I’ve just gone back to pirating and buying DVDs. I don’t watch much of anything anymore.
On the up-side, I can cancel subscriptions whenever I want and only subscribe to one or two at a time when they have something I want to watch. I could never do that with cable.
That said, pricing is getting way out of control. I will not tolerate ads and we’re getting to the point where purchasing content makes more financial sense than subscribing to things that load you up with caveats unless you pay premiums.
I fear the change from monthly to annual only subscriptions is on the horizon
I hear you’re tired of monthly payments. How about…
They’re going to complicate unsubscribing next.
Amazon is way ahead of the curve
The “best” part you forgot , buying probably won’t be possible or available
Dvd’s are still free at the library if you don’t want to pirate.
Lessons from movies that streaming services didn’t learn:
“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
Arrrrrrrr
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.
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!
And just like the good ol days, pirating is back in fashion.
Three things:
- Governments need to regulate exclusive third party content so that the platforms compete on quality instead of just amount of content.
- Companies should go back to pay as you use. I hate subscribing to things.
- Users should push back hard on new bad things that the corporations do.
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*arr!
We know, Verge.
Now go build an PC…wait nevermind.
nah, just get a thinkpad
Look up “Verge PC build” on Youtube to get it.
The music industry figured it out. Now the video streaming industry needs to. Until then, arrrrrr.
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.
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.
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 sure soon they will introduce contracts making sign up for 6 to 1 year up front to prevent just that.
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.
@teamevil, the hero we need, not the hero we deserve.
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.
But Tom was my friend whereas Zuck is an alien.
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?
