It’s still way more awesome than cable ever was. Sure you can have all the services all at once and pay as much as a cable bill, or you can rotate your subscriptions and pay way less.
teamevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That article was worthless… basically streaming is expensive and not as awesome as it once was. There you go whole article
PlantJam@lemmy.world 8 months ago
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m not sure about that. Popular shows get canceled, unfinished. Huge price hikes, and you can’t jump to another provider to watch the shows at a new rate or call and threaten to cancel to get a new rate. Sure, there are a few good series, but it’s still mostly crap. Sure, you can watch some older movies on demand, but plenty aren’t available, are available on some other service, and/or require you to pay a rental fee if you can find it. Prices keep climbing, ads are constantly a threat, and they place more restrictions on how many devices you’re allowed to watch on.
They are doing everything they can to re-insert the worst aspects of cable.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The real difference is you can watch what you want to watch instead of whatever they pick. Also, you can sign up for a month, watch a series, then cancel and sign up to some other service.
The fact most content is crap is irrelevant - there’s more good content available than any reasonable person has time to watch.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Few good series 🧐?
I probably couldn’t list all the absolute master pieces I’ve watched since I’ve started watching stream season. This is some serious rose tinted glasses for the cable Era.
I like reruns of Stargate and law and order as much as the next guy bit cable was absolute shit when it came to compelling series.
I hope it’s just the literal flood of content we get hit with ever some odd months that is warping your perception. You know, rather than the 4 month long weekly episode drops we use to have to suffer through so they could jack up prices on what ever ad they wanted to run in prime time.
That’s not even mentioning the vast graveyards of pilots for series that where DOA based solely on air time.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I sure soon they will introduce contracts making sign up for 6 to 1 year up front to prevent just that.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 months ago
@teamevil, the hero we need, not the hero we deserve.
dan1101@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The biggest change to me is how much the streaming services are pushing commercials now. Paying to watch commercials really completes the transition back to cable.
barsquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Paying to watch commercials will be a no from me. I remember people did this but it is still hard to believe. 1/3 of the content per hour is ads, they are all repetitive and stupid. Except now they are repetitive and stupid despite selling all your data to the advertisers.