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Mugato [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 8:14:42 AM  
Cutting the cord doesn't seem like all that great an idea nowadays.
 
labman [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 8:33:55 AM  
Just means once I've seen what I want to see I'll cancel in favor of something else and revisit it 6 months down the road.
 
I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 8:48:10 AM  
I am amused that people didn't think cable TV wouldn't happen all over again.

In the end there will be one or two streaming services, you'll pay $100/month for them minimum, everything will be exclusive so you'll need both if you want to watch everything, and there will be contracts so you can't just sign up, watch the one thing, and cancel.
 
6nome
2023-02-05 8:51:13 AM  

Mugato: Cutting the cord doesn't seem like all that great an idea nowadays.


Except streaming is still the wayyyyyy better option. I'm never going back to Infomercial-Land.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 8:56:53 AM  

6nome: Mugato: Cutting the cord doesn't seem like all that great an idea nowadays.

Except streaming is still the wayyyyyy better option. I'm never going back to Infomercial-Land.


Yeah, I suppose I just didn't know there'd be so many services when I first switched over.

/cant go back to watching full commercial cycles
 
Bslim
2023-02-05 8:57:26 AM  

Mugato: Cutting the cord doesn't seem like all that great an idea nowadays.


How so?
Spending $100+ for packages with 20 sportsball channels, 10 "premium" networks spewing the same crap and the remainder being assorted reality is not a situation I'm ever going back to.
However thinks they need to subscribe to *all* the streaming services needs to grow the f*ck up. NOBODY "needs" that and if you think you do that's your problem.
The reality is with three services at a time yoi get entertainment and don't have to spend more than 50 bucks a month.
 
Bslim
2023-02-05 8:58:59 AM  
Ugh, I need coffee
 
WickerNipple [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 9:03:03 AM  

I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account: In the end there will be one or two streaming services, you'll pay $100/month for them minimum, everything will be exclusive so you'll need both if you want to watch everything, and there will be contracts so you can't just sign up, watch the one thing, and cancel.


And piracy will once again thrive on the high seas.

Oh wait, it never went away.
 
someonelse
2023-02-05 9:09:34 AM  
Different things work for different people, and there's no reason to be smug about it. Cable works for households where people watch sports, who prefer watching stuff on tvs to phones or laptops, and who have tvs in multiple rooms, Yeah, it's more expensive, but not that much more expensive when you compare a bundled internet/cable package with internet+multiple streaming services. If you have the time and inclination to do all the workarounds and switch out one service for another every few months, and like watching stuff on small devices, great. It's not for everyone.
 
BunchaRubes
2023-02-05 9:12:06 AM  
Netflix, Prime, and an antenna work great for my household.
 
Giant Clown Shoe [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 9:31:09 AM  
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deadsanta
2023-02-05 9:34:19 AM  

Bslim: Mugato: Cutting the cord doesn't seem like all that great an idea nowadays.

How so?
Spending $100+ for packages with 20 sportsball channels, 10 "premium" networks spewing the same crap and the remainder being assorted reality is not a situation I'm ever going back to.
However thinks they need to subscribe to *all* the streaming services needs to grow the f*ck up. NOBODY "needs" that and if you think you do that's your problem.
The reality is with three services at a time yoi get entertainment and don't have to spend more than 50 bucks a month.


And $75 for basic internet from the cable company, because that's where *that* monopoly is heading.
 
drjekel_mrhyde
2023-02-05 9:48:00 AM  
Why is this a surprise?
 
DuneClimber
2023-02-05 9:49:41 AM  
After trying out all the different streaming services multiple times, I always just wind up back at Netflix.
 
Lumbar Puncture
2023-02-05 9:50:00 AM  

Mugato: Cutting the cord doesn't seem like all that great an idea nowadays.


I'd argue that this makes it seem that if you're a content holder trying to operate your own subscription service in a highly competitive market with so many options isn't a great idea nowadays.

When you complain that there are too many streaming services, well this is the content holders realizing the same thing.
 
drjekel_mrhyde
2023-02-05 9:52:03 AM  

I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account: I am amused that people didn't think cable TV wouldn't happen all over again.

In the end there will be one or two streaming services, you'll pay $100/month for them minimum, everything will be exclusive so you'll need both if you want to watch everything, and there will be contracts so you can't just sign up, watch the one thing, and cancel.


Prime and Roku are pretty much setting themselves up as cable. Their single apps that have all your other subs built in for a cheaper price that ala carte
 
Magnus Eisengrim
2023-02-05 10:07:22 AM  
It sucks that streaming services are losing money, because it means that they're going to reduce budgets even further.

