‘Member when streaming services were a way to watch your favorite shows, ad-free at a much cheaper cost than cable?
‘Member when none of the corps gave a shit about password sharing?
I ‘member.
Member when streaming services were a way to watch your favorite shows, ad-free at a much cheaper cost than cable?
I wonder how much longer cell phone companies are going to bundle these things without having to pass on the cost. I only use Netflix because it comes with my T-Mobile plan which is already heavily discounted.
partnerships are an admission of weakness, those freebie bundles will stay until cable is dead dead.
Anarchist Spurdo is correct however, those bread sticks are factored into the price. Wop Spurdo is a liar
I pay less per line than any prepaid plan without a streaming bundle sells for.
but you do pay
If he's saving money on his phone bill technically they're using it to pay him.
the streaming service pays the phone company to bundle them together cause the streaming services know 99% of the people are too lazy to cancel the sub once the free deal runs out. It doesn't cost the phone companies a dime
There's no free trial though. Netflix just comes free with T-Mobile permanently, surely T-mobile has to pay for that?
piracy is the great equalizer
i've been pirating since i was a teenager, i'm 33 years old
i will never use streaming services
literally me down to the age
33yo pirate since a teenager reporting in
>t.
>t.
Incredibly based
I'm so foreign to streaming service when they talk about password sharing I don't know what that means
It means you could pay $15 for Netflix and have six people use it at different locations. I shared a password with several of my friends so I'd pay it once every 6 months. For that price it even had pirating beat.
I stream music. I'm happy to pay for it because the music I listen to is made by people who care about their work.
Paying for films and TV is a chump's game. Low quality garbage pumped out by soulless corporations.
>I'm happy to pay for it because the music I listen to is made by people who care about their work.
>Implying any of those artists make more than about tree fiddy a year off of Spotify streaming royalties
never paid taxes for 2 decades
never stopped pirating since the late 00s
never paid for streaming or online service (music or video)
Went from pirating to doing rip releases and fansubbing so a new generation could carry on doing it.
Remember to pay it forward, anons. Teach a zoomtard to stream today.
same but I'm 26
I'm 31. Frick you israelite!
>everybody two years older than you is israeli
Enthralling
>30 y/o neet from 3rd world shithole
>pirating music in flac from rutracker
>pirating movies in full hd rom rutracker
>pirating games from rutracker
>pirating soft from rutracker
>pirating anime from rutracker
>pirating series from rutracker
I have no issue with purchasing physical media but I don't understand why anyone would pay for a service that constantly changes their content. What if you want to watch some kino then you find out that Netflix has removed it and replaced it with something else? You're paying to be told what to watch.
Been priating since the mid 90's.
And so they should.
You idiots will be happy to pay.
Mate, it's not even worth pirating. You're still a clown for watching it.
This man is a man of honor, courage, and the upmost integrity. He pirates not because he wants to be a criminal, but because he wants to belong to the greater intelligentsia of his nation's culture and world culture. This man is no different than the renaissance adventurers of bygone eras. He is a man of culture, and he must be respected for doing what most will not. He seeks knowledge. He seeks belonging. He is not a criminal. He is a lover of art and media. Witness him.
I've been pirating since fricking 1998 and I will NOT STOP
Looking forward to the obvious impending streaming collapse.
See
Just cancel your subscription. It's literally that simple. Have you noticed that every day there's a new article about some service raising their prices? Do you know why? Because they can, and people will still pay it. It will never stop until you weak willed npcs have the guts to say "no" and stop paying. These are basic market principles
I don’t hold any subscriptions to streaming services. I haven’t since the early 2010s when streaming was fairly new and not out to frick me in the ass with ads while still taking my money.
You’re wrong.
They raise prices and give away subscriptions. Then the investors go giga-brain mode and multiply total subscriptions by the advertised maximum price of subscriptions and actually think the company is making billions a month
>Pirating for over 20 years
>Probably saved tens of thousands of dollars at this point
>Probably saved tens of thousands of dollars at this point
imagine if you were living life instead.
>imagine if you were living life instead.
that's a you problem.
living life as you care to argue is promoting these hack businesses ?
why dont you go back to Cinemaphile
Pirating thousands of dollars of media and living life are not mutually exclusive. In fact, I could argue that I lived more life than you because the money you spent in media I spent it in living life.
Thanks for funding my entertainment btw.
>remember when
Streaming costs more than cable. Cloud costs more than self-hosted. Uber costs more than taxis.
>Uber costs more than taxis.
Not where I live.
>Uber costs more than taxis.
