• LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.mlEnglish
    90·
    1 year ago

    Theoretically, having multiple streaming platforms should be good, as it prevents a monopoly. Problem is, they all have monopolies, on specific shows. Choosing the streaming services you want isn’t about choosing the better product, but on which shows you have. All streaming shows should have all shows available. That’s the only way to properly decide which service is worth paying for

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
      59·
      1 year ago

      But then they’d have to compete on features and usability, and no company wants that. They prefer to set up roadblocks and extract tolls.

    • Fedora@lemmy.haigner.meEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Woah there! Having the privilege to choose a streaming service that has a show you want. Those are some bold assumptions. We over here at anime land have former illegal streaming services with exclusive global licenses, even though they only operate nationally. Pirates overseas can’t watch their favorite anime of the season legally. They must either use a VPN to pay for a service that’ll ban them for VPN usage, or pirate the anime.

      • LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Then they better step up their game. Compete with each other by improving their services, or lowering the prices to draw in customers

      • LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I mean, yeah. If I can watch Cartoon Network regardless of my cable provider, then I’m choosing them based on how well they provide for me that cable. They do good work, get reliable cables, fix outages quickly, are affordable, fucking great

    • java@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      This sounds like they have to compete for your money and produce better shows, which is good for consumers. You can subscribe to service X, watch the show you’re interested in, and unsubscribe. Netflix releases all episodes at once, with other platforms you can simply wait till the show ends before subscribing.

      I don’t argue that you should do exactly that instead of pirating. But I don’t see why somebody should be subscribed to all these services.

      • LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Well my point is they wouldn’t be subscribed to all the services. They’d pick one. You wanna watch “Show A”. None of these platforms are allowed to have exclusivity rights to it. So do you choose Netflix? Hulu? Amazon? It’s up to you, since you don’t have to choose only the one that has it. Now your decision to give money to Netflix, for example, is based on the fact that the service they’re providing–UI, ease of access, streaming speed–instead of them being the only ones who have “Show A”

        • Robust Mirror@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          You could implement this for some shows and movies, but there’s one big problem. Disney shouldn’t have exclusivity rights to their own IPs? Netflix should have to give everyone else the shows they pay for and produce?

          I get where you’re coming from in theory, but in practice it doesn’t make sense. It would be like saying Nintendo must release their games on xbox and playstation.

          • LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            My issue is that Disney should then not have its own streaming platform, and that, yeah, Netflix shouldn’t make its own shows

            Now as for the videogame comparison, I’ve heard it before, but developing for different consoles is not the same. Making a game for switch hardware, and for xbox hardware requires multiple versions of the game. You don’t film multiple versions of a movie for different platforms. It’s part of why I don’t think all games should be available on all platforms. I believe that they shouldn’t have to be on all platforms, and that it should be up to developers which consoles to make games for, but yeah, that means that there are gonna be exclusivity deals. Would be nice to avoid, so that if Fromsoft decides to make BB2, they have the free reign to make it for PC, but my point is that game development is more complicated than movie streaming

            Anyway, yeah, I think Disney+ can go fuck itself right back from the muck it crawled out of, and that Netflix has to stop making its own stuff (Or allow competitors to use it)

  • DavidGarcia@feddit.nlEnglish
    181·
    1 year ago

    Netflix is literally 6x more expensive while having like 6x less content too. and the content they do produce is garbage.

    • johy@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Like the other replies said, it’s Viaplay. I don’t know about other countries but it’s fairly common here in Sweden.

  • settinmoon@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Another main reason why I took off my hat back then was because I was a broke college kid with garbage internet speed and my only computer was a laptop. Torrenting shows sometimes means I need to have my laptop on for days. Now I have an entire homelab setup with a dedicated VM on one of my servers for torrenting and I can afford fast internet. I was pleasantly surprised how efficiently I can torrent when I got back sailing recently.

  • mtchristo@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    There used to be a time when you could watch Hulu without a subscription. Times change. Some other times loop.

  • shiveyarbles@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    It seems like the same issue as cable. It’s not a la carte like we were promised, we get bundles of shows. So my pet peeve is I’d have to subsidize fox news if I want a news package. Not happening. I don’t watch 90% of these package deals. It’s almost $90 a month for Hulu live, and it keeps going up.