So if you thought shows like "Obi-Wan Kenobi" were steaming piles of dogshiat, wait until you see the caliber of the writers/directors they're going to hire next.
 
oldfarthenry [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 10:16:31 AM  
So it'll be "same expensive sh*t - different content delivery interface".
 
snowshovel
2023-02-05 10:21:30 AM  
I'm sort of curious I can still watch all the various star wars and marvel movies on TNT/TBS/ whatever on any given weekend. I'm not really sure why it's pay for Disney+ when their main bread and butter movies are available on "free cable" and then can live on my DVR forever
 
IamAwake
2023-02-05 10:26:28 AM  
Youtube has newer episodes of John Oliver than HBO Max does, despite it being an HBO show
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 10:28:08 AM  

snowshovel: I'm sort of curious I can still watch all the various star wars and marvel movies on TNT/TBS/ whatever on any given weekend. I'm not really sure why it's pay for Disney+ when their main bread and butter movies are available on "free cable" and then can live on my DVR forever


I already own all the movies. I have Disney+ for the Star Wars TV shows. And the Marvel movies but I already watched them.

/might cancel until the SW shows come back
 
stevecore
2023-02-05 10:28:43 AM  
I got an idea.  You don't have to actually watch tv.  Go outside.
 
IamAwake
2023-02-05 10:30:18 AM  

BunchaRubes: Netflix, Prime, and an antenna work great for my household.


We have AT&T for our cell phones, which oddly comes with HBO Max... like, there is no option not to have it... So I added that account to the ps5 too.  Otherwise, same
 
Muta
2023-02-05 10:34:36 AM  

I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account: I am amused that people didn't think cable TV wouldn't happen all over again.

In the end there will be one or two streaming services, you'll pay $100/month for them minimum, everything will be exclusive so you'll need both if you want to watch everything, and there will be contracts so you can't just sign up, watch the one thing, and cancel.


...and you still need to purchase something else if you want to watch your local professional sports team.
 
6nome
2023-02-05 10:35:32 AM  

stevecore: I got an idea.  You don't have to actually watch tv.  Go outside.


Yeah, actually. This.
 
Magnus Eisengrim
2023-02-05 10:44:36 AM  

Mugato: /might cancel until the SW shows come back


This is where I am right now. I used to subscribe to Disney+ on a yearly basis. After being decidedly underwhelmed by the Marvel TV shows, and severely disappointed by "Book of Boba Fett" and "Obi-Wan Kenobi", I cancelled my subscription.

In between the date I cancelled, and the date my subscription expired, they came out with Andor, which I thought was fantastic. Of course, my subscription expired literally 1 day before the final episode, so I had to get an extra month.

If the next season of the Mandalorian doesn't pull a "Westworld", I'll might grab a month or two to watch that; otherwise I likely won't renew again until Andor season 2.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 10:48:18 AM  

Magnus Eisengrim: and severely disappointed by "Book of Boba Fett" and "Obi-Wan Kenobi"


I must be the only one on the planet who likes those. *shrug*

Yeah, it's kind of a waste for me. Not only do I not watch the Disney animated movies, I've never seen one in my life. Not trying to be edgy, I just admitted that I like the SW shows.
 
bisi
2023-02-05 10:49:24 AM  

WickerNipple: I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account: In the end there will be one or two streaming services, you'll pay $100/month for them minimum, everything will be exclusive so you'll need both if you want to watch everything, and there will be contracts so you can't just sign up, watch the one thing, and cancel.

And piracy will once again thrive on the high seas.

Oh wait, it never went away.


I wanted to say that there was a brief time when, between Prime and Netflix, I felt like I had all my entertainment needs met and didn't miss out. Then I remembered the two biggest series of the last decade weren't on there.
 
Magnus Eisengrim
2023-02-05 10:51:57 AM  

Mugato: I must be the only one on the planet who likes those. *shrug*


De gustibus non disputandum est
 
tjassen
2023-02-05 10:58:24 AM  

Mugato: 6nome: Mugato: Cutting the cord doesn't seem like all that great an idea nowadays.

Except streaming is still the wayyyyyy better option. I'm never going back to Infomercial-Land.

Yeah, I suppose I just didn't know there'd be so many services when I first switched over.

/cant go back to watching full commercial cycles


Have to say, before I moved back to the states when I'd visit I would be transfixed watching American broadcast and cable TV commercials. It's like a window into the weirdness that's America. Now I'm here full time I get enough of that I real time... Not that we watch broadcast TV at all...
 
Gooch [BareFark]
2023-02-05 11:15:14 AM  
Bi rate pay for the win.
 
ModernPrimitive01
2023-02-05 11:15:31 AM  

stevecore: I got an idea.  You don't have to actually watch tv.  Go outside.


Thanks grandpa
 
Dr Dreidel [BareFark]
2023-02-05 11:16:33 AM  
If I could figure out why my media server connection to my PS4 craps out every 15 minutes, I'd be even more aggressively canceling my subscriptions.

// yarrrrrr
 
Rock Krenn
2023-02-05 11:26:34 AM  

BunchaRubes: Netflix, Prime, and an antenna work great for my household.



Me too... and I'm all out of antennas
 
Fano
2023-02-05 11:33:01 AM  

I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account: I am amused that people didn't think cable TV wouldn't happen all over again.

In the end there will be one or two streaming services, you'll pay $100/month for them minimum, everything will be exclusive so you'll need both if you want to watch everything, and there will be contracts so you can't just sign up, watch the one thing, and cancel.


