Streaming is Becoming Cable TV
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2024
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Streaming was originally hailed as a way to save money over expensive cable TV packages, but with rising prices and a fractured content landscape, are streaming services starting to resemble cable?
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I canceled **all** my paid streaming subscriptions a couple of years ago. If it's not on a free streaming service, you're probably not going to see it at my house. Half of the money I save goes towards buying DVDs and BluRays of shows and movies I like, that I then rip to my local network to watch on the TV.
I know a guy called Tim who used to do that with VHS tapes. He thought he had outsmarted us all with entire libraries of TV shows and movies he paid handsomely to build. Don't be a Tim.
@@NeonVisual Tim did outsmart you, or did you steal his VCR?
@@filonin2 Shut up Tom, you're not Tim.
This is the natural conclusion of "if it's important to you, have a copy you control" and "without paying customers this all goes away". It's pretty alarming that physical media distribution of home video is getting pulled from stores just as people are starting to rebel against the enshittification of the streaming that supposedly killed physical media.
I'm not sure about these arguments sometimes. Like, physical things will be taken away from you by nature eventually. If I had an important file to me, where will u put it? In a box, or in online storage where the are backup servers and redundancies? I would do the second one. Now with Netflix and the internet in general, it will certainly last longer online than in your physical anything. I get that it is annoying that the content changes platforms regularly, but I often thing we just conflate "the old way" as being "the only way". Like RUclips is a great service with a ton of educational content (I have learnt so much math and coding and computer science from it) but it was once free and as soon as they want money for it people go "no this thing must be free, it's my RIGHT to get this thing for free cause it was one free and I feel like I own this thing" but you don't. It was a privilege to get it for free for so long, not your birth right
I'm limiting myself to one service at a time... and when my yearly sub to D+ ends i think I'll take some time off and buy a boat...... travel the ocean........... catch my drift.....
I sea what you did there.
Nothing better than sailing the high seas. Join us, my friend.
Disney now produces woke garbage so it isn't worth it
that's quite clever
Ahoy! mate
This is exactly why I went back to physical media like Blu Rays. Not only is the video and audio quality better because it's uncompressed, but I can watch what I want, when I want, without having to pay monthly. I only pay to watch what I want. Plus, many Blu Ray nowadays have digital codes which allow me to "stream" media when I really want to. So, physical media for the win! I still think Best Buy made a mistake getting rid of physical media.
I don't think Best Buy even cares if they made a mistake for axing physical media sales.
all video is compressed. we have never used uncompressed video outside of editing, and today with 10 and 12bit color, 4k resolutions, storing and streaming that data uncompressed is unrealistic. We can just use bitrates so high that there is no perceivable loss.
@@MaNameizJeff That is quite true, but still, my Blu Rays look and sound better than anything in my streaming.
With all the dark colored shows/movies everyone is making more and more of, I hate those black/grey serrations you get while streaming. It doesn’t matter how fast your internet is, it’s bound to come due to intra/inter frame compression
Dont have much problem with it because my tv has full array local dimming.@@thecompanioncube4211
Life pro tip: join your library and rent dvds from there if they offer the service. Mine does it for free, as well as offering some streaming services.
Just pirate the damn things 🤷
@@sumomaster5585 What a weird take. Choose pirating with potential loss of internet access if done improperly over a free local service with zero repercussions 😅
@@sumomaster5585 technically they could make copies of the DVD's since they have poor encryption and programs like MakeMKV can decrypt the disk into a single container file for archiving / storage. I used Make MKV to make legitimate backups of my blu-ray discs that I own to stream in my media center.
@@Sinovian they do have a bit of a point: pirating is much more convenient than actually having to go to the library and deal with physical media
@@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 if this was the early 2000s maybe. I'm not from a giant city and even my library offers digital books and movies. Sure maybe if you want something specific you'll have to go in, but it's not like the library is some major hassle. Pick up 5 movies for the week and don't deal with internet limits or poor streaming quality or issues if you don't pirate from a good site.
Problem with streaming is, they can TAKE AWAY your favourite shows without warning (to some degree). Hence why piracy exists. Especially with the death of physical ownership of media and games.
thinking of take away some shit you never bought like a show you can view on netflix as theft is the reason i think there should be educational tests with terminal results if you fail.
@@satakrionkryptomortisIt's not theft, just like piracy isn't theft. You're just viewing content for free
@satakrionkryptomortis You do know that they sometimes also take away shows you actually specifically paid for because they „forgot“ to renew their license?
@@satakrionkryptomortis If you've got an opinion on education please at least make sure that your own education level is high enough to write something actually readable
Ownership doesn't have to die with physical media.
I buy nearly all my games on GOG or Itch. I buy all my music on bandcamp. Bandcamp gives me straight up MP3s and flacs, and GOG will give me offline installers which I can store indefinitely.
There's hopes within the gog community of the company retrying video again (though probably unlikely), but if you have floatplane, they offer a clear download button.
Ownership is not synonymous with Physical Media. They're simply two things that tend to get conflated
I don't know but when you have a C-suite earning millions they don't understand that people don't want to or can't pay 100 dollars to watch all the shows they want to watch.
I expect that piracy will see a major resurgence soon and all the companies will be crying not knowing how the public can be so mean to them.
One thing the music industry understands at least is that you can have several services but they need to have all content.
