One entry, for the amount shown at checkout, on the day you pay. A 12-month plan produces a single $120 charge; the trial produces a single $5 charge. Nothing follows it, because no card is stored after the payment clears and no billing profile stays alive waiting for month thirteen. There is no proration line, no partial-month adjustment and no equipment charge, since nothing is rented and nothing ships. Activation takes about five minutes after the payment, so the charge and the service start together rather than the charge arriving first and access following a scheduled install. If you see a second entry from us in a term, it is not a renewal, and support should hear about it.

1. 1One charge per purchase, no follow-up entries
2. 2No stored card, so no silent renewal
3. 3Charge and access start within about five minutes

Because the advertised figure is the base and the bill is the base plus line items. Set-top box rental appears per outlet, a DVR fee sits on top, regional and broadcast surcharges are added as pass-through costs, and an introductory rate expires on a schedule most households have forgotten by then. Add a one-off purchase for an event and the month spikes again. None of that is hidden exactly; it is simply not in the number used to advertise. The result is a $70-130 typical monthly range that lands as a larger figure on the statement. A subscription with one price and no hardware removes the arithmetic rather than winning it.

1. 1Base rate plus per-outlet rental plus fees plus surcharges
2. 2Introductory rates expire on a schedule
3. 3One-off purchases spike individual months

Six of them. No equipment rental, because the service runs on the Firestick, Roku, Apple TV, Android TV box or smart television you already own. No install or activation fee, since setup is an app sign-in taking about five minutes. No per-outlet fee, because installs are unlimited and only concurrency is capped at one to five streams. No early termination charge, as there is nothing to break out of. No regional surcharge. And no renewal charge, since the term simply ends. The only thing you might spend beyond the subscription is a streaming stick if a television is too old to run apps, and that is a one-off purchase you keep whatever service you use next.

1. 1No rental, install, per-outlet, exit or renewal charges
2. 2Unlimited installs; only simultaneous streams are capped
3. 3A streaming stick, if needed, is bought once and kept

Plans carry a 7-day money-back window from purchase, refunded in money rather than store credit or a voucher, and the $5 trial is excluded from that window. Canceling is not a process: with no stored card and no auto-renewal, ending the arrangement means letting the term run out. Nothing needs to be submitted, phoned in or argued through a retention script, and there is no equipment to return before a deadline. If a fault is genuinely ours and you are still inside the window, take the refund. If you are past it, the practical protection is that the year cannot quietly become two.

1. 17 days on plans, refunded in money
2. 2The $5 trial is excluded from the window
3. 3Canceling means doing nothing

For us, $120, or $125 if you spend $5 on the trial first, which is the sequence we recommend. Against a $70-130 monthly cable or satellite bill, twelve months lands between $840 and $1,560 before add-ons, box rental and surcharges. Streaming bundles typically sit at $40-90 a month, so $480-1,080 a year, usually with tier limits on simultaneous streams. Two costs sit outside all of these and belong in your arithmetic: home internet, which you likely pay anyway, and the data a 4K stream consumes at roughly 7 GB an hour if your plan is capped. Everything in that paragraph is checkable against your own last statement.

1. 1$120 a year, or $125 including the $5 test
2. 2Cable at $70-130 a month is $840-1,560 a year
3. 3Add data costs if your home plan is capped