The tech giants have made a revolutionary new invention that will be the future of streaming services - Cable TV!
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The tech giants have made a revolutionary new invention that will be the future of streaming services - Cable TV!
>10 years later
>what if we gave them a choice of what to watch instead of paying $200 a month on Parapplemaxney+
Torrentchads win again.
Yeah I'll just stick to piracy. It's cheaper, video quality is better, works offline, and there are no ads.
>no ads
>can choose what to watch, pause, etc.
>wireless
How is it like cable again?
I'm pretty sure they are going to bring ads back and reduce customer agency, these industry shifts are happening because it is dawning to corporations that nobody is going to invent a way to turn viewer number into easy revenue after all and current streaming model is never going to be sustainable.
The main issue is that whoever wanted to get these streaming services already got them, so numbers can't keep going up anymore.
I'm pretty sure a lot of people are also canceling their subscriptions since there's nothing to watch anyway and they make it purposefully difficult to navigate their catalogue so people are forced to watch the latest slop of the week and create buzz about it online.
>current streaming model is never going to be sustainable
Riiiiiiiight.. The old corporate we're broke and barely able to do anything! We can't pay workers or pay your asking price for a project!! We can barely make this company work at all!!! As they rack billions of of dollars in revenue and see it going up every quarter. I'm pretty sure the streaming model is never going away.
The only difference will be sooner or later someone is going to win with a massive amount of market share and then jack up the price. Even if it takes consolidation and partnerships to make that market share win happen. Meanwhile boo hoo only 32 billion in revenue for Netflix. How ever can they make it work with only 32 billion??
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NFLX/netflix/revenue
>Netflix revenue for the quarter ending September 30, 2023 was $8.542B, a 7.77% increase year-over-year.
>Netflix revenue for the twelve months ending September 30, 2023 was $32.743B, a 4.03% increase year-over-year.
>Netflix annual revenue for 2022 was $31.616B, a 6.46% increase from 2021.
>Netflix annual revenue for 2021 was $29.698B, a 18.81% increase from 2020.
>Netflix annual revenue for 2020 was $24.996B, a 24.01% increase from 2019.
All the big streaming services have massive overheads and are loaded down with tons of debt. It's proving to be a shit model that isn't as profitable as they want which is why the entire scene has already seeing massive shifts.
The revenue doesn't mean shit, the distribution costs are huge because server costs haven't dropped like these giants thought they would given the past 40 years.
The plan was always to burn money for the first few years and then make money when the costs came down. Costs never came down, so now they're all just burning money in a never ending game of chicken because nobody wants to let go of a potentially profitable market.
The cost isn’t coming down because most of these Black personlicious sites host on AWS. Meaning:
>Amazon hosts their own video service
>Amazon also hosts their competitors but charges them more for the privilege
>these services are too incompetent to set up their own data centers so there’s zero incentive for Amazon to ever lower their hosting fees
Prime will win the streaming wars for that reason alone. Maybe Apple+ also because tim apple can afford to run it at a loss indefinitely
If amazon keeps making lawdy lawdy dem rangz flops after flops they will just stop making oc and just offer the easiest rental service.
It's about as expensive as cable to get the ad free tier of a handful of these things.
>no ads
Amazon already brought ads to their standard service aka downgraded it in order to sell "premium" service tier. Similar thinly veiled price hikes with ads are to be expected elsewhere as well, possibly even without the option to pay more to not see any.
Cable has on demand, and it started out without ads. You are exposing your lack of intelligence here anon.
don't forget cable is $200
>don't forget cable is $200
Maybe for like every fricking premium channel available (not counting sports ones)
>no ads
Until they release the "ultimate premium plus iii" plan that's the only one that removes ads and costs a fortune.
These services are built on the idea of worsening things on purpose with time
Cable used to be <$20/month and had no ads, too. Then they started reaching subscriber saturation, so to make more money, they began increasing rates and including ads. That's already happened to a number of streaming services.
Ah yes, the old "ad free for the first five years" scam.
>no ads
it's not 2015 anymore anon, these days you have to pay and still sit through ads
zoomers like commercials now, they're better than the actual content now. Our future will be demolition man
Cable had all that like 10 years ago. And you vill pay to watch ch zee adds.
>no ads
Multiple streaming services have literally been experimenting with running ads for paid subscribers. It's literally following the exact same trajectory as cable TV, which also originally had no ads.
Cable literally started with no ads, you have to be over 18 to post here.
>no ads
More and more streaming sites are bringing back ads
>can choose what to watch
From a very limited selection. And usually the selection is garbage.
You either are underaged or suffering from dementia
cable tv was 99% junk with about 5 actual channels with watchable content. you could make the same argument for streaming now, but i'd say there's far more quality content on streaming.
>far more quality content on streaming
555-come-on-now
on netflix you can watch actual movies made in the last few years, cable packages would never allow such a thing without assfricking you for an additional 10 dollars per movie.
Exactly, boomers paid $100+ for cable. It had ads and you paid for channels you didn’t watch.
