I will cancel my Netflix account if they change their subscription business model. They have incrementally increased their fees every year it seems and at what point will people just get tired of this and leave Netflix all together. I’m close to getting there. Especially when they don’t have as good a selection as the competitors…just sayin…
I really hope many people will leave too. It's ridiculous how these companies think they can add 3,4,5 $ and in the case of discovery + 10$. Especially in these times (they choose the wrong moment to up their prices as more people are watching their budget now so many won't be able to pay this much (more) for films and series).
I did a few months ago. Most of the stuff they churn out is crap and they lost a lot of non-original content when other companies bought back their properties
i dont think ill ever cancel, as long as prices are reasonable. 20 dollars is more than affordable for a service like netflix. currently i have netflix, youtube tv, d plus, hulu plus, hbo max, and peacock. netflix is the mainstay all the others are come and go. i will be keeping netflix and hulu plus for the time being. then in a couple of months ill switch to hbo max to binge house of the dragon. i keep netflix because technologically its the industry standard and has the most 4k dolby vision content. there content may be crap to some but im not looking for oscar worthy film and television just something to pass the time and display on my oled tv
these streaming services are saving themselves a ton of money because they no longer have to give a cut to cable companies. The reality is that the industry is simply transitioning from cable to streaming platforms. No one wants to pay for 6 different streaming services so at some point, ISPs will have to include a bundle service and the end result will be no different than cable, expect for the fact that it is no longer tied to a literal cable: cable with streaming characteristics, if you will.
Close but it's more likely that they'll be bundled by whatever cloud company is hosting their data. So amazon, Microsoft, and google since they already run 60% of the internet.
The benefit over regular TV is you can select what you want to watch when you want to watch it rather than just watch whatever happens to be on the channel at that time.
@@jean-lucblanc4605 video streaming is super costly and people want to watch in 4k even if it’s not really that noticeable. I changed my default settings to 360p on my phone and I honestly barely notice the difference. Loading everything in 4k is just retarded. Selective high resolution for the stuff the eye naturally focuses on is what it should be. Would save them. So much in data costs
This is already happening in Mexico with soccer. You need like 5 different apps/Tv services to watch national league and some others to complement international soccer
Streaming services started out as a way to discourage piracy by making it more convenient to subscribe to Netflix and shortly afterwards many of the companies that worked with Netflix got greed and decided to splinter off to make their own streaming services and now they are making piracy more convenient instead of less convenient.
I use someone else’s Netflix. If they end up disabling password sharing and I get locked out, I won’t be getting my own plan anyway. The prices are ridiculous
Prices are expensive, but using your friend's Netflix isn't a commercial business solution either. Companies still need to make a profit. It has nothing to do with being greedy. It has to do with the fact that nobody has been successfully able to find a viable business model for online streaming services.
I’m like that way with Apple TV+. We usually just wait till a handful of series put out new seasons (Ted Lasso, Servant, etc.). With Netflix and Hulu/Disney Bundle, we just keep both month to month since there’s usually something my wife and I find to watch during the evenings, but I could probably drop Netflix next now that we just finished Stranger Things 🤷🏼♂️
Yeah but for me it's like: I signed up to Netflix for 1 month. Then 5 years later I signed up to Disney+ for 1 month. It's been another 3 years and I haven't felt compelled to sign up to anything else again.
Comcast owns NowTV in the UK which is £20 per month for the TV shows and movies, or £34 per month for sports, or £54 per month if you want both. Cable TV costs £51 per month on top of the internet+phone package.
YOU LEGIT SOUND LIKE TIM COOK FOR REAL IM A BIG FAN OF YOUR SKITS AND IM REALLY ENJOING THEM CANT WAIT TO SEE WHATS COMING TO THE FUTURE OF YOUR CHANNEL
I definitely feel “the golden age” of tv streaming, where you only had like 3 major streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, and later Amazon Prime), and they were all underneath that ~$10 threshold or cheaper, but also had MASSIVE amounts of content are 💯 a thing of the past. Looking back just 15 years ago to when I was still in high school, it was only millennials like myself who were pretty broke who decided to completely eschew traditionally cable and satellite TV bundles to just watch Netflix’s catalog off our PlayStations, Wiis, and Xbox 360’s when we did finally move out. I still remember Netflix sending our dorm room a physical disc to install the Netflix streaming app 😂 Back then, every major studio seemed to just let Netflix have pretty much everything for rock bottom licensing fees not realizing what a goldmine streaming was to become and there were no “Netflix originals”. You wanted to watch Lord of the Rings, NBC’s The Office on repeat, Indiana Jones or Real Housewives? Netflix had it! Literally we all would just search Netflix first to find a movie or show we had in our mind. What a different world we now live in since the everyone and their mother has decided to cut their cords as well and everything is “fragmented”. Each studio wants to keep their most popular stuff EXCLUSIVE to their whatever platform, and you have to rely on “Originals” to draw you in (not that I’m complaining about originals, some are legitimate incredible production wise like HBO’s content!). That and every boomer my parents age now has also discovered the allure that is RUclips and are ‘experts’ on pretty much everything.
At this point I just canceled my subscriptions to every streaming service and I’m back to torrenting. It’s actually a better experience than having every show I watch on a different service and having to figure that out every time I want to watch something.
There are apps for most cable services to watch cable on internet-based devices. I do think that the television industry is dying completely, just because there are other major flaws with it, and television just doesn’t have the same hype that it used to.
@@yunder. to be fair even sports can be watched online through different providers, which is already the case here in the UK. It won’t be long now until the networks either adapt to offer an online services bundle or just die out.
@@YetAnotherGeorgeth Sports are available similarly in the US via streaming. The issue is the legacy providers bundle sport channels with dozens of other non-sport channels and charge $80-90 per month. I love watching my local sport team, but I'm not going to spend $80+ to watch them. I wouldn't use the service for ANY of the other channels.
I tried warning ppl about the desire a la cart streaming in 2011 -2014 on blogs, articles, & forums they thought I was crazy. I told them content owners keep driving up the price of cable & they are gonna want more direct consumer money. Alas here we our but I expect it will be like this for the next 5 yrs or so. They all can’t survive so eventually it will bc a few big players with exclusive deals to the content from the rest
I agree with you 100 percent. The "Big Boys" are going to keep eating the smaller fish. Several years ago, I joined DC Universe only to watch a year later HBO max remove all of its video content. So, now HBO gets no money from me, HBO max gets no money from me, and DC Universe gets no money from me (smile...smile).
