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The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices

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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ikidd ,
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Ah, well. There’s always piracy.

balderdash9 ,
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I’m sure Google will find a way to kill that too

CaptainEffort ,

Fr, they’re already trying to get rid of adblockers

postmateDumbass ,

Time for a google free internet alternative.

shortwavesurfer ,

Do what i did and stop watching TV completely. I have watched maybe 10 hours of TV in the past 12 years.

_cerpin_taxt_ ,

Some of the greatest television ever made is coming out these days. Fuck that. Just build a piracy machine. Yar.

shortwavesurfer ,

Yeah, i dont find tv to be worth my time. I always heard people talking about the hottest new thing and was like “meh” i dont care.

_cerpin_taxt_ ,

Do you watch movies, or are those also a waste of time in your opinion?

shortwavesurfer ,

Very few. I can count the movies i have seen in the past decade on 1 hand.

kaitco ,

But…Ted Lasso…?!

shortwavesurfer ,

Who’s Ted Lasso? Some sort of cowboy?

kaitco ,

Hm…Kind of… 🤔

40hands ,

Cool story bro.

overzeetop ,
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I didn’t quite completely quit, but there’s lot of other things to do than watch TV.

givesomefucks ,

It sucks for consumers…

It sucks for writers…

It sucks for actors…

It sucks for vfx workers…

And the CEOs running the companies and making all the money claims it sucks for them too because after their last couple years of shit decisions, they’re making slightly less money.

So maybe those shareholders should re-evaulte who their CEOs are?

Maybe get rid of the people who killed the Golden Goose because they wanted to eat it?

Riyria ,

If they’re not losing money, shareholders do not care. The end goal of a corporation is to maximize profits for the shareholders within the confines of the law. So until they start actually costing shareholders substantial amounts of money they will do nothing.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod ,
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The end goal of a corporation is to maximize profits for the shareholders within the confines of the law.

And if the fine is greater than the profit, or they don't get caught, that's okay too.

Riyria ,

Yep. It’s easier to just break the law, pay the fine, and continue making billions over actually stopping the activity that causes the fine. That’s what happens when it’s almost impossible to hold anyone actually personally responsible force actions of a corporation.

Corkyskog ,

In a way it would be really nice if you couldn’t sell short term stocks and there were minimum holding periods of 1 to 3 years based on the company metrics. That alone would flip a lot of these quarterly incentives, heck quarterly earnings calls themselves would probably be less frequent. Even if you had to register the sale 6 months in advance would solve a lot in my opinion. But of course again, that would destroy the entire finance industry as we know it.

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    dan1101 ,

    I’m on a Disney/Hulu bundle for $19.99, that isn’t bad. Hopefully that won’t change. But as soon as Ahsoka is over I plan to cancel.

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    phillaholic ,

    I can’t see any removing the ad free option, they’ll just make it more expensive.

    AlexWIWA ,

    This is what happened to cable too I think. My grandpa was saying back in the day cable was what you got to avoid ads

    alquicksilver ,
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    The only reason I even have Hulu is because I pay for Spotify. Otherwise, it’s just not worth the price tag for me.

    Spotify, though…raised its price recently, but also gave me new features that I use, so I’m not complaining.

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    alquicksilver ,
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    The one I know for sure is new that I use is an AI DJ feature. It plays music in sets it thinks you’ll like, then lets you know when a new set is starting and what it’ll be like; lets you start a new set manually if you don’t like the type of music being played.

    As someone who lived alone, when it came out it was nice to have a friendly voice (sounds like a young, 20-something guy), even though fake, to talk to me about my music.

    Clearly I need to do research on them, though; I’m out of the loop on their nastiness.

    sebinspace ,

    Yeah but sometimes there’s nothing better than a good foie gras

    autotldr Bot ,

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Discovery’s David Zaslav have also indicated that their services were initially priced “too low” in an effort to draw a huge and unendingly expanding subscriber base.

    In the early-to-mid 2010s, a subscription to Netflix and Hulu and your friend’s borrowed HBO password could get you access to the vast majority of all the TV that was worth watching.

    Netflix had a huge archive of older shows plus a slowly growing library of its buzzy releases like Orange Is the New Black, Jessica Jones, and Stranger Things.

    Not content to let Netflix have what looked like a lucrative new market all to itself the companies that made and distributed TV decided one by one as the decade wore on that it was time to create their own apps and generate their own subscription revenue.

    Tech companies also decided to jump in, with Amazon Prime Video pushing into expensive scripted dramas and Apple TV+ becoming relevant by dint of throwing untold gobs of money at all kinds of projects.

    Netflix announced its first subscriber loss in a decade in early 2022, cratering its stock; despite some recovery, it’s still only worth about two-thirds what it was at its peak in late 2021.

    I’m a bot and I’m open source!

    half_built_pyramids ,

    Good bot

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