I wish it was as easy as it is in music but I imagine it is a lot more complicated. When an artist releases music, they choose what platforms to release to and they don’t work out some license deal for that. With video streaming, the service pays a lot for the licenses to stream shows and movies. Spotify doesn’t pay to get artists’ music, they just pay (measly) royalties for streams that occur
@@FergiesHuman not really music is also highly consolidated. Sony and Universal own a large percentage of popular music. They could have gone the route of TV and just have Sony+ and universal music max or whatever.
If you have so much free time that you could justify signing up for multiple streaming services you should go get a hobby lmao
@@zac-1have you considered that watching all the shows is THE hobby?
@@J.Crime123 sucks to suck then
Yep. And this is why I just dumped all my streaming services. I noticed I rarely watched any TV anymore, I kept them around so my adult children could watch them through my subscription but when the companies cracked down on that, I simply canceled them at that point. Why have a service you rarely use and can't be used by someone else? Saving about $300 a year and I'm happy with that.
I called it when this shift first started. When it was one or two BIG streaming services with shows from multiple studios it was a good deal and made sense. But now since every single studio/producer/channel has their OWN streaming service, and their content is only available on their service, it's just as expensive as cable to get all your favorite shows. Its always going to go in this cycle unfortunately.
we got a lot of sailors out here now.. i been watching all my out of market sports games for 8 years now. password sharing rules being strict just pisses people off more
It doesn't have to go in this circle, look at spotify, they were able to make a deal and everything is on one platform. But owners of video content for some reason don't want to make any deals, they are acting like little kids and then they are surprised that number of subscribers is not growing anymore, you just need more and more streaming services to watch everything you want to watch and at some point, you will have to realize that it's a nonsense and piracy will win again.
It's frustrating to see streaming services become more and more like cable, with rising prices and limited content. I miss the days when Netflix was a game-changer.
I see your account everywhere.
@@pumaroar1Somehow, they have over 6 million subs with one video that has 39k veiws
@@dominicharvey6048bots more or less 😶
capitalism ruins every innovation
@@pumaroar1 It's checkmark abusing all over again
2005: Arrrrrrrr!
2009: Oh, hey, I'll pay Netflix $10 for stuff I want to see
2015: I guess I'll also pay Amazon from Prime Video...
2024: ...Arrrrrrrr!
return to arrrr!
when in doubt, go arrrr
he is a programmer, he meant return arr, means the abbreviation of the array. collection of data. so there is no legal charge for the mr drlegitimate
Accurate timeline is accurate.
Went back to Arrrrrrrrrr when Netflix stopped carrying real movies.
"the free market will inspire innovation"
free market: *reinvents cable*
we just really need to reinvent cable.
imagine a specific channel that you can select your own movie to play. and some channels the broadcast live a movie or news or something.
I was wondering if there was a connection between the increase in streaming fees and the recent actors and writers strikes?
"The increase in streaming prices by platforms like Netflix, Apple TV+, Disney+, and Hulu can be seen as an attempt to offset the additional costs of paying talent more due to the demand for residual payments from streaming."
From:
“You’re Not Managing Your Business Correctly”: Nolan Blames Streaming For Hollywood Strikes
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It's extremely frustrating. The whole idea behind "cord cutting" was so that you didn't have to pay for the channels you didn't watch. RUclips TV when it first came out was $35/mo. It's now $75/mo with a lot of added channels/services that' I've never watched a single time. It's exactly back into where cable was years ago and is becoming the new "cord" that may need to be cut.
Which is why people are switching to on demand and FAST only instead of live paid bundles.
Have we really cut the cord tho? We still need cable to connect to the internet... We just trade one cord to another!
the only reason I still have an audible subscription is that I pick only the audiobooks I want and they don't add on extra fees or things I didn't ask for, and so far nothing I've listened to has disappeared out of my library. It probably will one day since it happened to kindle customers, but options for physical media or freebies on the high seas are still easy to come by.
perfectly said
also because networks never ever renegotiate their contract renewals down, only up, the price of cable subs will always go up.
Netflix canceling Inside Job mid production of season 2 was the final straw for me. I’ll dock the boat again if they can ever figure this shit out. Until then, I’m sailing. 🏴☠️
How are you going to pirate a TV show season that was canceled? Make it make sense
I hear ya. Them killing Dark Crystal after 1 season while keeping a dozen shit shows going was it for me.
@@AveMcree He wont watch it, but he wont pay for stuff that they don't deliver either.
This is my problem with a streaming service’s original content. Unless it’s a self-contained movie or miniseries with no sequel hooks whatsoever, it’s hard to get invested, because you don’t know if it’ll get a sequel or another season.
It’s so bad it’s making me miss the old days when you followed a show for so long and then the network gives you the middle finger by way of a lousy finale.
I spend $30 a year on Netflix. When there are multiple seasons of something I want to watch, I buy a $30 Netflix card and binge watch. They NEVER EVER have my checking account number.
I pirate everything
Recruiting?
In the old days, with DVR, I was spending over 120 in my area for cable. And now we can pick and choose what ones we like, skip months, all shows are playable when I want them/no waiting, and no commercials (I won't go back to commercials). And all still cheaper than that. I remember when everyone complained and wanted it this way. It really is a good thing.
"Making movies is expensive so we will keep annoying paying customers until they switch to piracy."
Seems legit.
