• Fixbeat@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The good thing is that you don’t have to sign up for all the services; sign up for a few. Once you see all the content that you want, cancel and sign up for something else.

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      Yep. Disney+ (for now).

      Netflix, HBO, and Hulu gradually cancelled over the last few years.

      What’s stupid of them is that if they’d stayed around $8-10/mo each (ad-free), I probably would have stayed subscribed forever. Now they each get nothing.

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        1 year ago

        Biggest blocker I get for doing this is the family plan… There’s at least one out two in the household who are watching Netflix to mean we keep it, and I don’t want to downgrade as they take away the HD streams… That’s my biggest peeve, HD/4K should be standard, not a premium (yes I know, it’s more data but we’re not in the 90’s anymore.

        It has pushed a lot of people back to piracy, what did these money grabbing schmucks think would happen

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      I’m not in the US, and even though most (but not all) services adjust for local pricing, finding and keeping track of where something is (often isn’t, or not anymore) available to stream is more of a hassle (PITA really) than going to my favorite magnet site.

      Just like streaming music where 95% of the content I want is available on all providers, I’d pay for an all-in tv-streaming service. I do buy digital/physical copies of music through Bandcamp. It’s all about convenience.

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        Roku helps with that as it has a global search. Maybe other streaming hardware does too. Not sure.

        I am happy and a bit surprised that music streaming ended up so good.

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          Roku isn’t available in my “area”, so it (still) says. It’s a bummer because I wouldn’t have any issues with paying to binge something at high quality.

          Edit: I have used justwatch.com in the past, but it isn’t always correct or up-to-date either.

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          PlayStation of all places has this. I will often turn it on just to see if something is available on one of the services I share with family. Then I turn to sketchy streaming sites or the public library.

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      I think the price hikes are basically relying on or incorporating this practice into their pricing models.

      I do wonder though if we’ll see changes made to the cancellation policies. I’ve certainly been expecting a change there for years.

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        I do wonder though if we’ll see changes made to the cancellation policies. I’ve certainly been expecting a change there for years.

        What kind of changes to the cancellation policies are you imagining?

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          That you can’t cancel each month? Like a six or twelve month minimum?

        • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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          Well, rather the subscriptions. IE, no monthly subscriptions but 6-monthly or 12-monthly. Or cancellation fees.

          No idea if my expectation is valid, but it intuitively seems to me like an obvious way to grab some cash.