Awesome. I have some extra cash I need to burn on monthly subscriptions. It better cost more than $15 too
Those people can continue using cable as they always have or subscribe and never unsubscribe. Depending on how you watch your shows you can save a boatload of money doing it this way. The companies are just banking on people signing up for it and forgetting about it.Lmao these companies are literally pushing people towards piracy again. Sad!
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Nobody wants to subscribe to multiple services every month just to watch a bunch of exclusives.
HBO has shamefully low bitrate in so called “HD” quality.
But now you can pick which shows you want to watch and only subscribe to those streaming services that are needed whereas before you would be paying a lot more for channels you likely never touched.This streaming nonsense is gonna end like the 1983 video game crash. Everyone can’t be in this game churning out crap, people aren’t going to flock to this nonsense.
Lmao these companies are literally pushing people towards piracy again. Sad!
So my $15 to HBO a month isn’t enough. I need to add another service to get more originals?
I would agree if the pricing (which hasn't been revealed) is reasonable.I don't understand the negativity. More streaming services means more options. Easy to subscribe and cancel. Subscribe when you want it, cancel when you don't.
Here's my announcement: Arrr, I'm sailing to open waters!
Want to watch The Office? Subscribe to NBC.
Want to watch Friends? Subscribe to HBO Max.
Want to watch SomethingThatThey'llPullFromNetflixSoon? Subscribe to BrandNewStreamingService.
10 bucks here, 10 bucks there, 10 bucks over there and in the end you'll end up paying like 100 bucks a month if you want to legally watch the things you like.
I don't mind paying like 30 bucks total for subscriptions a month. Music (Apple Music/Spotify), Movies/TV (Netflix), Something else like YouTube Premium (No ads on mobile) and iCloud/Google One storage.
If there's something missing from the services I subscribe to, I'll just watch it somewhere else, that may not be so legal. At this rate it's seriously becoming easier to just torrent something than to find where you can stream it legally. Oh and don't forget that it may not be available in your country. If X movie is available in the US, it may not be available in the UK and crap like that.
Bingo. The MR article is misses all the shenanigans that AT&T is pulling here:My guess is all this content will be pulled from all other services.
AT&T is making Time Warner shows exclusive to HBO Max even though it told government officials that it would continue to distribute Time Warner content as widely as possible.
In December 2016, when AT&T was seeking government permission to buy Time Warner, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson told a Senate antitrust subcommittee the following:
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Nor is there any reason to believe we could use Time Warner programming or AT&T networks to hurt related markets. Simply put, it would be irrational business behavior to do so. Time Warner's programming is more valuable when distributed to as many eyes as possible. Moreover, in order to have great programming, it is imperative that we attract great creative talent to develop it. The best way to attract that talent is through widespread distribution of Time Warner content.
More streaming options isn't beneficial especially in cases like with the creation of WarnerMedia which allowed AT&T to control a large amount of content - followed by making them exclusive to their own service which is what happened here. It would be better for consumers if the content was made available on more services.I don't understand the negativity. More streaming services means more options. Easy to subscribe and cancel. Subscribe when you want it, cancel when you don't.
Netflix's biggest problem is that viewers prefer other studio's library titles, especially younger viewers. Depending on the demographic, only 25-33% of the views on Netflix are Netflix Originals. And unlike library catalog like The Office and Friends, Netflix Originals are far less rewatched.Here's my announcement: Arrr, I'm sailing to open waters!
Want to watch The Office? Subscribe to NBC.
Want to watch Friends? Subscribe to HBO Max.
Want to watch SomethingThatThey'llPullFromNetflixSoon? Subscribe to BrandNewStreamingService.
I don't understand the negativity. More streaming services means more options. Easy to subscribe and cancel. Subscribe when you want it, cancel when you don't.
Dude, if you are *only* paying $50.00/mo, inside of two years, you'll *only* be paying $75-80 per month for less, or $100+/mo for more, and in "more" I mean stuff you don't want.I’m kinda the opposite. I don’t mind paying multiple services for my media. I have several streaming/subscription services and I pay like $50/month which is still less than I used to pay for cable. And some of my subscriptions are just for a few months like when I get Fubo for NFL season.
LOL And remember how fast the channels changed back then? You could actually surf. Now you switch a channel, and between buffering and whatever else it's trying to do... forget it. Back in the day I could click past 20 channels in 10 seconds and now what was on each. Now it takes 5 seconds for something to load.Someone needs to bundle all these streaming services together and give me an easy way to switch between them. Maybe a box that sits on top of your TV with little switches to press. That's the ticket! Sign me up!
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