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Raising prices you say? Oh that's too bad. (lemmy.zip)

submitted 8 months ago by jeze3D@lemmy.zip to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] FatTony@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago

Context?

[-] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Maybe that SkyShowtime - being inspired by the likes of of Netflix and Amazon Prime - announced it'll be raising prices and adding an ad-powered "cheaper" tier.

Streaming services have become what cable was all those years ago: ad-powered, overpriced, low quality entertainment.

[-] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Don't forget that it's split up between 20 or more services that all cost $12-15 now.

So they'll market it to you as 4,000 shows and 2,000 movies or 80,000 hours of content (or whatever number/metric) for just $12, but it'll really turn into $80+/month for the 2 shows and 4 movies you'd actually enjoyed that month and hundreds of hours wasted on subpar content to justify renting instead of just buying said shows and movies (if you even can anymore). Then you'll binge them again the next time you have a sick day or are feeling burnt out because they were the things that were good enough to take your mind off life, further narrowing the price gap between renting/streaming and buying

So basically exactly like the "Premium" cable packages that came with the 2 channels, each with 2-3 shows, that you actually cared about per package.