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The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 years ago by soyagi@yiffit.net to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not that it doesn’t suck, but did everyone really think the industry was going to replace a $200/month cable subscription with $30 worth of streaming? Also consider streaming taking over theatre releases too.

[–] LexiconBexicon@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah idk what people were thinking. Ads have ALWAYS been around, there were ads on radio, ads on TV and now ads on streaming. Facebook's entire revenue came from selling digital ad space, well not entirely true, 99.999999% of it was ad revenue, the rest were shareholders. YouTube is the one outlier though for some reason, they don't seem to care about people using adblockers, no idea where they're getting their revenue from

[–] MrGerrit@feddit.nl 4 points 2 years ago

Cable companies: You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me.

[–] KTVX94@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 2 years ago

As someone who watches pretty much no movies or shows, I couldn't care less, but it's gonna be fun watching piracy shoot back up.

[–] Camzing@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Watch The Wire!

[–] plebonix@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

if it's not for sale on vudu i'm not watching it. the streaming companies can die off imo.

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town -1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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

[–] 40hands@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Cool story bro.

[–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] kaitco@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But…Ted Lasso…?!

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Who's Ted Lasso? Some sort of cowboy?

[–] kaitco@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Hm…Kind of… 🤔

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