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[–] bighatchester@lemmy.world 137 points 11 months ago (13 children)

It's just cable tv all over again. Pay for 8 services to get a handful of shows you want to watch with the other 90% not being touched , now with ads creeping back in too .

[–] ares35@kbin.social 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

at least you can choose to pay for one streamer at a time, binge, switch, repeat.

(for now, anyway.. until they all quit the full season drops and/or start putting their catalog on a rotation like the 'disney vault' was to home video).

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Or only offer annual contracts with early cancellation fees.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago

they'd go a 'no refunds' policy first, which they'd totally get away with in the u.s.

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 11 months ago

Yeah, this is what is next. Another thing might be to split up one service into subcategories, like family, sci-fi, cinema or whatever and then charging for each individually. Obviously ending up more expensive if you get them all than what it is now.

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