The Downfall of Streaming TV | The Bubble has Burst
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- čas přidán 15. 05. 2024
- Streaming TV was once awesome. It's growth over the past 16 years or so has seen societal movements, like cord-cutting, as well as generation idioms, like "The Golden Age of TV." Unfortunately, it's all coming to an end. Here's why streaming TV isn't just worse than cable now, it's about to look a whole lot like cable did in the 1990's.
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00:00 Intro
01:38 The Bubble Bursting
02:05 Recent Changes to Streaming
04:08 Streaming TV History
06:28 The Rise of Ads
09:11 The Future of Streaming
12:53 Consolidation of Streaming Services
16:38 Final Thoughts
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Wow! Amazing to see all the comments happening around this topic. I guess I’m not the only one feeling some frustration around this. Thanks for tossing your perspectives in everyone, and keep ‘em coming! It helps me understand where the public opinion sits, and that informs my video content. Feel free to leave me a reply here if there’s something specific you’d like me to know!
To some extent I think exclusivity of all of these shows is a problem. Everyone is trying to control the entire pipeline and all of the content. Friends and Seinfeld didn't have reruns exclusively on NBC. You could watch them for whoever was willing to pay to show old episodes. With ads, I hope that changes the calculus on keeping everything exclusive forever.
Additionally, when it comes to controlling the whole pipeline, that is a bit anti competitive. Take a show like Last Man Standing. It originally aired on ABC for six years but one of the big production companies was Fox's 20th Century Television. Not sure that will necessarily change again but all of this reminds of the anti trust law that broke up big movie studios back in the day. You could only watch an MGM movie in an MGM theater. I think streaming could use some of that.
Stop giving them more ideas to rob us Caleb! That reconnect fee has me pissed before it even happens. It's not our fault they've overspent on talent and content. There are too many streaming services anyway. We don't need more crappy Paramount+es or Peacocks. I hope some go under.
What pissed me off the most was them robbing features we already have. I already canceled Max and about to cancel Prime because of it.
Cinemas and theaters will be big again if they go Micro-LED.
You should do a deep dive on sports streaming and how they are squeezing every dime possible out of the customer base between subs on different platforms and exclusive deals on a per game basis. It’s getting wild.
@@rizqi-hiktakaewi678People will buy the tvs for home use. Hollywood is done.
Paying a monthly subscription fee and being subjected to ads just feels like I got punched in the gut by corporations just before they stole my wallet.
So easy to get everything free from all networks commercial free,
and watching ads in the windows start menu also... arggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!1
That’s how TV always worked though?
"Oooo, I can see (movie) on (streaming service). I subscribe to (streaming service)." Then...I'm hit with the rental charge for said movie. 😐
cable tv? media can´t survived without ad´s unless you don´t mind paying higher prices.
newspapers ads,magazines ads,radio stations ads,tv ads,theaters sponsors,cinemas ads before the movie showing,youtube ads,websites ads ect ect
HD and 4K should NOT be a ‘premium feature’!!! It’s 2024… 🤦🏻♂️
It was HDR (High Dynamic Range) that was mentioned, not HD (High Definition). But yes, a valid point nonetheless!
@@CRiley-zx1ws I understand the difference it’s ok but yes, a valid point nonetheless! 👍🏻👍🏻
I agree but the sad reality is that so many people actually don’t give a sh*t about the quality of content they watch (because they’re too busy watching it on their phone and being on TikTok at the same time) - services have worked out that charging the minority of customers who DO care about quality a premium is the most profitable route…
Making 4K a premium feature is justified because it takes up four times more server space than 1080, and currently, only 10% of users watch in 4K. Therefore, it makes sense to charge more for 4K.
Totally for example my 65 inch Bravia has 4k capabilities and SKy wish to charge for me to see things in HD. 🙄
The CEO of Netflix made $40 million in 2023. For Netflix to cry about how they have to nickel and dime us to make ends meet is absolute BS. I'm done with these clowns.
The irony of this video having 8 un-skipable ads is brilliant.
I use Firefox + NoScript + UBlock Origin. I see no ads unless it is part of the video itself, and those I can skip over by moving the slider. UBlock tells me it blocked 357 items on this page (ads, trackers, cookies, etc.)
What are you talking about? I use Brave browser on PC and CZcams Revanced on Android and never see any ads
Hard to call it irony when you consume this content for free. If you were sending him a check, it would be different. The problem is when you already pay money for a subscription AND THEN you have ads on top of that. That's where I find it to be absurd.
Basically, its cable tv now ale carte like when you buy adult channels on comcast now buying separate channel/app subscriptions. PURE GREED!
I sprung for youtube premium. $14.00/mo. and worth it to me. I mostly watch CZcams for concerts and how to crap.
No, we're canceling our subscriptions because they keep increasing the fees with little to no additional content and then they bring in the despised ads.
The entitlement is real.
@@1337Jogi how so?
@@mikeschaeffer7262Well mostly because I hear from all sides how people are upset about rising pices ads and so on - calling the companys greedy.
Like you saw in this video though the last 10+ years have been an exception.
The market was financed by investors in an unsustainable way. It was not based on real revenue or monetization.
I remember when I used to pay for cable AND had on top 15 minutes of Ads per 1h.
And that with a fixed schedule, and mostly subpar content.
Now we have video on demand and a massive pool of very high quality content and still I pay less and have few Ads.
Of course this was not sustainable.
The cost for production is massive and consumers now for the first time in the last 10 or so years are beginning to actually pay for it.
@@1337Jogiwut?
Enjoy having no content while i enjoy my huge physical media collection and around 10tb of films, tv shows and music on PC 😀👍
when i saw the notification on my Prime Video subscription saying "we will serve ads now unless you pay an additional 4 euro fee" I knew it was time to go back to sailing the high seas. I stopped pirating a while ago due to laziness, but ads is where I draw the line.
The high seas are calling back and apparently I, too, shall answer and keep my eyes on that horizon 😂
Yo ho yo ho ☠️
It's never been easier to set sail.
The thing that gets me back on the high seas is when they remove content, sometimes before I even have time to watch it. WTH did I just pay for?
@@mrbishi634 Yeah, every time there's a movie I have in mind, it's not on any of the sites, when I know it was there before.
Let's be honest. It's an entertainment cartel. The "production costs" problem is a complete myth. The same companies are getting us on the infrastructure, content licensing, content production, and advertising. They are literally making a profit on every single one of these. Remember when the ISPs tried to throttle access to services that weren't theirs unless you paid more? This isn't about increasing costs, this is about increasing profit margin. It's greed.
Exactly
Greed is what fuels capitalism. Stiff the consumer for all you can.
The water cooler talk died out as soon as we started watching streaming. No one watches the same thing at the same time after that point.
The water cooler chat died with covid. After that we all work from home 😂
have you tried to have intelligent and meaningful conversations at the water cooler instead of regurgitating whatever you saw on TV the night before ? Is that how pathetic we've become ?
@@elpepelucho I don’t have a water cooler in my house .. but I have water in the fridge.. i chat to it all day.. But it doesn’t give much back.
GOOD.
So many people point to releasing all episodes at once as the reason for the disappearance of water cooler talk. I disagree, video on demand is the reason. When we had cable, missing an episode means waiting 1 year for the rerun to be able to see that episode. With streaming I can miss 4 weeks of a weekly show and catch up later when I'm not busy. Even with weekly releases, me and my friends aren't on the same episode because life just happens.
If Netflix tells me that i have to pay extra to binge watch however i want then i don't want the service anymore.
I’m so close to cancelling Netflix
@@nycmvl Already did.
What if they all do that?
@@paradigm2841 I only sub to netflix so i can only speak for what i sub to, if the others do that i hope the subscribers have the gumption to stand against it.
@@paradigm2841if they do they see a massive loss. Those who know how to will just find other ways.
I joined Netflix so I wouldn’t have to watch ads. I switched cell phone providers so I wouldn’t have to pay for Netflix. Now my cell phone provider is paying Netflix for a scaled down, ad supported model I don’t have the patience or will to watch. Well, at least there is Amazon Prime, I thought. Next day, Amazon Prime added ads and I cancelled my Prime subscription within 24 hours. I guess I’ll just quit streaming altogether and be productive in the real world. Happy ending…unless you are a streaming service, which in time will go the way of Blockbuster if this customer abuse keeps up.
