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I don’t understand the appeal of bundling for non-sports content. With video on demand, most people just binge watch stuff, and most streaming services have mo

by hedora 3y ago

I don’t understand the appeal of bundling for non-sports content. With video on demand, most people just binge watch stuff, and most streaming services have more than one thing a given subscriber would like to watch. So, if the price of the bundle is significantly greater than the price of one streaming service, why not just hop from one streaming service to another, one at a time? Even during peak cable, the number one request from customers was to unbundle channels. I guess they could establish consolidated monopolies that only offer expensive bundles, but BitTorrent still exists, and sufficiently expensive bundles of large amounts of unwanted content will just push people back to piracy.

tyre 3y ago
> So, if the price of the bundle is significantly greater than the price of one streaming service, why not just hop from one streaming service to another, one at a time? Because content is time-sensitive in the world. Watching Game of Thrones 4 weeks later is considerably worse when you miss out on the experience with friends and family. And there’s the high probability of spoilers online.
nonameiguess 3y ago
Mostly because this is a hell of a hassle to save $70 a month that becomes not worth it once you're older than 25, married with a kid or two, and you're spending that much money on food every 3 days anyway. If you're really that cost-conscious, you can only buy used cars and live in cheaper neighborhoods and save more money all at once than you'd save by cutting streaming subscriptions in 20 lifetimes. At some point, sanity and convenience become preferable to spending hours every weekend digging through the newspaper to cut coupons.
- phone8675309 3y ago
  The Midwesterner in me really wants to argue that cutting coupons still makes sense, but I can understand if you've got a lot going on that might not be the case.

by hedora 3y ago

tyre 3y ago

> So, if the price of the bundle is significantly greater than the price of one streaming service, why not just hop from one streaming service to another, one at a time? Because content is time-sensitive in the world. Watching Game of Thrones 4 weeks later is considerably worse when you miss out on the experience with friends and family. And there’s the high probability of spoilers online.

nonameiguess 3y ago

Mostly because this is a hell of a hassle to save $70 a month that becomes not worth it once you're older than 25, married with a kid or two, and you're spending that much money on food every 3 days anyway. If you're really that cost-conscious, you can only buy used cars and live in cheaper neighborhoods and save more money all at once than you'd save by cutting streaming subscriptions in 20 lifetimes. At some point, sanity and convenience become preferable to spending hours every weekend digging through the newspaper to cut coupons.

phone8675309 3y ago
The Midwesterner in me really wants to argue that cutting coupons still makes sense, but I can understand if you've got a lot going on that might not be the case.