@@transitengineer Exactly! And good for you that’s gotta be how u do it. I dropped my Hulu for D+ bc my family rather have D+ but they both owned by decision & I am not going to pay for both I dc about bundled price bc it shouldn’t be different services and apps. I get it was easier bc acquired individual existing services but no I want it to be a reasonable price & just have it together. So I expect Disney & Amazon to be around as one of the big players Apple might be too bc they got so much damn money. I don’t expect AMC to last right and all these smaller ones. Netflix will probably stick around as long as they have the money to keep making stuff and acquire things like the AMC rights & FX rights. Paramount I don’t see lasting and peacock they will get bought up eventually
The problem isn’t subscription services as a whole. It’s the fact that companies like Netflix never created alternative revenue sources so they are entire dependent on that service. Disney has their theme parks, merchandise and theatrical/ VoD releases. Because Netflix is so dependent on streaming revenue they raise prices, which allows everybody else to follow. You dissed TV+ when it came out but in hindsight it’s literally the best thing that has happened to the streaming market by focusing far more on quality over quantity, not raising prices and even if they did they would still be the cheapest option. And you can get it in Apple ONE
@@TheMannyx17 Yeah. Dirt cheap even with the recent price increase for Apple Music for Students. My family shares a ton of cloud storage, my sister and I use Apple Music, my nieces use Apple Arcade and I use Fitness+. The Apple One Family and Premiere plans are awesome for such usecases. The Family plan costs as much as 4K Netflix and Premiere is still cheaper than just 4K Netflix + Disney Plus.
The only streaming service I even pay for is appletv+. I have gotten into a few of the shows on there. The others I have are part of my cell plan and I wouldn't pay for them if it suddenly changed.
Would sign-up for Apple TV plus if, for $20 per month, I could get all the products in Apple One. Why?, because I already pay them $10 per month for News plus (which, should really be called magazine plus). So, paying another $10 per month would be a good deal but, $30 per month ($360 per year) is a joke (smile...smile)
Advertising on streaming platforms is the death sentence for quality content. It's only a matter of time before advertisers influence content. There are so many topics that cable TV doesn't touch because of the advertisers.
On traditional TV, you don't have movies, only ads. I never thought about streaming as cheaper, but a place where you can watch movies and decide what to watch. In Poland, traditional TV is still more expensive, and you have ads for political groups with ad breaks that have ads for companies. Almost no movies. You can't compare those two realities.
@@MapleEmpire Nobody is forcing you to watch TV shows or movies, lol. Streaming services are not food or transportation or other necessities, the demand for them is very elastic. People are already starting to only subscribe for a month or two, watch the shows they want, and unsubscribe again.
@@realharo that is literally consumerism. also now that you mention food and public transportation, that too, is consumerism, buy food or starve, having to earn a living implies that you don't actually deserve to live in the first place.
The sad thing here is that, people are going to start pirating streaming content more and more by, just paying someone $30 per month and then getting all the popular services. This is why, many years ago Hulu was formed by ABC, NBC, and FOX as a legal way to watch all their over the air broadcast TV shows. However, now that ABC, NBC, and FOX have their own streaming services they treat Hulu like a step child (smile...smile).
Canceled my Netflix subscription a while back, canceled my Hulu Plus subscription a few days ago, I get HBO Max free with AT&T home internet, I pay $10/month for Paramount+, I pay $12.00/month for RUclips Premium. I now pay a total of $22.00/month for all of the premium quality I want/need. This works swimmingly for me.
@@brandon___styles I don't know since when you've had it and whether its really worth it but it's good you have it, these double 15 to 20 sec non-skip ads are extremely annoying. Especially this new add for the flippin pixel 6a.
I don’t think the prices have anything to do with the cost to hire the crew… Every corporation just wants to increase profits at an unsustainable rate… because that’s what our horrible capitalist society values. And despite these wild increases, crew are still having to fight for fair and consistent rates.
"because that’s what our horrible capitalist society values." It is very naive to think that any other system is different. It's just that other people and on different terms benefit from the system - and under socialism it is much worse for the average person.
@@NatureShy I am from Europe. Failing, indebted nations, extremely high taxes, inefficient health care and decaying infrastructure. I come from a country where socialism existed until 1989. We had poverty, a shortage of apartments and coupons for food, because there were no goods in the shops. In 1989, the country began a new life, but unfortunately the socialists came back to power promising free services and free money on the account. We will go bankrupt again.
@@nnnnnn3647 - sounds like Poland or one of the North Baltics like Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania... And yes, Democratic Socialism doesn't work unless your country is well-off to begin with (only the 5 Scandinavian countries can handle that).
I got streaming coming out of my butt at the moment, I am subscribed to way too many things on multiple services which include TV, gaming, music and reading.
I gave up to "regular" national and cable tv more than 20 years ago. I only watch some series on Netflix mostly movies and I rent some on Apple Tv or iTunes... I just refuse to go back 20 years. I'll be reading more and renting and streaming much much less.
I predicted this when I worked for an ISP and people would complain why do they have to pay for bundles when they just want certain channels and shows, and I would tell them you will get what you wished for soon enough, and it will be more than any cable package. And here it is happening, you now need 5-6 services just to get the 6-7 shows you watch, and you have to remember what shows are on when so you can cancel and renew. This is just bringing piracy back en vogue.
I've been cancelling and resubbing for a few years now, and I don't find it bothersome at all. I always cancel one and renew another. But I'm really good at slowly burning through shows. I've been on the Simpsons for like a year now, so I'm only on Disney+
@@nauscakes1868 Most people are too lazy so end up with Hulu, Disney, Neflix, Prime, and maybe Apple+, and they will still have a cabletv package because it is cheaper than getting internet alone
@@mikenyr4life491 I'm ok with lazy people getting screwed over. I just want the option for cheaper deals if I put in the effort. Thanks to smart phones, I can be pretty lazy and still effective. I just ask Siri to set a reminder before a billing cycle. But mostly for TV, it's very situational. So if I'm watching Bojack, and I finish it. I'll just cancel Netflix that night, and then when I figure out what else to watch, I'll sub to something. Sometimes that means I'll have two subs overlapping for a week or two, but I'm not that ambitious, and can be a little lazy! I just don't want something like Netflix burning on for 6 months without needing to.
We have an antenna for TV (65 total channels) and Paramount+ that we watch 1 TV show on. We wouldn’t have Paramount + if CBS hadn’t moved SEAL TEAM to Paramount+. We now pay money to watch 1 TV show we used to watch for free…. I mooch off my siblings for other streaming services I don’t use much.
Don’t be fooled. It doesn’t matter if it’s cable or streaming… there will always be price hikes. There is only one service that was and will remain free and that’s digital antenna TV. I connected antennas to my Plex server and essentially created my own streaming service. It’s completely free and legal.
Wasn’t one of the premises of paid cable TV when it debuted was to avoid ads and then it became an ad filled monster that we see today. Just look at RUclips and how the ever increasing amount of ads compare to when it started.
