This is such a dumbass take and I'm tired of hearing it.
If you pay for a basic cable package, you're probably paying around $100 a month once you include fees and the box rental. And you're probably not watching all the channels you're paying for, just a handful of them. Isn't that what everyone used to complain about, having to pay for tons of channels you don't watch? Well with streaming you don't have to. If there's nothing you're interested in on Paramount+, just don't subscribe to it. And if there's just a few things you want to watch, subscribe for a month or two and then cancel. You're not locked into a longterm contract like you would be with cable.
Another thing I hear is people saying that it used to just be Netflix, but now there's all these other services and people don't like that. But all these other services have to find other ways to cater to people if they want your money. I enjoy classic foreign films, and Netflix never streamed that stuff, but now I can open up Max and stream Kurosawa or Bergman films, and that's what keeps me happily paying my subscription.
Also the picture quality of cable is absolutely terrible, not even reaching 1080p in the era of 4K. With streaming, you can get incredible picture quality, and free from commercials if that's important to you. Let's look at the price again, keeping in mind that a cable subscription is about $100 a month.
The monthly cost for the highest, ad-free tiers of Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Bundle (Hulu, Disney+, ESPN+), Peawiener, Paramount+ Showtime, Max, and AppleTV+ all together comes to $113 a month. That's with picture quality that is vastly superior to cable, and with no commercials. And that's if you're subscribed to all of them at once, which you probably don't need to be. And if you don't mind commercials, you can get them for way less.
Streaming is not "just like cable" and the people who say it is just want something to whine about.
i already told you, i ain't gonna read all that
Fpbp.
All I have is the $2 Hulu and Criterion Channel. Amazon Prime Video I get because of shipping.
>But they are le having ads now
I my my projector and my TV hooked up with PCs with adblock so not my problem.
I have yandex and putlockers. I will never pay for goyslop media ever ever again nor will I ever watch a single advertisement or commercial.
People tell me that adverts are full of black people but I wouldn't know because I torrent everything I've watched for the last ten plus years.
Fbpb
I love how you wrote all of that text and you don't even remotely make the point you set out to.
Congrats, moron
You're getting far more options than cable ever offered, in far better quality than cable ever had, with freedom to choose which services you want and which ones you don't, which solves the number 1 complaint about cable.
You have to either be moronic or a streaming service shill to have this point of view.
I never watch cable news, but if I wanted to watch USA network, I still had to pay for Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC. With streaming, I pay for the ones I want, and nothing else.
>if I wanted to watch USA network
Definitely moronic.
Didn’t read. Steaming is trash now. The world was great for a few years. 10 bucks for unlimited movies with no ads. Now there’s 15 steaming platforms that each take a few seasons of each show to split it up and have more trash originals than classic movies. And it’s all 20+ for premium or else you get bombarded with multiple 3 minute ads. I honestly don’t care anymore. Im pretty much just canceling all platforms and just not watching TV anymore. It’s a great way to finally break away from media slog and enjoy going outside.
You could never watch unlimited movies. You were limited by the selection offered to you, which is now much more vast.
entirely done because the general populous had too much access to forms of stolen media. Countries outside of the direct market reproduced and shared the vast majority of avaliable content by default. Continued migration lead to them bringing a culture of owning what you want in digital form when you want. They never wanted this done, and will continue to regulate until avaliability times of content is shortened to a month or two across many platforms.
>Also the picture quality of cable is absolutely terrible, not even reaching 1080p in the era of 4K. With streaming, you can get incredible picture quality
At least in the case of Netflix, you only get >1080p if you use the official netflix app provided by a "smart tv" with telemetry turned on. Without that setup, you can select 4K but you're still getting fed an upscaled 1080P. They do this to force users to give them information for them to sell without having to outright say "give us your data if you want 4K". It's sneaky as frick.
>also
your entire post is meaningless because I can download literally any movie ever made that isn't lost media, at the maximum quality available, without paying a dime. I will never sell my soul to some nefarious megacorp just so I can watch their latest antagonistic goyslop.
"Turning into" doesn't mean "exactly the same."
