Why are there so many streaming services?

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• qx128@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  TL:DW…

  Money.

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  • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Ding ding ding

    Streaming is the new cable, just more expensive now. Each platform is like a bundle of TV channels.

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      The big difference is no contracts (yet), and easy cancellation. I’m more annoyed at the fragmentation than the price, and I’m more willing to pay the exorbitant price because I limit it to two services at any given time

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I’ll preface this by saying I pirate everything and don’t fuck with streaming.

      But for those who don’t, isn’t the best practice just to rotate a service or two a a time? Do you really need to sub to every service perpetually?

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• SouravSatvaya@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  You can save all that money by becoming a pirate.

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  • SeaJ@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Unfortunately it’s tough to find some of the Disney kid oriented stuff.

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• huquad@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Ever since I subscribed to jellyfin, I haven’t had to look elsewhere. They have everything I want on there!

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  • clark@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Forgive my ignorance, but isn’t it so that Jellyfin doesn’t provide the content, it’s you who upload it? Or have I understood this completely backwards?

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    • huquad@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      All my memories of how the content got there are a bit hazy

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    They even have music and audiobooks!

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• weker01@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Money

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• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Why pay a streaming provider to stream your shit when you can build a mediocre streaming service to peddle your shit? Because you have to peddle a lot otherwise your customers realise that you only had like 2 good movies and a TV series.

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• TehWorld@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I worked at a cable company in my youth. This was the obvious response. Everyone seemed to think that if they could just have a-la-carte cable that they’d be happy (and thought that they’d pay less). What most wouldn’t believe is that a LOT of those channels you didn’t care about were either free to the provider, or in the case of things like QVC were actually subsidizing more expensive channels (ESPN being the biggest one).

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• jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  It was a golden age for about 15 years. It’ll suck for awhile, then something else will revolutionize it again and be good for another 15, if old patterns hold.

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• LordCrom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Streaming is cheaper for me than cable cuz I don’t watch sports. Anything sports is crazy expensive which is why cable was so expensive.

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• PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Because the Free Market demands it.

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• VanHalbgott@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Does FrndlyTV count?

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