I can't believe Disney+ is going up. Time to binge watch what I want, and then cancel. I never have more than one streaming service up at once. I think they're still bettter than cabel as long as you're not a goober who gets suckered into subbing to like 5 plans, and only watches 2 of them a month. The option of "just thaving access," doesn't justify the cost, but people are dumb. What Apple should do is lower the price of TV down to 1 dollar. And then eat the cost for 3 years. Then jack it up to 5 then 10, and most people wouldn't even notice. --- If things got too crazy, I'd just switch to RUclips entirely. And if youtube went away, I'd switch to free podcasts. And if I lost that? Radio.
I have a lot of services and every month I get a bit concerned about it. But everything month I decide that me and my family are getting our money's worth for each one. If I was single, I would feel differently, but when you are entertaining/informing multiple people, the prices really aren't bad.
In Romania we have this bundle offers. I have Vodafone subscription and HBO Max for a few dollars extra. Also, Primevideo is 14 lei a month(aprox 3 USD). Netflix is the most expensive here.
Cast and crew do need to paid, but that’s not the primary factor driving price increases. Initially getting paid directly instead of getting a slice of the pie from the cable companies was good, but inevitably executives and shareholders are never satisfied with a particular profit margin and always want to see more and more growth. There a several ways to do that of course and 2 easy ones are raising the subscription price and getting money from advertisers who are always looking to get there product in front of more captive audiences. We will have to wait and see at what price point greed leads to cratering subscriber numbers.
The real question is with the content creators firewalling their content what is the cable tv going to be able to get for content? I predict they will have to pay more for the sa,e content that is available behind the providers paywalls.
I have Disney+ and hulu bundled in my Verizon plans and I don’t pay any extra for it. Do you thank Verizon will end that? or is that like grandfathered in plan.
Drew - Do you think these streaming services are taking advantage of people canceling tv cable? This morning I canceled my cable tv. I’m using bunny ears and have an Apple TV. No subscriptions. I planned on adding a 5 dollar streaming service I was interested in. It seems that for about two decades cable tv was super popular but the last few years people are moving into the streaming age. I made this move to save some big bucks and will need to stick to this plan so I don’t incur a myriad of streaming costs. Thanks for the heads up. Love your channel.
Advantage of streaming not mentioned is easily cancelling during times your fav shows are over/between seasons, etc. Netflix should check for any concurrent use. If there's concurrent use from different networks, it's sharing vs traveling.
I’m in high school rn and once I go to college I feel like the only subscription I would use for TV would be Apple TV+ included in Apple One. I don’t watch TV or movies too much and apple one has News+, Fitness+, Apple Music, 2TB of iCloud storage, and since you can share it with 5 people I can just split the bill and only pay $6 a month. Not bad value in my opinion.
i mean the good part of streaming services is that you can pick and choose which services you want to subscribe to for that month, so say for example there's a new season of the morning show coming out on apple tv+, you could just subscribe for a month, and then cancel, and move on to a new service that has something you like. There's no hassle of dealing with cable companies to cancel a plan.
I am afraid that streaming services will remove their monthly plans if enough people "shop around" and cancel services after paying for only a month. I wouldn't put the possibility past these media conglomerates whatsoever.
I’ll never sign up for HBO ($30) per month or Disney+ ($15) a month and I’ll never re-subscribe to Netflix ($25) a month here where I live and Apple TV+ ($5.99) is the only streaming service I use or want as I was given 18 months for free and now it’s built into the Apple one bundle I never worry about it The one month price of Netflix nearly pays for the entire apple one bundle.
Netflix/Hulu/Disney+ subscriber with RUclips TV for live tv, aka just being able to watch sports. If it weren’t for sports, I’d say A LOT of folks would finally drop cable and tv streaming altogether
Streaming still has one advantage: I'm not forced to pay for networks I have no interest in. I don't watch sports, so no reason to get the bundle with ESPN+. No longer watch Netflix, so I've canceled that. Disney+, BritBox, Discovery+ and RUclips Premium will be about $514/yr. (assuming Discovery+ price of $14.99/mo). As opposed to double that for cable with a bunch of channels I have no intention of watching
A lot of the cable replacement streaming services that started affordable, around $50 are now all nearing at least $100. RUclips tv, Directv steam, fubo, Hulu live.. you pair that with any of the others Netflix, HBO max, Disney plus you’re at or above cable.
Most of tv series and movies get budgets from the product placement, thats a low key ADD that gets them almost the most money… but as they sey more is more?
I canceled all my subscriptions last month and got a contract from my ISP (Deutsche Telekom, the mother company of T-Mobile US) that includes IPTV (private and public) in HD/UHD, a VOD Service runned by my ISP, Disney+ and RTL+ (a national german streaming service) for 15€/m. That’s a by far a better deal than just Netflix for 18€/m. I don’t have the time to watch all that content of 5 different services anyway.
I've used RUclips TV and Hulu TV and I'm now doing something I never thought I would do... going back to my former satellite service provider, DirecTV. (In my defense, I'll be getting DirecTV Stream, but still...)
Welcome back, I never left the DISH. Which, gives me access to the streaming services of ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX. Many year's ago, I just added the basic SD version of Netflix and the ad version of Hulu each, on the side (smile...smile).
It's funny you should mention 'traditional' comms companies (cable TV etc.) offering streaming services as part of their packages - cos that's exactly what's happened in the UK. Netflix is available as part of a package with both the main UK cable company (Virgin), the main UK satellite TV company (Sky) and the main UK telephone provider (BT). Apple TV+ (and soon the 'full Apple One' bundle) is available as part of a package with the largest UK mobile company (EE), Spotify, Amazon Prime, Discovery+ - they can all be included in your package with all the major comms companies. The actual subscription for the streaming service is always generally the 'lowest' tier though. For example, the main Satellite company, Sky TV, are moving away from 'dish based' broadcasting and into internet streaming broadcasting and have launched their own dedicated streaming TV - Sky Glass. That TV is 4k and if you buy a sub for it, it'll include Netflix - but only the base package (which doesn't include 4k content). So, if you want better quality, it's still worth just getting the 'basic' of basic packages with your internet/cable provider without these bundles and subscribing directly with them.
With the exception of movies that were just in theater, HBO Max doesn’t even offer 4K content. Why can’t they stream The Righteous Gemstones in 4K Dolby Vision? Or Euphoria?
Well with subscriptions you have to subscribe during the time period of whatever show you want to watch…then cancel it. You don’t have to have all the services all the time. And almost every quarter they offer free subscriptions for a period of time. When you cancel a subscription on Prime Video they automatically offer you a better deal to not cancel. And you can watch some new movies that are in the movie theaters. I still prefer subscriptions. I’m not sure where they will end up, but as for now they are great compared to cable companies.
