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The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices (arstechnica.com)

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For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn't want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in.

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[-] iMastari@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Since these are turning to shit, are there any good Soap2Day replacements?

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[-] phillaholic@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Not that it doesn’t suck, but did everyone really think the industry was going to replace a $200/month cable subscription with $30 worth of streaming? Also consider streaming taking over theatre releases too.

[-] LexiconBexicon@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah idk what people were thinking. Ads have ALWAYS been around, there were ads on radio, ads on TV and now ads on streaming. Facebook's entire revenue came from selling digital ad space, well not entirely true, 99.999999% of it was ad revenue, the rest were shareholders. YouTube is the one outlier though for some reason, they don't seem to care about people using adblockers, no idea where they're getting their revenue from

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

It's also still only like less than 60 for five different services. And more then that is a little crazy. The average cable bill is like $83 and people who didn't have basic were paying like $200 as you said. If you wanted to buy all paid streaming services it would be ~$102 with ads, ~140 with ads. It's still cheaper and better than cable, that's why people haven't stopped paying.

[-] Nekobambam@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Over the past few months, I’ve canceled my subscriptions to Audible, Disney+, Netflix, and appleTV. I still have Amazon Prime since it’s an annual subscription, but that’s it. It’s been a surprise to realize how much pressure I was feeling to consume all this content and how freeing it felt to just get rid of it all. I have a lot of audiobooks I haven’t gotten around to listening, and books I haven’t read yet. I can still watch stuff on Amazon and ahem other places if I want. But really, there has to be more to life than just endlessly binging tv shows.

[-] MrGerrit@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

Cable companies: You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me.

[-] KTVX94@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 1 year ago

As someone who watches pretty much no movies or shows, I couldn't care less, but it's gonna be fun watching piracy shoot back up.

[-] Camzing@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Watch The Wire!

[-] plebonix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

if it's not for sale on vudu i'm not watching it. the streaming companies can die off imo.

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