We had a free year and watched all of two programs (Greyhound and Hamilton) before cancelling in August. When it comes to streaming services the adage "be careful what you wish for, you just might get it" certainly applies. In the early days of cable, people signed up for one of several packages. Some were very basic (just your local broadcast stations), some offered a few bells and whistles (ESPN), and then there were the everything-under-the-sun packages (HBO, Starz, BET,etc., etc.). But people complained "why do I have to pay for X? I never watch it." They clamored for a more a la carte approach. But just like at the restaurant, ordering a la carte may get you the exact meal you want, but is generally more expensive than ordering the dinner. So now we have a plethora of streaming services - Apple TV, Hulu, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Netflix, Disney Plus, Sling TV, Peacock - each with its own "low monthly fee" and its own exclusive content. Of course there is the unwritten guarantee - whichever new movie you want to see is exclusively on one of the services you don't subscribe to.
totally right... now that it is de rigueur to work on a streaming show or movie, all these services have jumped in the game and dispersed content widely.... and there is some really good stuff out there, intermingled with so-so and pretty poor stuff, and so, yep, in order to partake you are left chasing the golden chalice, so to speak... I remember when dropping cable felt so liberating- in favor of more reasonably priced but perfectly adequate YouTube TV, an entity that almost immediately leveraged extra fees and raised prices such that there was no discernable differences... and now these services are optically more favorable but it all amounts to the same thing. But, as a redux nod, some very talented folks have migrated to these platforms...
After reading this, I would love
to see the movie, but no Apple TV.
Steve Jobs is gone, but billionaires
are billionaires.
We may be the last in the wealth world to not have purchased goods
thru Amazon. Jeff Bezos is rich enough.
It’s a quixotic existence, I’m aware. Millionaires were a big deal growing up. Billionaires did not exist. But they did.
Now having a bunch of them might
suggest a more egalitarian economy.
But it’s not.
The poor just get poorer.
you are absolutely right.... the disparities are striking, monumental even.
As an aside, you can trial Apple TV and stream, and then cancel.
But, the proprietary dynamics are troubling.
We so agree. Buy local and support independent.
I'd like to see it but it's only available on Apple TV
I mentioned to Lolly above, also, but you can trial Apple TV and then cancel.
The whole flux of the entertainment industry has changed remarkably.
We had a free year and watched all of two programs (Greyhound and Hamilton) before cancelling in August. When it comes to streaming services the adage "be careful what you wish for, you just might get it" certainly applies. In the early days of cable, people signed up for one of several packages. Some were very basic (just your local broadcast stations), some offered a few bells and whistles (ESPN), and then there were the everything-under-the-sun packages (HBO, Starz, BET,etc., etc.). But people complained "why do I have to pay for X? I never watch it." They clamored for a more a la carte approach. But just like at the restaurant, ordering a la carte may get you the exact meal you want, but is generally more expensive than ordering the dinner. So now we have a plethora of streaming services - Apple TV, Hulu, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Netflix, Disney Plus, Sling TV, Peacock - each with its own "low monthly fee" and its own exclusive content. Of course there is the unwritten guarantee - whichever new movie you want to see is exclusively on one of the services you don't subscribe to.
totally right... now that it is de rigueur to work on a streaming show or movie, all these services have jumped in the game and dispersed content widely.... and there is some really good stuff out there, intermingled with so-so and pretty poor stuff, and so, yep, in order to partake you are left chasing the golden chalice, so to speak... I remember when dropping cable felt so liberating- in favor of more reasonably priced but perfectly adequate YouTube TV, an entity that almost immediately leveraged extra fees and raised prices such that there was no discernable differences... and now these services are optically more favorable but it all amounts to the same thing. But, as a redux nod, some very talented folks have migrated to these platforms...
It was cunning