Yeah, cable was and is really awful. The amount of ads makes it literally unwatchable. And the shitty thing is that when cable TV was first introduced, the whole idea was that there wouldn't be ads like broadcast because you were paying for it. And then they moved the goalposts. Something that Hulu in particular was very guilty of. In the beginning, only the free-tier had ads. And there was one paid tier with no ads. Then that started showing ads, and they created a higher paid tier with no ads.

To me, one of the best things about streaming was timeshifting. You didn't have to wait for Sunday at 9:00pm to watch a show, and maybe miss it, or have to DVR it, and maybe the recording didn't work. Or whatever. You didn't have to schedule your time around TV. You could watch what you wanted, when you wanted. And now that's gone too, with weekly releases of shows, or half a season now, and the other half a month later, and so on. They're bringing back scheduled TV and it's fucking bullshit.

Another promise was that we'd be able to basically have access to every tv show or film, and that evaporated very quickly when all the studios decided they wanted to gatekeep everything so they could charge even more for it, and then now we have them disappearing so many things that have been out there just because they don't want to pay royalties to anyone involved.

So much culture is being lost because of greedy fucking execs who want to use the things you enjoy as an extortion tool. Going back to cable isn't the answer. It's a failed model and needs to die. But we need a massive overhaul of the streaming scene to figure this out. Because right now, it's so much worse that what came before.

In the end the people who ran the hegemony of cable TV just got their hands on the TV streaming services and turned it into the hegemony of TV streaming service.

Nothing have changed the goals people at the top had - they just needed time to adapt

The reality is that with inflating costs of necessities like food, house, and transport, more people will choose to opt out of streaming services when they jack the prices. Folks will either find alternate forms of content, or find ways of getting the content cheaper (Arrr!!)

We now just wait to see if the increased price is enough to make up for the subscribers they'll lose.

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Do what i did and stop watching TV completely. I have watched about 10 hours worth of TV in the past 12 years.

One option, if your use case supports it, is to hop around the streaming services. We generally subscribe to one or zero for a month at a time.

It all comes down to greed and enshitification in the end.

It's very frustrating to feel like I'm back to where were were before the streaming revolution: paying HUGE amounts of money to get TONS of content I'm mostly not interested in.

The only saving grace is that I can get it all without ads still, so I'll take that win.

In the article, they talk about the bundling of services as a bad thing, but I feel like if I'm going to pay for everything anyways, I'll happily take that huge discount, TYVM.

For my household, the price will always be lower than local cable and there is always something to watch! For free live tv, we use a HDhomerun and tv antenna.

a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn’t want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in.

I uh...have ya'll used streaming services? Cus this has always been how streaming services worked too.

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It's ok I cancelled my subscription anyway 🤷‍♂️ along with Spotify

All of these streamers wanted to be the next Netflix when they should have been the next HBO Max.