I agree with your other examples, but I'm okay with this one. For me, and I would imagine for other people as well, you willingly pay a little more for an Uber because they are nicer, better, and cleaner than your average taxi. I always thought that's why Uber got popular in the first place - they were preferable to riding in some gross, broken down taxi
The real killer feature of Uber at first was not having to fumble around with cash if you were getting a ride home from drinking. Taxis didn't take credit cards until Uber essentially forced them to do so to remain somewhat competitive. Uber's still better because the alternative to getting a ride not on a busy street is to call some boat Black person dispatcher who doesn't understand English, who maybe tells a cabbie to pick you up and then they just choose not to.
I guess it depends on the country. Where I live, Uber is three times cheaper. Taxis are a fricking mafia, not even an exaggeration.
Loss leaders, innit. Start cheap to get you hooked, survive with VC money, then milk the addicts who are too comfy to leave.
airbnb costs more than hotels
uber costs less than taxis in some areas. with taxis you at least have somewhat of a choice with your driver, uber will ocassionally match you with some haji or pajeet who has no business driving and doesn't even know right on red is a thing
most taxi drivers have been doing their job for a while and contrary to what the tards on this site believe, they're vetted
All the taxi drivers where I live are disgruntled Bosnians and Bulgarians
i'm in the US. the only time i really take taxis are if i'm coming home from the airport / a casino, there's one nearby (which is rare in most cities now) or i'm in vegas or NY
i returned home from the airport and there was a massive crowd of people by the rideshare pickup, but there were plenty of open taxis. it was about 7 dollars more for the taxi (not including tip, i tip usually). some north african looking lady was driving. she drove well and knew exactly where to go
uber drivers are sometimes dogshit at driving or drive frustratingly slow - but on the upside, sometimes your uber driver is cool
I live in the US too lol, I don't understand how so many Balkan refugees ended up in the Midwest but they all drive taxis or ubers. Where I am the taxis can be significantly cheaper, though, since we have a lot of annual festivals and large events that leads to Uber being on surge pricing for half the year. I take many taxis because driving drunk is no bueno
We had a Bosnian refugee named Nerman back when I was in middle/highschool. Called him Nerman the German, and his sister was hot as frick.
>they're vetted
In NYC they are not. There is no vetting system. Rich israelites buy the medallions and hire whoever they want
Netflix is still cheaper than cable, plus more flexible.
Cloud hosting has always been more expensive except when they were literally begging you to use their service.
Uber coats is about identical to taxis where I live. use whatever is easiest.
>paying for "screens"
you are a good goy
>providers chase a content model that aligns with consumer tastes
>first movers hope to gobble up market share and figure the rest out later
>startups and legacy media competitors all take notice and predictably get involved
>winners, losers, consolidation
>fears of no real economic moat are confirmed
>It's not actually a more efficient model, and it ultimately will have to right-size to eliminate the breadth of content available, but it does present some steps forward in consumer choice
what a fun but unshocking ride.
>it does present some steps forward in consumer choice
and in some ways it takes away more choice and public good. normies hated subsidizing ESPN in the forced bundle but somehow think subsidizing pozzed politically correct content for the rest of time is better. At least with cable the culture was not permanent, trends could be updated every minute. MTV took 1 week to change the culture.
>normies hated subsidizing ESPN in the forced bundle but somehow think subsidizing pozzed politically correct content for the rest of time is better.
tard take. you subsidize ESPN regardless of whether you consume it. If you don't like the programming on Netflix, consumer media on another platform. No subsidy
The second it became more than Netflix for older movies and shows and Hulu for currently running program the collapse became inevitable. Both of those services covered their particular niches well, with Netflix entirely replacing the video/DVD rental model as we knew it and Hulu giving currently running TV to people without cable/who wanted to watch it on the go. $5, $10, or even $15 a month was never going to be enough to sustain original programming for networks that already had costs for their broadcast/cable series.
Hulu used to be free with ads, because there was no such thing as an "original."
Originals is what caused the downfall. They wanted that big Hollywood money that studios bring in with their movies and shows. They took the term greedy israelite quite literally in their choices. Could have coasted on with streaming deals for free passive income, but millions a year is not enough for those morons. Instead they make bad financial decisions and invite competition which results in studios offering their own service, cutting out their profits.
No. Other studios started pulling their content so could put it on their own steaming services. Most watched shows on Netflix was Friends and The Office. They lost both. They would’ve had ridiculous amount to keep to them. Shot, They paid 100 million for Seinfeld which has been off the air for 30 years
Originals are definitely a part of why every streaming service is bleeding money. spending 200+ million on a 6 episode series is moronic. at 15 bucks a sub you need 14 million new accounts to sign up just to make the money back on 1 series and they are putting out new series that cost that much every fricking month. There is no way it can be sustainable
Didn't they JUST do this already and get record profits this year? They're gonna burst their own bubble soon.
