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Watching the content on 10 different services sounds like a full-time job. Who could possibly have time for that?

by recursive 7y ago

kshacker 7y ago
For a family of 5, it is just 2 services each.
- recursive 7y ago
  For myself, I would stretch to even get to 2 services, although it's not hard to imagine. The part I have difficulty with in this scenario is that this hypothetical family of five is all watching completely disjoint shows, and none of them even happen to be on the same service. Birthday-paradox-type calculations would show that's pretty unlikely. Not to mention this family sounds... very isolated.
  - filoleg 7y ago
    >The part I have difficulty with in this scenario is that this hypothetical family of five is all watching completely disjoint shows, and none of them even happen to be on the same service. I am trying to understand what you mean by this. Why cannot the shows you all watch overlap? Pretty much every streaming service allows for sharing accounts by allowing multiple user profiles. Across me and my group of friends, we have all major streaming services, with one person paying for one, another person paying for another, etc. Each one of us has their own personal profile on each of them, so when I watch something, it gets added only to my own profile without messing with my friends' profiles. All of us have our own preferences, but a lot of popular shows we watch obviously overlap, and I don't see what issue that could cause. We just use our own profiles and have had zero issues with treating those as our personal ones.
  - Broken_Hippo 7y ago
    My family really was that hypothetical family. My parents overlapped on some shows, but could have highly different tastes. I'm 6 years older than my sister and 11 older than my brother. We had a little bit of overlap, but not a lot simply because of maturity differences. If you are looking at the same amount of money, streaming would have seemed better simply because of less actual crap, more convenience, and increased satisfaction. And no, we were not isolated at all. Public school and everything, though the city sizes changed. We were never that far from a somewhat bigger city, though.
hanniabu 7y ago
You're acting like you need to watch everything on each service
- ehsankia 7y ago
  The hidden point here is that with cable, you didn't really have the option but to get a 100$ package, and especially with the lack of on-demand, it made it much harder to watch all the shows you wanted. Here, you can pick and choose much better, and even if you have shows you want on every single service, you can very easily rotate with on-demand.

Watching the content on 10 different services sounds like a full-time job. Who could possibly have time for that?

kshacker 7y ago

For a family of 5, it is just 2 services each.

recursive 7y ago
For myself, I would stretch to even get to 2 services, although it's not hard to imagine. The part I have difficulty with in this scenario is that this hypothetical family of five is all watching completely disjoint shows, and none of them even happen to be on the same service. Birthday-paradox-type calculations would show that's pretty unlikely. Not to mention this family sounds... very isolated.
- filoleg 7y ago
  >The part I have difficulty with in this scenario is that this hypothetical family of five is all watching completely disjoint shows, and none of them even happen to be on the same service. I am trying to understand what you mean by this. Why cannot the shows you all watch overlap? Pretty much every streaming service allows for sharing accounts by allowing multiple user profiles. Across me and my group of friends, we have all major streaming services, with one person paying for one, another person paying for another, etc. Each one of us has their own personal profile on each of them, so when I watch something, it gets added only to my own profile without messing with my friends' profiles. All of us have our own preferences, but a lot of popular shows we watch obviously overlap, and I don't see what issue that could cause. We just use our own profiles and have had zero issues with treating those as our personal ones.
- Broken_Hippo 7y ago
  My family really was that hypothetical family. My parents overlapped on some shows, but could have highly different tastes. I'm 6 years older than my sister and 11 older than my brother. We had a little bit of overlap, but not a lot simply because of maturity differences. If you are looking at the same amount of money, streaming would have seemed better simply because of less actual crap, more convenience, and increased satisfaction. And no, we were not isolated at all. Public school and everything, though the city sizes changed. We were never that far from a somewhat bigger city, though.

hanniabu 7y ago

You're acting like you need to watch everything on each service

ehsankia 7y ago
The hidden point here is that with cable, you didn't really have the option but to get a 100$ package, and especially with the lack of on-demand, it made it much harder to watch all the shows you wanted. Here, you can pick and choose much better, and even if you have shows you want on every single service, you can very easily rotate with on-demand.