As a pirate, I see this as a total win
I don't have subscription of any streaming services, I just watch shows and movies whichever I like on free movie website because I watch some shows from every streaming it's not feasible for me to buy subscription of literally every streaming services.
In some cases it truly does anger the customers when said service just makes a horrible show. I know Crunchyroll awhile back made a terrible animated show that felt like it didn't know what it wanted to be which angered so many people that rather then focusing on making the service better or acquiring more licenses CR was using their money to fund that lol. Don't forget HBO canceled so many promising animations just so they could put all their eggs in the wonderful basket that was Velma lol.
I used to pirate more, but they do need SOME money so I often have subscriptions and then give out the login info to as many people as I trust. That's why Netflix is going from $20+ dollars a month to $0 soon. The others will most likely stay. 🤷♂
or just stop watching all together, same goes for video games, programs and whatever else they try to milk, most of us simply quit it all and moved on with our lives, I suggest you do the same ... there are millions of other things to in life then be a vegetable and pay for vaporwave
And here is why I still buy DVDs when I really want to watch something.
Endless numbers of rewatches, no ads and no one to take the content offline bc it already is.
For christmas i just got a dvd player and loads of dvds 😅
There are so many advantages to this! Its for example also faster to pull up a movie on dvd compared to starting the "smart" tv and then prime inside of my tv.
But i disagree on the ads part, some dvds have unskippable preroll ads and i have no clue how they can be unskippable if they are physical media but i guess my dvd player plays along with that bs.
@@fabianletsch1354 yeah. That is something I forgot about until I got back to Blu Rays just this month. What I do is that I just put the Blu Ray in and let it run while I set up other things or scroll on my phone or something. Plus, I found out that typically it's the first title like the Disney Castle or Paramount that is unstoppable. Everything after that initial company intro is completely skippable, though it won't always let you get to the menu immediately. Just skip and skip
@@fabianletsch1354 DVDs and Blurays are definteily way better than streaming shows. As for the pre-ads on the discs, I find that 99% of the time you can skip them in like 3 seconds by advancing the chapters.
Welll.... no ads except for the 5-10 min crap they add to the beginning of DVDs that you cant skip.
DVDs both take up physical space and are only 480p quality
Also, Netflix's active pursue of blocking their own paying customers and georestrict them as much as possible, reinventing the way to check only to make it harder for their own paying customers to watch content available in the platform is one of the most self-hurting activities I've ever seen.
The Netflix prices cited are inaccurate. Netflix streaming wasn't $9 in 2007. It was $8 in 2011. It was $9 in 2014.
I got 4k HDR Netflix for $14 a month when I got my first 4k TV and was able to share the account since I cant watch 4 streams on my own. Now to do that is $30. Inflation cant explain that kind of jump, but greed can. The most expensive movies on Netflix that bring in almost no viewers is killing their costs and its why all the really good shows that take time to find an audience get cancelled in season 1.
I got fed up with streaming services producing a shows that have just one or two seasons then cancelling it and leaving me hanging.I’d invested my time in those shows. It would be like buying a book with the last two chapters missing and not knowing that until read the book and find the last pages blank. You wouldn’t buy the book. So now any new shows I don’t bother watching no matter how good they appear to be until I know that all the seasons have been produced to finish the story. The other problem is the licensing of shows where I get a few seasons in then bang it’s gone, because the streaming service has lost the licence. Or like prime have seasons 1 to 4 available as part of prime membership but put season 5 onwards under a paywall.
all of the crazy stuff going on is down to greed 100percent.
greed with money and greed with attention.
Think Linus & Luke discussed that on a previous WAN Show, and why they're not considering 4K video on floatplane anytimesoon.
supporting 4K was a loss, but a minor loss when only select content was 4K, and only a small percentage of users adopted it. supporting that same loss at scale isn't feasible. Although it's hard to say how much netflix would be losing since they still make money hand over fist, it's probably better to say their profit margin would be thinner...
It’s crazy to me that piracy is higher quality and more flexible than a service you PAY FOR. You’d expect the best service you’ve ever had but here we are.
That sums up ESPN+. It is genuinely harder to access the content I'm paying monthly for than it is to view it on a streaming site pirating it. ESPN is so laggy inconsistent and often times I have to refresh / login again to access the game I want to watch otherwise I'm just clicking the play button repeatedly until it starts playing. Absolute joke.
@@tims1348 Do you have any recommendations on how to go about streaming it on a pirate site?
I pay for Disney Plus, but they can't even get the Audio right, I paid for surround sound so I should get it. Everyone else can do it, Netflix, Prime, Stan, ect... But Disney? Nah they mess it up and it's always so quiet.
It's literally easier to just pirate the Disney Plus episode than try to work with that jankyness. I might as well just cancel the service since it doesn't even work properly.
@@UltimateGattaisee, with Netflix though, the most you get is 5.1 surround, unless you pay for the top tier plan. AppleTV and Prime will give you Atmos if the native content supports it
Funny... I'm in the grey area, I pay towards Disney & Amazon prime (video/delivery) and pirate content I can't gain access too and I agree with yo OP (pirated content delivers high quality movies and TV shows/series) better than Disney, Amazon, netflix, Hulu etc.
Great video... need a part 2 about the tech cost increases associated with Streaming bandwidth costs, Storage in multiple data centers, network cross linking link upgrades, and the tech of logging into some services is easy as a QR code, and services like Hulu it's like pulling teeth to remember and type your password into every device. At this point I think we have 12 streaming devices in the house, so re-logging in is a pain.
