You can save all that money by becoming a pirate.
TL:DW…
Money.
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Streaming is the new cable, just more expensive now. Each platform is like a bundle of TV channels.
I’ll preface this by saying I pirate everything and don’t fuck with streaming. But for those who don’t, isn’t the best practice just to rotate a service or two a a time? Do you really need to sub to every service perpetually?
Streaming is getting shittier for sure, but even at its worst right now it’s still a lot better than cable ever was. Packages/services are more granular to choose from, signup and cancel on a monthly basis, no customer service rep hell bent on not letting you leave, and no hardware to install/rent/return.
The big difference is no contracts (yet), and easy cancellation. I’m more annoyed at the fragmentation than the price, and I’m more willing to pay the exorbitant price because I limit it to two services at any given time
And YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, BitTorrent…
People have a lot more choices now than they did in the bad old days of high cable bills. If streaming services charge too much people will just bail back to free stuff.
It was a golden age for about 15 years. It’ll suck for awhile, then something else will revolutionize it again and be good for another 15, if old patterns hold.
Streaming is cheaper for me than cable cuz I don’t watch sports. Anything sports is crazy expensive which is why cable was so expensive.
Ever since I subscribed to jellyfin, I haven’t had to look elsewhere. They have everything I want on there!
I worked at a cable company in my youth. This was the obvious response. Everyone seemed to think that if they could just have a-la-carte cable that they’d be happy (and thought that they’d pay less). What most wouldn’t believe is that a LOT of those channels you didn’t care about were either free to the provider, or in the case of things like QVC were actually subsidizing more expensive channels (ESPN being the biggest one).
Because the Free Market demands it.
Money