The Netflix Standard with Ads plan is not bad.
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@@amazingeric97paying for ads ain't bad? they used to charge $7 they removed the middle options so you either pay low with ads or the highest plan. I will not pay for ads again.
@@philippelarabie9871Also works for spotify, the free version has no ads with a ad blocker.
If it has ads its bad. I will not pay to watch advertisemens. @@amazingeric97
This is why I have about 10k DVD and Blu-ray discs. I have my own streaming and they can not take any of them away. Harder for Disney to remove a blu-ray from my shelf than it is from their service.
That's a lot of years of subscription still
How the heck did you get and store 10,000 discs? Impressive
You should probably start stocking up on additional physical media players as there will be fewer and fewer of those produced.
10K DVD's?! That's got to be over $100K in DVD's. You've paid more than a lifetime of streaming for 10K DVD's. I guess you have a library to show for it though.
Maybe you should start your own streaming service.
One sure way to avoid this whole warfare: stop watching TV. Imagine you're living in the days when before they had TVs and find something ELSE to do. Talk to people - in person. Go to the park. Work in your garden. Wash your car. Prepare an actual meal in your kitchen. Volunteer to help someone learn how to read. Etc, etc, etc......
Better to custom code yourself, than to be Television program(ed).
@@iRelevant.47.blacklisted Well said. Same could be said for social media and other forms of viral entertainment. Mental debilitation where our eyeballs and our information are being sold for profit.
i don't watch and still find free entertainment without doing anythin u listed in ur comment so i agree its possible lol
I stopped watching tv about 4 years ago and my friends and family think I’m weird. I didn’t stop for any grand or meaningful reason other than I was tired of paying for service and stupid shows and I was busy and saw no value in watching tv anymore
Hey, you sound like some sort of revolutionary person. I may have to report you to the authorities. Just kidding!
Since I mainly watch movies anyways. I just bought a 4k Blu-ray player and am collecting physical media again rather than streaming.
Me too! I rip them to my Jellyfin server to maintain the convenience of streaming.
@@AlexBGamesONLINE Is that a clone of Plex?
Good solution but a bit expensive. What do you really do with a 3 years old DVD? They're collecting dust?
@@MuahMannot quite a clone, but very similar. It doesn’t have pay walls for features that plex has.
@@racineurr.8924 well, they’re not DVDs. UHD Blu-ray is very different. Most of us who collect physical only buy what we re watch often.
I don't feel sympathetic to these companies when piracy rates are skyrocketing due to this. Infinite growth they expect is not sustainable. They can't keep making features optional and keep increasing prices without consequences.
Infinite Growth is the one concept that is hurting everything.... Every single industry craves it yet it never happens.
Drop all the so called 🏴☠️ names so we can get our free view on…lol.
Right, by some estimates, piracy has gone up by as much as 36% in the last few years. Also, there's plenty of evidence of long years of cable TV charges outpacing inflation, and I'm sure the same will prove true of streaming services. No doubt, if anyone really looked in to it, you would find almost as much overcharging and waste in Hollywood as you can find in US military spending. And as a side note, I'm all for everyone involved in the industry making their fair share, but I think people maybe need reminding that every time they get on social media to champion pay raises and residuals for everyone and his uncle, that they are also championing price hikes for themselves. ;)
Infinite growth in general is a concept that is impossible on a finite planet like ours.
@@supertrexandroidx Will say, on that last point, that's more so a problem of the CEO's of these companies raking in millions upon potentially billions of dollars for themselves with none of it going to the people under them. They're making more than enough to pay the workers fairly, but they don't because they want that sweet cash. And to prove that they would have enough money: Nintendo has a CEO that only makes around $500,000 USD, gave everyone in the company pay raises recently with their Salaries being more than $50,000 USD, and have kept prices for their consoles as low as they could while making high quality products (Not including Pokemon because that's a GameFreak and The Pokemon Company problem). As of right now, they have a total of $11 Billion Dollars USD in the bank with no debt, no overspending, none of that.
The gaming industry costs more than the entirety of the entertainment industry, so if Nintendo can do this without the usual price hikes, then these services can too.
What's become of TV and the culture surrounding entertainment as a whole over the past decade has made me realize how easy it is to live without.
I agree. I have CZcams, indie comics, manga and audio dramas.
@@markmunroe-hz8rf amen! audio dramas are the great lost art of media that is so unfortunately largely unknown to most people. I always rave about stuff like the productions coming out of that "graphic audio" company. You have to go back to the 1940s (at least in North America) when audio-drama was a mainstream thing; so it largely even predates the boomers. You have to go back to "The Great Generation" before there is any collective memory of this medium. The internet has made this lost medium viable again.
@@TransCanadaPhil there are new audio dramas being made and available. You can search Google.
Ads are slowly getting out of control. Not only on tv/stream and internet. They making billions, trillions from ads. Do you se anybody regulating it? NO. At some point ppl will get tired of ads.
i cannot tell for every platform, but for YT, I believe they have yet to make it profitable. Google has been losing money with YT year after year, for over 20 years. YT's platform is 2nd to none. That level of quality means it costs a fortune to maintain and operate. Plus all the staff they employ. Now that they dominate the market, they will bomb us with ever more ads to start to make it profitable.
This is why we should protect and use libraries! People keep trying to say libraries are dead, but libraries are free entertainment (beyond what you might already pay in taxes). In addition to books, most libraries have DVD's, comic books, audiobooks, printers, and more! My local library card also gives me access to Hoopla, Kanopy, Freegal, and Libby for ebooks, video streaming, and music.
when our libraries closed during pandemic Hoopla and Libby became invaluable - You Tube (yes with ads 🥴)(walk with cane live near Toronto so why am I binge watching hot tent camping in Maritimes 🤣😂) and Amazon Prime until end of 2024 - want to go back to MLB audio subscription so bye bye Prime
This comment deserves more likes
At the latest when AI becomes so powerful that you can no longer distinguish fakes from reality (wich will be soon), we will eventually have to come back to good old libraries for fact checking.
I go my city's library once a week. I rent and rip DVDs easily. Boom, content.
Use libraries? Not sure what I should read into this comment.
I'm a 90's kid and I'm absolutely sick and tired of ads, excessive subscription fees and streaming services removing my favorite movies and shows. I've had enough and decided to start collecting dvd's and bluerays's, box sets etc. Now I can pay once and own all my movies and shows. Same issue with music. Why pay monthly subscriptions just to listen to my favorite music? I bought a old school mp3 player. It's very small. Has physical buttons. No touch screen. Consequently, the battery life lasts for days. Has a mucro SD card port so I can drag and drop all my mp3 files onto my player with afew clicks. No ads. No subscription fees. This is the only way I know how to protest.
I'm with you! But how do you protect your data from corruption? I've lost almost everything I've ever downloaded including a lifetime of digital photos because of shitty storage devices 😮💨
Dude if you grew up in the 90s how are you not used to ads? The only services that didn't had ads was premium PAY services like HBO. If you happened to catch a TV movie you had to watch basically like 45 minutes of ads and even now on streaming we don't have that.
@Madamchief download your music and movies from safe sources. Keep your computer up to date with all updates and great anti-virus protection. Buy a 1 terabyte external hard drive and use tgst as your backup fir your music and or movie library. Have another library of all your music on your computer. And if your using a older mp3 player with external SD memory card, then obviously have a copy of all your music on that. This way even if your SD card and your computer shit the bed or get corrupted, you still have your external 1 terabyte gard drive.
As for movies, just but dvd/bluerays and take care of them. If you do this you wo t ever need go lay for subscriptions ever again or listen to ads.
@xuxon24 girl; I can't be bothered with ads. Yes I remember the ads on TV back in the 90's. But guess what? Cd's, mp3 files, vhs and dvds DIDNT HAVE ADS!. You insert a DVD or vhs and boom you can watch the movie whenever you like. With ads and mp3 files, you can listen to your music anytime anywhere without ads or subscriptions.