When people were complaining about cable 10+ years ago and heading to the "new" Prime or Netflix, I predicted this exact same thing. Individual apps would start bundling due to people picking and choosing (or doing what I do and rotating subscriptions)... to get all of the channels cable offered, you'd have to choose between a more expensive solution or live with fewer channels... The only benefit is the 'on demand', which is admittedly a huge benefit.
Really great video. Recently I went back to blu-rays specifically because of how much of a shitshow streaming services are, and I'm really loving the experience.
Don't know if this would interest you, but something cool you can do with the right computer is host those blu-ray movies on a server after ripping them. Plex (but they have some controversy, Jellyfin, Emby, Kodi with plex, etc. it's called a Home server, and they offer apps on iOS, Android, consoles, smart TVs, etc. so you can watch the movies you own anywhere.
im currently doing the nord vpn and torrenting package and it's working great!
That's really the best way if you care about picture clarity. All streaming services compress video in some way. Plus you actually OWN the movie.
@TexasTimelapse thats because the bitrate on a regular bluray is usually better than a 4k stream
@@WayStedYou
Well duh... that's why I wrote what I wrote.
Try this experiment! If you have a Blu-ray player OR a computer that will play Blu-rays: Start the Bluray of a film you like, THEN find it on streaming. Switch back and forth. You will quickly see that most of the streaming services LOOK LIKE CRAP compared to the Blu-ray, and the bigger your TV the bigger the fidelity gap is between the two!!
Its cause the bitrate in many streaming services is garbage. The resolution might be 1080p or even 4k but the bitrate is too low
When I decided that I am earning enough that I can afford paying for movies, bought netflix.
It felt as if I switched back from 1080p MKV to RMVB.
I cancelled 1 week later and jumped back into the ocean.
They lowered the bitrate to cope with increased demand during COVID lockdown and I don't think they ever raised it back up again.
i have dowloaded movies that look better, streaming uses a much higher compresion than a Blu Ray Player and if you can download one (they are in short supply) there is no compresion at all when you play it back on the PC.
i did not know any of this but i have a decent pair of eyes and it was very clear to me, then i found out why.
Hardly surprising when you look at the bitrates involved: 1080p video on RUclips uses 2Mbit/s bitrate. BD will do up to 48Mbit/s.
Think, that without Pirate Bay we still been stuck with cable TV in the old form, things like Netflix came as a response to file sharing (not piracy) of pirated movies (piracy), the guys at the Bay pointed out that if companies gave folk what they want for a good prize folk tend to go for what is legal and put them in less risk, that worked... a short time, now Netflix and so start to act like old companies and once more is "The Way of the Pirates" more luring to regular users.
Best explanation I've seen of this anywhere. Well done Techquickie writers, editors, and Riley.
They have become the very thing they swore to avoid
No there was people in the internet predicting this. Now it's happened
Insert “you were the Chosen One” meme here.
@@preciadoalex123
I think pushing people toward the ad supported tiers while making the other ones far more expensive was extremely predictable. It was only a matter of time before all streaming services went back to the most obvious and easy money which is doubling down and getting money from the customer and money from advertisers. We were all the fools for thinking we were past that silly us forgot we live in a capitalist society.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu that's true, there's also the benefit of watching a series or movie on demand on any device, which you didn't do on cable, so I guess there's that.
Nobody swore a thing. One thing: $$$$$$$
I think people would be shocked at the video quality of just connecting an antenna for old school HD TV and it's free
Its way better than netflix
@@hubertnnnvery true, netflix quality has fallen tremendously
It literally does not work in my area. Everything is pixelated and it drops out constantly. I gave up and got rid of the equipment.
I mean there's always the free ad supported streaming services like Pluto TV & Tubi. Pluto is owned by Paramount and tubi is owned by Fox.
@@filonin2 damn man that sucks.
Up here in minnesota at least, we get 30 some channels. Beats the 17 we got on "basic" cable.
This is why I honestly still prefer to get physical copies. True Lies, for example, popped up on like 3 different streaming services due to various licensing issues. For the longest time the only source of the video I had was the original DVD release of the movie (which arguably the quality is worse than VHS) Now it's back on Amazon Video where I get to pay $19.99 for a digital license to watch this video so long as Amazon holds the rights to stream it...I'd rather pay $20+ for a physical copy so I can enjoy it for however long I possess it.
Tre Lies is getting a physical 4K release in March 2024.
One of the main competitions of soccer here in Brazil is broadcast in Prime video, the Brazil's cup (between clubs) also some games of NBA is broadcast in Prime.
what them in futbol-libre in the internet, just add org at the end. Plenty of futbol games from your side of the world and europe.
This is why I have a Plex server with 200 movies and shows on Blu-ray. I pay once - own forever. Plus, since I'm not a parent yet I can "bulk up" my library for when I do have kids they don't feel extremely left out.
However, I do know they're gonna ask "Why don't we have Netflix?" and "Dad, my friend said to checkout this show but it isn't on Blu-ray yet!"
Look into stremio with a debrid server
that can be a reason to go visit a friend's house. my parents didn't fall for a lot of my childhood FOMO, but I still had plenty to keep myself entertained without being stuck with old, outdated stuff either.
You don’t have to have kids if you don’t want to, and keep it as it is
Maybe I just don’t understand how Plex works but that’s a bold assumption that those movies will be accessible to you forever.
