Media Companies Are Turning Streaming Back Into Cable - Cheddar Explains

Commercial television is all woke crap anyway.

Just pirate

Nobody is paying for multiple streaming platforms.I just pay for internet ,but tv is watched.thats all I can legally say

It's awful. Everyone said this would happen. It's worst than cable ever was and I'm just done. I'm cutting it all. Simplify is this years goal. Eff them!

Its only a matter of time before commercials air on Netflix

ILLEGAL STREAMING. If you wana watch soccer don’t pay for peacock. Search soccer streams you’ll find so many websites. Don’t pay these losers a dime. Comcast is behind all of them

Goddammit

It's kinda depressing that you now have to pay close to $100 dollars to watch your favorite shows across multiple streaming services. Meanwhile, those that can't afford streaming services have to settle for cable, or worse yet, broadcast TV, which now has A more limited selection than cable, or streaming.

The world has truly entred a Great Pirate Era.

Why did cable companies never have an option for a number of channels of your choice? Like a ten channel plan where you choose which channels you want and only get those channels

This is where illegal streaming sites that require adblocker come in, and when this starts happening en masse maybe companies will change their practices to be more pro consumer.

As some one who works third shift, cable and satellite frustrated me because during the hours I was awake I was stuck watching infomercials or endless channels of televangelists. Netflix was a Godsend because it gave me something to watch. Of course the landscape is changing but in terms of content, I still find it better than what I was getting with cable and satellite.

piracy > streaming services

Something you didn’t mention is that cable already held different channel packages separately to force you to pay for things you don’t want

if the streaming market was smart they try to get one service with as much content as they could get instead of having several streaming services i like Net flix but they have several free streaming services what i type here might not matter but i think they should bundle some streaming services together so you have much more to watch and less streaming sevices like they do on cable when ppl get a promotion and get more for a less price but keep the cheap price bundle as long as you have a few streaming services bundled together this i think would get more ppl to get streaming services this would be how i would go about doing this and it would make it cheaper for all just bundle several streaming services together for a cheaper price would be better then having lots of seperate streaming services hoping what i typed here was useful but i know it may never happen but Hulu bundled the Espn+Disney+and Hulu if they can do this why cant other streaming services do the same also wonders what ppl think about Disney plus talking about having comercials just my thoughts hope you all have a nice day

Oh, Netflix, how much you've fallen.

Yeah, its getting ridiculous. All of them are mediocre at best now. What I do now is just pay for one or two for a few months, watch everything I want to watch there then ditch those and go with different ones and watch everything there. By the time I cycle back, hopefully there’s some decent content. I think for sure we’re gonna be heading into commercials and weekly shows again. It’ll be no different than cable. Netflix is already floating the idea.

I actually like Pluto and tubi because it is free and you can find some decent stuff on their

If everyone pirated rather than paid for all these subscriptions, we could drive all of these streaming services out of business in months. We need to demand a Spotify-style one-stop-shop for movies/tv.

Companies: takes away shows form Netflix so people pay for their platform instead
Smart People: jo ho jo ho a pirates life for me

I'll just keep one streaming service and pirate anything that isn't on there. They offered a better solution to end piracy, but it just isn't better anymore. The regular TV shows are just on TV which is basically free.

One opportunity with streaming is that small players like SFC can offer niche and specific content to audiences, like what we do for positive space films which is both educational and entertaining but with a purpose of inspiring the next space pioneers.

Netflix is the best $9-15 bucks... how April 2019 can you get in a single sentence?

YARRRR HARRRRRR HARRRRRR

Piracy + Blank DVD's / Blu rays = Bye bye netflix.

Hulu, HBO Max, and Disney+ ( 2.99 a month addon) for 26.71 per month all on one bill.
Im good.

It's 2022 and Nickelodeon still don't got their own streaming service...well kinda but not really

This is good. Competition is always good. If everything was in one place they would be the facebook of streaming. Also, there are more shows produced then ever before. There are more streaming services because there are more shows. Streaming is easy to cancel. Pick a service to watch for a month and cancel the rest for that time, most people are binge watching stuff anyways.

This is aging well.

Yeah but you are forgetting one detail, in the streaming age we don't have ads commercials. We don't have to watch 4 commercials every 30 minutes. It is soooo much better now, mind at peace.

sorry for bringing in the math police, but the service cost comparisons made no sense. Were the data plans the same for the internet services? You can watch the streaming service on multiple devices at any location. The cable option would require you to carry the cable box around with you everywhere connected to a very very long extension cord.

just stop watching media guys you'll be happier for it. you wont be on your deathbed wishing you watched more media.

all movie studios wanna do it for the money the main players
disney/20th century fox
universal
paramount
fox
mgm/amazon
columbia pictures
sony
lionsgate
warner brothers etc

I think the biggest thing that this assumes is that I wouldn't be paying for that internet regardless of TV. And also I've not seen the long term cost of cable TV below $150 since I cut my cord in 2009. I don't even remember when it hit that cost but I know it was that cost for a while. Also, it's not accounting for the value to the user for not watching all of those ads.

no ads on streaming services.
i really want to watch the bad networks like hbo max go down tbh.

Consumer: this is too much!!
Cable: I knew you would be back….

The key is to use other people’s accounts. I have Netflix, Hulu, HBOmax, Prime movies and Apple TV… how many do I actually pay for??? None. I refuse.

depending on how many streaming services subscribe to, yes you might end up paying more than cable, but unlike the cable companies you dont have to deal with cancellation fee's

There are still free over the air digital signals.

Seems misrepresentative to include the whole cost of internet connection in the calculation since this is not its only usage. In basic accounting this would be assigned a percentage per overall usage, which would bring the cost more or less equal to cable, and any extra cost can be written off to the benefit of being able to watch what you want when you want, even while on the go. Its going to suck that we are going to need multiple streaming subscriptions, but if you have close friends/families that can share logins you could reduce the costs, I mean its not like you're going to stream multiple channels at the same time.

My cousin pays for Netflix
My best friend pays for HBO Go
I pay for Amazon Prime Video
My parents get DisneyPlus free with their cable subscription

So that way we get access to everything while each only paying for one item.

ONE WORD: PIRACY.

dvd/cd/blu ray gang

I pay less by only have a few streaming services at a time and use over the air TV and the cheapest internet I can get and so the speed is decent but not the best.

If you have Cable, I guarantee you are already paying for Internet, so I don't buy your premise.

Torrent gang🗿

Say AKA one more fucking time.

You gotta love that they are jealous of Netflix, so want to copy them, yet none of them can have the range of movies and shows Netflix had, and since they want programs that only their service has, those get pulled from Netflix. Honestly, it wouldn't bother me except many of the new services have laggy, poorly setup apps. Why not just copy Netflixs user interface. Everyone has their own and some are garbage (talking about you, paramount +) so not only do you have to bounce around between apps, you have to remember how to navigate each one as well.

Netflix pretty much killed file share; why bother with torrents when its easier to subscribe to a service for a good price. But even I have been saying for a while now that all these sub services will result maybe in file sharing coming back. there is simply a point where people conclude "its just not worth it"

People are talking how their streaming combo is cheaper than cable tv.
My combo is Pluto tv,vix tv,rlaxx tv,red bull tv and Plex tv and I pay zero for it.