It didn't have to happen. We let it happen again.
 
Fano
2023-02-05 11:34:02 AM  

Mugato: 6nome: Mugato: Cutting the cord doesn't seem like all that great an idea nowadays.

Except streaming is still the wayyyyyy better option. I'm never going back to Infomercial-Land.

Yeah, I suppose I just didn't know there'd be so many services when I first switched over.

/cant go back to watching full commercial cycles


Just remember how a 1.5 hour movie used to run from 8-11 on prime time
 
winedrinkingman
2023-02-05 11:48:53 AM  

labman: Just means once I've seen what I want to see I'll cancel in favor of something else and revisit it 6 months down the road.


This is what I am gonna do with HBO Max as soon as Last of Us is done.  When the next season of GOT comes out, I will renew until that is over.
 
cocozilla
2023-02-05 11:48:55 AM  

I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account: I am amused that people didn't think cable TV wouldn't happen all over again.

In the end there will be one or two streaming services, you'll pay $100/month for them minimum, everything will be exclusive so you'll need both if you want to watch everything, and there will be contracts so you can't just sign up, watch the one thing, and cancel.


Ahhh...it's tme to be a pirate again....
 
Ragin' Asian [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-05 11:58:38 AM  
What content? They've canceled everything worth watching.
 
casey17 [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 12:00:46 PM  

stevecore: I got an idea.  You don't have to actually watch tv.  Go outside.


I live in Seattle. Right now, it's cold and rainy. When it's not, everywhere is too crowded.

Maybe I'll go outside later in the year, but not right now. Besides, I've got Fairly Oddparents on Paramount Plus!
 
casey17 [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 12:04:52 PM  

Ragin' Asian: What content? They've canceled everything worth watching.


For me, there's a lot of stuff to watch. My problem is having to pay attention unless I have it on for background.

And I f'n *HATE* that stupid "suicide box" on Netflix that makes it impossible to binge-watch something without having to get up and click "keep watching". I wish everything I liked on Netflix was on Hulu instead.
 
akallen404
2023-02-05 12:09:00 PM  

Giant Clown Shoe: [Fark user image image 635x412]


This. Completely.

It would be like if every retail brand in America decided to start their own exclusive store for their own products and then acted surprised when they weren't as profitable as department stores.
 
Eddie Hazel's E string
2023-02-05 12:10:02 PM  

casey17: Ragin' Asian: What content? They've canceled everything worth watching.

For me, there's a lot of stuff to watch. My problem is having to pay attention unless I have it on for background.

And I f'n *HATE* that stupid "suicide box" on Netflix that makes it impossible to binge-watch something without having to get up and click "keep watching". I wish everything I liked on Netflix was on Hulu instead.


Is it not possible to store your remote control on your lap or seating device itself? ;-)
 
casey17 [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 12:14:34 PM  
My remote doesn't work on the PC, which is across the room. That's what that it's hooked up to.
I have a PC at my desk & the bf uses his laptop.
 
sephjnr
2023-02-05 12:17:33 PM  

stevecore: I got an idea.  You don't have to actually watch tv.  Go outside.


Outside in 2022 -

bikede.orgView Full Size
 
stevesporn2000
2023-02-05 12:20:57 PM  

IamAwake: BunchaRubes: Netflix, Prime, and an antenna work great for my household.

We have AT&T for our cell phones, which oddly comes with HBO Max... like, there is no option not to have it... So I added that account to the ps5 too.  Otherwise, same


Bro just switch to prepaid. Same service, much cheaper and you don't get that hbomax crap. I pay $300 a year (plus sales tax but no bullcrap AT&T fees) for 16GB a month.
 
bisi
2023-02-05 12:26:01 PM  

sephjnr: stevecore: I got an idea.  You don't have to actually watch tv.  Go outside.

Outside in 2022 -

[bikede.org image 668x400]


That and it's currently just above freezing and raining constantly where I'm from.
I'm genuinely curious what the "just go outside" people do outside all day, every day. Do they just spend Sunday night standing at a street corner, because unwinding by spending time on the couch at home is verboten?
 
akallen404
2023-02-05 12:26:06 PM  

stevecore: I got an idea.  You don't have to actually watch tv.  Go outside.


Everything worth doing outside is illegal without a permit and/or mildly dangerous if you're black.
 
stevesporn2000
2023-02-05 12:26:12 PM  

casey17: stevecore: I got an idea.  You don't have to actually watch tv.  Go outside.

I live in Seattle. Right now, it's cold and rainy. When it's not, everywhere is too crowded.

Maybe I'll go outside later in the year, but not right now. Besides, I've got Fairly Oddparents on Paramount Plus!


Ok so take up baking, knitting, pottery, woodworking or just hang out with your friends and play Jenga. TV is no better than smoking rocks of crack.
 
stevesporn2000
2023-02-05 12:27:25 PM  

casey17: My remote doesn't work on the PC, which is across the room. That's what that it's hooked up to.
I have a PC at my desk & the bf uses his laptop.


So take your wireless mouse across the room?
 
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