@@TakeJannerIf said person is pirating it and they don't have a backup sure. If they are ripping it from their own disc then the original is the backup.
I'm not sure about all of you, but my local library can get dvds and bluray of almost any movie or TV show that I could ask for. Music CD's and disk games for major consoles too. All for free. Just saying.
Yeah, sometimes you have to wait a few days for a hold to come in, but it’s hard to beat the price.
I love Romancing the Stone😅
I'm actually back to recording things on a capture card that I get on the Sat-TV and buying DVDs.
I had heard that sports/live events was the reason why cable got so expensive to begin with.
Honestly, live sports is pretty much one of the only carrots they have left to dangle in front of people. And I mean that across the board any service that can will try to offer that somewhere.
cancel.
live sports was the big issue with getting my parents to cut the cord. Sure they get the local news same as always, but suddenly when it's a football or baseball game, they don't know what region this device is in and can't stream the game to it without a separate subscription
@@ilovefunnyamv2ndeven worse is that the region shouldn't matter
@@ilovefunnyamv2ndTVIP is the way to go if you want sports and PPV. You get every channel from every region. It's $130 a year where I live.
I love Plex and Jellyfin. I don't watch sports or awards shows so there's no time-sensitive content I'm missing, I don't have to deal with forced video quality limitations, I can have as many screens going as I want, I don't have ads, I don't have to "check in" at a home location regularly, and I can view what I want wherever I am in the world without fear of it suddenly disappearing. At $42 a month for streaming services, that's $504 in a year. You can build a server for a good bit less than that and it's paid for itself in under a year.
With cable you also have to pay to "rent" the equipment and pay insurance if you want service when something breaks. This reason and 2 year contracts is why I will never go back to cable TV. My wireless company gives me Netflix as a perk, I pay for Paramount+ and Max. Wont have Disney+ again
2:18 I'm missing the 4 for 4 already. That McDonalds $4.40 meal was so convenient for years until inflation rose from covid. Now I don't know what combo to order seeing as I only ate from the 4 for 4. Their quarter pounders are so icky and greasy I just can't for for anything with one of those.
switched to piracy after netflix announced ads
At which port do you anchor? I would like to hoist the black flag once again myself.
i'll stop paying netflix if they add ads, or if they stop account sharing
Yeah
Certain services refusing to function with VPNs is icing on the cake.
If you're talking about circumventing geo-fencing - they sort of have to be seen to be combatting it somehow. They don't have the rights to show a US customer something that they only have rights to in foreign markets, for example.
@@smalltime0do they have to though?
I'm not convinced one bit
@@smalltime0 Nah, I don't buy it. Password sharing I get, but circumventing geo-blocking still requires you to pay for Netflix so why should anyone involved care about how the end user consumes the content as long as it doesn't negatively impact other users experience? Netflix get paid, the people involved with the creation of the show get paid and the customer gets to watch the thing. Who is losing what? Nobody has ever explained that in a way that's like "ohhhhh, yeah i can see why that's an issue". There's always a "yeah, but why do they care" aspect to the explanations. Geo-blocking for payment I understand, regional pricing is important but easily abused. Actually enforcing region locking your content does not make sense other than "politics", which just means somewhere some people couldn't agree on something that probably has no significance all because the people in charge of these deals think they are the most important person in the room. If you think ego is not a factor in these deals, you clearly have not been around any of these people for any significant amount of time.
I think this is yet another case of big companies thinking something irrelevant is why they're not making as much money as they could. You converted pirates to paying customers just to push them back to piracy. Bravo streaming service, bravo. You recreated the very problem that you almost solved because of what exactly?
@@Giliver they don't have the rights to stream it to you, it is essentially no different than just uploading it all to youtube
@@Giliverwell yeah it's cheaper to pay to show it in one places than all places. It's always been that way. I can buy the same DVD from two different countries and its by a different distributor. Even VHS was like that. If my company only cares about the US market I am not going to pay extra to show it anywhere else. Even radio was like that. There are even videogames like that. I would have to realistically set up extra servers and staff overseas to make the streaming good there too. We would probably have to get every country to agree on consumer rights for this to ever go away.
This subject was very helpful and insightful, times are hard and decisions need to be made, what do you ready need and what you don't need right now.
wow very insightful video no ones thought of this before
At least some of these (like Disney) are easy to avoid. Others are kind of hit and miss. I'll sometimes visit a friend's house to watch a show that's on a service that they have and I don't and vice versa. More and more lately I'm just giving up on some of these entirely and doing something else like watching RUclips videos. As for cable I haven't had that since 2009. I don't miss it at all
Yup. Cable is nothing more than 24-hour marathons of one show punctuated by 10-minute commercial breaks. What made cable cool (niche channels with curated content and no commercials) is gone and will never come back.
@@jmal
Yep, the vast majority of content across the spectrum is literally either movies, reruns or some other syndicated crap/reality TV.
You can get 99.9% of the content out there for free and it's better because you don't have to wade through hours on hours of ads and the quality is literally perfect. I think somebody explained it perfectly, back in 2008 during that writers strike is when both cable and network TV became heavily dependent on reality TV and it's never really changed only gotten worse.
All the channels that had all the good content have completely leaned into the absolute lowest common denominator crap. And yeah it's not ever coming back.
i have started knitting, my family are not happy.