Well it's quite a bit different, in that it's superior in every single way, and a great development. And with sports now moving to streaming, cable will soon be irrelevant. It will still exist, but only for boomers.
I remember an old idea the cable companies floated to make customers pay for website access. Like basic internet would get you access to like 12 websites, expanded would give you 25, and premium was 60. It was something like that.
People angrily rejected the idea because of how obviously restrictive that would be.
But I feel like each streaming site charging you $10-$20 per month in addition to the $50-$100 you pay for internet access is kinda the same bullshit.
Anyway, the internet sucks now compared to 20 years ago. The bandwidth is nice, tho
YouTube TV is specifically another way to get cable channels. Same with Sling or Hulu+ Live TV. That's not what's meant by streaming exactly, since it's just a different way of getting a basic cable package.
Fubo is the same. It's a cable/satellite replacement. It's why it includes local channels and a lot of sports. FuboTV is great and unrivaled if you watch all sports. Still costs what you'd pay from cable.
Yeah, those services serve a function. I think once the new Disney/Fox/Waner sports service launches, those services will struggle. Sports are the main thing holding people to cable.
Amazon is going in hard on NFL games. It'll only be a matter of time until they buy the rights to MNF, SNF, etc. when it comes up for bid again.
Monday Night Raw is moving to Netflix next year. Apple shows MLB games, Amazon is also showing some NASCAR games next year. Sports are the final domino to fall.
Only a matter of time until Amazon get full rights to the English Premier League in the UK as well
Amazon also purchased a stake in Diamond Sports, which has local TV rights in MLB and NBA. If it does well, they'll just buy them out. Once they get enough seasonal sports coverage, they'll split it off to its own subscription plan. NFL plan on Amazon that you pay for from August through the Superb Owl, for example.
im already in the future chumps. tubi and pluto are the future and im there
You can find plenty of stuff to watch for free on these ad supported streaming services, and some of them are even getting into original content too. It's a really exciting time I think.
They should do the amazon non-prime method and pay for what you want to watch.
>If you pay for a basic cable package, you're probably paying around $100 a month once you include fees and the box rental.
its a lot more than that, at least where im at. once the promo deal expired it jumped to 178 for only basic cable.
yeah it was almost 200 dollars a month
Streaming will die when you can't share anymore. Even now with the additional charges, if you're splitting costs it's a fraction of cable.
>pay nothing
>Pirate everything I watch
>Get to watch anything I want for free because I'm not a fricking homosexual
Cable was better because I was younger when my parents had it.
Cable literally peaked when I watched Return of the Living Dead on HBO on my aunt Lana's couch. She had a huge floor CRT cabinet tv, and I was 11 years old.
Cable was fine until the mouse bought up everything, especially ESPN. Another thing that killed it was every channel being 90% repeats 24/7 of one show, and of course all channels going all in on reality TV.
>Another thing that killed it was every channel being 90% repeats 24/7 of one show
Nickelodeon: The Spongebob Channel
Cartoon Network: The Teen Titans Go Channel
Yep, and it's sad. I remember 90s Nick showing every show they had at least once throughout the day. It was great, and you were only 30 minutes away from something you like, not 9 hours.
Have you guys heard of grey market IPTV services?
You buy an ip box (like MAG544) and then you find an IPTV service for like $15/month and you get every single channel in existence, every live sporting event, every live pay per view event, every city's local NBC/ABC/fox station, every premium channel like HBO, STARZ, as well as an on-demand video service that lets you watch every movie thats out, regardless what streaming service
Yes, the problem is you have to jump through hoops to pay anonymous, or you'll get sued once the provider gets taken down. When it does get taken down, you have to immediately switch to another and then another, etc. It's all so tiresome. Also, 99% of those channels are foreign moronic shit that nobody watches. I don't need 130 channels from India or 60 channels from some Middle Eastern shithole. Oh great, 90 channels of fricking soccer. No, frick off with that shit.
Or you can literally pirate for free instead of paying some shady fricker who uses the money for god knows what and hands over your info when they are inevitably caught
You pay anonymously through pre-paid cards you bought numerous towns away and never the same place twice in a row.
