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Oh for sure we're in a worse situation. Even the aggregation of content from multiple vendors into a single menu....we don't have that anymore. It's such a pain
by mixdup 3y ago
Oh for sure we're in a worse situation. Even the aggregation of content from multiple vendors into a single menu....we don't have that anymore. It's such a pain to try to find what you want to watch across a half dozen apps
- add-sub-mul-div 3y agoYeah exactly. I don't want a bunch of different apps/accounts/bills. Cable was a convenience that many people didn't realize. Of course content costs as much to make as it does and needs to profit a certain amount. There was never any inefficiency that was going to go away and long term pass on benefits to customers. Now we have the extra inefficiency of every media company building out its own infrastructure.
- mixdup 3y agoWell, each media company building out a streaming infrastructure in theory should be pretty efficient--it is going to take the same amount of compute and bandwidth from AWS if a hundred million streams are served from one company or six. You do have the overhead of a dev team at each media company, but then we're taking out the theoretical middleman who was taking his cut in the cable company Although, the cable company is there taking a cut in the form of a broadband bill