Nobody has been successfully able to find a viable business model for online streaming services. If people think someone is gonna "take down Netflix", think again. Not even Disney can make a profit from it and they own all the content ;-) It costs money to make quality content (and its associated distribution rights) and hosts tens of thousands of servers and CDNs. Replacing cable tv costs (customer pays $100/month) with online streaming (customer willing to pay about $10/month), isn't exactly a lucrative business model no matter how you want it to be profitable. This streaming business has been going on for over a decade ...
When Drew said $90-$100/month for Home Internet, Cell phone AND Streaming? I almost spit out my drink. My Cell Phone Bill in Canada is $120/month My Internet Bill is $130/month Plus the Streaming Services are all a couple bucks more expensive in Canada.
those prices are crazy high compared to the UK. I could get Broadband for around £27 for 200mbps in my area and unlimited data uncapped for £16, so £43 per month or around 66 CA$
Figure the "loonie"* is about U$0.77, so that's about U$90 for cell phone and U$100 for Internet data. That's the price you pay when you want Canadian monopolies to keep "all the pie" (most places in Canada there's only 1-2 Internet data options, 1-2 cell phone options and those telcos control broadcast and Cable TV for the most part as well). * learned LOONIE is NOT an insult, but a description of the LOON bird on the C$1 coin, just like British call a single Pound Sterling a QUID
Whaaaat? 120€ is what i pay in Spain for Disney and prime combined in a year. Internet 600mbps and 2 lines with 30gb each for a total of 60€. How is it soooo much more expensive in US and CAN?
A big problem is that everyone wants their hand in the pie and there's too many services so people will naturally pick&choose. Netflix may be losing subscribers but that's because they want to watch shows on other services so the demand (services) is stripping market supply (subscribers).
It should be cheaper. While the production costs don’t change, the distribution IS cheaper and it allows them to reach so many more people across so many more countries with their content. Where they have fucked themselves is with keeping regional lockout. It’s insane and we have to end up paying for their lack of vision.
There are only few good shows that I want to spend my time watching them - I am back to buying the shows versus maintaining multiple subscriptions to streaming.
Streaming services are still better than cable tv because you choose your own channels. If you only want Hulu and Netflix then you can have that. If you only want Paramount Plus and Peacock then you can do that. But even with all the price hikes Peacock, Netflix $15 plan, Paramount+, Hulu and Disney+ is only $40 combined. You can watch them anywhere on your mobile devices instead of just in your home. Things like HBO max don’t count because if you wanted HBO on cable then you were paying extra anyway. I’d rather pay $25 for home internet and $40 for lots of streaming than cable. On demand was terrible
I’ve got a Spotify deal with Hulu where I pay no more for Spotify 10 bucks a month and free ad supported Hulu so to me it’s like the ads pay for the service to me Also just subscribe to like 1 or 2 at a time when you know there’s stuff you wanna binge watch then unsubscribe and do other services.
I’m probably in the minority but I didn’t cut the cord to just save money. I did to have a better experience and I’m still getting that. I don’t get news cutting into my TV. It doesn’t matter if the game ran over. I don’t get maps in the lower third. Shows come on when I say they come on. And I never see commercials. As far as I’m concerned I’m still living the good life.
I tend to subscribe to just one at a time and then cancel the same day, still get the full month but if I lose interest in something it’s not automatically renewing each month. I have in the past had an active Netflix account that I wasn’t using but kept forgetting to cancel 😢
I think I'll just continue to pay for YT premium and call it a day. Commercially produced content is a leading source of brain cancer, not worth the money.
The problem with capitalism is that it relies on infinite growth which just isn’t sustainable. Netflix just realized that basically everyone they could ever sell service to already has it, so what do they do to satisfy share holders? They have to raise rates or find a way to sell more service to people that already have their service.
@@joshuadj22 its annoying how they are all getting more expensive, but at the same time producing lesser quality shows (that's what I've read in these comments, I don't have any of these subscriptions). Ridiculous.
It’s not greed, it’s called capitalism, which calls for infinite growth. Share holders are not happy with break even with last year. That’s why prices for everything will continue to rise and why your grandparents complain they used to get x item for a single dollar.
I think in general ppl are realizing that third party content ie RUclips, TikTok is getting better for value than first party content ie everything else. I mean has anyone else realized that there's fewer and fewer good blockbuster movies. The mega production companies still have good ip with generous copyright protections so lamens "third party content creators" can't use their characters but you can only rely on that for so long.
I will cancel my Netflix account if they change their subscription business model. They have incrementally increased their fees every year it seems and at what point will people just get tired of this and leave Netflix all together. I’m close to getting there. Especially when they don’t have as good a selection as the competitors…just sayin…
I really hope many people will leave too. It's ridiculous how these companies think they can add 3,4,5 $ and in the case of discovery + 10$. Especially in these times (they choose the wrong moment to up their prices as more people are watching their budget now so many won't be able to pay this much (more) for films and series).
I've been on the fence canceling for a while now. If they do this sharing password crap that will be the final nail in the coffin for me.
I did a few months ago. Most of the stuff they churn out is crap and they lost a lot of non-original content when other companies bought back their properties
@@imperfectxennial3008 I'm glad I'm not missing out on anything then 😂
i dont think ill ever cancel, as long as prices are reasonable. 20 dollars is more than affordable for a service like netflix. currently i have netflix, youtube tv, d plus, hulu plus, hbo max, and peacock. netflix is the mainstay all the others are come and go. i will be keeping netflix and hulu plus for the time being. then in a couple of months ill switch to hbo max to binge house of the dragon. i keep netflix because technologically its the industry standard and has the most 4k dolby vision content. there content may be crap to some but im not looking for oscar worthy film and television just something to pass the time and display on my oled tv
Great production value and acting. Way better than 90% of current TV.
these streaming services are saving themselves a ton of money because they no longer have to give a cut to cable companies. The reality is that the industry is simply transitioning from cable to streaming platforms. No one wants to pay for 6 different streaming services so at some point, ISPs will have to include a bundle service and the end result will be no different than cable, expect for the fact that it is no longer tied to a literal cable: cable with streaming characteristics, if you will.
Close but it's more likely that they'll be bundled by whatever cloud company is hosting their data. So amazon, Microsoft, and google since they already run 60% of the internet.
Sooo, you pay for the content, and still have to watch ads?
That’s just regular TV with extra steps. Now the circle is complete.
Free streaming with ads for vacation tv’s
The benefit over regular TV is you can select what you want to watch when you want to watch it rather than just watch whatever happens to be on the channel at that time.
Exactly. Netflix in particular is one step closer to cannibalizing itself.
It's really annoying. If we continue like this everything we will see will be ads. It seems every single company wants to put ads everywhere they can.
@@jean-lucblanc4605 video streaming is super costly and people want to watch in 4k even if it’s not really that noticeable. I changed my default settings to 360p on my phone and I honestly barely notice the difference. Loading everything in 4k is just retarded. Selective high resolution for the stuff the eye naturally focuses on is what it should be. Would save them. So much in data costs
This is already happening in Mexico with soccer. You need like 5 different apps/Tv services to watch national league and some others to complement international soccer
Se llama fútbol.