Still not paying for some pajeet's drug addiction/sex trafficing
I assume it's used to buy africans or kids to human traffic.
I just like to sit down and watch tv. I don't want to turn on the computer, download shit on pirate Bay, put it onto a usb stick, plug that into a tv, and pray that it works and doesn't have audio problems. I'm not some broke teenager anymore, my time is more valuable than $20/month
Still better than funding Abdul's degenerate lifestyle
>I'm not some broke teenager anymore
>Let me just fire up my cheap IPTV box
You can store everything on a drive and use any number of streaming programs so you can watch it over the network on your TV.
It takes literally 10 seconds to add anything to my plex sneedbox from my phone while sitting on the couch. Literal skill issue.
>plex
I personally use Kodi. Is Plex better?
Autistic people will say no but I've had absolutely 0 issues with plex, it just werks.
Do either of them stream 4K dolby vision movies in mkv container?
Yes, as long as you're hardware supports it.
Okay, but how many hours did it take for you to set that up?
Like 15 minutes on the sneedbox website. Stop trying to cope for your skill issue.
based I used to do this too. I loved how it'd find the meta deta for my movies and organize them all pretty n such
Didn't read lmao still pirating after fifteen years. Sneethe.
Could you BE more of a shill
oops, meant for
>With streaming, you can get incredible picture quality
Netflix 4K is at 20mbps. That's the bitrate of 1080p bluray and 4K bluray is like 80. It's shit.
Streaming sucks
Everything I want to watch is already on qbit, so there's no reason to give my wealth to pedophile israelites.
I pay zero dollars a month for 88 channels with 4 weeks of VOD. Can't imagine being a cable/streaming cuckold.
>The monthly cost for the highest, ad-free tiers of Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Bundle (Hulu, Disney+, ESPN+), Peawiener, Paramount+ Showtime, Max, and AppleTV+ all together comes to $113 a month
and you think it's always going to be this cheap?
No, with the atrocious rate of inflation it will certainly go up. But so will cable.
I subscribe to Jellyfin.
Does anyone want to guess which streamer OP is doing this shill damage controlling for?
why would anyone want to think that much about ecelebs?
>paying for tv
>paying for streaming
Oh wow haha that sucks man, like, wow geez my streaming service is totally free you know!
>take
Go back to twitter
>and that's what keeps me happily paying my subscription
you're fricking moronic and they got you right where they want you
Max is great dude.
You're absolutely right
I'll just watch stuff for free instead.
>CY+9
>still paying for content
Streaming sucks because of moronic zoomies
I farted and your mom streamed it out of love.
Can't get that kind of entertainment outside of cable.
Who pays for streaming or cable when they already have internet access? Who even watches modern day TV and films?
I watch old Japanese films on Max
AvistaZ exists my brother and they have more old Japanese cinema in better quality than max ever will
Uncontested best Asian content tracker. Incredibly easy to maintain ratio, tons of free leach, easy point harvesting, and free invites to their other trackers.
>he doesn't know about debrid or IPTV
You don't belong here
Every single streaming service is making a basic plan with ads, which will be more expensive than the current ad-free plan, and a premium ad-free plan.
Streaming is literally becoming more expensive than cable, and now they are bringing back ads.
The whole point of streaming was OnDemand and ad-free content.
You know at some point a business needs to make money instead of lose it.
says the guy telling people to pirate....get a clue.
I'll add that every single streaming garbage is bit-starved to save on bandwidth.
Torrent all the way.
Companies should embrace torrent. Maybe make a closed source equivalent but centralized, meaning that every single content provider would make their stuff easy to access, for a fee.
It really isn't difficult, if you treat your customer well you will get paid.
If you treat them like cattle, some won't play the game.
Some HDR stuff on Max looks really good.
between my whole family we get just about every streaming service. Disney, apple, netflix, hbo, paramount and prime. We get apple and hbo for free from our phone plan and the others we just share accounts. I only pay $8 a month and get them all.