RUclips is allowing channels to paywall "exclusive" content now, where "these videos are only available to paid members". I doubt it will catch on, but if it does we're screwed.
@@mcpr5971RUclips is full of content creators. If one decides to do that, another one will emerge that does the exact content for free.
5:50 then you get shows like Pokémon, you need like 4 different streaming services to watch it legally
(Or just 1 if you sail the seas)
Thanks for the very interesting techlongie about streaming services
Pirate goes ARRR
I could’ve swore Netflix streaming first came out in 2008, but I guess I thought that because that’s when it first came to the Xbox 360, which is how I used it on my new 36” 1080i (720p) “flat screen” TV in college, which was still pretty rare in 2008, especially for college students. NETFLIX AND CHILL BABY! We were breaking new ground. I’m not joking either, kids nowadays wouldn’t understand. For poor college students, being able to watch movies for free on an HDTV was comparable to going to a theater and this magical experience. It was also a status symbol. I had to work my ass off that summer to buy that TV. And as a student it saved a lot of money if someone invited you over. I lived right off campus and I would invite women in my apartment complex and on my shuttle route all the time after class in the evening. A lot of times (>90%) it was just friendly, but you know how women be sometimes if they’re having a good time and become comfortable. An HDTV with Netflix was the best wingman I ever had in college, and I was just an average looking kinda nerdy guy going to school for web design and development. Never really realized until now how much I owe to that app!
Based
Netflix was amazing when it got better (before it was limited since you needed to rent a DVD: since not all movies and shows was on their service), when so many companies paid Netflix for their movies and shows on it.. this lasted what? Less than 2 years? And then then said, "WHOA! I can make my own streaming service..."
The point about inflation is sound but consider wages. If the median wage hasn't grown at the same rate as the average inflation then inflation is moot.
At the end of the day, a majority of Netflix's customer base are people who has to sacrifice somewhere in order to pay for Netflix
The point about inflation is sound but consider wages.
Job doesn't give you a salary increase in 2-3 years. You quit for a better paying job. Your previous employer is like, "Nobody wants to work anymore!"
Prime now shows ads unless you pay an extra 3$ too. Does this account for lowest price accounts or with ad free accounts? That changes the pricing a lot too.
The state of streaming services these days is why I still buy DVDs and I hope they stick around for a long time.
Yeah I know
I feel like there should be a tax rule that you can't claim expenses for a show unless you air it...
I like this rule in theory but would be messy to go back and retcon taxes two years later after they finally air it now uncle sam has to give them a refund ... what a mess.
@BassRacerx Good point. But what if we turn it around: they can claim it as they go, but then if they can a project, they report it and get a penalty if they don't pay back: make it the studio's problem on tax day, not the gov's. ;)
I feel like taxation is theft and IP laws illegitimate.
I have genuinely not used any streaming platform except my self hosted emby server for more than a year now. I have new episodes from all services hours after they release, i have new movies before their blu ray even releases, i have it all in max resolution, everything tailored just how i like it. I can watch it whenever, wherever and whatever i want and that forever. Sure it costs a LOT to buy storage & builda NAS as well as to rent a server so you can access it remotely without grilling your bandwidth, but when you do it with your family or friends you basically pay the same as the other services with the benefit of it being way cheaper per person and as i mentioned you have everything you like forever.
And after a while, once you add up the money saved from all these canceled services you end up way ahead. Consumer equivalent of mounting solar panels on the roof, haha.
@@TOGSolid thats what I said.
I pay ~40 € per 20TB of storage and a small 5 € ARM64 server to run emby - works like a charm with proper caching and some Linux voodoo.
Doing this with the whole family, per Person it is just like one cheap Service instead of before where everyone had three or for Services for themselves.
good for you
I applaud how they really made sure it got so easy to get shows.
well you can pick from what catalog a streaming service owns or has temporary license to, so kinda close to in cable you could either buy a tier of content with more or less in it, but you don't have a legitimate streaming service where you can pick from a competitors content at certain times if at all
The problem I had was that Netflix increased their price 3 times (or might have been 4) within just a few years. And then they got critical about sharing, even though we were paying for the 4 screen plan. So we finally took a break from them. But I do like their content.
They increased the price 3 times in under a year. Now they’re talking about raising the price again.
Did you even watch the video?
Their price more or less increased only with inflation. Unfortunate but that happens when your revenue stagnates or even falls during high inflation times.
@@1337Jogi Yes, I watched it. Regardless, if they had raised their price once as a larger jump that would be fine. But multiple times within a year or two is ridiculous, and it was probably making up for past inflation, but it was certainly rising faster than other costs over that time.
@1337Jogi They didn't mention the UltraHD tier, that's TWENTY THREE DOLLARS A MONTH, right now. It's not like netflix offers a yearly subscription, either.
Also the argument that "it's just keeping up with inflation", isn't reasonable to me. It's a reasonable idea, if and only if everyone's paychecks are indexed to inflation, too. Corporate profits should be okay to fluctuate. Infinite growth is ruining everything.
Let's also be aware, Netflix was the ONLY streaming service.. that still offered 480p content.. for almost $11/month. And finally recently removed that service.
I just don't pay for any streaming service nor do I care what "popular shows" they have.
I'll either go buy the DVD set if I like the show enough or I'll see if a friend has a copy. Streaming just isn't worth it anymore.
Grats, I completely switched it all to a full pirate ARRs suite, Jellyfin and Jellyseer too baby!
