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>The whole move to streaming is going to not live up to it's promise. It's already ruined. Gave it a chance. Forked over more and more for subscriptions and s
by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>The whole move to streaming is going to not live up to it's promise.
It's already ruined.
Gave it a chance. Forked over more and more for subscriptions and still the content fragmented. Cancelled everything and went back to torrents and media servers. A VPN connection costs me less per year than I was paying in subscriptions per month.
Best of luck Hollywood, this time it's for life.
- edgyquant 6y agoI think it’s fine. I can choose what content I want a lot more than I could in the days of cable and I can rent any movie or show (for the most part) for a couple dollars if it isn’t on one of my subscriptions. And if I want to watch a new show that bad I can subscribe to a platform for a month.
- sam_bristow 6y agoIf you're outside the US it's often a matter of forking over for multiple streaming subscriptions and a VPN thanks to crappy regional availability.
- res0nat0r 6y agoThis was always going to be the outcome though? Every company knows that content is king, and wants to control their own content. Netflix jumped headlong into making originals because they know each time they went to renew Friends NBC would just squeeze them for even more money based on the increasing demand. This is exactly how it was going to play out, and there will never be one catch-all service, unless you want to pay $150 a month because hbo will charge that service $20, Showtime $20, Disney $20, BBC TV $8 and so on....