Best thing about my old d hool mp3 player is that it's small. Easily fits in my pocket. Has physical buttons so I can actually play/pause or change volume or change the track without taking the device out of my pocket. It's also more discrete and easy to hid in case I want to listen to music where it's prohibited to do so. Has excellent battery life since it's not connected to the internet and dors t have a bright big touch screen to drain the dam battery. It has an external SD memory card slot so I pretty much have vomited storage space. I never have to worry about tracks being unplayable because you know, I haven't connected my device to the internet for too long. No subscriptions ever. All my mp3 files are MINE forever. I have so gs put into separate Playlist so depending on my mood I can chose my favorite Playlist. It's just so convenient and easy to use. Also mp3 players are note robust than our glass smartphones. It also has a proper headphone jack. No adapter or dongle needed.
Dvd's and bluerays are definitely the way to go. I buy them once and I gave them st my disposal forever. Anytime I watch them I just insert and play. Absolutely no ads. No subscriptions. And I don't ever have to worry about those movies or shows dusapoering from a streaming service.
My life is precious. I only have one life. I will not be forced aginst my will to watching fucking ads everytime I want to watch a show, movie or listen to music. That's my personal time. If corporations want to pay me a rate for my time, then I may on occasional consider watching their useless ads. Otherwise they can piss off.
Your welcome to waste your time enduring with endless ads. Add up all the time you spent watching ads and you might realize. To each their own.
@@julianus_dux_bellorum9585 you mention music a lot, they're hasn't been ads in music since the radio or unless you use free sources of music. If you are going to download then there is basically no issues and you don't even need an old mp3 player when even with a modern phone you can put music on it.
These days I'll typically pay for a month of a service if there's something new out I like, and then just cancel until something else comes out on it. This leads to having one or two services being paid for a month, cutting down the cost and making the premium tiers less of a robbery. Of course they know this and are trying to break people by going back to weekly episodes but if you're patient you can just hop back when it's the end of a season. The frustrating part is still that it's a constant battle with these companies to keep their services user friendly and not letting them just feast on my paycheck.
CZcams is full of free entertainment so why bother watching streaming TV. And there's a comments section that cuts down the boredom a bit.
And full of creative ideas. Have u seen indie toons on CZcams? I have loads of faves ane they don't give an eff about what streaming TV has done to the industry and bringing people back together!
As someone who travels for work the breaking point was the restrictions based on IP address. I’m the account holder who pays the monthly charge. I canceled any service that implemented it and will continue to do so in the future.
And a fee to resubscribe? They can shove that right up….
it also sucks for people who travel or have family elsewhere. I have family in the US but live in Europe so I'll often be in the US for weeks if not months on end. my Girfriend is from the UK so same story there. My sister is currently backpacking Asia with her friends and won't be home for a few months so she's lost access to Netflix. to add to the issue there was supposedly meant to be a code you could apply for in order to use your Netflix outside your WiFi for a very short extended period which naturally turned into a scam and I've seen so many texts trying to pretend to be Netflix getting these codes to get your information.
It's called a VPN, people. There are even free ones available. Or you can pay a pretty low monthly fee in order to be able to watch whatever you want in any country in the world.
I think there's a fee for shoving things up their arses. Can't be sure...
@@mattbosley3531free VPN sucks, so many restrictions that I rather not use them altogether
@@mattbosley3531it seems as if you have no idea what you are talking about.
People are now dropping streaming services for the exact same reason they "cut the cord" and dropped cable and satellite in the first place: it's too expensive! These companies are literally shooting themselves in the foot now and it's all for one simple reason: GREED. However, when people ditch streaming services, they won't necessarily be going back to cable or dish. Many of them are just simply telling ALL of those companies to go to hell and they are going back to Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray for all their favorite films. There are no ads on physical media and you don't ever have to worry about a streaming service pulling a movie you own off of their platform (right when you want to sit down and watch it). When you own a copy of the film on disc, YOU are 100% in control - of everything!
But it’s old stuff.
How many times can you watch the same thing?🤔
@@billmulvihill8452 If you really love the film, lots of times. I have all my favorite films on 4K disc and I go back and watch them again all the time. Now, not everything will be available on disc, of course, but most of your favorite films will be.
Exactly.
Exactly....Suicide by GREED😂
@billmulvihill8452 I have many many dvds and cds....and I always add to the collection from the Thrift Store so no more of a problem of repeats no more so than these streaming companies keep showing the same Ole same Ole not adding new things very often....so not a problem.
I've rediscovered my local library, and on top of movies I've been enjoying new books and authors I wouldn't have encountered in a digital space. Plus, the librarians and volunteers are kind and genuine. ❤
I'm so frustrated with Prime and CZcams. The ADS drive me crazy. You can't walk out of the room without the ads playing for 30 minutes. So listening in the background is NO longer possible....
CZcams premium is my only subscription
It's so annoying when the ads are 10 times louder than the music you're listening to. It gives me a shock when the ads start screaming and I have to run to the computer to adjust the volume.
I cancelled my disney plus when I found out that they've raised the yearly price to £109.90 this year, its ridiculous
Yeah, I just subscribe on and off now
Omg. That feels really high. In Canada, the Standard package with no commercials is $119.99CDN per month, which works out to £69.23
I did the same. I now pay for 2-3 months out of the year to catch up on some shows I’m a fan of.
@@Peeps7468per month or year? :P
@@ironfist7789per year. :)
I’m really surprised that people in the UK are paying 2x what Canadians pay. It’s wild.
I think one of the things that frustrates me the most with the streaming services is, they keep dumping obscene amounts of money into shows that were so blatantly awful and any random person on the street could have told them it was a bad idea. Netflix's resident evil, cowboy bebop, the reboot reboot, Amazons rings of power, the list goes on and on.
And then once the piles of money finish burning, they ask for even more money for the subscriptions because the previous amount wasn't enough (because of all the money they burnt on frankly insultingly bad content). Its like someone graffitiing your house, then asking you to pay for the spray paint and labor.
@Canuckrz Agreed! The lack of quality content is why I finally dumped Netflix, and am contemplating dropping Prime as well. I don't know where, or how, the guy who made this video got the impression that there's lots of quality content being made by these streaming services. There is nothing further from the truth! By definition quality implies less quantity, simply because high-quality content requires artistry, attention to detail, creativity. I can count on two hands (with at least three fingers left over) the number of times I've had that experience on Netflix (or any other service for that matter) of watching content with intellectual, spiritual and emotional depth; or have had the simple pleasure of a satisfying story well-told -- and that was primarily programming streamed from British TV.
We, the consumer, must remember that the course of trends lies with us. We can, and should, just say no. Unsubscribe without fear that life becomes somehow boring or unbearable without access to empty content crapped out by greedy streaming services.
Resident Evil was okay, it was an offbeat spinoff that would have been a cool enough thing to watch if it weren't Resident Evil branded. The show would have been cancelled after Lance Reddick died anyway. He brought the show most of the cred it had and they could have kept bringing him back as clones indefinitely, except he died irl. Must have been cheap to make compared to Rings of Power too.
I liked Cowboy Beebop!
At least cowboy bebop had some good music
Personally, I LOVE that I have never even heard of ANY of the examples that you mention.
When Netflix declared that sharing accounts outside one's household was prohibited, it initially upset me. Subsequently, when Prime began billing me, and then further required additional payments for most shows, my frustration escalated significantly. The situation worsened a few weeks ago when they asked me to pay an extra three dollars a month. At that point, I felt pushed to my limit and resorted to pirating content instead.
you'd be appalled at what my disabled no-antenna friend pays for RCN cable.
the taxes and fees alone would almost pay for HULU... which Might be OK ... IFF the graphics were not so Tiny....
... so it amuses me to hear someone complain about $3 when folks with no other options pay over $150 for cable .
.. quit yer whinin'...
@@kc9kel funny when a mr know it all plays fgor corperate greed
@@kc9kel hey the guy has a legitimate complaint, and if your friend wants to pay 150 for cable that's his choice, and I understand having a small income and being disabled myself
Dude, theres no way someone is going to charge me a re-subscribing fee. I'd rather just go back to reading books.
