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we have prime but streaming is not the primary reason although its a nice bonus basically. Mainly because of my wife though. Left to myself I would likely drop it.
Why pay for 20 services offering 10 mid quality exclusives when I can pay for a VPN.
Spotify was the only service I had. Lost my job, cut back. Thought I'd be fine with some ads. Not like THAT I wasn't.
Thankfully I downloaded all my music first. Been too lazy to find a FOSS alternative to play it all.
I have Prime (for delivery savings) and still steal the shit they play. If I like it, I keep it. If not, I delete it. Backed up onsite and offsite. Fuck 'em. $100/yr. to Google gets me plenty of storage.
LOL, nothing new to me. I'm in an amazing, high-tech version of 1999. Fuck it. I'm stealing it. Again.
Don't forget the steady fracturing of media licenses across dozens of services, coupled with enhanced enshittification.
Everyone's focusing so much on exclusivity to draw people in while their service quality quickly jumps straight down the nearest manhole.
So many service raised their price and so many people cancelled their subscription in response, in summary: FAFO
I want to watch Stargate SG1. I hear people say it's on Prime Video, so I subscribe. It's not there. I guess being a filthy European makes me unworthy. So I bite the bullet and get a VPN. Now I'm paying what amounts to twice the price of the usual subscription. I start watching the series and guess what? It's leaving Prime in a few days. Motherf...
I recommend grabbing the full collection plus related movies elsewhere.
Could have just bought it on dvd, much less stress
Never better served than with Piracy™!
I have none of them left. Same reasons as everyone else, the value is not there and it's a subscription that ticks money even when I don't use it.
I wonder if 2+ years between seasons is also having an impact.
I pick up new shows way less than I did in the past because of this with the ones I do being more tied to whether it is a miniseries or source material I plan to read after the season ends to finish it out on my own.
Personally I think more time between releases is healthier for both the quality of the product and the now not perpetually consooming, consumer.
What really puts me off is that shows get canceled too often nowadays, even ones that do well because the service doesnt want to pay the cast better. So I tend to wait for shows to complete before I even consider them for my watchlist.
I haven't seen a quality improvement. Only a production improvement which had made the wait even worse when the long awaited seasons flop like The Boys and House of the Dragon.
It's reason I haven't bothered to get into shows like Severance despite good reviews, since I don't want to get hooked into yet another show that will take forever between seasons and not even be a guarantee to be worth the wait.
We are cancelling some services. The value isn’t there, and we need the money. /shrug
For me, the main issue is the quality of content.
I have access to several streaming services, although all of them I pay for as part of some bundle where the streaming service isn’t my main motivator for subscribing. Netflix is bundled with my cell phone plan, Prime I use for delivery, Apple TV+ which is bundled with Apple One I use for news, music, and HomeKit secure video, and lastly HBO Max that I get with my cable subscription. I also ended up with one year of Hulu for free, but I forget where that came from.
I’d have no concern giving all of them up because I pay for a Usenet account. Combined with Radarr and Plex I have access to anything I want to watch.
Despite all this content, scrolling through my activity in Plex I haven’t watched a single movie released in 2024 since May when I watched the Dune: Part Two.
I don’t think people are motivated to subscribe to a service where the subscription doesn’t get you much of anything new. You might as well go to Goodwill and pick up some used DVDs and Blue-rays.
Usenet for me as well and my 32.7 TB NAS.
You had me at Usenet 😎
I think what would save the streaming industry would be anti-exclusionary legislation. Prevent contracts where shows are exclusively produced for one streaming company. Then streaming platforms compete on cost, curation, and interface, not on exclusive content.
What would be smart is for them to develop a unified platform where they get a percentage of your subscription fee based on the media you watch.
I mean, shit on the music industry for all of their crappy practices, but 100% this. I pay for one music streaming service and have access to any music I want without having to think about which record label released which album. Why is it still illegal for studios to own movie theaters, but not streaming platforms?
Decouple the content creators from the content distributors.
I only have Netflix left and that is because my daughter loves her storybots. Once she has enough of them, it's going away.
I am in the same situation...
A trick I found to lower the costs a bit: since Netflix doesn't put ads in child programs (and I don't watch Netflix), I went to the ads sponsored version.
I could get a seedbox running the ARR suite and Plex for cheaper than 1 subscription service per month
Why the fuck would I pay THEM for their WORSE service?
If this is true, then somebody is already hurting.
Apparently price hikes did not hurt netflix though, so presumably peasants are cutting other merchants.
A small W but good to see that people denying these parasites profit.
If only more people would be more willing to sail the high seas to deny them all of the profit.
it's a service issue and some people still can't turn on a PC much less set up usenet.
There will always be a market for install app and gib card details plz.
It’s just cable with extra steps at this point. More effort, more costly. Not worth it.
I think it's cable with fewer steps, but of course not as convenient as it used to be.
I think its more reflective that the price of streaming services continues to rise, while the value proposition does not. So why subscribe to all services at one time? You can only watch one at a time.
This will only increase until there is sufficient backlash or, god forbid, Government oversight. These CEOs are getting hooked on the concept of being paid continuously for the same widget. Not only will these services get more predatory, but subscription models will continue to proliferate even into unlikely and surprising places.
That's my official end of year, forward looking, very lukewarm take for 2024.
Was it BMW that was trying to charge a subscription for seat warmers and automatic car starters that were built into the car already? They got serious push back and rolled back fast. Haven't followed in a while wouldn't be surprised if they were back to that model already.
Yep. BMW.
Wait till you see the subscription pricing on the turn signals; it’s no wonder their drivers never use them!
and on top of that inflation everywhere else is causing people to have less discretionary funds.
Next step is only annual contracts.
Next step is only annual contracts.
This would destroy their subscriber bases. Not even cable required an annual subscription and there were many more hoops to jump through to subscribe and cancel.
(Also, piracy is just so piss-easy for $5/mo)
Setup a Digital Ocean droplet in Amsterdam, years ago. LOL, not even sure how to login to it, because I don't have to touch it.
OpenVPN -> connect -> thepiratebay.org -> Tixati -> done
Yeah, I could be more secure, do it better, good enough for me to steal movies and books.
Stremio & torrentio are free. Not sure if it works on googleTV. It doesn't on roku
Referring to a VPN with my price, not private trackers. Sorry for the confusion.
normies are not redicalized enough but these media parasites working OT on pushing them to sail.
Exactly. I finally cancelled Netflix a few weeks ago. It's too expensive and there's very little I want to watch on there any more. The shitty way they were trying to push you into more expensive plans was just the shit icing on the turd pie.
I'm now looking at Disney+ and Prime Video because there's hardly anything on those too that I like.
Kids make it complicated for sure, but we managed to drop Disney. Honestly I’d prefer they were on screens less anyway.
I hate the UI of prime video with a passion. From time to time I look for something to watch on it but I have the impression they try to keep me from causing traffic. After some minutes I give up and wonder why I didn't cancel yet.
Yeah, they really broke it a video of years ago. It used to just show videos covered by the prime subscription. Then they started showing additional sub-services you could sign up. That was annoying but not too bad. But now they show you all sorts of stuff that doesn't come with prime. That really pisses me off - not least because my kids still have a hard time differentiating the 'free' stuff from the 'requires extra money' stuff.
This was always the plan
