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> People are going to get fed up if they've got to pay for dozens of streaming services to get all the shows that they wa I agree. You start paying $70 for int

> People are going to get fed up if they've got to pay for dozens of streaming services to get all the shows that they wa I agree. You start paying $70 for internet, $15 to Netflix, $15 to Disney, $10 to Hulu and really you're back to where you were with cable. I think having a couple offerings in the universe is great for competition reasons, but I will not spend the equivalent of a cable bill to get most of what I want to watch from mutually exclusive services. I'm not saying I'll pirate the shows I can't get, but it certainly makes a good case for that.

shard972 7y ago
The difference is now you have a lot more content being developed which is now opening up spaces for voices that haven't been typically heard in mainstream hollywood. Complaining about a few $ here and there seems a bit greedy.
hkmurakami 7y ago
At least it’s video on demand now. I still can’t even watch time delayed sporting events on xfinity’s atreaming thing.
rgoulter 7y ago
If there are only a couple of different offerings, it makes sense to think "I'm going to subscribe to 1-3 of these every month". I think with a more fragmented streaming services, it's easier to get into the mindset of "Which shows do I want to watch? I want to watch these shows in 2-3 months by subscribing to these". PITA compared to having one or two streaming services which have almost everything; but, cheaper than "subscribe just in case there's something to watch". I don't mind watching shows way after they release, though.
rubber_duck 7y ago
If you are interested in one or two shows from a service - subscribe for a month (or we) and unsubscribe when done.
jrockway 7y ago
I think we are close to seeing the "true cost" for TV show production and distribution. I have a feeling that before the Internet, advertisers couldn't measure the return on their investment, and so were paying too much for TV ads, making TV cheap for the end user. In addition, people were forced to buy channels they didn't watch, subsidizing them for people that did. Now we are close to paying the true cost. I think that's better for the companies involved and for the consumer; the only incentive is to produce TV that they want to watch. You don't like it, you stop paying them, they go out of business. That is the most fair of all business models.

shard972 7y ago

The difference is now you have a lot more content being developed which is now opening up spaces for voices that haven't been typically heard in mainstream hollywood. Complaining about a few $ here and there seems a bit greedy.

hkmurakami 7y ago

At least it’s video on demand now. I still can’t even watch time delayed sporting events on xfinity’s atreaming thing.

rgoulter 7y ago

If there are only a couple of different offerings, it makes sense to think "I'm going to subscribe to 1-3 of these every month". I think with a more fragmented streaming services, it's easier to get into the mindset of "Which shows do I want to watch? I want to watch these shows in 2-3 months by subscribing to these". PITA compared to having one or two streaming services which have almost everything; but, cheaper than "subscribe just in case there's something to watch". I don't mind watching shows way after they release, though.

rubber_duck 7y ago

If you are interested in one or two shows from a service - subscribe for a month (or we) and unsubscribe when done.

jrockway 7y ago

I think we are close to seeing the "true cost" for TV show production and distribution. I have a feeling that before the Internet, advertisers couldn't measure the return on their investment, and so were paying too much for TV ads, making TV cheap for the end user. In addition, people were forced to buy channels they didn't watch, subsidizing them for people that did. Now we are close to paying the true cost. I think that's better for the companies involved and for the consumer; the only incentive is to produce TV that they want to watch. You don't like it, you stop paying them, they go out of business. That is the most fair of all business models.