Just got the notification from Netflix regarding "adding users". I currently have the highest tier ($22.99+tax). My children do not live with me. I'm not sharing my account with strangers on the street or even friends. It is my children. If this is forced... I will cancel the account. In Netflix's perfect little world, maybe all family members live together... that just isn't the reality for most.
If your kids are on your tax return, they are part of your family and Netflix can take their service and shove it somewhere I can't say on here!
If they’re not living with you they should be able to afford their own account 🥂
@@MrGettemTV I think he's saying they live with his ex-spouse
@@MrGettemTV None of your business either way
I have the same tier and you just have to open an account for them but it's still under your plan. I think you can have 2 or 4. I'm not 100% outside of your household on that tier.
I literally just picked up a 4K BluRay player and was surprised how much better the image and especially the sound stage is. We have become so used to compression, crushed blacks, and “ok” audio that it diminishes the awe that movies can and should bring.
Streaming has diluted the movie and TV experience into something like unlimited ice cream with unlimited flavors. Sounds good but then the excitement of ice cream is now gone.
Watching physical media on one of todays high end TVs is an awe inspiring experience. The visuals of compressed video are subpar at best.
Facts - I decided to jump into 4k Blueray for to get the LOTR 4k releases. I was thunderstruck. It’s NOT the same.. even a 4k film on Apple ( by far the best service quality wise ) is only about 1/5th of the full experience. It got me thinking maybe I should build my collection of classic again on 4k Blu-ray. & don’t get me started about my Sonos sound bar. - it suddenly had a fit and I’m like.. oh shit is that what I bought 😳🤣
Been a physical viewer for years now and Blu Rays quality beats streaming hands down
Us collectors have known how bad streaming compression is compared to physical for years now
Sadly, the quality of the viewing experience is based on the quality of the media AND the quality of the equipment. Little soundbars do a pretty good job when you are just watching a sitcom or news ast, but to get the real theater experience, you need a serious sound system and a big screen. But the cost of such equipment, the procurement of Blu-Ray discs, and the space that must be dedicated is hardly worth the expense unless you have money to burn, a big house, and time on your hands.
Over the years I have collected over 2,000 DVD and Bluray discs. Now happy I did not get rid of them when streaming started. Streaming is just getting to expensive for ad free services. The golden days of streaming did not last very long.
Streaming TV didn' really click with me. I watched a few TV shows to binge watch and a few horrible 80s horror movies on Tubi, but I nixed my Netflix, Hulu and Disney streams because, I'd just sit there and scroll for too long before deciding there's nothing I want to see. Just like the days of Blockbuster, walking aisle to aisle looking for a movie that didn't appeal to me. So now, I just buy TV show boxsets and DVD/Bu-Ray movies. They're practically giving them away on eBay and Amazon.
Advertisements are back, Weekly Episode WAIT is back, high prices are back, nothing is in one place... yeah this is turning out to be worse than cable tv. Corpo greed is growing exponentially and need to stop, vote with your wallet folks!
Republican? Im all in...
Yeppa
I wonder if anyone from these media companies pays any attention to what viewers think/want. They'd learn a lot just by reading comments like these.
@@panzaverde20- You mean Republicans GREED…
Do you have an opinion on the fact that since most streaming companies don’t make money, these corporations are paying us to watch on their service?
This is why I believed in physical media for years and transfered all my collection to external hard drives. Now, whenever there's a show I want to watch again, or a movie, I just plug in the external hard drive and watch it, ad free, and convenient. Haven't paid for a streaming service since 2012.
Do the same thing with video games. People got subscription fatigue, especially in this economy
Keep your optical discs. Hard drives fail.
@@BillyBob-xv3fu trust me, I am! But I only keep the dvds around for burning and restoring.
I’m joining this movement now!
Downside is that you're not watching anything new
What I miss about cable/satellite is the instantaneous channel changing.
Netflix thought I would return after they started enforcing watching in the same house and no sharing of passwords, if anything they pushed me further away to find out better ways to stream content without a subscription. I was a loyal Netflix subscriber for over 10 years and was willing to pay since my daughters watched Netflix, as soon as they announced I canceled Netflix and haven't looked back since. Just pure greed and here we are today
Seeing ads, makes me hate that product and company.
Particularly when the ads are gross - Lume being the worst.
@@kellyf8215lmao “you’re gonna be leaking for days” 😂😂😂
Yeah generally almost all ads make me NOT want to go and buy whatever junk they sell
Lol yeah that's what some companies don't realize. When I see your same ads 30 times a day, I begin to feel resentful and I make a mental note to not buy anything from you ever.
The golden age has already finished in my opinion. Nearly a decade ago, in my country there was Amazon and Netflix. Everything you needed was on there, and you could get access to a variety of content with just one of those subscriptions.
Then all the studios wanted a piece, and chopped up the content map.
Fast forward to today, there is a range of options and you need subcriptions to all of you want to legally access your favourite shows and upcoming movies.
Adverts are just an extra insult.
Sad facts .. and it’s overwhelming
Yup back when they had a monopoly they could easily buy up shows for streaming for cheap. Other companies realized it was a bad deal selling streaming rights when they could just make their own.
Turns out having a streaming monopoly was better, who knew?
@@epiclamp44 it wasn't a bad deal, they were greedy and wanted more. At this point if they pooled all their content into one platform and charged what cable used to charge would be better for everyone involved.. but of course, huge monopoly issues would arise.
@@epiclamp44 Netflix was NEVER a monopoly, they were just trailblazers. A monopoly implies you had the ability to prevent competition from starting streaming services. And if they did, it implies you have the ability to kill them off with financial might or political connections. Netflix was just the first innovator in a new field, they never had monopolistic powers. If you want to see how awful a REAL monopoly is, come to my country. We have the worst internet, cellular network, cable service in the world and it's owned by 1 family.
the production cost idea is BS. I used to work in productions, the amount of money wasted as well as "wasted" is unbelievable, pay is great, craft services practically pisses away money, overtime is almost guarenteed, funds for paying off people in the areas of filming are tens of thousands of dollars.
And that's on a mid sized mini-series.
If you ever see a movie shoot on your block wait until they're about to start and start mowing your lawn. You can get over $100 a day just to sit in your house.
Omg! TYSM for this! I thought it was just me being off my rocker! It’s simply insane all these blasted streaming service options. Or is it simply a money grab like cable has become . Even VOD has ads that you can no longer FFWD to get past them. It’s like regular BKA cable TV. If you don’t record the program or series you’re currently into, you forget you can FFWD past the ads that just inundate every aspect of TV, no matter if it’s cable, VOD or streaming 😣 😡 😤!
There’s a definite upsurge in people I’m hearing are buying DVD’s instead of streaming as people discover that content they’ve purchased from a streaming provider has been pulled by the provider because their license has expired. Once again, greed has killed a good thing,
I purposely would not watch TV shows I was interested in, and would purchase them on DVD solely to avoid commercial ads.
I've started collecting blurays and dvds again. Right now all the big studios are trying to get out of making physical media, but there's at least a boutique industry for releasing discs that should keep the process afloat
I'm one of those people. One of many!
Yes back to buying the movies and making my own library.
Bought a 4k player and buying physical movies on a weekly basis. Oh how I missed it. Instead of browsing through endless libraries in search of something to watch, I actually buy movies that I will want to keep and rewatch. Remember those days when you picked up 2 movies to watch for the weekend from blockbusters or your local video rental store? Yeah, it's back. And it's glorious to be able to watch it in superior quality.
I also borrow movie discs from the local library too. It's a good way to see older movies that you never got a chance to see.
Yeah I hate many dvs aren't available
I do the same. But with Torrent 😂
Lmao high five@@gobbledygook5000
Weekly? Man that's going to be an expensive habit! I think it's time for you to join us in the high seas!
Thanks... You've capsulized the situation I was increasingly becoming aware of... and now they're going to scramble broadcast antenna TV.
