Ahoy there, high seas mateys!
By the end of this, my only subscription will be to dropout.tv
I have Disney+ and Prime video, but my family watches Youtube on tv for the most part. So I was thinking of cancelling those subscriptions anyway.
And if I ever happen to need any particular show, I can just go on a little fishing trip to the sea.
How is streaming more expensive than cable? Am I obligated to pay disney+ to see something on TV+?
This is basically an article bought and paid for by cable. Streaming is only expensive if you own everything. The benefit is you have far more options and control over the content you pay for. There is no “crash”. These services are all stable or growing still. Cable is still what is dying though the industry will try all it can to presume otherwise.
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I upvoted for generally a good point but the comparable size bundle of goods does not really make sense here - no one will do that.
For me the most comparable bundles were:
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Cable TV with HD, 100mbps internet
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1gbps internet, with 2 streaming services
While from the cable perspective those do not represent the same thing, they are what I was willing to exchange for, and the second option is still significantly cheaper. I tether probably needs to be included because I needed more bandwidth to support streaming (although not that much more). I would not have considered option 2 with a bundle with the same “channels”: they are not equivalent value to me as a viewer
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Costs of streaming from my Plex server haven’t changed.
25 terabytes of mostly 2160p content and growing.
Ha, I’m pretty much exactly at 25TB as well. Though everything is 1080p max.
Still great!
I used to have 4k stuff, but my server is used by few family members and friends, and streaming 4k was just taking up to much resources. Upgrading to a more powerful NAS is planed when money is availible.
Also 4k uses conisderable more disk space and while I have 4k screen, I find 1080p with a good bitrate more than sufficiant for me. That saves a ton of storage.
Laughs in jellyfin
I tried jellyfin, but it just doesn’t do all of what I need it to do.
Check out
Kodi doesn’t, either. I also don’t like the interface.
thx for the suggestion, though :)
Fair, i feel ya :)
Fuck yeahhhh bro
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Something’s up there, I run Jellyfin with a bunch of other docker services and it’s barely at 2 GB of ram.
I sit back and laugh as my Plex server streams my 4k video to any device inside or outside my network for free. And it has content from every major streaming service. My monthly fees for streaming are $0.
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At first I thought the $87/mo quoted in the article was still way cheaper than an equivalent cable plan, but that was based on 2015-timeframe pricing when I canceled my cable plan, where I’d have to pay around $260/mo for Comcast Premium Plus. I just checked though, and an equivalent cable plan is only $67/mo. for me now.
where I’d have to pay around $260/mo for Comcast Premium Plu
That can’t be real. Who pays that for a cable plan (or any kind of entertainment package)?!
Not wrong at all. Somehow my in-laws pay close to this. I’ve tried to get them off of it but there is not many options for Spanish language tv.
Probably included internet and phone, HBO, dvr, HD, etc…
That’s for premium. And it’s actually cheap. You have no idea how many people pay not only for that, but they pay hundreds of dollars more than that to have it on multiple tvs. There is an ocean of customers out there that have huge houses, second houses, guest houses, and on and on that all pay for the highest packages possible and pay extra for as many rooms as possible.
They first time I saw a residential cable package with 24 cable boxes stunned me. And then there’s business accounts, but that’s a whole 'nother ball game.
That’s $67/month before the broadcast fee and regional sports fee. Go ahead and add another $35/month for that. Not sure if they still make you pay for equipment rental. If they do, that is another $10-15.
In conclusion: cable still fucking sucks.
The good old days remember to somes.
I think this article wreaks of corporate backsludge. The entire premise operates under the notion that these services are expensive to sustain and expensive to furnish.
But let’s not forget that they took the lions share of their content from pre existing IPs that were already paid for (millions times over from grossing numbers alone). They are taking the Lion King you grew up, and reselling it back to you. They’ve done this after every technological generational shift. VHS to CD to BR to Digital. Same Lion King.
Just because they want to boost profits 10,000% every quarter does not mean it’s anything more than an entirely artificial metric.
To me I read this as we need to make people more docile and accepting of the penetration. “Oh right, I guess it was always coming” is a much more flaccid mind set than being pissed over the arrogant corporate greed.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
Still better than dealing with ads. That’s my red line.
I absolutely refuse to watch programming with ads, free or paid. I won’t do it. My time is limited and I’m not every going to willingly hand over a portion of my life to advertisements.
I’m never going back. If ad-free options go away or become too expensive, I’ll simply stop watching shit. There isn’t a price at which ad-supported programming becomes attractive.
I’d love to see the Weird Al movie. I won’t, however, because Roku won’t let me pay to watch it.
Shocking no one the unlimited growth mindset fucks something up.
What’s next? The internet is harder to find and share free information than a brick and mortar library?
At this point, I could honestly see a library being better for fact-checking.
The trouble is, cable has very little to offer in terms of interesting shows.
So does any single streaming service.
Out of all the most prominent streaming services, Hulu has the most content I’d actually watch. Unfortunately, they still show ads in their cheaper paid subscription, which is a deal-breaker for me.
Also unfortunately: their video player fucking sucks.
The terrible player plus ads can be the most rage inducing thing ever when you can’t remember what episode you left off on. Lag, lag, ad, lag, nope saw that one skip next, lag, ad, oops lost your place for some reason restarting from the beginning… Ad