I have 2 issues with streaming that make it so I will probably never go back to paying for services.
1. Inconsistent libraries. This is not an issue that streaming can solve, but as a paying customer, I don't care. I don't want to have to tell my child the show they have been watching got geolocked because of copyright.
2. You can't download shows. I understand why, but imagine if steam only let you play your games online. There would be a lot more piracy in the PC games space.
I wish I could cancel. Over the years I acquired Netflix, Hulu, Disney, hbo max, peacock and prime(already have it for hours much I order from Amazon) and I'm suffering for not being able to watch South Park currently on paramount, but I'm sure I'll get that too eventually just for that...
The reason I keep it is because my mom is disabled, on limited income and home all day with not much to do, watching her shows keeps her somewhat happy. And over the years I've let her use my accounts. The new Netflix shit hurts, not gonna lie.. $27 to have a 2nd location, oof.
I’m in a similar boat
My friend sail the high seas
The Film Theorists made a video about this a while ago. It's kind of awesome to see this idea show up again so much later.
Thanks. Good vid/info...
Most of these companies are listed on the stock exchange. Keeping their prices stagnant is deadly for their stock price.
I'm willing to bet this is a huge factor in why things do get expensive, yet we get less.
I rotate my subscriptions. I keep it to between roughly 2-3 services at a time. As long as there isn’t a contract - like good ol cable - I’m good to go and always have something new. to check out.
I have a strong feeling streaming services will require contracts to subscribe eventually. Then we will have come full circle and be back to straight up cable 😂
So true, it made me go back to my Ship flying black colors. It was too annoying paying a sub for 1 show then leaving that app dead for 1-6 months until something good came up. And looking elsewhere for something to watch. Enough was enough. ISPs bundle 3-5 streaming services with some high speed plans and that is Cable TV.
Lower the sail because we rrr going back to the high seas!
for the longest time we held on to a cable sub of some sort. I have gone to att direct, sling tv, youtube tv. However all of them have lost their cheapness and keep getting more expensive. Currently we run a paramount + sub, local channels, and just sail the high seas to fill in the holes. The lack of sports channel subscriptions unless it is an add on for a base bulk network of subscriptions drove us to leveraging between the free options and the "free" options.
Not to mention cable companies are including corresponding TV channel apps. Ex, your package includes HBO and link your cable account to corresponding app in this case it’s Max. Included with your package
The escalating cost of streaming subscriptions is certainly disconcerting. The shift from a single consolidated cable subscription to multiple individual subscriptions has unexpectedly led us back to a similar situation as before. It is hard to find a single service that offers all the shows we love. Streaming services are slowly turning into the new cable.
If you want a single service cable was always the answer for you. The point of streaming services was to get away from a single service with everything bundled together.
@@evancombs5159 not necessarily. netflix in the early years had movies from universal, disney, and the other services. now that's all divided into its own streaming service.
The funny thing is there's a ton of people who don't want sports channels and they're willing to pay the current rate not to have them or a slightly reduced rate. Because well there's like 1000 channels just in sports contact that you're never gonna watch 24 seven.
you have no idea. you may find a couple general sports channels in a base subscription, those are teasers. I am sure they are included at low cost. They are designed to entice you to buy the sports addons. football, hockey, soccer, golf, racing, they all have a half dozen or more channels dedicated for each. So for sports watchers it is always more expensive.
in Germany we had an IPTV Service that let you choose which channels you want in your plan, so you only pay for this exact channels. But sadly this service discontinued a few years ago.
Prime is the last streaming service I had.
Was on the fence but the ads were just the last straw.
Been buying dvds and blue ray to ad to my ad free collection.
I did the same. I watched Prime Video less and less, because their newly produced originals never met my (mostly low) expectations. It reminded me of the cheap productions every average tv channel offers. I switched to buy blu ray and dvd again when there are special offers or discounts. At the moment i haven't subscribed to any video streaming. I don't miss much, i have some movies and tv shows i like already on bought discs, but most days i don't watch tv anyways.
This whole video it just a point by point demonstration on how piracy the easiest solution
(and also that cinema as we know it will probably be gone in 50 years)
Don't diss on Romancing the Stone. That's a good movie.
Actually these days Amazon's "expidited" shipping feels more like not deliberately delayed shipping.
Hey you know they had this thing called an antenna, it's still around plug it in and free local TV 😮
Jellyfin it is
Just buy Blu-ray copies of the things you want to see. They can't take it away from you and really, unlike music where it's 3-4 minutes between changing tracks, getting up every 2 to 3 hours to change a disc isn't really an inconvenience.
I don’t know anyone who owns physical music who switches tracks every song lol! I think most people buying CDs and LPs are listening to full albums, so 3-4 minutes should be 30-40 minutes. But I agree with you, blu ray is great, and so important
@@wilsonkilmer9776 But like someone said, a lot of these shows that's currently on streaming, you won't see on physical media.
Yeah, if I'm listening to a CD, it's because I want an album to play through. If I want to hear a specific song, I play a FLAC rip off of my phone.
Is this the longest Tech Quickie ever?
Impressive explanation guys.
I've been getting more into physical media, or rather local digital files of my legitimate copies of media. Building a NAS in a month or two with my tax refund since I'm running out of space.
