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Steaming services have become the very thing they were supposed to replace. The only advantage they have is that you can drop in and out of subscriptions, altho
by dazc 3y ago
Steaming services have become the very thing they were supposed to replace. The only advantage they have is that you can drop in and out of subscriptions, although, I suspect, it won't be long before they move towards 12 month lock-ins.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoBeing able to watch wherever you want, on a wide variety of devices, whenever you want is a pretty big advantage too.
- autoexec 3y ago> Being able to watch wherever you want, on a wide variety of devices You mean watch "whatever they have" and only on devices that are on the same network and only when they decide to let you watch them. Good luck watching Westworld on HBO max whenever you want. There are even new shows I want to watch right now, but I'm waiting for the streaming service to finish releasing the season before I start them because they want me to watch their shows like people did in the 1960s. "Tune in next week for another exciting episode!" No thanks!
- lotsofpulp 3y agoSure, but the ability to open up my TV app, and chose to pay $10 per season to watch Westworld at the very moment I watch is there, which it was not in a world before streaming. Obviously, content owners will probably mess around restricting access to stuff, but the situation is much better than before.
- foogazi 3y ago> Good luck watching Westworld on HBO max whenever you want. Woah - it’s gone https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/23513277/westworld-hbo-where-to-stream-max-shows-removed https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/23513277/westworld-hbo-...
- autoexec 3y agoRaised by wolves too. Supposedly amazon has it for a price per-episode maybe? HBO said they were selling it to other streaming services for a limited time too for some reason.
- asynchronous 3y agoIncentivizing a lower rate for buying a year in advance will become the new contract I suspect
- Mathnerd314 3y agoWhat exactly were they supposed to replace? Cable? I always saw them billed as alternatives to piracy, and indeed piracy has become much less prominent now that there are streaming services fighting for content.
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- thatguy0900 3y agoI think piracy will go up now that everyone is fighting. My friends all subscribed to crunchy roll because it has all the anime, like old Netflix. But disney+ bought the rights to the new bleach series. None of my friends bought disney+, they just pirated bleach. I expect that to continue. If crunchy roll keeps loosing the good shows it will just be dropped and back to pirating everything, the result won't be everyone subscribed to 7 different services.
- Mathnerd314 3y agoWell, I've seen the suggestion that you rotate services. Sign up, watch all the good shows, cancel and subscribe to the next. But yeah, one pirate platform with all the content will win any day.
- thatguy0900 3y agoI think they're more looking at aggressively rotating available catalogue around so you can't just watch everything you want in one month