It didn't take streaming long to come full circle

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That's exactly where we're headed. Instead of hundreds of cable channels there's going to be 4-5 major streaming players who make far fewer shows than we had before prices gonna go up for less content.
I don't mind paying more for a few quality streaming services. It is not a sustainable business model. This is no different from Uber subsidizing rides for nothing to gain market share until investors finally demanded some profitability and prices went back in line with standard taxi fares.
 

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We're quickly heading back to the days of rampant lost media with all these streaming services yanking content off their platforms for tax write offs.

Not all of this content is likely to have been saved or uploaded to pirate sites.

These people that try to track lost films and stuff are about to enter a new golden age for their craft.
 

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I don't mind paying more for a few quality streaming services. It is not a sustainable business model. This is no different from Uber subsidizing rides for nothing to gain market share until investors finally demanded some profitability and prices went back in line with standard taxi fares.
Its sustainable but not at the prices being charged now. Ultimately they probably want you paying $30 per month for a single service and people aren't going to show willingness for that.

People have this dream that they can just pay for the content they watch and not pay for the rest. Everybody watches different stuff and if the price isn't democratized then what you watch will skyrocket in price to make up for that.
 

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TV was always a subscription model. People fled cable TV because they said it was too expensive. The thing they fled to isn't really less expensive it's just that studios for a time were willing to eat the cost to grow. Unlike stuff like video games where companies can make more money after the purchase (if that's even needed anymore as mobile has shown it's not) than on the purchase itself TV isn't going to survive people not subscribing to it at high price rates. If the mom that doesn't watch sports doesn't pay for ESPN as part of a forced bundle than whatever she was paying the people that want ESPN are going to have to pay that share. The cost goes up. That's à la carte people paying more for what they want to have the freedom to not pay for what they don't want.
 

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Its sustainable but not at the prices being charged now. Ultimately they probably want you paying $30 per month for a single service and people aren't going to show willingness for that.

People have this dream that they can just pay for the content they watch and not pay for the rest. Everybody watches different stuff and if the price isn't democratized then what you watch will skyrocket in price to make up for that.
There really needs to be some consolidation, a greater focus on quality, and some of these studios are just going to have to face the harsh reality that their content largely isn't worth its own app.
 
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