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Dvd’s are still free at the library if you don’t want to pirate.
Meanwhile pirating content and streaming it has never been easier. Jellyfin and private trackers ftw
Don’t forget about newsgroups (⌐■_■)
Idk what newsgroups are
shhhhh!
That article was worthless… basically streaming is expensive and not as awesome as it once was. There you go whole article
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.
@teamevil, the hero we need, not the hero we deserve.
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.
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.
The real difference is you can watch what you want to watch on demand instead of being limited to their selection of shows on their schedule.
Also, you can sign up for a month, watch a series, then cancel and sign up to some other service. Pay for several services and sure, it’s expensive. But one or two? Still a hell of a lot cheaper than Cable ever was.
The fact most content is crap is irrelevant - there’s more good content available than any reasonable person has time to watch.
I sure soon they will introduce contracts making sign up for 6 to 1 year up front to prevent just that.
Um, duh?
Is the author just noticing this? We’ve been piecing this together for the past 7 some odd years. The day hit us was when YouTube decided to be cute by adding in it’s own network via YouTubeTV and with it’s onslaught of ads.
When the ideas run dry for infinite growth, everything old is new again.
You’re correct.
Social Media is the perfect example of this. Everytime a new social media network arrives, they always boast about being able to do things you could already have done with the other 9 social media networks. Sharing pictures and video, chatting .etc. They’re all things we could’ve already have done far way back in the days of messaging software like AIM. It’s nothing new, it’s just recycled ideas being treated as new.
The only things that have ever improved were the amount of size of videos and pictures we can share and the speed in which we’re able to do it with. That’s it.
The well of finding new ideas has ran dry, because they’ve all been tried and done before many times. New name, same old shit.
How does Tik Tok’s success or Vine’s demise fit into this?
What is Tiktok doing that is anyway different from what Vine did?
But Tom was my friend whereas Zuck is an alien.
What is this “world of content” the author is talking about? 17 years ago, the streaming options on Netflix were the previous season of Friday Night Lights, and… that was it. A few years later they got The Office, but never the current season. So you were always behind. These articles never seem to include a graph of available content over time.
Yes, but no. Cable didn’t used to let you watch all seasons of a specific show on any given day and time of your choosing.
I’m old enough to remember when cable didn’t have ads. I was really young, maybe 5ish, but even then it was confusing to me when they started adding commercials. That was for bad TV with the antenna. Then it was only HBO that didn’t have ads, but we couldn’t afford that until I was much older.
EDIT: I guess my memories of being 5 years old aren’t very accurate.
If you got it over antenna, it most definitely was not cable.
I didn’t say I got it over antenna. I said TV with commercials was for TV that came from the antenna.
Basic cable has always had commercials along with the over the air channels. Premium channels didn’t.
Yep, cable was first used to allow people to watch the same channels that were available over the air just from a more locations than what was available via antenna at their home (and with better reception), so it had the same commercials.
Premium channels were commercial-less for 7 or 9 years (can’t remember exactly) before the first premium channel decided to start running adverts.
There also used to be product placement ads during the shows too. I feel like that’s also more insidious when Jed Clampett and Granny are telling you every episode to smoke a Winston and eat Kellogg’s.
You’re right. I guess I was remembering premium channels and some niche channels that were cable-only. Most channels available on early cable were just piping non-local broadcast channels down a cable.
Pretty much.
If you missed an episode of a show on cable television. Well, you’re shit out of luck unless it’s a show that the network didn’t mind running re-runs of, but re-runs only applied for shows that were popular. And if you missed an episode of a show that wasn’t popular, again you were shit out of luck and hope to one day acquire it through a VHS or a DVD or these days, blu-ray or on streaming.
Network programming was always like this.
That is also the reason everything reset to the status quo at the end of every episode.
Until the show you want to watch gets removed because they don’t want to pay the licensing fee for it anymore.
The original content is often very mid.
The convenience you required is now mandatory.
It’ll be cable when they start making you contact customer retention in order to cancel.
MUuuhhaaaaa. I worked for a cable company for a little over a decade. I remember commenting when people everywhere were talking about its death that streaming would soon be just like cable. They called me a fool. MUuuhhaaaaa!
This is what you made me think of
I have a reminder to cancel Amazon Prime in a month. I never really used the TV portion until a few months ago and was like, fine … the selection sucks but it’s alright. After they introduced the ads now, it’s unusable to me. I’m getting rid of it entirely and not rewarding this type of behaviour.
Hulu is owned by cable companies, they didn’t learn everyone hates advertising
now it’s mostly Disney or even fully disney, i forgot
The music industry figured it out. Now the video streaming industry needs to. Until then, arrrrrr.
Oh sure, great idea! Henceforth, actors don’t get paid any more. that’s what you’re advocating, that’s what the music industry has “figured out” - how to steal all the money and give it to people who had no involvement with actually making the music.
You should be pirating the fucking music not supporting the pricks who walked in off the street and stole everything
No problem, friend. I have time for both.
Spotify pays more to artists than physical stores selling CDs ever did. And they certainly pay better than FM radio.
Sure - if you were one of he top 1000 artists in the world the old system paid more… but it’s not like those artists are starving now — Spotify alone pays millions per year to the top thousand artists, and they also get paid by YouTube, Apple, TikTok, etc etc.
The real way to make money in the music industry is and always has been live performances. A solo artist can make a couple hundred bucks a night doing simple cover songs, and a popular band can make a lot more.
Yo ho ho my friend. Yo ho ho.
The music industry figured it out: I listen to way more music than ever before and I willingly pay more than ever before
Video streaming keeps trying to make my experience more frustrating, less value to me. They’re scrounging for dollars is driving me away. I’ve considered my options for making video entertainment enjoyable again, and I’m just tired of the whole thing. I’m spending more time in projects, more time online, more time reading ebooks from my library. I’m watching less video than before, enjoying it less, getting less value for my money and it’s just all not worth it. Their efforts to profit more from my attention are getting them less of it and losing my willingness to pay
The big difference is exclusive content. Music has a few exceptions but in general sign up for one service and you can listen to anything.
That forces music services to compete on the overall experience (and price), while video services pretty much exclusively compete based on what content is available and literally none of them offer all of the things a person wants to watch. So nobody will ever be happy with any streaming service.
I think exclusive content is only a symptom of the larger problem, which is that we’re letting movie production companies run their own (new-fangled versions of) theaters again.
My hot take, in the digital age, all direct marketing should be opt-in with the platform. Opt-in for industries with the ability to ban specific advertisers.
