Cable is dead. Long live the cable bundle. Curious to see the pricing and if the bundle only includes ad tiered options.
I can’t wait for 10 years from now when this all comes full circle and we start getting commercials to “ditch your streaming bundle for whatever new service.”
Hopefully you’re working on “AdamEatsAss+” although seems like you might just have some niche content if you ever make that happen.
AdamEatsAss Pro and Pro+ are only $5 and $6 a month more for over double the content.
But act now and get AdamEatsAss Basic with 5 min unskippable ads for only $4.25
I’m hoping to be fully self-hosted by then.
Really you pay for convenience and legallity. Not everyone knows how to or feels comfortable pirating. With a service you know you aren’t breaking any laws and you’re not worried about quality, storage, captions, and sketchy files.
You’re definitely paying for legality and safety, but when you have to search through five different streaming apps to find that the movie you’re looking for can only be rented via yet another service, the convenience becomes debatable.
Apple and others have tried to fix the discovery issue. And some of the platforms tell them to fuck off. Such as Netflix. And formerly Amazon.
If you’re not aware, AppleTV will list things across many streaming services and take you right to the shows/movies in the respective apps. As long as a platform is participating. So you just browse/search in a central place.
Apple and Amazon worked out their differences a few years ago and their stuff is now part of the index.
I wonder if this bundle will change that. Currently, Netflix does not integrate with these sort of features.
Comcast used to have great voice search across pretty much every streaming service. I believe they were forced to stop.
At least I know the streaming service videos will always be in English.
As someone outside the us: I wish
Amazon had (maybe still has, no idea) the habit of having some movies and shows only available in your local language
Use JustWatch.com or their app.
It doesn’t solve the multiple services issue, but it at least helps you find what you’re looking for.
Why use JustWatch.com when you can follow this guide to know where to watch King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
That guide is a perfect representation of the current situation. Well done.
It’s funny how hard it is for providers to get this concept. I feel we’re about to enter the cycle where we see an uptick in mainstream piracy because the price is starting to outweigh the convenience and legality.
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I am interested and have never heard these “hi sees”, could you tell me more, kind stranger?
Stremio + Torrentio has changed my life recently!
Tons of tutorials online and it’s dead simple to set up. Takes ~ 5 mins
I have some family members that have HBO and Hulu that I borrow logins for, but I never visit the apps directly anymore, it’s just not worth it when you can get all the content all in one place with no hoops to jump through
It’s gonna take a miracle to pull me back off the high seas again. Netflix was big enough to do it all those years ago, but I can’t even imagine what could do it now.
The only thing that MIGHT take me off piracy is the ability to do legally and for reasonable cost what I do with piracy. If I buy something, I download and store it wherever and it’s mine forever. I have no problem paying for my content, once. The problem is that we’re being driven towards paying for our content over and over. Just like we’re being asked to pay for our everything else over and over.
we know it’ll never happen, but if they…
- have content from most studios available indefinitely in one place - or even better, a federated platform - at no additional cost.
- drop all this drm stupidity and allow the best quality streams on any general computing device.
only then, in my view, it’d equal the convenience I have today and I wouldn’t mind paying a reasonable amount for that.
I have my doubts it will be cheaper. It’s Comcast.
I don’t think you understand how pricing works. Someone like Disney demands a high carriage fee agreement and mandates that ESPN must be in the basic cable package for all comcast subscribers, otherwise comcast doesn’t get any Disney owned TV. As a result Comcast has to charge basically 10 bucks a month to all subscribers to have ESPN, not counting the general cost breakout for other disney owned channels. Sure, comcast leases STB’s for X dollars and gets a cut of the subscription fees as well, but the point is the people that make the TV programming are the same. So it’s not magically going to make the cost of TV significantly cheaper by cutting out comcast. Comcast is the person that collects the bills, but Disney, ViacomCBS, etc, are very much involved of setting up the prices consumers pay on cable and streaming.
Edit: Also add in the risk and churn factor. With cable bundling, TV programmers had scale and predictability on their side. Basically all cable subscribers had long term subscriptions and could guarantee a high volume of subscribers to collect from. With DTC (Direct to Consumer) streaming apps, consumers can churn and temporarily subscribe for monthly intervals. That means you have less subscribers at any one time on your app and for shorter durations. Guess what that does to the revenue. So if you no longer have the economics of scale in terms of long term subscription length and volume of subscribers, the cost for individual subscribers will probably have to keep creeping up and get possibly more expensive than cable.
I don’t think you understand how greed works.
Yeah Telus in Canada has been doing this recently as well. We’re just back to cable packages except now you have like 4 different apps to worry about.
My solution is to just watch less in general.
Not like there’s a ton of new stuff worth watching at any given time anyway.
That was one of the main factors in my cutting the cord in the first place.
Cable channels inundated with garbage meant it was time to go outside or play video gamez
Try happymaxxing and go play video games outside. We have the technology.
And logins and outages to keep track of.
Boomers still boom in though. My dad has a smart TV and easy access to a whole bunch of streaming services but chooses to pay telus and watch on his cable box mostly because all he knows is his cable remote control. And those steaming “channels” are just like, channel 473. Anything else is too complicated. Enter your password? No way.
Just in time for me to get fiber installed tomorrow and ditch Comcast for good…
“StreamSaver” is such a junky name for it.
It’ll start with no adds then they’ll slowly introduce them cause “it’s unsustainable” when it’s really “we want all the moneys” not just some
