Or watched cable ADs apparently, cable TV ads were like…5 minutes or maybe even longer. Just commercial after commercial, so long that it was viable to use them to go-to the bathroom when you didn’t have DVR lmao
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Xin_shill@lemm.ee 1 month agoYea these memes are dumb and I feel made by children who never paid for cable.
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 month ago
kaboom36@ani.social 1 month ago
You know how some shows are 23 minutes long and some are 42? The reason for those odd times is because the shows had half an hour or an hour timeslots and the rest of it would be ads, so in an hour show you would get nearly 20 minutes of ads
What’s worse is with long running shows like mythbusters you can see the shows runtime slowly being chipped away in favor of more ads, the 2003 season’s episodes had runtimes of 50 minutes, by 2016 it was down to 42
soloner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But the direction is certainly heading towards the realm of cable prices…
Total: $79.44 per month
So maybe when you account for inflation it is still only half of what cable costs,.perhaps. but those are the cheaper plans. For HDR support for Netflix it’s like $25, and it’s the reason I cancelled Netflix.
I don’t think the meme is dumb, just ahead of it’s time, but it’s calling out what is certainly happening.
Most streaming services now include ads in the paid subscription.
Inch the ad ratio and prices up another 40% and we are getting pretty close to cable experience/cost. And that’s only a few years away when we look at how much costs have raised over the last 10 yrs.
If each service raises price $1/month every year and you have 6 services, then in 5 yrs you’re paying $30 more per month, prob around $100+.
soba@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
And the six you listed are the big ones, but there’s plenty of others that have exclusive content. There’s also Criterion if you like classics/arthouse, Crunchyroll if you like anime. Paramount, AMC, Showtime, Peacock, etc etc, etc.
soloner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Exactly. I was trying to be conservative by choosing only 6 and sticking to the cheaper plans.
But it is entirely conceivable today that, if someone has literally all the subscriptions, they could be paying more than cable costs.
Another factor I ignored for brevity is, at least when I was a kid, the price of cable was often bundled with Internet and telephone services. I can’t speak to how accurate the numbers would be, but I’m pretty sure my dad was paying $100+ for cable and everything else, meaning the cable likely wasn’t the entire cost of the bill. But I digress…
Streaming has gotten out of hand, and anyone who disagrees with me today will eventually agree within a decade.
Neato@ttrpg.network 1 month ago
Don’t forget you can usually bundle cable with Internet. Right now if I had all of those services plus my Internet it’d be $200/mo.
catfishsushi@midwest.social 1 month ago
Yes, but if you’re comparing all prices you’d need to add the cost of your internet (only) to the price of a cable subscription to get apples-to-apples comparison.
Eheran@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You combine 6 streaming services, each of them alone already better than cable, and it is still just as expensive.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
And if you don’t like the content on one streaming service, you don’t pay for it.
sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
So cancel some of them and rotate. You probably aren’t watching them all, and they only come out with (good) new content a couple of times a year.
With cable packages you would miss stuff. With each streaming service owning their own content, it’s there whenever you want it.
moon@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Quite often it’s a family or household using these services. It’s hard to cancel Netflix/Disney if your kids or partner are using them
sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It’s a great time to have a conversation about cost, value, and delayed gratification.
fluckx@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Prime is like 5/month here.
It used to be 3 though. Is it triple as expensive where you live? (Us?)
Thassodar@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I have never seen Prime sell for $5 a month, not even in the beginning.
fluckx@lemmy.world 1 month ago
9/month in Germany 5/month in NL 3/month in Belgium
fushuan@lemm.ee 1 month ago
www.amazon.es/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeI…
4.99€ a month, 45€ a year. I used to pay 36€ a year back when it didn’t give twich prime.