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tst123@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits

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tst123@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Streaming TV costs are now higher than cable packages, says a new analysis. It follows warnings that a “crash” was...
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    Still better than dealing with ads. That’s my red line.

    I absolutely refuse to watch programming with ads, free or paid. I won’t do it. My time is limited and I’m not every going to willingly hand over a portion of my life to advertisements.

    I’m never going back. If ad-free options go away or become too expensive, I’ll simply stop watching shit. There isn’t a price at which ad-supported programming becomes attractive.

    I’d love to see the Weird Al movie. I won’t, however, because Roku won’t let me pay to watch it.

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      So watch it pirated. They get $0 either way.

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        I fucking love Al.

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          I love how he DAREs TO BE STUPID about it. I guess it could get EVEN WORSE if he went OFF THE DEEP END.

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        Ha! Weird Al is bad ass.

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        This is one of the greatest replies I’ve ever seen. Rats off to ya Al!

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        what a legend

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      There isn’t a price at which ad-supported programming becomes attractive.

      Even free isn’t good enough for ads. Ads are horrendous. They don’t even try to make them good anymore. It’s just “but our shit, dummies!”. Remember the milk commercials? That was probably the height of advertising. It’s all been shit since then.

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        Corpos kicked the artists out

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        What were the milk commercials?

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          https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gkqzxss8Ss&pp=ygUPbWlsayBBYXJvbiBidXJy

          They had a string of commercials that were all pretty entertaining back in the day.

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            Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=0Gkqzxss8Ss&

            Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

            I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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      Preeeeeeach!

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