Streaming services started out as a way to discourage piracy by making it more convenient to subscribe to Netflix and shortly afterwards many of the companies that worked with Netflix got greed and decided to splinter off to make their own streaming services and now they are making piracy more convenient instead of less convenient.
I use someone else’s Netflix. If they end up disabling password sharing and I get locked out, I won’t be getting my own plan anyway. The prices are ridiculous
Totally agree. With all the comments I can see on just this video, I think they will quickly see the consequences of being too greedy...
Prices are expensive, but using your friend's Netflix isn't a commercial business solution either.
Companies still need to make a profit.
It has nothing to do with being greedy. It has to do with the fact that nobody has been successfully able to find a viable business model for online streaming services.
@@RunForPeace-hk1cu a lot of friends split the bill and wouldn’t pay for the full price otherwise
Your stealing actually…
Does anyone here put their streaming services on rotation? Personally, I’ve found it helpful for cutting down costs. Just curious.
Does that mean cancelling various subscriptions and taking them on again when you want their content ?
Yes
I’m like that way with Apple TV+. We usually just wait till a handful of series put out new seasons (Ted Lasso, Servant, etc.). With Netflix and Hulu/Disney Bundle, we just keep both month to month since there’s usually something my wife and I find to watch during the evenings, but I could probably drop Netflix next now that we just finished Stranger Things 🤷🏼♂️
Yeah but for me it's like: I signed up to Netflix for 1 month. Then 5 years later I signed up to Disney+ for 1 month. It's been another 3 years and I haven't felt compelled to sign up to anything else again.
always
I feel lucky to be living in India for once…they literally DECREASED the prices recently, which were already one of the lowest in the world😁
Comcast owns NowTV in the UK which is £20 per month for the TV shows and movies, or £34 per month for sports, or £54 per month if you want both.
Cable TV costs £51 per month on top of the internet+phone package.
YOU LEGIT SOUND LIKE TIM COOK FOR REAL IM A BIG FAN OF YOUR SKITS AND IM REALLY ENJOING THEM CANT WAIT TO SEE WHATS COMING TO THE FUTURE OF YOUR CHANNEL
I definitely feel “the golden age” of tv streaming, where you only had like 3 major streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, and later Amazon Prime), and they were all underneath that ~$10 threshold or cheaper, but also had MASSIVE amounts of content are 💯 a thing of the past. Looking back just 15 years ago to when I was still in high school, it was only millennials like myself who were pretty broke who decided to completely eschew traditionally cable and satellite TV bundles to just watch Netflix’s catalog off our PlayStations, Wiis, and Xbox 360’s when we did finally move out. I still remember Netflix sending our dorm room a physical disc to install the Netflix streaming app 😂
Back then, every major studio seemed to just let Netflix have pretty much everything for rock bottom licensing fees not realizing what a goldmine streaming was to become and there were no “Netflix originals”. You wanted to watch Lord of the Rings, NBC’s The Office on repeat, Indiana Jones or Real Housewives? Netflix had it! Literally we all would just search Netflix first to find a movie or show we had in our mind. What a different world we now live in since the everyone and their mother has decided to cut their cords as well and everything is “fragmented”. Each studio wants to keep their most popular stuff EXCLUSIVE to their whatever platform, and you have to rely on “Originals” to draw you in (not that I’m complaining about originals, some are legitimate incredible production wise like HBO’s content!). That and every boomer my parents age now has also discovered the allure that is RUclips and are ‘experts’ on pretty much everything.
At this point I just canceled my subscriptions to every streaming service and I’m back to torrenting. It’s actually a better experience than having every show I watch on a different service and having to figure that out every time I want to watch something.
“You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
There are apps for most cable services to watch cable on internet-based devices. I do think that the television industry is dying completely, just because there are other major flaws with it, and television just doesn’t have the same hype that it used to.
@@yunder. to be fair even sports can be watched online through different providers, which is already the case here in the UK. It won’t be long now until the networks either adapt to offer an online services bundle or just die out.
@@YetAnotherGeorgeth Sports are available similarly in the US via streaming. The issue is the legacy providers bundle sport channels with dozens of other non-sport channels and charge $80-90 per month. I love watching my local sport team, but I'm not going to spend $80+ to watch them. I wouldn't use the service for ANY of the other channels.
I tried warning ppl about the desire a la cart streaming in 2011 -2014 on blogs, articles, & forums they thought I was crazy. I told them content owners keep driving up the price of cable & they are gonna want more direct consumer money. Alas here we our but I expect it will be like this for the next 5 yrs or so. They all can’t survive so eventually it will bc a few big players with exclusive deals to the content from the rest
I agree with you 100 percent. The "Big Boys" are going to keep eating the smaller fish. Several years ago, I joined DC Universe only to watch a year later HBO max remove all of its video content. So, now HBO gets no money from me, HBO max gets no money from me, and DC Universe gets no money from me (smile...smile).
@@transitengineer Exactly! And good for you that’s gotta be how u do it. I dropped my Hulu for D+ bc my family rather have D+ but they both owned by decision & I am not going to pay for both I dc about bundled price bc it shouldn’t be different services and apps. I get it was easier bc acquired individual existing services but no I want it to be a reasonable price & just have it together. So I expect Disney & Amazon to be around as one of the big players Apple might be too bc they got so much damn money. I don’t expect AMC to last right and all these smaller ones. Netflix will probably stick around as long as they have the money to keep making stuff and acquire things like the AMC rights & FX rights. Paramount I don’t see lasting and peacock they will get bought up eventually
The problem isn’t subscription services as a whole. It’s the fact that companies like Netflix never created alternative revenue sources so they are entire dependent on that service. Disney has their theme parks, merchandise and theatrical/ VoD releases. Because Netflix is so dependent on streaming revenue they raise prices, which allows everybody else to follow. You dissed TV+ when it came out but in hindsight it’s literally the best thing that has happened to the streaming market by focusing far more on quality over quantity, not raising prices and even if they did they would still be the cheapest option. And you can get it in Apple ONE
you can also get it bundled with Apple Music being a student. By far the best deal out there.
@@TheMannyx17 Yeah. Dirt cheap even with the recent price increase for Apple Music for Students. My family shares a ton of cloud storage, my sister and I use Apple Music, my nieces use Apple Arcade and I use Fitness+. The Apple One Family and Premiere plans are awesome for such usecases. The Family plan costs as much as 4K Netflix and Premiere is still cheaper than just 4K Netflix + Disney Plus.
Love the new intro skit format!!
same
The only streaming service I even pay for is appletv+. I have gotten into a few of the shows on there. The others I have are part of my cell plan and I wouldn't pay for them if it suddenly changed.
