This could become a sea change in the way people pay for their media. The current thinking seems to be that people will subscribe to a couple of services for a year, that they’ll pay for Netflix and Amazon, or Netflix and Disney, etc. If these services offer a month-by-month subscriptions, and as more people get used to binge watching as a way to consume their media, there could be a move to people swapping subscriptions on a monthly basis.
That's one way to do it. In the era of cable contracts, it wasn't too hard to wiggle out of one if you complained about price and service quality. Everything has gotten more competitive. I pay roughly the same now as I did 10 years ago but get much more because even while my ISP provides cable and net, they're competing with other services that aren't cable. They also offer their own IPTV box now if you want it and a la carte packaging.
Though Prime Video is baked into your Prime subscription. At least in the US. I don't know about other countries.
A new Marvel movie release on Disney+ could see people take it subscription to that for a month, catching up on the content they haven’t seen then subscribing to Netflix the following month for the to watch the new Stranger Things series, and switching to Apple TV+ the month after for the new content over there and HBO the month after that.
The days of $100 per-month cable bills could be reduced to $7-$15 a month if people start switching services as new programming is released. Personally I’m on a month on/month off with Netflix and It’s halved my Netflix bill for the year.
“Chasing the new content” could become the new “cord cutting”
Though such frequent changes may trigger an abuse in these companies' systems.
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For those of you who still have a cable bill, what is worth the $100/month you are paying for that service?
250+ channels not including music channels and baked in HBO, Showtime, Live Sports in HD, etc. plus 400 Mbps down internet and three DVRs. I pay around $130/month. Going to gig internet will cost us an extra $15 a month or so but we really don't need it. It would be cool to say I have it, but that's it really. We pay an extra $60ish a month for an international satellite so we can get British, Italian, French, German, and other European channels. Some Australian and South American, too. It's like 200ish channels, I think. We subscribe to Prime and Netflix HD or whatever it's called.
Sounds expensive, but it's cheaper than how much we paid for renting or buying show sets prior to this.
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That is not good news. Guess I will have to continue to rely on the current copies that I have. Speaking of which, I need to put a hard drive copy of them in the safety deposit box. Star Wars Day is coming up on May 4th.
I've got VHS of the first few movies. Only to realize I have no way of digitizing it.
