• ScrivenerX@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    This is a lousy article rehashing an article behind a paywall.

    The cost they have is $87 a month. There is so much that’s confusing about this. They don’t specify how many streaming services they are counting in that, but it’s a good guess that is about 5, each at about $17 a month. I feel I have too many streaming services and share accounts with family, and I can stream from about 7, pay for one and watch 1.5. If I couldn’t share accounts, I wouldn’t have the accounts. I pretty much watch star trek and whatever show someone tells me to watch.

    They also don’t specify what $87 a month gets you in cable. Around me that’s about basic cable prices, which is significantly less content presented in a less convenient format and is almost entirely reruns filled to brim with commercials.

    Not only is the article missing key information it also misrepresents the information it has.

    Note: I’m sure people will tell me to pirate everything, but there are reasons to not pirate. And it doesn’t address that this is a poorly written article giving incomplete and incorrect information.

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      1 year ago

      Personally, the lack of ads is a big one for me. I will not watch ad filled content. Any time I’m on vacation and turn on a hotel TV and have to deal with ads it is so frustrating. Especially now that content is made for streaming, so there aren’t logical ad breaks in the story. Just random hard cuts in the middle of content.

    • _Tom_@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah I’m curious how they get that number. I look at it as my math is Internet ($50)+Hulu Bundle ($21)+Prime($12) is $83/mo

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        1 year ago

        Can they really count internet costs which most people would need even if they weren’t streaming?

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          1 year ago

          Great point. I guess there’s maybe someone that doesn’t need internet in there home. But the average person these days can’t function without it.

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          1 year ago

          I was doing it to try to make their claim seem sane. Are people really on 4-5 streaming services?

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            1 year ago

            There definitely are. My partner has Netflix, Prime, Peacock, and the Disney plus bundle. I feel like it isn’t that uncommon of a scenario tbh.

    • JoYo@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      people that pirate give advertising its power.

      pay your content creators and don’t tolerate ads.