The constant rate hikes, inconsistency of content, and ads on every service are what finally pushed me to start digitizing my physical media collection and starting a Plex server. I couldn't justify multiple $15 subscriptions to services where the shows I wanted kept moving around or disappearing, especially when I already own enough media to keep myself entertained. It's easy to see through what each of the streamers is trying to do to keep people subscribed -- for example Disney will have one Star Wars series end in May and the next start in June so a diehard fan won't cancel -- but if the quality of the experience keeps degrading, even that won't keep people around.
Streaming has become that boring and flooded with rubbish. The price increases and introduction of adverts was the end for me. So I'm back to building up my physical BluRay and 4K collection and having a lot more fun selecting the films I want to watch each month myself.
I'm just not interested in owning physical media. It becomes clutter for me. 10yr ago I converted my DVDs (those worthy of keeping) to h264 compressed content and stored in cloud. Today, I purchase some content in cloud so no ads (for now). TBH, at this point in my life I will deal with ads over cost in most scenarios.
Don't forget your local public/community libraries.
@@jbrickey incorrect, you are not purchasing content in the cloud, you are paying for access to content that can be taken away.
@@tylerrynberg ummmm, sure anything is possible but I'm not losing sleep over the possibility that Apple or Amazon may change their terms resulting in me losing access to a movie I purchased and watched 10 times. I will risk that in favor of decluttering my life. Too, I enjoy accessing my content pretty much anywhere vs. lugging DVDs and possibly a player, cables, etc. when I travel. But that is just me. To each their own.
I run a Jellyfin server with a whole bunch of digital movies all in HD or 4k with surround audio. Only streaming services we really use are the free ones (with ads of course) like PlutoTV and LG's channel service which runs mostly Pluto content.
Watching TV used to be free with commercials and we were fine with that, snack time and bathroom breaks etc. When we were first introduced to cable we were told if we paid for the services we would not have any commercials. Boy that was so nice watching MTV 24-7 without any interruptions. Then things started to change with 300 channels and nothing to watch with PPV costing extra. Time Warner was the provider that slickly started adding one by one commercials, now everything you watch is now PPV=Pay Per View. In 2024 we not only pay to watch TV but our 30 minute shows are really only 17 minutes of programming that we pay for. Streaming really cost more because you have to pay for the internet too.
I remember the worst channel ever was TNT when I had cable. It seemed like every 5 minutes they had 10 minutes of ads.
Free TV was really crappy. The quality was abysmal (bandwidth on the satellite costs money), they heavily cut the series and movies to make space for more commercials and they cut out english and other audio tracks to save on licenses.
Got rid of my VHS library pretty quickly that I built up over the years.
"When we were first introduced to cable we were told if we paid for the services we would not have any commercials. "
No. We were never told that. The only cable channels without ads were the premium movie channels. Every other station had ads from day one dating back to TBS and WGN.
". Boy that was so nice watching MTV 24-7 without any interruptions."
Except that never happened. MTV had ads right after "Video Killed the Radio Star"
"Free" TV was riddled with ads, sometimes overlaying the show you were watching. Cable was the worse, with ads AND you had to pay. Streaming is cheaper than cable unless you want to pay for all streaming services, and adding internet costs to the equation is dumb, you have internet anyway. Even if I were to have full Netflix+Prime+Paramount+Disney I would still pay less than the cheaper cable available, and internet? never had to improve my internet to watch streaming 24/7. Everybody says Streaming is going down for years, but only Disney is going down so far. Prime is so-so (good shows are behind a second paywall), and Netfilx is great. No complains.
I tried watching cable tv at a hotel a few weeks ago. Holy hell the ads are so loud and obnoxious and they show the same 5 commercials over and over again. I don’t remember cable being that bad when I was a kid or if comcast allows it while my old providers didn’t/normalized audio. Sometimes I couldn’t tell if we were watching the commercial or content unti a price showed up or something. If cable tv is allowed to ear rape me I don’t want it.
I am old enough to remember when there were just three channels and you had to watch shows when they were aired. That is what fuels water cooler discussions.
Back then the content on network TV was of much higher quality - not the endless junk available today. Not to mention the talent.
I want to thank the greedy streaming industry: you got me to GIVE UP watching TV. I now go outside, exercise, and interact with actual humans. F.U., streaming!!
I think the big thing to remember about this whole thing is the companies did this to themselves. Netflix started making originals precisely because every studio started withholding content because they decided they would rather have their own service than have someone else take a cut. In typical fashion, they just saw the extra profit and not the immense amount of work building the architecture of a streaming service from scratch, running it, promoting it, competing with everyone else, etc. Now that these same execs are crying that they are struggling to make it work, I can't say that I empathise. Same old story: Everyone thinks they are going to be the next Coca-Cola with their soda that is new but doesn't taste any better.
Coca Cola is horrible
Studios and content distributors did so due to shrinking profits from cord cutting. The internet/streaming blew up the cable TV business model, and you witnessed the knee jerk reaction to it. The music industry suffered a similar fate a couple decades ago.
Or maybe they just didn't want Netflix having a monopoly? You know that bad thing when a single company owns everything? Or is it suddenly good now?
I went back to the high seas. Also have my own raspberry pi VPN, if you're wondering. It's the ads, it's the random price increases, it's the fluff on all the streaming platforms that I don't care about. What surprises me though is, as far as I can tell, the kids (younger gen) aren't on the high seas, it's the same crew that was there back in the day, yet the supposedly tech forward kids are still not there. I guess someone needs to teach them how to download a car.
I'm gen z(early 2000s kid) and I sail the seas all the time. My dad was the one who showed me the ways.
It is simple economics. Best Buy offers external hard drives for as little as $15.50/Terabyte. An HD film is about 2 GB, so you can store the film for about 3 cents. If your internet connection has surplus bandwidth allowance, it doesn't cost extra to use it for downloading. Compared to monthly subscriptions, you would have to watch a whole lot of TV and movies to match that price. There are also no ads and you can keep your collection as long as you want.
I’m Gen Z and we are DEFINITELY sailing. Trust me. We are the brokest generation on the planet. We have no other option. But also, we aren’t big on Movies and mainstream media, most of the content we consume is on social media.
You can sit down with the kid, explain the entire process, and they will still look at you like you're crazy because that's "too much work" and they're lazy. Most of them don't own anything other than a phone anyways. If they can't tap a button and get what they want within 2 seconds, they won't do it. They don't have a chance sailing the seas. Saving 2 dollars isn't worth the time going through all the _torrent_ of information and processes to sail.
I can stream anything from Romania , 1 day after they appear on any streaming services in US. I'm lucky and i don't know how long is gonna last , but i never payed any subscriptions in my life , i live in Chicago now ..!!
If you think about it for a second, you know what you have to do as a media consumer.
Just remember the context of the original downfall of cable.
There's a virtual torrent of content out there. You just need to set sail and explore it.
I still have a dvd player. When I want to watch a movie, I order the dvd from Amazon. DVD’s are dirt cheap now, usually $5 to $10. Once you buy them, they’re yours forever.
Ads have destroyed everything. I refuse to watch them, mute the tv, make it a point to never purchase what is shown in the ad, not use the product hosting the ads, etc. CZcams is borderline unviewable at this point. Time to touch grass.
Get CZcams Vanced or Revanced. For free. I use it for 3 years already. No ads on CZcams whatsoever. For free.
If you know 3+ people who would be interested, I recommend splitting the cost of family CZcams Premium.
I pay $5 or less a month for no ads and free music streaming 👌
Cancelled a bunch of streaming I rarely watch and finally decided to pay for CZcams which I watch everyday.
Installing uBlock Origin takes less time than putting on clothes to go outside.
LMAO, it is an ultimate act of whiny cluelessness to say "Ads have destroyed everything". You experienced a unique brief period where ads were minimized due to a lot of speculative money floating around streaming services. That golden era is over, you're lucky it ever happened at all, so you may as well quit crying about it.
Canceling is not only streaming services but other subscriptions in general, including news media, software etc. The consumer is getting fatigued with the whole business model of “subscriptions”, including goofball subscriptions for heated seats for vehicles. Soaring food and housing (or mortgage) costs has placed many budgets under siege and people are just slashing to the bone. Not to say streaming subscriptions won’t bounce back but people will likely strip budgets to the bone and restart at base level to bring expenses under control.
open source software and retro tech ftw!
