WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
WHERE IN THIS THREAD
DID I SPEAK ON CANCELLING ANYTHING?
I SAID THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
DOESNT TAKE THE TYPE OF LS
THE FILM INDUSRTY TAKES.
THEY SPEND MUCH LESS MONEY
FOR A 100000% PROFIT.
It didn't take streaming long to come full circle
- Thread starter winb83
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WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
WHERE IN THIS THREAD
DID I SPEAK ON CANCELLING ANYTHING?
I SAID THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
DOESNT TAKE THE TYPE OF LS
THE FILM INDUSRTY TAKES.
THEY SPEND MUCH LESS MONEY
FOR A 100000% PROFIT.
beenz
Rap Guerilla
I only pay for disney+, apple tv+ and my share of youtube tv. (yet I have access to EVERY streaming service)
my monthly expenditures for TV are still far lower than when I had comcast.
given that netflix already did an about face when it comes down to cracking down on password sharing, I don't think any of the other streaming services will be pulling it any time soon either.
Netflix did an about face on blocking devices not stopping password sharing. That's still full steam ahead. These services can't afford all these freeloaders when they aren't profitable as it is. They all are gonna crack down on it. It's gonna be just like when Apple stopped including headphones or took the charger out of the box. One will step forward and do it then everyone else will copy. Good chance Netflix leads the charge.
Mr Hate Coffee
Veteran
I worked on the cable tv side at AT&T. This will never happen. Especially contracts. The customer base is NOT going for that and it’s why cable is losing millions of subs each year.
Disney has already done it. A guaranteed price up front for Disney+ immune to price raises. They just had people buy it upfront in a lump sum instead of pay monthly.
Plenty of companies give a discount for buying their services a year at a time or more. Spotify does it. You can pay $7.99 a month or buy a $99 card and lock in a full year.
Cable is losing subs because the price rose to insane levels. You being silly of you think these streaming services aren't going to employ pricing tactics to lock users in long term. It's like apartment rent sign this lease and get a reduced price or go month to month at an overinflated price. It will happen.
Hell Amazon Prime is available at a discount if you pay annually. $180 a year month to month $139 a year paid annually.
Mr Hate Coffee
Veteran
Offering a discounted price for a lump sum payment for the year is different than forcing (key word) people into a 2 year contract. The overwhelming majority of streaming service subs are month to month.
The cable industry had gotten so ridiculous that a 2 year contract was standard. I don’t see anything comparable happening for streaming because customers are so against it.
Them locking you into a price for paying upfront instead of month to month then making the monthly price unpleasant in comparison is the exact strategy cable used. Them not calling it a contract doesn’t matter either way you’re a long term customer because if you pay for 2 years upfront you not canceling what you paid for already.
Streaming is just direct to consumer cable. Instead of the cable company managing subs and doing bundles the content makers sell direct to the consumer. Don’t think they won’t turn what used to be carriage agreement arguments with cable providers into just dikking over the customer directly screwing with prices.
One way or another these companies will get that money.
fukk streaming if we are keeping it 100 
Cable started to fukk us over with the million trash channels and “nothing” to watch. Then they saw the cord cut wave and figured charging for stuff like modems and routers was a way to close the gap.
A ton of streaming services arrive and I didn’t wanna piece together $5-15 here and there and basically be paying cable prices again.
8ish years ago I said fukk it and built a dedicated Plex server, gave the cable company back their equipment they were “renting” me and copped my own modern and only pay $43 on a grandfathered promo internet rate and I am not looking back. The server is robust, I can watch it wherever I go, have all my music on that shyt as well, no commercials and the content is carefully curated.
Streaming is Cable Jr. at this point.
Cable started to fukk us over with the million trash channels and “nothing” to watch. Then they saw the cord cut wave and figured charging for stuff like modems and routers was a way to close the gap.
A ton of streaming services arrive and I didn’t wanna piece together $5-15 here and there and basically be paying cable prices again.
8ish years ago I said fukk it and built a dedicated Plex server, gave the cable company back their equipment they were “renting” me and copped my own modern and only pay $43 on a grandfathered promo internet rate and I am not looking back. The server is robust, I can watch it wherever I go, have all my music on that shyt as well, no commercials and the content is carefully curated.
Streaming is Cable Jr. at this point.
Streaming is just unbundled cable content sold direct to consumers by most of the same companies that made the content on traditional TV. It’s the a la carte people wanted.fukk streaming if we are keeping it 100
Cable started to fukk us over with the million trash channels and “nothing” to watch. Then they saw the cord cut wave and figured charging for stuff like modems and routers was a way to close the gap.
A ton of streaming services arrive and I didn’t wanna piece together $5-15 here and there and basically be paying cable prices again.
8ish years ago I said fukk it and built a dedicated Plex server, gave the cable company back their equipment they were “renting” me and copped my own modern and only pay $43 on a grandfathered promo internet rate and I am not looking back. The server is robust, I can watch it wherever I go, have all my music on that shyt as well, no commercials and the content is carefully curated.
Streaming is Cable Jr. at this point.
fukk cable, fukk streaming.
Debrid /Usenet Gang zero losses
Cable and satellite is all about live sports now and its for those that don't have time to f*ck around with janky links with spotty and unreliable streams
