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It’s “shakeout” time as losses of Netflix rivals top $5 billion | Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers.::Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers.

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[–] AliasWyvernspur@lemmy.world 62 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Ah, yes. The "find out" stage of the "fuck around and find out" lesson from thinking "we can do Netflix ourselves." Nice work, assbags.

[–] qooqie@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I don’t want Netflix to even do Netflix anymore. Competition is healthy so if they all merge and there’s only 2 that’ll be bad imo

[–] ConditionOverload@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Competition is good but I really don't want to pay $15 to $20 a month for 5 different streaming services just to ensure good competition.

[–] qooqie@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Theres no way you’re watching that much television that you need all the major services at once. I usually have one at a time and if I absolutely need to see something else during that time well yar har matey

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

My issue is that I have kids, and my wife and one kid really like one service (Disney), and my other kids like another (Netflix), and I want content on a third (Amazon). So instead of paying for three, we pay for two (Disney+ and Netflix) and I play video games instead.

What's even worse is that all three now also have ads if you're on the bottom tier, which really sucks. I'm thinking of cancelling both and just buying some shows my kids like, it'll probably be cheaper long term anyway.

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