>cable then
>press a button on a remote, channel switches
>digital cable/streaming now
>press a button on a remote, nothing happens for 2 seconds, press it again, 5 channels/items skip over
>try to type in a name of a movie in a search field, takes 10 minutes to do so
>try to navigate from streaming service main screen, takes forever to find anything
>95% chance that the movie you're looking for is not offered or offered as "freevee with ads"
worst timeline
Also
>the support for this device has been discontinued
>please update your tv to latest version
>using a """smart""" tv
You get what you fricking deserve.
>torrenting then
>search the media, download it, watch it
>torrenting now
>search the media, download it, watch it
best timeline
what do you do when you have women over at your place?
Frick them?
Access my Plex server from the Raspberry Pi that's always hooked up to the TV with a wired connection to my network.
I tell them to bring their laptop over next time so I can install some torrent clients and adblockers on it. For her pleasure™
Not really, today you NEED to be in a fricking closed torrent circle and keep seeding. You can't find anything on the usual sites.
The streaming services slowly becoming cable again has been a funny saga.
Cable is such a weird 'boomer' thing. The idea that anyone who pay actual money for more TV broadcast channels, which you still watch like normal TV, is bizarre in the face of the internet.
Bet you anything that these streaming services already got all the young people they can snag, so now they're after boomers so they need to boomerify the service so the boomers understand that it's like cable but new.
>get elderly dad to try Netflix
>"So its just cable without the ads but with more gays?"
He's not wrong.
>well yes, but actually yes
>Not just gays, but BMWF interracial relationships too! So, you in pops?
Yes dad. that's exactly what it is.
Yeah, but before high speed internet it was your only choice if you didn't want to wait to buy or rent it and even then, if it was popular, good luck renting it when you had the chance to watch it. You'd go on a wait list and when it was finally your turn it'd be a Tuesday and you'd have to return it within 48 hours or pay $10/night late fees.
Its really not. People will sit there doom scrolling through all the shit on a streaming service, trying to find something to watch. A literal sea of content and they'll complain there is nothing. Cable is basically streaming but everything is playing at once. Its fun to just dive into something already going, surfing through the channels until something catches your eye. Beats the hell out of staring at a wall of jpgs of titles
This too. It's some psychological phenomena called the paradox of choice or something.
>A literal sea of content and they'll complain there is nothing.
There is actually 'nothing'. The content officially available to stream is horrendously limited compared to what you can find on the high seas or elsewhere.
This.
The streaming homepages usually try to coral you into watching whatever they slopped out recently and want to push and it's very difficult to actually navigate their service and find something.
Even the other choices are limited and they push whatever they acquired recently and the limited choices loop over despite them sitting on a huge amount of content that can be only found through searching (which is also annoying to use)
Best part is that some streaming apps seem to actively hide the content that you've added to your own list. I'd want that the first things I would see when logging in is the stuff that I've not yet finished and what I've added for watching. Instead these are hidden and you have to crawl through new/featured slop first to get there. I do not care that you have the latest remake movie or new season to shit I'll never watch anyway.
I often travel for work and my favorite thing to do is do watch movies on the TV in the hotel room. 1 month ago I was in the Middle East and they have like 4-5 channels with subbed movies. Watched Sicario 2 (for the 2nd time), 9mm, Prisoners, Jarhead etc.
As long as you have at least 2-3 channels that don’t offer too much dogshit it’s fine.
TV absolutely sucks, you are brain dead and easily entertained
>Netflix and Apple
>the two tanking services are willing to team up with rivals
It's all shit anyway. Anything actually good is readily available for free and won't magically disappear due to dedicated archive autists.
The concept of cable was to gatekeep premium content so people paid to get access to cool shows, popular movies, sport events, talk shows and so on... basically if you want to be pop culture literate (which americans equate with conversational intelligence) you had to have cable and actively watch it. Before the advent of internet it was THE way to keep up with what's going on.
All the regular boring shit was on regular non-cable tv and only the elderly and poor people were reduced to watching that, if at all.
But these days if you want to watch something or want to keep up with pop culture you don't need to do any of that, you can simply get exposed to it in a multitude of ways online through social media or whatever.
>through social media or whatever
In other words they don't even watch it, they watch a 10 second info dump of it on tiktok or youtube so they can sound like they watched it around the water cooler. Its sad
I'm pretty sure that is why corporate executives are genuinely puzzled about why people aren't watching their streaming shit, they still take their audiences as granted because the good old days conditioned them into "sure everyone is obliged to want to watch anything we produce" thinking.
From my experience of being around zoomers they simply don't have time to sit through a show or a movie even. All they deal with is tiktoks and twitch content and funny social media posts.
No attention span. Its like they all have ADHD or something
It's the lack of attention span but also other zoomers in their friend circle simply don't watch any of that so there's no peer pressure to conform and start watching movies or show. In fact the peer pressure goes the other way. Since none of their friends watch any of it, they don't feel like they should either.
