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> Funny how so many people screamed for al la care programming and now that it's happening everyone is realizing it's actually worse. I wouldn't equate balkani
by sk5t 10y ago
> Funny how so many people screamed for al la care programming and now that it's happening everyone is realizing it's actually worse.
I wouldn't equate balkanization with a la carte. To stretch the restaurant metaphor, the current situation is akin to taking 5 cab rides between restaurants to cobble together a meal, there's a lot of overhead and waste. Traditional cable television is the restaurant with everything available, but you're required to purchase dessert and coffee to get access to soup and salad.
- NegativeLatency 10y agoYeah, but now the streaming services have kombucha (exclusive content)
- mokus 10y agoEven worse; many of the restaurants still make you buy a whole bundle to get the one item you want from them. At the end of the day, in order to get your burger, fries and a shake you've also paid for 3 bowls of rice, 3 plates of nachos, 3 breakfast platters, 3 extra-large sodas, and (nobody knows why) 3 whole durian. Edit: oh, and a year of Prime shipping. Wat?
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- jonny_eh 10y agoSwitching between Hulu and Netflix on my TV is hardly like taking multiple cab rides. It's actually a far superior experience to cable TV. Let's not forget that we need healthy competition in this space. We can't, and shouldn't, expect Netflix to just have everything, as good as their product is.