and a total of about 100 apps for other Internet entertainment venues.
And since I get my internet service through FIOS fiber optic, if I did get streaming, it would be through them not a cable hub based Comcast. But then, Verizon would make me buy their TV service which I neither want nor need so we are right back at ground zero. I won't be pressured into buying something I don't want or need simply to get something else I do. If consumers would quit buying into all this crap with 8 boxes on their TV stand and 15 services so they can brag they have 5 HBOs, 4 Cinemaxes, and 9 other services they cannot begin to even use all of, companies would be forced to provide us with just what we want, the WAY we want it, in a simple and streamlined manner.
It seems like everyone hates cable but I don't. I like having a single interface to home entertainment so no matter what channel or streaming service I access, my remote works the same. When I search, I see the results from streaming and channels on the same screen. I get one bill a month instead of 3 or 4. And most of all I like not having to deal with the Internet. When I want to watch a movie, I don't want to see messages popping up that says my computer has lost contact with the DNS, or I am no longer connected to the Internet or the network adapter needs to be reset, or a page was not found. I put up with that shit when I'm working on the net because I have to but when it's time to relax and enjoy myself, I want to do just that.