I’m a millennial that went back to school to pursue a terminal degree. Dude to compete I literally don’t have time, after doing research and studying for chemistry alone, 1 of 5 classes 20 hours a week I have no tv time. It isn’t like the boomer days where a firm handshake got you a job. Now admissions are cutthroat all the kids hoping to be SWE or medical adjacent are the same
Same but I'm getting an IT degree and then a data analysis ms after this. I have a worthless screenwriting BA right now.
well it doesnt help that tv shows have actively gotten worse...
just compare the masterpiece breaking bad to its spin-off better call saul and you'll know what i mean
ain't nobody got time for that boring snoozefest
Roku Channel has Emeril Live and Supermarket Sweep.
>you need more?
no
Too late for this shit, I'll never pay for digital media again in my entire life.
I spent my Sunday watching the original The Addams Family for free on Amazon, the weekend before that it was Baywatch. I will never waste my money on Netflix again and the only reason I had Prime was because of the one day delivery. Just give me the shit for free with ads you money hungry morons.
I will never understand why someone would pay to consoom faster
what fricking difference does it make that your chinkshit arrives a day earlier
A lot of people get dopamine hits just from the act of spending money, it makes them feel successful and accomplished.
People want instant gratification, sometimes I can order things from amazon for same day delivery.
Because I'm not always home and a dedicated delivery time means I don't have to go pick it up from somewhere else or return it
Cable bundle was arguably the most profitable business creation in the last century. It got people to pay a lot of money for channels they were never going to watch and it apparently had higher profit margins than the oil business or something insane.
moronic comparison, love when midwits think that theyre smart for spouting reddit facts. Oil industry is not a business and by and large their profit margins arent very large, exploration and productiom is capital intensive and often leads to heavy debtloads and bankruptcy once oil demand is low.
Watch out guys the sneering autistic has entered the thread to educate us all.
youre a homosexual if you think posting your reddit tidbits as fact is a zesty addendum to the quality of this board. frick off Black person
Frick off trumpgay
Nice try, joepedo.
so are you going to educate us or not?
Most business are deemed successful if they have a 10% profit margin. Oil has historically had like a 15-20% margin. So cable being at 40% at its peak is a pretty big outlier.
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>the oil industry isn't a business because....because it just isn't, okay?!?!
moron
I had this same idea, if I was a ceo of one of these companies I’d literally just reinvent cable
There would be main channels like Disney+, Netflix, Prime
Medium slop channels like Apple, Hulu, Paramount, HBO
Cartoon/anime channels like Crunchyroll, Funimation Warner bros etc…
Channels for k-drama, and channels for educational content etc…
Channels for music / music videos
Channels for nostalgic content for each decade
All bundled together in one package for like $100 per month ($60 if you buy more goyslop from Amazon and plushies and toys, and tickets to watch movies in theaters)
>main channel
>disney plus
>medium slop
>HBO
how to say you are literally paid by disney without actually saying it
>main channels like Disney+, Netflix, Prime
>Medium slop channels like [...] Paramount, HBO
Lol
have a nice day
They keep forgetting one litrle detail - you have to have something I actually want to watch on your service before I buy into it.
>pay a subscription with additional ppv for your favorite movies and series!
>Open Door to
Services like CuriosityStream already do this. It's even LESS of a novelty than these morons think.
Netflix can make more money off its ad supported tier than its normal subscription one. As cable continues to fall companies need to find other means to advertise so the advertising money that will be available to these streamers is going to push them to probably create some add supported bundle.
I only use HBO Max and Hulu at this point, even then I hate how many movies and tv shows they keep randomly cutting.
I just watch whatever is free on youtube. They usually have a lot of old shows, but their movie selection has been pretty good.
Why is everything in netflix so woke and why is half the cast in everything black?
I've been binge watching netflix shows all week (while paying for it) and literally half the cast is black or brown with Reddit tier social commentary. I really thought it was a meme.
They also re use the same actors. I swear I've seen that bald head black woman who always plays the wise character like 4 times now. It's mind boggling
All the straight white people who are ever going to subscribe have already subscribed and that new subscribed number must go up for all eternity and every quarter must have short term gains even at expense of long term revenue to placate the fury of holy investors.
with ADs you can't skip (commercials) that if you try to block you will be branded antisemitic.
amazon already does this. it has all the bond films and paramont and other streaming services but you cant watch them unless you pay for them too. but they are on amazon and show up in searches. just 'buy it homosexual' if you try to watch without the other subscription.
i still find it funny that most of these streaming services are hosted on amazon servers. i would love to see the accounting math that was used to convince these companies to pay amazon a shitload of money on recurring server expenses instead of just putting their shit on their existing streaming service and get their monthly returns like they were already doing
There will be a push to go back to the add model because it give executives an excuse to censor
We can’t do that the advertising doesn’t like it
All Netflix had to do was keep licensing kino. They blew their load on original programming that sucks Black person ass. Frick them all to Hell.
All they have is stand up comedy but you can just pirate it.
Wasn't the entire point of cable at first so you WOULDN'T have to watch ads?
>Hey Siri, try drag and drop a file from one device to another
>Hey Siri, tell me what the frick iCloud is doing at any given moment and how the hell I can tell what is being stored there and how to view it
>Hey Siri, why is there no reboot option anymore and why wont you stay turned off when I plug you in to charge
>why wont you stay turned off
Because anon you turn me on.
Wireless cable