Yeah I can agree with that. I am spoiled where I live and have a fantastic locally run internet company with Fiber Optic for dirt cheap. The budget tier is 300mb/s down and up with no data cap. I don’t think we've ever come close to maxing it out with 2 tvs running 4k content.
No, I didn't. I covered it right here:
I just went into details with the SW side of things as HW is highly dependent on the user, what they want and need, what they already have, I didn't really didn't see a point getting into that. SW is a lot easier, as everyone with a Mac and an ATV already has everything they need to start their media server.
How much is 5 years? 5 years of ATV+? or 5 years of all the major streaming services?
I’m assuming you mean TB not GB? Sounds like an awesome setup.
You are correct. That’s what I get typing too quickly, so I can eat my lunch.
Not as nice as many others I see posting on the forum, but pretty good for the amount I spent on it, but it does use a lot of energy.
Thanks for this! I had no idea my AMEX offered this. Just switched my sub over to my AMEX to get the $7 credit each month! Appreciate it!
This was obvious about 5 years ago. Did anyone really think that a direct to consumer approach would result in lower prices over the long term?
They often do (at least in a brick and mortar retail context, unless it’s a vendor like Apple with strict MSRP pricing), but apparently not in streaming.
That bit about yearly subscriptions is actually a really good idea. Well, maybe Netflix is in major need of capital on a rotating basis and couldn’t afford to have most of its users pay annually, but the other players certainly have enough access to credit that driving annual subscriptions won’t hurt their access to short term operational cash (assuming their corporate holdings aren’t enough to just bankroll the regular recurring expenses without any input from the streaming service). It’s a great way to keep people subscribed between new releases and to keep people going down the long tail of back catalogue content (since they’re paying for it).
I have a Prime account for the 2 day shipping, but I’ve never once used any of the additional Prime services (except I’ve watched a show on Prime maybe once or twice) and the Prime service add on for Kindles. I honestly hear from other people far less about shows on Amazon Prime than I do Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+, or even Apple TV+. Among my extended social network, Prime Video seems to be the least popular of the major streaming services.
Yes, my nme is Jeff Bezos and I encourage you to purchase 10 years of Prime as well as a minimum of £200,000 per year spend on ALL Amazon products. I need money for fuel for my phallic shaped rocketsI have a Prime account for the 2 day shipping, but I’ve never once used any of the additional Prime services (except I’ve watched a show on Prime maybe once or twice) and the Prime service add on for Kindles. I honestly hear from other people far less about shows on Amazon Prime than I do Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+, or even Apple TV+. Among my extended social network, Prime Video seems to be the least popular of the major streaming services.
Edit: Is that you, Jeff Bezos?
True, I was more thinking ahead I guess. She doesn’t need any tv for a few years.
I used to work in an industry with a lot of cross platform solutions involving traditional cable subs. When you get a chance to see the way content companies package their assets and the correlating pricing envelopes it becomes (became) clear where streaming was heading. Even five years ago, to build out a standard "cable package" worth of channels with streaming solutions cost damn near as much as the cable package itself, plus was miraculously more convoluted. The old "a bunch of crap you don't even watch" adage is also just as true on streaming as it is on cable. You notice the other important throwback? You're going to pay for your channels even when they are being subsidized by advertisements. Netflix was a gateway drug and now that the dealers have everyone from us "tech nerds" to our grandmas on their product, it's time to start jacking up the price. What especially sucks is that the streaming product is 8/10 times of a lower quality than obtaining the stream illicitly.
You can see my response to someone else for more information but what you have mentioned here is the tried and true "it's premium, Bro" shtick. Without any discounts what would those three services cost you now, today? $27? Plus at least some portion of what you pay for "dumb pipe" access, i.e your ISP? And for what? So you can watch Bad Boys on the fly? The value proposition hinges on cultural phenomena (see Game of Thrones) and then months of people forgetting to cancel their subscriptions. That isn't a conspiracy, its quite literally baked into the business models. These services are also leveraged to hook you into other services as a type of...what's that old axiomatic stand by when it comes to cable packages? Ah yes, the bundle. Don't even get me started on what an unmitigated disaster sports are on streaming services.
