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

submitted 1 year 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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[–] veloxy@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Streaming was great when Netflix launched, convenient and affordable - I remember being excited when Netflix finally launched in my country. Was only a matter of time before all would turn to shit with every tv network/producer launching their own streaming services and fragmented all that content.

[–] BobKerman3999@feddit.it 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah Netflix worked because you had everything there and no strings attached.

Now Netflix is shit, hbo is meh, Disney plus is more expensive than sky etc etc

Fuck'em

[–] veloxy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, well I already got my boat in the water since the account sharing announcement from Netflix. I'm sure many more will do the same in the coming months.

[–] Jivebunny@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess I never stopped. Still have subs though, but might cancel that somewhere in the future.

[–] veloxy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I still have Netflix, but only because they still haven't bothered me about account sharing. The moment they do, It's going away.

[–] ZekeSulastin@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Didn’t their subscriber count go up fairly dramatically after the restrictions started?

[–] Copernican@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The difference back then was Netflix was free extra money for TV producers. Cable subs were strong and the TV providers were happy to take extra cash from Netflix to let them stream. Netflix income was icing on the cake. As people cut cable out, streaming is the cake. So you need to charge the price of the cake. There was never an end game where streaming would be cheaper than cable. It was a change of pipes to deliver the content, but was not intended to change the value or cost of TV.