Gonna pay off in the long run. I'm less worried about the cost of subscription services, and more about media preservation. I had one childhood online youtube series get purged when Google Video died, lost the files, and I am NEVER going through that again, especially not to a streaming service trying to avoid taxes.
And these libraries can be switched around whenever these companies want. And we can’t do a thing about it because we don’t own anything. Sure; we pay for it; but we don’t have any control over it.
This is why I still have physical media for my favourite shows.
Also, with every major company buying the smaller companies, therefore narrowing the competition; the increase in corporate concentration will drive prices through the roof one small increase at a time.
All while using the cover word, inflation, to protect their asses and wallets.
I will only ever have 1 streaming platform at a time maximum. If it's not on there....I sail the high seas
Price wise I agree 100%, convenience wise it is a different ball game, We still have the advantage of canceling whenever we want any online subscription, go ahead and try to do that with a Cable company just to be entangled with myriad of bureaucratic paperwork etc just to cancel a service, it is a total headache
0:14 as of the date this video was uploaded, Netflix is NOT under $17USD.
Or do you count the 2003 video quality options as actual options?
standard (1080p) is only $12, and premium(4k) is $17
1080p is very much good enough! i only use premium for the 6 device limit
@@kitsunekaze93 there’s no $12 option. If you were paying that, you still pay that, but it’s not an option.
The lowest price option is with ads, so that can’t be considered. The next lowest is $16.
Netflix isn’t worth it. They helped us to escape from cable, and now they’re re-establishing it.
So the move to streaming was 'cutting the cable'. What will we call the mass migration to whatever comes next after the streaming wars end up the way cable did? "Crossing the streams"? Egon warned us about that
my vote's for "upgrading to physical," because nothing can beat having the media you're trying to watch in hand. no network latency issues, no chance of it being taken down unless MPAA starts sending enforcement squads after people, none of that. streaming will be for ephemeral flops you didn't want to watch all that badly anyway, physical copies will be for the good stuff in good quality.
cord cutting is all about min/max your money you can afford monthly as you're entertained. Someone complaining that they're paying $70/month for several streaming services.. and think they should just go back to cable is damn ridiculous; and probably just a sales rep trying to sell cable.
Many people uses their library card for physical media, purchase physical media, use 1-2 streaming services a month.. and then next month cancel those streaming services and use different ones.
I would also suspect sooner or later... these streaming services would want to put a stop on cancelling quick. Such as a contract that you can't cancel in x number on months.
There really is no perfect solution to content consumption. Movies and TV are very expensive if you pay and well not every movie or TV show is pirated, and you have the added concern that if you do pirate you might get your door knocked down. 😂
It is weird that not a single Stargate series are available to watch in Europe through streaming services.
mgm
And here I am with nothing but RUclips, and that is just fine by me!
Hey, Romancing The Stone is a classic! lol
Same here, plex and youtube I am all set. All for less $ than a case of beer per month.
I feel like this partially explains why everyone likes having everything on steam (besides them having a better customer experience)
Or make a home media server.
Yeah, but Steam has it's own issues like the inconsistent banning of games. You can't get Dungeon Travellers 2 or 2.2,but you can get the first one? Assuming they don't ban the first one later down the track before it releases.
Epic is already bribing game developers to make exclusives.
@@UltimateGattai I feel like that happens much less frequently on Steam tho to be fair.
@@rawj1213 Yeah. In general I know of very few bans and they were usually outright scams or some kind of TOS-violating content
you meen free 'whenever it gets there' shipping. Amazon dropped the '2 day' when the covid pandemic started.
watched almost every game I wanted to see with a regular old antenna, dont forget this is always an option
Streaming is infinitely better than cable TV. People have used streaming for so long that they don't remember that cable TV has ads and you can't watch a show whenever you want, you have to wait for it to be on TV. However streaming has no ads and you can watch any show at any time.
Exactly
But you can record the Shows on HDD and the most `premium` services bring back ads to normal prices, pay more get less ads. this ist bullshit like pay TV everywhere.
@@andremcleod2882 Streaming services will often let you download shows
You aren't wrong. However, optical media is way better than streaming if you already know what you want to watch (and the more seriously you take movie watching, the less likely you are to browse for something to watch).
sailing sea is more convenient than finding good content
This is why I've gone back to sailing the seven seas. Not only this, i've started a home server to share with family and I'm teaching family how to sail as well.
Tv + internet bundle i used for years . Price was good, cable internet was better then adsl and very good customer servive. 30 minutes- 2 hours max. until two tecnicans are at your place with tools at hand fxing whatever the problem is and free of charge. Over time i stopped watcing tv completly and switched to another provider that has already fiber installed in our building for free.There are still leftover cables from the cable tv in the walls somewhere, to find them i have to remove plaster and paint from the walls.. To much work for me ... And its all over the house. we had cable tv in every room . I see a cable going in in a wall and cannot find the exiting cable in the next room. I guess its painted over at some point.
Thank you for addressing this invasive issue.
Streaming are just like reinventing the wheel with cable while offering very little.
I pay for services for my family to use, "sailing" scares my mom and sisters. My dad is fine with it, he hacked my WII for me back in 2009 and was burning disks around Y2K.
I mean there's always the free ad supported streaming services like Pluto TV & Tubi. Pluto is owned by Paramount and tubi is owned by Fox.
Amerimutt women...
In India, Jio fiber bundles 14 OTT including netflix with its gold plan approx 1750 per month.
Agree. Same situation in India as well.