>company "forced" to raise prices while posting record profits
Many such cases. It's never enough
it's to scare away new market entrants. I have a streaming service I am about to launch at $10 per month with more content than netflix but now less people are willing to pay it because netflix is the devil they know and taking up all their entertainment budget.
what slop are you serving up
all the slop that's fit to slurp. it kind of just bundles all the independent sloppa apps out their from each country but enhances the picture on-the-fly with bleeding edge a.i. (subs/dubs, black/white to color, aspect extended, etc)
you should be shot for your crimes against cinema
user can choose either version, don't shoot the gun manufacturer.
they haven't exactly been a cash flow generator to date, so "record" profits doesn't really mean much. The fact is, they are experiencing rapidly slowing growth and they had to layoff a ton of people as the realized that they were suddenly in a mature industry with obligations to spend massive sums on content to stay relevant.
pic related
profits != income != cash flow != cash in hand. all important metrics to the WS psychopaths. I work for a startup but we are privately owned (few private investors with frick you money) and you have no idea how liberating it is to work without WS telling you to shove ads up everyone's asses.
Wait, you Black folk actually pay for streaming services?
Still think supporting the writers is cool Cinemaphile? Just kidding, I know it wasnt organic in the least. What was the worse job for saggots? Picketing or posting on Cinemaphile?
t. Paramount executive shill
In what way? Saggots winning means more woke shit and higher prices. Corpos are just going to chase money they dont give a frick about the content. Its time for new writers to replace the israelite writers. It would bust the nepotism of hollywood, give us better quality content and would be cheeper, why are you against that?
>actors tell the showrunners what's approved and what isn't for broadcast
Oh my sweet summer child
when did i ever say whats the s in sag stand for?
>heh, I was actually using a DIFFERENT acronym, SAG doesn't mean the actor's guild at all!
>no I will not tell you what I meant
Pretending to be moronic is still being moronic.
Kek fricking zoomers. Cable was the exact same without being on demand. No commercials and cheaper. Then once they sign people up, the ads come and the prices go up.
>was the exact same aside from being fundamentally different
>zoomers
That must make you a Gen Alphalet, by the time Netflix hit its stride almost every cable company had on-demand and mobile options already.
If you aren't buying blurays and dvds now you better get to it before streaming officially goes upside down and the demand for physical media goes up with supply lagging behind. $50 movies isn't fun, then piracy will have to be your only option.
>buy Blu-Rays
I bought the entire series of True Detective last week for less than what a month of ad-free HBO Max costs lol
>physical media ever making a return
LOL
Looks like we found the homie who owns the last blockbuster
Vinyl record sales have been increasing every year for the past 17 years, anon.
as decoration
My Herb Alpert record playing in the background right now begs to differ
You'll be one of the normalgays complaining about $50 blurays cause you lacked the foresight to buy them at $8 a few years prior.
It's not just that. Americans, zoomers, whatever, are all just really poor with foresight and money. This moron likes a movie and wants to watch it anytime he wants. Instead of purchasing it once at $10, he is willing to pay at least $20+ monthly, in perpetuity, for the rest of gis life. These are the same people who complain about not being able to afford modern living. They wouldn't even listen to their King Obama when he told them that they don't necessarily need the brand new $1000 iPhone every year. These people WANT to be poor, I'm convinced of it.
media ever making a return
>paying a monthly subscription for decades old movies and shows
A fool and his money... quick to part.
>spends $2000 on a bunch of gay dvds that take up half a room when it could have been completely free
Maybe if you moved out of your parents closet a shelf wouldn't take up half of your living space.
>his internet goes down and he has nothing
>mine goes down and I have enough movies to watch until the sun burns out
moron.
>his internet goes down
mine doesn't
>spills water
>gorillions of movies lost forever
'Member when people on the internet used to know how to torrent, and you would be laughed out of any message board where you admitted to willingly giving your money to Hollywood?
>streaming services
I remember when netflix sent 2 actual dvds to your house for like a dollar a month and let you keep them for as long as you like when Blockbusters was charging you 5 bucks and you only got to keep it for a week.
>Netflix DVD
A genuine shame they shut this down, they easily had the biggest catalog out of any monthly service because they didn't have to worry about rights expiring on physical copies.
I remember when Netflix just started their streaming platform and being disappointed even then that I couldn't find any movies I wanted to watch, but could physically rent them from Netflix.
and people have the hide to say consumer choices have improved by streaming, they literally dwindled for existing content and they refuse to sell new content individually now. streaming is worse cable because of time limits without considering quality of content. all user power has been lost.
There's another aspect to this as well. You're not just paying for the streaming service itself, but you also have to pay for the internet to be able to watch it. I feel like the scam should be pretty obvious here, and anybody who is not a drooling moron would prefer physical media over digital.