Totally agree. 👍
I think you nailed it down as much as you dared to. And, frankly, the ugly truth of it has been in front of our collective eyeballs for the past 15 months. There's no such thing as a free content viewing lunch. So, where to spend my anti-ad content viewing dollars? Maybe it's time to put that money to work where it offers a return. Like an IRA. And maybe it's time to get reacquainted with reading, talking to my neighbors, hanging out with friends, or finding a better hobby than watching increasingly bad productions.
It has come to the point where it is becoming cheaper to buy DVD sets, while they last,
then to pay a streaming subscription anymore. With all the ads now on streaming
services, using over the air antenna TV has started to become the new
'cable cutting' thing. I mean, if you are going to see ads anyway via a paid
for streaming service, why bother? You can get the same ad filled content for free via
an antenna connected to a TV with a tuner. Also, there are free streaming services like
Pluto TV that have ads but don't cost you anything and which broadcast
a ton of content.
One thing a lot of people don't realize is this is how all new businesses start. Remember when a Lyft was $3 to get across town and now it is $30 to get across the street. People forget the early days of Netflix streaming was older movies and TV shows where the catalog was not that expensive. Cable started the same way. One of the biggest sells was that there were no commercials and no antenna. However, early stations like USA and TBS were just showing reruns of Leave It To Beaver and old John Wayne westerns. Once they were forced to create original content to be competitive they began adding commercials.
High interest rate environment means hedge funds can't keep pumping free money into companies that don't actually make a profit. This business model of rapid growth being their only plan was doomed from the start. We never should have gotten what we did and now those companies are feeling the brunt of training the customer base to expect what we had. Don't be sad that it's over, just be glad that it happened. Digital storage space is cheaper than ever before, so best strategy would be to just hoard copies of physical media on a cheap NAS and be your own streaming service
The difference being. When netflix originally started. They hosted content that was made by just about every big mainstream studio or publisher. You paid a your sub fee and you had access to a lot of things. Then everyone started pulling their content off netflix so they could host it on their own streaming platforms and the whole idea of paying for multiple streaming platforms wasnt something that was ever going to last in this day and age so under that premise alone the bubble was going to burst. Now you pay for a service and you still get ads... so why bother paying?
Remember when Netflix was going to spin off it's streaming, and they lost like 30% of their subscription base. Whoops. 😂
@@Rose.Of.Hizakimost companies had no understanding of streaming. They just sold the license to their programming. Also, Netflix originally just gave streaming away for free. Sure, it wasn't the curated library it is today, but it was free, and you needed a decent internet connection to run it
@@dgrblue4162 It wasnt free. You still needed to pay $5.99 to access it. That $5.99 was for their DVD subscription business. So streaming was included as part of the package when it became available. And as you said... Needed a good internet connection to run it.
Multiple price increases and an oversaturation of subscription services has killed streaming.
So these ads you refer to on the TV itself, are they downloaded over the air or only if the TV is connected to the internet?
Would a Pi hole setup dump the ads on a streaming TV? Just curious, thinking about setting it up at home.
I just pulled my Blu-ray player out ,every time you turn around Netflix is talking about another rate increase!
They will happen like this because execs now have a button that says "more money" then can press anytime. Since shareholders demand growth every single quarter, that's either got to come from (1) lower costs, (2) more subscribers, or (3) increased prices. Given that option (2) has started stalling, they're gonna hit (1) and (3) now to hit their quarterly targets.
At least ads will never infiltrate my huge DVD, Blu-ray and 4k Blu-ray collection that I've been building for the last 22 years. If I watch ads I will watch them for free with my antenna or Pluto TV. I haven't paid for TV since 2008. The corporate greed was terrible back then and it's worse today.
how many of those discs have unskippable ads at the beginning?
@@joelfaceNone. I have a huge amount of physical media, too. It takes 3 seconds to skip past any promos with the chapter advance button.
My parents have an entire closet in their basement that's full of dvds and vhs tapes
All physical media forms do have a lifespan though. It'd be wise to back up that physical media on a hard drive, or some kind of cloud storage.
Your point is weak tho, as building a 4k blu-ray collection in itself cost 10X more than paying 12 bucks a month for Netflix... I mean one blu-ray is 30$, so of course you can go the i'm rich and can buy every movie route. But it remains fairly limited (you probably only have like max 300 movies to choose from compared to catalogues of thousand of things), and is super expensive.
I cancelled my cable tv service in 2023 and bought an amazon fire cube. I then cancelled several apps/channels that I was not watching very often. Finally, I bought a Motorola modem and returned my Comcast modem. I have not signed up for a live tv streaming service such as Sling TV, CZcams TV, etc. Because of these steps I am saving approximately $100.00 a month vs what I was paying when I had cable.
Worth noting as a historical footnote, around 2009-ish, Apple was reportedly pushing the studios for an a-la-carte offering for Apple TV where users could pick which channels they wanted to add. The studios declined, as many of them also held music content sold through iTunes. While the concept of 99 cents per song had dramatically cut down on piracy, the studios had lost the very lucrative CD album sales model because of it and had no desire to see that also happen with their movie and television content.
I didn't have any streaming services until about 4 yrs ago when I had to retire and since I am disabled, I don't get out much. I started watching movies/shows on streaming. I agree there is SO MUCH content, I have to keep a list of things I could possibly be interested in. I hate dealing w/commercials so I had gotten into the habit of just recording shows and watching them later and forwarding through the commercials. That is one of the things I liked most about streaming. That and the ability to watch at my leisure. It should not be all that surprising that things will change and change a lot. Heck, I am old enough to remember when there were only 3 channels + PBS to watch and stations went off the air about 1am.
You absolutely nailed it. I'm so sick of the corporate greed. Cord cutting will be replaced with stream cutting. I'm done!
greed? what greed, did u watch the video? he said they are not even making money!
@@sumomaster5585 They're all owned by major corporations that are, in fact, making boatloads of money.
@@joelface I'm not here to defend billionaire corps, but common sense dictates you wouldn't run a unit that's always losing you money now would you?
@@sumomaster5585 you’re right. But I suspect that it’s more about wanting continual “growth” rather than simply preventing losing money. They need to constantly prove to investors that they should keep investing with them, so they need to try to show that they’ll keep increasing in value. It leads to a business model that gets less and less affordable over time.
Modern mainstream media bad, Video Games on SNES good!
This was a really great take. I love your journalism style. So many great points being made. Very conversational
I tried numerous indoor antenas, the thing is when a channel has no signal, it makes the other channels stop working and when I switch to netflix or prime tv or CZcams, those apps don't work in the TV, so I have to disconnect the TV so I can have the signal back.
Do you know why that happens?
Sincerely,
Reina
Brooklyn, NYC
13:22 Disney already added Hulu into Disney Plus, HBO already added Discovery Plus into Max, and Peacock and Paramount already discussed a merger. Consolidation is not a matter of time but rather its already been happening lol
The difference between the first two and the latter is that the same company owns both platforms so merging the two services makes financial sense. The latter is a way for both companies to get a larger consolidated user base just to be competitive. Disney owns Hulu and Discovery now owns WB so they are trying to reduce overhead to stop hemorrhaging subscribers and money.
@@jokingtigerin other words they are consolidating.
@@BMar1andonlyTechnically yes, but two streaming providers under the same corporate umbrella coming together means basically nothing for us consumers. The one you mentioned that could be interesting is Peacock and Paramount Plus coming together. That could really start the ball rolling towards something that looks like Netmaxhuluparacock Prime +
I don’t care about ads or streaming costs. People is stopping to watch tv because of bad content. Most of it is garbage
i have found that the "garbage" is the most watched things. It is all a matter of taste. But in general , I can find something worthwhile.
@@donny1960 truth
Totally. Cultural stagnation.
@@iRelevant.47.blacklisted Just seems that part of the audience is stagnated. There is great content out there. Just have to have the ability to appreciate it.
Great video, I think you hit the nail on the head eventually things are going to merge and costs are going to go up and even if they don't merge costs are going to go up.