Would sign-up for Apple TV plus if, for $20 per month, I could get all the products in Apple One. Why?, because I already pay them $10 per month for News plus (which, should really be called magazine plus). So, paying another $10 per month would be a good deal but, $30 per month ($360 per year) is a joke (smile...smile)
Advertising on streaming platforms is the death sentence for quality content. It's only a matter of time before advertisers influence content. There are so many topics that cable TV doesn't touch because of the advertisers.
On traditional TV, you don't have movies, only ads. I never thought about streaming as cheaper, but a place where you can watch movies and decide what to watch. In Poland, traditional TV is still more expensive, and you have ads for political groups with ad breaks that have ads for companies. Almost no movies. You can't compare those two realities.
At some hopefully enough people ditch the streaming services until the prices drop. This is wishful thinking though
never going to happen, we live in a capitalistic society, which essentially forces us to be customers at all time.
@@MapleEmpire Nobody is forcing you to watch TV shows or movies, lol. Streaming services are not food or transportation or other necessities, the demand for them is very elastic. People are already starting to only subscribe for a month or two, watch the shows they want, and unsubscribe again.
@@realharo that is literally consumerism. also now that you mention food and public transportation, that too, is consumerism, buy food or starve, having to earn a living implies that you don't actually deserve to live in the first place.
The sad thing here is that, people are going to start pirating streaming content more and more by, just paying someone $30 per month and then getting all the popular services. This is why, many years ago Hulu was formed by ABC, NBC, and FOX as a legal way to watch all their over the air broadcast TV shows. However, now that ABC, NBC, and FOX have their own streaming services they treat Hulu like a step child (smile...smile).
Canceled my Netflix subscription a while back, canceled my Hulu Plus subscription a few days ago, I get HBO Max free with AT&T home internet, I pay $10/month for Paramount+, I pay $12.00/month for RUclips Premium.
I now pay a total of $22.00/month for all of the premium quality I want/need.
This works swimmingly for me.
You found the hack. Salute 🫡💪
Did you get RUclips premium for the ads or other reasons ?
@@jean-lucblanc4605
Yes. Solely for ad-free content.
@@brandon___styles I don't know since when you've had it and whether its really worth it but it's good you have it, these double 15 to 20 sec non-skip ads are extremely annoying. Especially this new add for the flippin pixel 6a.
@@jean-lucblanc4605
I always opt for the ad-free version of the platform I plan to use. It’s just more convenient and enjoyable that way.
I don’t think the prices have anything to do with the cost to hire the crew… Every corporation just wants to increase profits at an unsustainable rate… because that’s what our horrible capitalist society values. And despite these wild increases, crew are still having to fight for fair and consistent rates.
"because that’s what our horrible capitalist society values."
It is very naive to think that any other system is different. It's just that other people and on different terms benefit from the system - and under socialism it is much worse for the average person.
@@nnnnnn3647 That’s not true. Look to Europe.
@@NatureShy I am from Europe. Failing, indebted nations, extremely high taxes, inefficient health care and decaying infrastructure.
I come from a country where socialism existed until 1989. We had poverty, a shortage of apartments and coupons for food, because there were no goods in the shops.
In 1989, the country began a new life, but unfortunately the socialists came back to power promising free services and free money on the account. We will go bankrupt again.
@@NatureShy Ordinary people give 80% of their income in various taxes and fees.
@@nnnnnn3647 - sounds like Poland or one of the North Baltics like Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania... And yes, Democratic Socialism doesn't work unless your country is well-off to begin with (only the 5 Scandinavian countries can handle that).
I got streaming coming out of my butt at the moment, I am subscribed to way too many things on multiple services which include TV, gaming, music and reading.
I gave up to "regular" national and cable tv more than 20 years ago. I only watch some series on Netflix mostly movies and I rent some on Apple Tv or iTunes... I just refuse to go back 20 years. I'll be reading more and renting and streaming much much less.
We have HBO Max included in our internet plan for AT&T and I hope we still have Warner Brothers Plus or whatever they call it included still.
I predicted this when I worked for an ISP and people would complain why do they have to pay for bundles when they just want certain channels and shows, and I would tell them you will get what you wished for soon enough, and it will be more than any cable package. And here it is happening, you now need 5-6 services just to get the 6-7 shows you watch, and you have to remember what shows are on when so you can cancel and renew. This is just bringing piracy back en vogue.
I've been cancelling and resubbing for a few years now, and I don't find it bothersome at all. I always cancel one and renew another. But I'm really good at slowly burning through shows. I've been on the Simpsons for like a year now, so I'm only on Disney+
@@nauscakes1868 Most people are too lazy so end up with Hulu, Disney, Neflix, Prime, and maybe Apple+, and they will still have a cabletv package because it is cheaper than getting internet alone
@@mikenyr4life491 I'm ok with lazy people getting screwed over. I just want the option for cheaper deals if I put in the effort.
Thanks to smart phones, I can be pretty lazy and still effective. I just ask Siri to set a reminder before a billing cycle.
But mostly for TV, it's very situational. So if I'm watching Bojack, and I finish it. I'll just cancel Netflix that night, and then when I figure out what else to watch, I'll sub to something.
Sometimes that means I'll have two subs overlapping for a week or two, but I'm not that ambitious, and can be a little lazy! I just don't want something like Netflix burning on for 6 months without needing to.
Cable companies: lmaooooo!!!
You really thought y’all was safe, huh???
We have an antenna for TV (65 total channels) and Paramount+ that we watch 1 TV show on. We wouldn’t have Paramount + if CBS hadn’t moved SEAL TEAM to Paramount+. We now pay money to watch 1 TV show we used to watch for free…. I mooch off my siblings for other streaming services I don’t use much.
Don’t be fooled. It doesn’t matter if it’s cable or streaming… there will always be price hikes. There is only one service that was and will remain free and that’s digital antenna TV. I connected antennas to my Plex server and essentially created my own streaming service. It’s completely free and legal.
Wasn’t one of the premises of paid cable TV when it debuted was to avoid ads and then it became an ad filled monster that we see today. Just look at RUclips and how the ever increasing amount of ads compare to when it started.
Chilean service providers are already offering bundles of their services plus Netflix, HBO Max, Star+, etc...
This is even worse here in Greece where salaries are way lower than in US. I only have a Netflix subscription that I share with four other people.
I can't believe Disney+ is going up. Time to binge watch what I want, and then cancel.
I never have more than one streaming service up at once. I think they're still bettter than cabel as long as you're not a goober who gets suckered into subbing to like 5 plans, and only watches 2 of them a month. The option of "just thaving access," doesn't justify the cost, but people are dumb.
What Apple should do is lower the price of TV down to 1 dollar. And then eat the cost for 3 years. Then jack it up to 5 then 10, and most people wouldn't even notice.
