Cable is dead. Long live the cable bundle. Curious to see the pricing and if the bundle only includes ad tiered options.
Comcast Unveils Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Streaming Bundle
Submitted 5 months ago by Copernican@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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bazus1@lemmy.world 5 months ago
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Really you pay for convenience and legallity. Not everyone knows how to or feels comfortable pirating. With a service you know you aren’t breaking any laws and you’re not worried about quality, storage, captions, and sketchy files.
meeeeetch@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You’re definitely paying for legality and safety, but when you have to search through five different streaming apps to find that the movie you’re looking for can only be rented via yet another service, the convenience becomes debatable.
reddig33@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I have my doubts it will be cheaper. It’s Comcast.
Copernican@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t think you understand how pricing works. Someone like Disney demands a high carriage fee agreement and mandates that ESPN must be in the basic cable package for all comcast subscribers, otherwise comcast doesn’t get any Disney owned TV. As a result Comcast has to charge basically 10 bucks a month to all subscribers to have ESPN, not counting the general cost breakout. Sure, comcast leases STB’s for X dollars and gets a cut of the subscription fees as well, but the point is the people that make the TV programming are the same. So it’s not magically going to make the cost of TV significantly cheaper by cutting out comcast. Comcast is the person that collects the bills, but Disney, ViacomCBS, etc, are very much involved of setting up the prices consumers pay on cable and streaming.
darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Yeah Telus in Canada has been doing this recently as well. We’re just back to cable packages except now you have like 4 different apps to worry about.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
My solution is to just watch less in general.
Not like there’s a ton of new stuff worth watching at any given time anyway.
That was one of the main factors in my cutting the cord in the first place.
CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Cable channels inundated with garbage meant it was time to go outside or play video gamez
ThePantser@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And logins and outages to keep track of.
notannpc@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s gonna take a miracle to pull me back off the high seas again. Netflix was big enough to do it all those years ago, but I can’t even imagine what could do it now.
applepie@kbin.social 5 months ago
fool me once..
Jaysyn@kbin.social 5 months ago
Leave it to corporate America to figure out how to make a simple thing difficult in order to sell (rent) you less for more.
Copernican@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Say what you will about streaming, but I think everyone born before 1995 will understand that todays streaming is way way way better than renting and old school cable. In the old days there was no on demand, so you could only watch what was on at the time you wanted to watch it. You literally had to go to to block buster to rent physical media that wasn’t always available for things like new releases. TV shows weren’t easily available by VHS/DVD. So with streaming, it’s basically cheaper than what Cable + Renting movies used to cost, but I can do it without limits of physical media and have access to crazy amounts of back catalog. I purchased Band of Brothers back in the day on DVD box set for like 70 bucks which is 10 1 hour long episodes. For 99 bucks a year I can get all of band of brothers and a lot more content than that. Sure I don’t own it all, but that’s fine for most of my purposes.
Bizarroland@kbin.social 5 months ago
Counterpoint:
Thanks to streaming we don't spend quite as much time thinking about the media we consume and the deeper meanings and subtext and generating internal fanfictions about what could possibly be coming up in the next episode a week from now.
Streaming makes media easier to consume but fills it with culturally empty calories.
The grand majority of conversation I see about a show is, "Have you seen _? No? You should totally watch _, it's really good!" Or alternatively, "Yeah, it's great isn't it?"
Since Netflix came out we've definitely taken one step down the ladder rung closer to Idiocracy ass movies.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“StreamSaver” is such a junky name for it.
Jaeger86@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’ll start with no adds then they’ll slowly introduce them cause “it’s unsustainable” when it’s really “we want all the moneys” not just some
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 5 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts has unveiled plans for StreamSaver, an upcoming streaming product bundle that packages Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+ that will be available to all Comcast broadband, TV and mobile subscribers.
“Those three products will come at a vastly reduced price to anything in the market today and will be available to all our customers,” Roberts told the MoffettNathanson Media, Internet & Communications Conference during a session that was webcast on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, Roberts talked up StreamSaver as an affordable streaming bundle that will underpin growth for his company’s broadband business.
And Disney, Fox Corp. and Warner Bros Discovery have combined for a sports streaming joint venture.
Peacock, the streaming service of Comcast’s entertainment unit NBCUniversal, has narrowed its start-up losses and ended the latest financial quarter with 34 million paying subscribers.
Roberts told the investor conference that Peacock will continue with a steady-as-you-go dual ad and subscription model, however much the wider streaming space is facing increased competition and a drive towards profitability.
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AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Hell no, not gunna ever go back.
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I can’t wait for 10 years from now when this all comes full circle and we start getting commercials to “ditch your streaming bundle for whatever new service.”
Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hopefully you’re working on “AdamEatsAss+” although seems like you might just have some niche content if you ever make that happen.
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
It will be dynamically generated movies and series. People will make their own movie/serie template and share it with other people.
Bizarroland@kbin.social 5 months ago
The sad thing is it'll probably start with infinite anime. There are so many currently existing manga that could be quickly and easily adapted to a full anime given the proper AI backing that it could take you years just to catch up.
Our great grandkids will probably be watching Spotify remixes of aitv shows recommended to them by influencers paid for by micro10gapplesoft
kozy138@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I’m hoping to be fully self-hosted by then.