Back on physical media now. The 4k disc player which also upscales blu rays is just fantastic.
True Dolby vision and atmos on my surround sound. What a difference it is compared to the lower quality compressed streaming. I avoid watching films on streaming apps wherever i can now.
How that 40$ per BR movie goes for ya?🤣🤣🤣🐑🐑🐑 Go Mark you really showed em 🤦♂️🤣
I’ve some good results with a few streaming platforms where 4K actually looks decent. Netflix seems to be the worst offender though.
if you are buying a limited edition steel book maybe. which im not... dont pretend like that arent any other options...@@nelinjo
streaming has certainly got a lot better. its not just about how it looks though, the sound is the biggest improvement. but compare it side to side and the picture is a lot less, especially the colours. the streaming platforms dont have any specific settings like your player does too. the picture is so smooth, you really notice the difference when you go back to streaming. for many people its fine, some watch stuff through their tiny TV speakers, but for proper movie lovers, they spend a lot of money on their set up, its their passion. would be a waste to spend all that and to watch very low compressed streaming. dont forget a 4k disc can hold up to 100 GB on it. even an old music CD is way more superior to music streaming apps. @@zeroturn7091
@@nelinjo He could be just pirating the movies and burning them onto his BD-Rs, you never know...
A lot of what you've said is right on. However, I wouldn't agree that there are "so many absolutely amazing shows". That's one reason a lot of people (myself included) started buying Blu Rays & DVDs again.
If you are at all selective about the kinds of shows you watch, there aren't that many choices.
Yeah I agree with your sentiment about the quality of shows these days. It just feels like shows are now trying to be super dramatic and serialized. I miss shows like The Twilight Zone or Simpsons, which focused more on the actual writing and ideas rather than trying to create a long-running serialized story that's been done through and over at this point.
Since Netflix removed my first movie I watched on their service (Naked Fear 2007) I started to realize this whole “Stop buying physical media - this is ALL going to be on streaming services soon!”-Nonesense is going to leave me as movie and series lover in the dust.
I’m not so into new releases. If I’m getting into a good show like Bo Jack Horseman or Breaking Bad I keep coming back to rewatch it over and over.
Every movie and sitcom I like to watch multiple times per year is in my well kept 500+ DVD & Blu Ray collection from 7 decades.
If streaming and TV is going to get worse and worse in cost and quality of the content I already have my own library of movies and series.
My biggest complaint has been a mix of how content I'm in the middle of watching suddenly goes away and/or it just doesn't work for no apparent reason - either complaining your TV isn't HDCP capable when it is, or like on a trip Vudu complained "incompatible browser" nomater what we tried so we literally could not watch what we'd paid for. We've gone back to buying DVDs every few months and cancelled all the streaming services (I guess except Amazon Prime, but we never used that for streaming really anyway, its because I have the old Prime shipping that didn't require payment-sharing to share perks)
Amazon streaming now charging for no ads for $3 with crap content is ridiculous
hmm. but. if you don't / can't have an antenna ... cable is a must if you want access to local channels, sports... and if you're visually challenged and used to a Simple channel guide ... those I've seen on streaming services are not not. user-friendly IMHO ... graphics are too darn Small.
.. I need a guide I can See, anyone hava suggestion?
.and.. dis guy's just droning on and on... not impressive ...
Right I was watching and saw an ad and was like am I on prime? After they already raised the price!!
@kc9kel On Sony TVs there is a channel guide that covers cable but also streaming channels.
The second they added the "pay to get rid of commercials, and ALL shows will have commercials now" a few months ago, I called Amazon and CANCELLED the app. I kept Prime, but since I no longer do the app, they refunded me $80 of the $140 Prime bill.
Amazon's content is a shadow of its former self. It's massively declined.
As someone who works behind the curtain in the cable/entertainment industry, it was only a matter of time before the ads found streaming. I am old enough, really old, when cable had limited ads when rolled out to towns in the 70’s and early 80’s. Ads followed. The studios who counted on the cable providers (Cox, Comcast, Spectrum, Etc..) to pay ‘per subscriber fees’ to them, now find themselves with a hole in their budgets from the cord cutters. Follow the money, this is their way of getting those dollars back.
Good take! How about that Lincoln lawyer though? I read one of the books and it was good (not sure if there are more). Maybe I should watch the show?
You're killing me, CZcams! I can't click out of the 6 to 15 second ads you've inserted!
yes, the reason we had commercials in the first place, was to pay for the free over the air tv. Now it is just to line the pockets of CEO's and wealthy stock owners.
Yep, went to cable long ago because it was ad free. It will never end.
That’s not really true. There are a lot of costs that the streaming providers incur, so obviously they need to make a profit to stay in business. Also, the content that the present needs to be licensed, and the content providers keep raising their rates. That’s why you periodically see notices from your streaming provider about a channel that may disappear from the service if they cannot negotiate a new deal.
Content costs money to produce.
@@RbNetEngrBut how much though? And how is that money split up? I see all these people like content creator of this video shilling for big corporations needing money when the truth is that they are raking in profits and paying out millions to their shareholders ceos and so on.
Ramping up prices for no reason is a very well known tactic. If advertisers, content producers, content providers and hell even actors can get away with it they will just say it costs more when it really doesn’t more, they are just spending more on unnecessary things and more on people who think they are entitlement to be richer than rich.
Bottom line, It’s quite easy. Where I live, I am currently paying for netflix, hulu, prime, disney plus and apple tv plus and they all have great content that I support with about 10 to 15 dollars per month which cost me shy of 60 dollars per month all in all. That is acceptable for the quality and quantity of content. However if the start jacking up prices more, removing features, bringing in ads, I will just cancel and start torrenting again. It is that easy. VPNs are cheap and internet is fast and doesn’t have any restrictions on how much you download where I live.
@@RbNetEngr FINALLY, someone can see the big picture. Yes, streaming has costs too, and they aren't giving you the service for free. Also, as consumers leave a specific streaming service, that service's income goes down, but their costs don't, so the remaining users may get a price increase to cover the costs the service still incurs.
@@RbNetEngr I don't think @TheFeist77 is talking about streaming or even cable. Originally you bought a tv and an antenna and picked up just a handful of tv stations for free, with commercials that paid for it. And that was absolutely true.
And meanwhile all the hardcore pirates have switched to streaming sites with every show imaginable from all platforms and no ads
Those streaming sites do contain ads when you click on play tho…..
but after some pop ups you’re good to go.
@@bodigamesIt depnds how good your Ad-Blockers are
Unless you're looking for sports, good pirates don't use streaming websites 😉
Honestly, with the world as it is and various economies and financial situations changing constantly and rarely for the better I think we have definitely seen the height of streaming through the pandemic at that time is over and it's only going to go down from here as things consolidate.
I think eventually we'll get to a manageable few reasonably priced and well stocked streaming services but until then I'm fine with libraries, various online sources and the high seas.
We saw the promise and it was the only glimpse that we'll ever get.
Like he said the age of cord cutting as a viable option is pretty much done.
We have to take the options we got and it's all about how much money you want to put toward it. Options will become more limited but hopefully it will make the decision making all the more streamlined and simple.
The irony of commercials interrupting this video...
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I dropped cable around 2009, way before it was the thing to do. Everyone looked at me like I had three heads. “You don’t have TV?” “What do you do?” I hate commercials, so it wasn’t a tough decision. All of the TV shows I had watched had their series finales and since I had stopped watching live TV, and had fast forwarded through all of the commercials, I didn’t have anything new to watch. Best decision I ever made.
I had cable for a couple of years in the early 90s before dumping it.
Where I lived in London UK the original model as you choose individual channels you want, and paid $1-2 per channel/month.
After a couple of years they started "packaging" channels, so to the the ones I wanted I had to also get 2-4 others I didn't want. That meant to get the channels I wanted I'd be paying 3-4x as much - so I dumped cable.
With the money I saved I was able to rent or buy DvDs, and still have my collection of DvDs that started back then.
@@ziploc2000 I have quite the DVD collection myself, somewhere around 600 individual disks. I have now consolidated them out of their packaging and into two binders which I watch on occasion. I do have more than a few streaming platforms, though, so I may have ultimately traded one problem for another.