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If things got too crazy, I'd just switch to RUclips entirely. And if youtube went away, I'd switch to free podcasts. And if I lost that? Radio.
I have a lot of services and every month I get a bit concerned about it. But everything month I decide that me and my family are getting our money's worth for each one. If I was single, I would feel differently, but when you are entertaining/informing multiple people, the prices really aren't bad.
In Romania we have this bundle offers. I have Vodafone subscription and HBO Max for a few dollars extra. Also, Primevideo is 14 lei a month(aprox 3 USD). Netflix is the most expensive here.
I am keeping two. The ones my cell service pays for.
Your phone carrier isn’t paying for it, you are. That’s why streaming services aren’t included on basic unlimited plans…
Cast and crew do need to paid, but that’s not the primary factor driving price increases. Initially getting paid directly instead of getting a slice of the pie from the cable companies was good, but inevitably executives and shareholders are never satisfied with a particular profit margin and always want to see more and more growth. There a several ways to do that of course and 2 easy ones are raising the subscription price and getting money from advertisers who are always looking to get there product in front of more captive audiences. We will have to wait and see at what price point greed leads to cratering subscriber numbers.
"Begun, the streaming wars have."
- Yoda, 'Corporate Wars: Attack of the Streaming Services'
The real question is with the content creators firewalling their content what is the cable tv going to be able to get for content? I predict they will have to pay more for the sa,e content that is available behind the providers paywalls.
I have Disney+ and hulu bundled in my Verizon plans and I don’t pay any extra for it. Do you thank Verizon will end that? or is that like grandfathered in plan.
Drew - Do you think these streaming services are taking advantage of people canceling tv cable? This morning I canceled my cable tv. I’m using bunny ears and have an Apple TV. No subscriptions. I planned on adding a 5 dollar streaming service I was interested in. It seems that for about two decades cable tv was super popular but the last few years people are moving into the streaming age. I made this move to save some big bucks and will need to stick to this plan so I don’t incur a myriad of streaming costs. Thanks for the heads up. Love your channel.
Advantage of streaming not mentioned is easily cancelling during times your fav shows are over/between seasons, etc. Netflix should check for any concurrent use. If there's concurrent use from different networks, it's sharing vs traveling.
I’m in high school rn and once I go to college I feel like the only subscription I would use for TV would be Apple TV+ included in Apple One. I don’t watch TV or movies too much and apple one has News+, Fitness+, Apple Music, 2TB of iCloud storage, and since you can share it with 5 people I can just split the bill and only pay $6 a month. Not bad value in my opinion.
i mean the good part of streaming services is that you can pick and choose which services you want to subscribe to for that month, so say for example there's a new season of the morning show coming out on apple tv+, you could just subscribe for a month, and then cancel, and move on to a new service that has something you like. There's no hassle of dealing with cable companies to cancel a plan.
I am afraid that streaming services will remove their monthly plans if enough people "shop around" and cancel services after paying for only a month. I wouldn't put the possibility past these media conglomerates whatsoever.
Apple better not hike the 50gb iCloud subscriptions fee
AppleTV plus is the best. Cheap great picture and sound amazing shows.
I’ll never sign up for HBO ($30) per month or Disney+ ($15) a month and I’ll never re-subscribe to Netflix ($25) a month here where I live and Apple TV+ ($5.99) is the only streaming service I use or want as I was given 18 months for free and now it’s built into the Apple one bundle I never worry about it The one month price of Netflix nearly pays for the entire apple one bundle.
Netflix/Hulu/Disney+ subscriber with RUclips TV for live tv, aka just being able to watch sports. If it weren’t for sports, I’d say A LOT of folks would finally drop cable and tv streaming altogether
Streaming still has one advantage: I'm not forced to pay for networks I have no interest in. I don't watch sports, so no reason to get the bundle with ESPN+. No longer watch Netflix, so I've canceled that. Disney+, BritBox, Discovery+ and RUclips Premium will be about $514/yr. (assuming Discovery+ price of $14.99/mo). As opposed to double that for cable with a bunch of channels I have no intention of watching
Here in the Netherlands we just received HBO Max and you could have chosen the € 3,99 a month lifetime subscription
A lot of the cable replacement streaming services that started affordable, around $50 are now all nearing at least $100. RUclips tv, Directv steam, fubo, Hulu live.. you pair that with any of the others Netflix, HBO max, Disney plus you’re at or above cable.
are you sure you arent remington steel
Cable companies are rubbing their hands together waiting on the day that customers come back with streaming services prices increasing
I have TV+ just to watch their newer Peanuts videos!
I love the peanuts, but the hdr and hand-drawn style isn’t as good as the original peanuts
@@ethanmenzel I agree with you on that one, but I at least appreciate the new HDR content is at least there to freshen things up!
your skits are better than anything on netflix
Most of tv series and movies get budgets from the product placement, thats a low key ADD that gets them almost the most money… but as they sey more is more?
I canceled all my subscriptions last month and got a contract from my ISP (Deutsche Telekom, the mother company of T-Mobile US) that includes IPTV (private and public) in HD/UHD, a VOD Service runned by my ISP, Disney+ and RTL+ (a national german streaming service) for 15€/m. That’s a by far a better deal than just Netflix for 18€/m. I don’t have the time to watch all that content of 5 different services anyway.
From cut the cord to cut the stream, to be vocal we must cancel everything and spend more with family.
Why do I have a feeling the result of this is just more people cancelling?
I've used RUclips TV and Hulu TV and I'm now doing something I never thought I would do... going back to my former satellite service provider, DirecTV. (In my defense, I'll be getting DirecTV Stream, but still...)
Welcome back, I never left the DISH. Which, gives me access to the streaming services of ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX. Many year's ago, I just added the basic SD version of Netflix and the ad version of Hulu each, on the side (smile...smile).
It's funny you should mention 'traditional' comms companies (cable TV etc.) offering streaming services as part of their packages - cos that's exactly what's happened in the UK. Netflix is available as part of a package with both the main UK cable company (Virgin), the main UK satellite TV company (Sky) and the main UK telephone provider (BT). Apple TV+ (and soon the 'full Apple One' bundle) is available as part of a package with the largest UK mobile company (EE), Spotify, Amazon Prime, Discovery+ - they can all be included in your package with all the major comms companies. The actual subscription for the streaming service is always generally the 'lowest' tier though. For example, the main Satellite company, Sky TV, are moving away from 'dish based' broadcasting and into internet streaming broadcasting and have launched their own dedicated streaming TV - Sky Glass. That TV is 4k and if you buy a sub for it, it'll include Netflix - but only the base package (which doesn't include 4k content). So, if you want better quality, it's still worth just getting the 'basic' of basic packages with your internet/cable provider without these bundles and subscribing directly with them.
