3 Months means I probably qualify, but I don’t want the ad-tier version. I usually get it 2-3 months out of the year, even at $12 full price for 3 months is only $36 vs getting a year at $48.
LockerK
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On the music side of things, Tidal is offering four months for $1/$2 depending on the tier. I’ve heard good things if you’re looking for a lossless streaming service.
Silent
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Just finished watching season 1 of “Why Women Kill” on CBS All Access. Wasn’t expecting much going in, but thought I would give it a try, and I was pleasantly surprised. The series follows 3 couples in different time periods, 1960s, 1980s, and 2019 that all lived in the same house. It’s comedic, and dark, and the transitions from era to era are well done.
I have a show suggestion for @ArmandoPenblade, since he has been watching some excellent animated shows recently. Hilda is coming back for season 2 on Netflix. I’m not sure if you have watched it when it came out in 2018, but I recommend it strongly, if only for its world building.
You’re the third or fourth person to recommend it, so it’s absolutely in my queue. I keep trying to push myself through Trollhunters on Netflix, but ugh, it’s rough going early on. May give up and switch over to Hilda or Kipo soon.
Well, you know at least 3 other people with excellent taste.
Soon there will be a streaming service for every channel, $5 - $10 a month for each. Then maybe someone could come along and provide some sort of bundle of streaming services. Like all the streaming services are sharing a cab. They could call it something like “cab-el.”
Be serious. It would be “cab-el+”
Love how ten years ago, it would have been called “iDiscovery”, but now we’re all plus-hungry!
An affordable bundle of streaming services would be way better than cable. Sounds like a win.
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Especially a bundle you can completely customize. If cable companies stopped jamming people with channels they didn’t want and allowed people to build their own bundles they might not be losing so many customers.
But of course the deals they make mean they can’t be profitable that way.
They’d love to be able to carry ESPN and drop a lot of the other Disney fluff Disney makes them buy. They have to buy a bundle just like they turn around and offer a bundle. Their hands are somewhat tied.
It’s ironic that we’re building towards streaming bills that are every bit as expensive as cable bundles.
Yup. Sorry folks, it’s not going to be “like cable but cheaper and more customizable!” It’s just going to be "like cable. " The current telecom local monopolies aren’t going to let anything get better.
Yes and No.
The nice thing about the current system is that it is open to more competition though. You’ll have more niche services that I think most of us won’t realize exist out there, and they’ll be able to compete a bit easier, because they will be able to reach an audience all across the US (or the world, but with how broadcast agreements are right now, I’ll limit it to the US).
Of course, that same competition might also strange a few providers as well.
Even if everything else were the same, streaming would still be better than cable because it’s on-demand.
I remember back in 1991 went I went to college in the U.S., there was one week when there was a guy parked in the floor lounge in front of the TV watching Shark Week on Discovery. And as far as I know, that’s still the only thing the Discovery Channel still has from that era. Back in the early 2000s when I still had cable, I remember they had switched mostly to showing reality shows that I wasn’t interested in. But they still had Shark Week.
So now, you can subscribe to Disney+ one month out of the year if you’re a fan of Shark Week, and any week can be Shark Week. Isn’t that way better than actually waiting for Shark Week?
I wonder if that guy who would never let us change the channel back in '91 is still alive, and still a fan of Shark Week?
I have Spectrum’s streaming service along with their Internet. I get local channels and pick 10 non-premium cable channels I want. Of course the price is almost as expensive as the full boat cable subscription, but it is a form of progress.
Most of the time I’m not very good at bingeing. I still have two episodes of Cobra Kai to watch and it’s been a couple of months since I last watched it. So grabbing a sub for a month and watching a couple of series probably would end up being grabbing it for three months.
Really, with Netflix and Prime I have more than enough to watch. Pluto has a lot of content too. And we pull in the local channels with a digital antenna and that works well too. The local station that airs the CW stuff has a western channel and a SF channel that’s actually SF all the time.
It seems the fight is all about third or fourth place.
Netflix is #1 for a reason, and as long as they’re dumping billions annually into new content, no one is dethroning them.
Amazon is #2, simply because the demographic they’re going after all have Prime for shipping anyways.
It seems everyone after that is sorta optional.