I quit tv after 2011, also quitted following football at the same time, two of the best decisitions I have made. All of the time wasted in both activities (I didnt even played football, so it even wasnt something that represented me).
The only exception I made was when someone was watching early Simpsons chapters, that were still transmited here in early 2010's
Yup, I ditched cable about that time as well, at first I thought it would be difficult to do without, but I found alternatives and, I haven't missed it.
@@wendyash6915 A quick and dirty count suggests I have 1,000-1,500 DvD cases, many of which have multiple disks - e.g. the boxed sets of Aliens, Resident Evil, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Buffy etc. 😁
I have bought 7 movies on Amazon Prime, one of which I also have on DvD so no idea why I bought it twice. The rest were not available on DvD at the time.
In Australia, cable sucks because they throw in ad breaks multiple times throughout an episode and those ad breaks total up to as much time as the content (with longer and more frequent breaks towards the end of a movie or show), exactly how it is on free to air tv. So in that regard, streaming services are still superior. And cable is a set schedule that you have to record to watch back at your convenience. And then there's piracy...
A part of the switch to streaming that you overlooked was it was in response to content piracy. Any service that makes it easier to get content legally will always reduce piracy. Valve's Steam service did that for games. Netflix did that (for a time) for movies and tv shows but I'm once again seeing many people online saying they're going back to piracy now because it's easier to find stuff to watch than having to search and pay for multiple services. And when you throw in the pain of only specific non-sequential seasons being on one service and the rest on another, that makes piracy even more appealing. I think the companies have forgotten the commercial pain of that peak piracy era and it's about to come back and smash them in the face again.
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Used to pirate a lot, steam has definitely changed me, I'm glad steam is still pro consumer
I just ended up cancelling everything and turning off the TV. Screw them. Went back to physical media -- and free from my local library to boot. Never looked back.
Love the old receiver and integrated amp in the background. Also, the KEF 105’s
As an economist (who actually never cut the cord), you are spot on with all your points. Poignant point about the loss of shared experiences when at work we could discuss last nights episode 4 of “Lost” and our reactions and predictions. Great video!
I work in digital advertising and it’s terrifying all the info these companies have on us. I was once pitched digital ads on Tizen and those guys know so much about one person with their TV. I love Samsung TV’s but ads are so invasive now. All my TV’s are offline and prefer using Apple TV.
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I use apple tv exclusively because of this as well
That sounds good to me but don’t understand. Wouldn’t the Apple TV be Online?
@@vroom6490Apple TV is online but it doesn't have ads and it doesn't give the information back to Samsung. I guess Apple is the one tracking, but compared to Samsung, I trust them more.
@@vroom6490They don’t collect your data the same way or at all.
Great recap!! We said consolidation at the same time!! There are way too many servers. To stay afloat, they must group up.
I am wondering how you map the AI generated on demand text to video content creation that will be done by the consumer(s) and Napster style sharing between people cutting the studios, actors and streaming providers out of the loop.
I saw the writing on the wall back in 2020 when prices starting going up during the pandemic and services were cutting content. After I couldn't find my favorite movie anywhere on streaming I started heavily collecting physical media. Four years later I now have 4,500 movies and 250 television shows on Blu-Ray, DVD and 4K. I now only have Apple+ and Prime, I'm canceling Apple this weekend after I finish Masters of the Air and canceling Prime when the annual plan expires in July. It's strange cutting out streaming because back when I cut cable I thought streaming would be the future.
Yes. During the pandemic.
I don't understand. At a cost of, let's say, ten dollars per DVD you would have paid at least 45,000 dollars over the last four years. Streaming would have been significantly cheaper.
@@squishybrain DVDs are NOT that expensive. You can easily find large packs of DVDs at thrift stores (physical or online) for like 20 dollars, and I don't even think a lot of DVDs are that expensive at grocery stores (BluRays would). But even without that, the access to content matters the most, not necessarily the price.
This is why I love my physical media.. 1,700+ movies that I love to enjoy... I cut most of my streaming services only a few left for my wife and kids. It was way too much a month. We're down to 3, Hulu, peacock, and Paramount Plus. All the other streaming services are gone
Why Paramount+, if I may ask? If Inhad to start up the chopping block, P+ would be one of the first to go
@@Arander92 there is a lot of shows in movies that my kids watch on there. If it were up to me it would be on the chopping block as well. I think peacock has more to offer, especially for WWE fans. And Hulu. I do enjoy some of their original content. But if I could, I would give the ax to all the streaming services and just live off of my physical media collection. I could watch TV shows or movie for the next 2 and 1/2 years and maybe I would peek out on my collection.
@@movie_av_impulse I see. Perhaps I’m simply biased. I’m currently harboring a deep hatred for P+ for ruining Halo with the Halo show, and other than Bar Rescue and Top Gun Maverick (which I’ve seen like 6 times already) there’s really nothing on there that’s worth keeping for me.
And while I am pissed about Netflix’s password sharing crackdown, unfortunately it’s too essential. There’s always SOMETHING interesting to watch on Netflix(the power of licensing content), and I’m still waiting for Arcane season 2, not to mention Stranger Things 5
Doubt because if you have outages streaming services like paramount+ still allow download content onto your device. This also handy if travel for living by train or due car pool with kids.
You are right, I had everyone during the pandemic. I now only have Netflix (wife) and Prime because it comes with delivery. I also have gotten back to what caused me to cancel TV back in the 90s which was it took longer to find something to watch then the show played ...ie commercials. It is now taking me more time to look for something to watch then my interest in watching something. I also find even though I may like what I am watching, at a certain amount of commercials I stop watching. I literally turn it off.
In addition to all of the points you made, it's very annoying that seasons have become shorter (10 or fewer episodes) and it's YEARS in between seasons when it used to be a few months. People might be inclined to keep their subscription going if the wait was only for a few months vs. a few years.
I agree with this completely. They say the cost of production went up. Yet the number of episodes per season aren't even half what they used to be and it often takes 2+ years to get new seasons. With that being said their costs are the same (probably lower) as before yet they want to bend us over with bullshit ads and higher sub prices!
I’d rather watch limited series these days - as you can’t be sure that multi season mini series won’t end up being cancelled before the story is completed.
Love seeing "Security" by Peter Gabriel on display behind you! One of the first digitally recorded albums!
EDIT: This is a great video. I too think that the "Splatter technique" of making content (just throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks) is gonna go away again for a while. There are almost no shows anyone is actively talking about across pop culture anymore. Everything is too fragmented and its too overwhelming/expensive to keep up with all of it. With so many different services, piracy will just fluctuate more than it ever has. Its a big problem. The film industry is seeing it too. I guess we'll just have to see how things go, I'm not holding my breath that this will end up in favor of consumers though. As of late, its rare that basically anything goes in favor of consumers.
so nice that the 2 videos I might like showed up for less than 2 seconds to even see.
The problem is people who continue to pay for appalling service.
Maybe to them is not appalling. Ever think of that? You are not bound to watch anything. Don't blame those that enjoy what they get. There is no obligation what so ever to try and appease you.
@@donny1960 That is a terrible argument. Some people may enjoy literal dog poop instead of the food they paid for. Should the rest of us set our standards so low because they enjoy something dreadful?
@@matbroomfield You negate your own argument. You enter the conversation as if you and only you know the difference about everything. "Standards" in tastes and gaming experience is relative. This debate is long over. Somehow Civilization survived some people disliking a computer game. It was close but we pulled through. Do or don't buy or play or even acknowledge the existence of whatever you want. Those that do....do. Those that do not....... Whine about it.
@@donny1960 Taste in gaming may vary, (and I think the word you were looking for is "subjective" not "relative", but there are broad consensuses about what makes a good game, otherwise reviews would be pointless, and bad games would never bomb.
"Those that do....do. Those that do not....... Whine about it."
That really is a quite spectacularly flaccid line of reasoning.
By this, anyone who is unsatisfied with anything is a whiner, and anyone who accepts garbage, is a doer. Can you genuinely not see anything wrong with that line of reasoning?