The only real way to fight it is to join the service when you show is on then can it
I just stopped paying for TV streaming services entirely. I refuse to get nickel and dimed for it and I watch RUclips more than regular tv anyway
With the exception of movies that were just in theater, HBO Max doesn’t even offer 4K content. Why can’t they stream The Righteous Gemstones in 4K Dolby Vision? Or Euphoria?
Is it possible that we might run out of ads at some point?
Well with subscriptions you have to subscribe during the time period of whatever show you want to watch…then cancel it. You don’t have to have all the services all the time. And almost every quarter they offer free subscriptions for a period of time. When you cancel a subscription on Prime Video they automatically offer you a better deal to not cancel. And you can watch some new movies that are in the movie theaters. I still prefer subscriptions. I’m not sure where they will end up, but as for now they are great compared to cable companies.
Nobody has been successfully able to find a viable business model for online streaming services.
If people think someone is gonna "take down Netflix", think again. Not even Disney can make a profit from it and they own all the content ;-)
It costs money to make quality content (and its associated distribution rights) and hosts tens of thousands of servers and CDNs. Replacing cable tv costs (customer pays $100/month) with online streaming (customer willing to pay about $10/month), isn't exactly a lucrative business model no matter how you want it to be profitable.
This streaming business has been going on for over a decade ...
Everything jumps up in price, only my paycheck stays the same...
When Drew said $90-$100/month for Home Internet, Cell phone AND Streaming? I almost spit out my drink.
My Cell Phone Bill in Canada is $120/month
My Internet Bill is $130/month
Plus the Streaming Services are all a couple bucks more expensive in Canada.
those prices are crazy high compared to the UK.
I could get Broadband for around £27 for 200mbps in my area and unlimited data uncapped for £16, so £43 per month or around 66 CA$
Figure the "loonie"* is about U$0.77, so that's about U$90 for cell phone and U$100 for Internet data.
That's the price you pay when you want Canadian monopolies to keep "all the pie" (most places in Canada there's only 1-2 Internet data options, 1-2 cell phone options and those telcos control broadcast and Cable TV for the most part as well).
* learned LOONIE is NOT an insult, but a description of the LOON bird on the C$1 coin, just like British call a single Pound Sterling a QUID
@@syxepop I probably have around 20 options for home internet as does 98% of the UK and around 30 options for mobile.
Whaaaat? 120€ is what i pay in Spain for Disney and prime combined in a year. Internet 600mbps and 2 lines with 30gb each for a total of 60€. How is it soooo much more expensive in US and CAN?
I'm still not switching to cable 💅
Hear me out people. ONE SERVICE AT A TIME
A big problem is that everyone wants their hand in the pie and there's too many services so people will naturally pick&choose. Netflix may be losing subscribers but that's because they want to watch shows on other services so the demand (services) is stripping market supply (subscribers).
The second people are charged the extra $3 unfairly.. they will be cancelling their Netflix. A lot of anger is coming
It should be cheaper. While the production costs don’t change, the distribution IS cheaper and it allows them to reach so many more people across so many more countries with their content. Where they have fucked themselves is with keeping regional lockout. It’s insane and we have to end up paying for their lack of vision.
There are only few good shows that I want to spend my time watching them - I am back to buying the shows versus maintaining multiple subscriptions to streaming.
Walmart announced the ad-supported version of Paramount + is being added to the Walmart + service.
Your script was on needle point.
Streaming services are still better than cable tv because you choose your own channels. If you only want Hulu and Netflix then you can have that. If you only want Paramount Plus and Peacock then you can do that. But even with all the price hikes Peacock, Netflix $15 plan, Paramount+, Hulu and Disney+ is only $40 combined. You can watch them anywhere on your mobile devices instead of just in your home. Things like HBO max don’t count because if you wanted HBO on cable then you were paying extra anyway. I’d rather pay $25 for home internet and $40 for lots of streaming than cable. On demand was terrible
Cable TV has already ditched the cable. They have their own apps that don’t work well.
I’ve got a Spotify deal with Hulu where I pay no more for Spotify 10 bucks a month and free ad supported Hulu so to me it’s like the ads pay for the service to me
Also just subscribe to like 1 or 2 at a time when you know there’s stuff you wanna binge watch then unsubscribe and do other services.
I’m probably in the minority but I didn’t cut the cord to just save money. I did to have a better experience and I’m still getting that. I don’t get news cutting into my TV. It doesn’t matter if the game ran over. I don’t get maps in the lower third. Shows come on when I say they come on. And I never see commercials. As far as I’m concerned I’m still living the good life.
I tend to subscribe to just one at a time and then cancel the same day, still get the full month but if I lose interest in something it’s not automatically renewing each month. I have in the past had an active Netflix account that I wasn’t using but kept forgetting to cancel 😢
So will I get charged $3 more dollars a month for every VPN server I use?
Piracy is the only thing that will really go up. As for me, I’ve cancelled most streaming services (Netflix 1st)…
These companies greed will be their downfall...
at this point ima just watch cable off satellite and pirate streaming service stuff.
I think I'll just continue to pay for YT premium and call it a day. Commercially produced content is a leading source of brain cancer, not worth the money.
100 per month for all of that? That’s incredible, my home internet is that alone without gigabit speeds
The problem with capitalism is that it relies on infinite growth which just isn’t sustainable. Netflix just realized that basically everyone they could ever sell service to already has it, so what do they do to satisfy share holders? They have to raise rates or find a way to sell more service to people that already have their service.
Canceled netflix, canceled Hulu and I canceled Disney. Not even sad about it.
I hope many people will do the same. Plus as a positive you get more time to do other more interesting things
@@jean-lucblanc4605 exactly, I do too
@@joshuadj22 its annoying how they are all getting more expensive, but at the same time producing lesser quality shows (that's what I've read in these comments, I don't have any of these subscriptions).
Ridiculous.
Looks like I’m not going to return to Disney plus anytime soon
People can shut off services that are overpriced. This is better than cable bundles.
Governments will figure out how to maintain their fees as well
I’ve already canceled my Netflix. Greedy thieves.
It’s not greed, it’s called capitalism, which calls for infinite growth. Share holders are not happy with break even with last year. That’s why prices for everything will continue to rise and why your grandparents complain they used to get x item for a single dollar.
Ah yes, Plex. Still the 🐐
I think in general ppl are realizing that third party content ie RUclips, TikTok is getting better for value than first party content ie everything else. I mean has anyone else realized that there's fewer and fewer good blockbuster movies. The mega production companies still have good ip with generous copyright protections so lamens "third party content creators" can't use their characters but you can only rely on that for so long.
Cable TV provided by east link TiVo packed is $500 a month after tax and rental fee of the DVR here in Canada I wish my parents didn’t need cable tv
No good thing lasts forever