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You are forgetting 1 aspect. Advertisement. I gladly pay extra to not watch commercials. I agree with most of your statement. Netflix a few years ago was the o

You are forgetting 1 aspect. Advertisement. I gladly pay extra to not watch commercials. I agree with most of your statement. Netflix a few years ago was the only service I needed. They had tons of content from multiple providers. Today it's very few shows outside of their own content. I'm about to cancel honestly, I don't want Netflix's 90% crap content. Amazon Prime is probably the worst of the services from a content perspective even though they are the richest company. Please do yourself a favor and swap to Hulu from Amazon, at least with it you can get some of the latest TV Shows and cartoons. Per your pirate commentary: The problem I am having is finding a service that has the show or shows I want. Some of the content owners make it impossible to stream the content anywhere, even if you want to pay money! Thus, forcing us to have to go out of our way to find the products, probably illegally.

ivraatiems 8y ago
> You are forgetting 1 aspect. Advertisement. I gladly pay extra to not watch commercials. Yes, it's good to point that out. I think people _are_ willing to pay more to have no ads, and have on-demand access to content. I would throw in another thing I could have thrown in originally as well, which I didn't really think of - the TV equivalent of "killer apps." The reason I stick with Amazon is because they picked up a couple of shows I really, really love - The Man in the High Castle and The Expanse. I don't want to lose access to those. Similarly, I briefly subscribed to CBS All Access while the new Star Trek: Discovery season aired last year - and when Season 2 comes out, I'll likely do so again. I love Star Trek so much that I'm willing to pay the $7 per (call it $3 per episode) month just for that... but as soon as it stops coming out, I cancel.
- anth_anm 8y ago
  For 2 shows, I'll just buy them. I'm not paying for star trek simply because I don't want to support all access.
- Cyph0n 8y ago
  I’d add “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, “Sneaky Pete”, and “Patriot” to your Amazon list.
- tsycho 8y ago
  Unfortunately, Amazon Prime now has ads. Not as much as cable TV, but still very annoying now that I am used to no ads. I watched the Illusionist last night on Prime video, and not only was there a minute of unskippable ads at the start, but there were 30 seconds of ads in the middle of the movie as well.
  - squarefoot 8y ago
    I may have an extreme position on the subject, but to me unskippable advertising is violence plain and simple.
IOT_Apprentice 8y ago
Except even paying for all the Hulu feature tiers to stop commercials, Hulu forces you to watch their On-Demand versions which have--> commercials. Youtube TV was even worse on that front. After having a TiVo DVR and then a cable DVR, the ability to Fast Forward thru commercials or skip them was a godsend. Now we are heading to Streaming balkanization--with eventual price rises as well.

ivraatiems 8y ago

> You are forgetting 1 aspect. Advertisement. I gladly pay extra to not watch commercials. Yes, it's good to point that out. I think people _are_ willing to pay more to have no ads, and have on-demand access to content. I would throw in another thing I could have thrown in originally as well, which I didn't really think of - the TV equivalent of "killer apps." The reason I stick with Amazon is because they picked up a couple of shows I really, really love - The Man in the High Castle and The Expanse. I don't want to lose access to those. Similarly, I briefly subscribed to CBS All Access while the new Star Trek: Discovery season aired last year - and when Season 2 comes out, I'll likely do so again. I love Star Trek so much that I'm willing to pay the $7 per (call it $3 per episode) month just for that... but as soon as it stops coming out, I cancel.

anth_anm 8y ago
For 2 shows, I'll just buy them. I'm not paying for star trek simply because I don't want to support all access.
Cyph0n 8y ago
I’d add “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, “Sneaky Pete”, and “Patriot” to your Amazon list.
tsycho 8y ago
Unfortunately, Amazon Prime now has ads. Not as much as cable TV, but still very annoying now that I am used to no ads. I watched the Illusionist last night on Prime video, and not only was there a minute of unskippable ads at the start, but there were 30 seconds of ads in the middle of the movie as well.
- squarefoot 8y ago
  I may have an extreme position on the subject, but to me unskippable advertising is violence plain and simple.

IOT_Apprentice 8y ago

Except even paying for all the Hulu feature tiers to stop commercials, Hulu forces you to watch their On-Demand versions which have--> commercials. Youtube TV was even worse on that front. After having a TiVo DVR and then a cable DVR, the ability to Fast Forward thru commercials or skip them was a godsend. Now we are heading to Streaming balkanization--with eventual price rises as well.