Look, if Netflix is around $20 (with bi-yearly price hikes). And you're paying monthly, for 50+ years, you're spending at the very least $12,000 just to watch that one or two movies that you could've purchased for $10. I think most people just don't understand how money works. And keep in mind, these tend to be the kind of people who think the government should give every a monthly check for doing jack shit.
>people wouldn't pay for internet access if it weren't for streaming
let's not get stupid here
Do normies even need home internet? They just do everything on their fricking phones anyway.
Online gaming is the most profitable form of media that exists today.
With the connections I'm getting with people I swear they're using their phone as a hotspot
my friend does that, it's okay if we're not playing anything competitive, but he's still stuck on 4g and it takes him ages to download anything
Probably just Aussies using VPNs to get into your servera
Even if that was correct, they're still paying for their phone plan to do everything. Is that a scam since you can use that to stream?
That's not what I said. You do need that internet connection to view your streaming slop though. This would be like if you paid for your TV every month, for the rest of your life. And now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure that there are millions of people who only use internet to stream slop into their living rooms.
You're a homosexual moron. It's more like paying for electricity which you would use anyways whether you had a tv or not.
This, the fact that streaming numbers aren't released for any series means they can just push whatever bullshit their nephew wrote on his phone in the bathroom in perpetuity if they want. Nielsen ratings informed advertisers and kept networks in check with the quality of programming.
Holy shit you moronic Black folk just use stremio or something have a nice day
Stremio is all I use now. Everything else is a mene
>smoke screen using the strike for the hike
Kek
my digital library is increasing in size. they lost me long ago when they started churning out shit
>Member when streaming services were a way to watch your favorite shows, ad-free at a much cheaper cost than cable?
They still are unless you're moronic. Sorry about you anon.
>ad free
>too stupid to use ad blockers
Haven't seen an ad in years unless it's edited into the video itself. Try not being a dumbass.
>what is streaming from your phone or directly on Roku tv
normal consumers aren’t streaming on computers moron
It still is cheaper.
Just don't subscribe to 10 different services at once.
residuals
Maybe instead of passing on the cost to everyone they should make non-shit shows and get more subscribers, ducking Nigerians
Last week when I posted studios caving in to writers this would happen. Idiots never realize that companies don’t take losses. They pass it on to the the consumers. So hack writers who nobody watches their shit can get royalty checks
>They pass it on to the the consumers.
Literally everyone knows this. You aren't smart.
Should’ve screencap it. All you gays where saying steaming services where caped out price wise and would offer discount to try abs get more subscribers
Tubi gods win again.
Steaming is not profitable anymore. Why Amazon Prime is putting in adds. Disney+ is dead. All streaming sites numbers are trash and why they hide actual views from the public and investors
Netflix could probably get away with raising the price of the standard sub to $19.99 a month, but they'd need to come up with a new tentpole franchise like Game of Thrones (HBO), The Boys (Amazon), The Walking Dead (AMC), or Star Trek (Paramount) that not only draws people in, but can be spun off into more content. It's ridiculous how much money they sink into Stranger Things and yet it's still just one series. Right now Netflix probably gets the most buzz for their true crime doccumentaries, so it'd behoove them to come up with a new Dexter or something.
they should raise it to 59.99. its only 2 dollars a day. where else can you find entertainment that cheap?
Netflix should raise the price to whatever consumers are willing to bear, yes.
>behoove
OK gay
ESL monkeys are incorrigible.
Didn't they JUST raise the price a few months ago? Why are they doing it again? Is it the direct result of the writers strike?
>Is it the direct result of the writers strike?
Yes and no. Companies will use whatever excuse to raise price. At least with the writer's strike they can mitigate bad press by saying that the increased profits will go towards will indirectly go to writers (like 2%, maybe).
After the strike ended, we're now in a streaming bubble crash. It was only a matter of time.
Yeah, and their period of explosive growth has come to an end.
the great cycle repeats. most shows and movies were all in one place for a reasonable price then more streaming sites popped up scattering all those shows once again and now they add a price increase on top of that so people will pirate again which leads them to further increase prices and eventually die out
I could complain about the state of cable TV and streaming services. But plex still offers a cheap lifetime membership. Video's day of reckoning is yet to come. The value of these shows and movies will go the way of the mp3 as normies are driven to pirate. There will be no way for them to stop it
remember how all systems get gamed or corrupted over time?
remember how most of the last 20 years of systems presented to the public has been a very drawn-out bait-and-switch, with legal frameworks either ineffective to combat them or outright complicit in their exploitation?
35 year old pirate, reporting in. Been doing this since I was 17. Never will I ever pay.