The email arrived late last year, a harbinger of a new era. Disney+ was jacking up their annual plan to a whopping $140. It wasn't an isolated incident. Netflix announced their cheapest tier would now come bundled with ads, Amazon Prime would be $3, TV went from $66.99 to $999 a month there are so many great things to watch and they're all spread across so many different Services. I want to watch them all but man does it hurt to Fork up so much money every month to do it it kind of makes you won
    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Yeah, but they still were below what the market would bear price wise. Until the very last price increases, if you counted up all of the biggest service fees, it was still lower than the average cable bill like almost a decade before.

  • kakes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    51·
    7 months ago

    I switched away from piracy to streaming because they offered a legitimately good value proposition that benefited both the consumer and the producer.

    Currently switching back to piracy because these greedy fucks just don’t know when to stop.

  • kinther@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 months ago

    I can’t afford all these streaming services. I’m basically back to one at a time, churning through them until I run out of things to watch.

    • kakes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      7 months ago

      I absolutely can afford them, but I’m canceling them purely on principle at this point.

      My final straw was watching Fallout, when Amazon said “this program is ad-free thanks to this sponsor” and then not only showed an ad, but didn’t even acknowledge that it was me paying them for the service, like I should be grateful to some stupid company for shoving their advertising in my face when I’m the one giving them my hard-earned money.

    • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      7 months ago

      For me it’s: remember the last user on this device!

      If I open Hulu and I have ONE account, why are you making me select the ONE account? I have to select it every time. They should know.

      if(accounts.length === 1) {
    setAccount(accounts[0]);
}

      There. I fixed it. Give me a job.

    • PlantJam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      Peacock disabled auto play previews for a while and it was great. But that was only because the whole screen would go black for a couple seconds as it tried to load the preview. They fixed that issue and now the previews are back. Mute button is doing a lot of great work these days.

  • UckyBon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    7 months ago

    Paying is for people who don’t know how to download.

    Most content on those services isn’t even worth your time.

  • AutistoMephisto@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    I’m still waiting for this shit to come full circle back to how it was with Cable, where someone links the various streaming services together in one convenient app and they tell you you can switch and save!

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    7 months ago

    Stremio/Kodi + a debrid service or your HDDs carefully crafted with content though Arr services and with Plex/Jellyfin, or both.

    That setup will be infinitely better than any streaming service.

    • Murdoc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      I’m trying to get stremio working, but it just gives me an error on startup and their support won’t get back to me about it.

      • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        What is your setup? It works perfectly fine for me with Android mobile, Android TV (Shield TV Pro) and macOS.