Netflix competitors expected to lose over $5 billion this year

[madboyv1]

I maintain that I would still have "cable" if they gave me more granular control to mix and match/a la carte my package. The way cable companies would often split similar content channels between multiple bulk channel packages to try and get you to upgrade was one of many reasons I eventually cut the cord, a couple years later than I should have.

This fragmentation and proliferation of standalone streaming services is starting to emulate the same situation as then, accept rather than one hand in the pot it feels like nearly a dozen. Either way I'm not buying into it. How I use the streaming services I have now barely justifies keeping them as it were, I won't be adding any more.

 

[MakeMSGreatAgain]

I cancelled Netflix a couple years ago because it just got too expensive for a bunch of shows I didn't want to watch.

I cancelled Disnep because it was also getting pricey, and I didn't like some of the new stuff - it is getting weird.

I cancelled Huhu dilly because it was too pricey.

I only kept Bezos Prime because I do use the free shipping on a lot of things, and they still have The Grand Tour and some content from the three lads. Though sounds like GT is pretty much done and finishing its final episode now.

Greed drives a lot of these companies, and of course cable companies as well. We all knew the online streaming services would start to become a replacement for cable TV, just being a bunch of expensive packages with ads that you just get effing tired of.

I don't have a lot of time for TV anyway and about all I watch now is old stuff on DVDs and I still get new movies on DVD (well bluray now) and enjoy not having to keep paying for a bunch of stuff I don't really want anyway. It isn't as convenient as streaming services, but I'm only willing to pay so much for convenience and most of them have crossed my threshold of what I find an acceptable amount to pay.