I’ve been unmotivated in the past but i think it’s time to sort out an alternative.
Wife and I started watching the boys on prime. That’s when I realized Amazon is putting ads in the stream.
I just ended up downloading all the seasons in an hour and it’s been no ads on Kodi since.
Because of the people they loose due to the price hike, more will stay for the new price.
Because how else am I going to get those deep creases out of my blouses!
Do your own ironing! It’s quite easy. Heat the iron to the proper temperature. Not too hot. Use steam liberally. Use an ironing board and a sleave attachment. Turn your garment around so you can reach everywhere. Some creases are meant to be there. Make sure they are straight before ironing them.
Because they think you’ll be too addicted to their content and offerings to quit
Bcs they act as a monopoly in regards to alternatives.
They only slightly intend to compete against each other but pretend nothing else exist (pirates, or people just shifting towards other forms of entertainment).
And they are ofc in cahoots in the sense that their common goal is to normalise paying several hundred moneys per month for streaming services and have the streaming service full of ads regardless.
So in that sense they will not compete but back each other up.Like land owners/landlords, their main goals are completely aligned.
And that is how ‘market disruptions’ actually work - its not to offer a new service to the end user (like Uber-ish services are the same as taxi services from the perspective of users), it’s to undercut the existing regime with lower prices whilst living on capital given because of the promise that once the old regime is gone they can crank up the prices & actually profitable (we are actually just at this stage right now - watch how much monthly fees are gonna go up in just a few years).
Goal/end stage:
Users are gonna be glued to their ad-ridden TVs just the same as boomers but far better monetised (watching TV is gonna be expensive).watching TV is gonna be expensive
Saw some videos pop up on spytube shilling this thesis but vis-a-vis tiktok/social media. Apparently it is already a thing. People just buying shit because they see it on tiktok
Folks… Consumerism is cancer but we all got to buy shit to exist. Get educated, buy good quality shot you actually and use it until it breaks.
They’re banking on their service still being better. In the short term they assume their particular selection of content will provide some inertia to your decision to move, and long term they expect all of the other options are going to do the same thing. Eventually, you’ll only be able to stream with commercials, and they’ll be back to the balance of their content being the only deciding factor.
I think that’s definitely part of it. I think another part is that they don’t do ads right away so people will switch to them, then they add them assuming people will either forget to cancel, or just decide that since they’re already there they may as well keep it anyway.
What alternative? Every other service who does the same shit? Or even worse, setup jellyfin with sonarr server to completely automate everything and watch everything for absolutely free and continue to do so forever?? The shit some of these pirates do is disgusting.
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Heard Plex has gone downhill quite a bit. Any important features you are looking for in jellyfin? Never tried or checked Plex myself so don’t know much about it.
The real issue is that bitchibg pinging mothership all the fucking time but most of it can be blocked.
ESP “analytics”
As Netflix constant raises showed, not enough people leave so they will enshitify to the max
My steamers don’t have any ads.
Well, I might add to it soon enough if the cramps are any indication…
ironically I only use the free add supported ones except for amazon but thats more due to my wife.
If you even started using streaming services, I’ve got bad news for you.
If you started using steaming services on the other hand, you might be a god danged genius
Cos you haven’t already. You’re a par boiled frog and didn’t even notice.
But they haven’t added unskippable unavoidable ads yet.
When/if they do, that’ll tell a story.
You’re paying for a service AND you get ads? Sounds great.
No. I don’t pay for a service that has ads. That’s what I just said. If they add ads, I cancel.
Ads you can skip are still ads, even if they’re 2s.
The issue is by the time they do, they control the market and not much alternatives.
Thank god old mates kept sailing for rest of us were funding our future enemies because it was convenient
Amazon prime video has iirc
If a million porn sites can make streaming video work, then YouTube is replaceable.
It’s easier to ignore ads on porn sites because they’re usually also porn, and that’s why you’re there in the first place.
I wonder if they police copyright videos, or if we’ll all just be watching the office on xxx.com soon
If you know mandarin, you can basically find all of our stuff on their Chinese youtube. Ironically, you can also find all of their stuff on our YouTube.
didnt full movies used to be uploaded to pornhub?
