• Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Streaming has become cable 2.0.

    It was wonderful when everything was on one, maybe two providers. Could watch everything in a very easy, very affordable way.

    But everyone saw that, went “I know, I want that money!” and spent billions building their own individual infrastructures so make their own streaming services, and right around we go right back to the absolute worst days of cable and bullshit.

    Only thing stopping me from saying fuck it and downloading shit I want to watch, is the fact that I no longer know what the good sites are… since I havent pirated since the heyday of the bay.

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      1 year ago

      And the irony is that people switched to cable for the exact same reason. They got tired of the nonsense that broadcast TV pulled with subscriptions for different channels and all the ads and everything, and went to cable because you paid one bill for every channel. Then, everyone moved to streaming because you had to buy 50 different cable packages for the one channel on each you actually cared about, and there were just too many ads to deal with, etc.

      Something something, those who don’t listen to history are doomed to lose profit margins or whatever.

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        Broadcast tv had different subscriptions for channels? Where? Free to air tv is free with no subscriptions or options.

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          I may be remembering that wrong, as it was before my time, but I had heard that people moved to cable for the same reasons that people moved from cable to streaming services. You bought one cable package, it gave you access to everything, and there were no ads. Then came the ads, and eventually, the packages you have to buy in addition to your cable subscription for the channels you actually care about.

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            People went to cable because it had no ads and let you have the opportunity to watch stuff you’d missed because they looped content regularly. Missed an episode of the Simpsons? All good, it’s on again in 12 hours. It also has movies and shows long before free to air because they paid for it. Cable was the start of subscriptions and paying for individual channels.

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      1 year ago

      That and movies just suck nowadays. This is partially old man yelling at cloud stuff but also true since the death of DVD’s means studios won’t take risks anymore since they can’t recoup funds after a poor box office.

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        1 year ago

        This isn’t yelling at clouds, it’s check l correct.

        It’s also not quite so much “recoup funds at a poor box office” as it was “count on DVD sales to make up fifty percent of revenue for certain kinds of movies.”

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        1 year ago

        I can’t tell if no one talks about usenet because no one knows about it or because they don’t want anyone else to know about it.

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          I prefer torrents because it’s totally free, unlike Usenet. I don’t even pay for a VPN since I don’t care about a few love letters in my inbox. It’s not about the cost; it’s a matter of principle that I disagree with commercialized piracy.

          But Usenet is a good option for other reasons.

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      1 year ago

      Oh, so they defederated and y’all complaining about that now. I see how it is 😋