• PlantJam@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    It’s still way more awesome than cable ever was. Sure you can have all the services all at once and pay as much as a cable bill, or you can rotate your subscriptions and pay way less.

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I’m not sure about that. Popular shows get canceled, unfinished. Huge price hikes, and you can’t jump to another provider to watch the shows at a new rate or call and threaten to cancel to get a new rate. Sure, there are a few good series, but it’s still mostly crap. Sure, you can watch some older movies on demand, but plenty aren’t available, are available on some other service, and/or require you to pay a rental fee if you can find it. Prices keep climbing, ads are constantly a threat, and they place more restrictions on how many devices you’re allowed to watch on.

      They are doing everything they can to re-insert the worst aspects of cable.

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I sure soon they will introduce contracts making sign up for 6 to 1 year up front to prevent just that.