That’s where I first saw the Rexenge of the Sith ultimate edition.
I know I’ve heard of some sports broadcasts like world cup getting uploaded to various sites. Wouldn’t be surprised if movies were already there as well.
Streaming services have a catastrophic problem they didn’t see coming.
As they massively expanded the viewing market, they also gave very accurate viewing metrics compared to broadcast TV.
Also, the many, MANY offerings cut the viewing pie into smaller pieces.
And this is the expectation, mostly because while you might stay with a super hit like GoT, they’re super expensive, and huge risks if they don’t take off (see acolyte). Cost sensitive people are likely to subscribe for the season then cancel, or just subscribe the month the season finishes.
The alternative is to try to hook you on a bunch of shows, which means having a ton of them and hoping they nail your niche. People are less willing to do this, but it works if you have more disposable income, or value streaming more.
In any case, they can’t afford all the shows they have to put on, it’s all or nothing now, before they might watch lost on ABC one night, then CBS walker Texas ranger might let the kid fall on the ground the next, but now you have to keep them entertained most days, that’s a shit-ton of content. HBO has it worse, they’re losing their old cable revenue, and their productions are stupid expensive, and they’re one of the winners. Disney has it even worse because disney+ cannibalizes both their cinema sales and they have to put up their crown jewels, star wars and the mcu, all on the same service, devaluing both. Fortunately focusing on kids programming helps because parents basically have to have Disney+ just as a matter of course.
This barely worked on broadcast because the different channels could share the load and cut the ad pie into larger pieces,
If they could count on must-watch blockbusters (ie GoT, which really hurt them when they screwed the landing and killed rewatchability), they could pull it off, but that’s so risky, it’s betting everything on one spin of the roulette wheel.
I liked reading your response. Wish I had a meaningful response other than there is no way I’m going to feel bad for media companies. If they’ve painted themselves in a corner I’m sure it was greed that got them there.
Don’t feel bad at all for them.
They celebrated like crazy when things were good, now the economics is hitting them like it should.
They, like everyone else in life, will have to figure out how to manage, or not.
Eh, the cycle of collapse and consolidation will hit the streaming system exactly the same as it would any other industry. I feel like the system will stabilize around 3-5 big services - maybe amazon, hbo, and disney, with youtube premium and apple TV as the “also rans” - which will all have premium price points and ads, and the average person who subscribes to them will be paying about as much (after inflation) as they used to pay for cable.
That’s exactly what will happen.
There will just be a lot more fuckery involved, a super-premium tier that doesn’t cycle out content but costs 3x as much and such.
Because for every one person like you and me with zero ad tolerance, there’s hundreds, thousands of plebs who can’t be bothered to drop the service. It’s the inverse of the whale (re. microtransactions) problem.
I know a few people that actually claim to like watching ads. They have made consumerism part of their identity and they are proud of it.
Not having commercials has really only been a thing for, at best, like 15 years. Broadcast and cable TV has always had commercials with the exception of specialty channels like HBO and Showtime and a few others.
Streaming only overtook cable TV in viewership in 2020. Even in 2022, cable and broadcast TV still made up 56% of viewership.
Cable TV started out as “pay for your access and you won’t get ads”. It enshitified into its current state, and streaming is literally a rerun. Give it a few more years and you will have price bundles for streaming services where you have to pay for peacock to get Disney. They might even bundle it with ISP services.
No, cable was developed to deliver standard TV (i.e., programming with regular commercials) to places that couldn’t get broadcast TV. It has always been a subscription service and has always had commercials. It was also always “bundled” with a selection of channels. You couldn’t even choose what came in your bundle until much later.
That depends. Yes, the cable standard did carry broadcast TV with commercials, but a big selling point in the beginning was also the existence of cable only paid TV channels that did not have commercials. Premium cable as an offshoot of cable only networks also did not have commercials, it was a major selling point. As the medium expanded and the channel breakdown shifted commercials came back in a big way, and even many premium channels got commercials. Prime examples would be USA Networks, HBO, Nickelodeon, and quite a few more.
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