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Re: Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide

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Post by s_y_n_t_a_x »

tenebrisalietum wrote: post #9
flexie wrote: post #2

The attitude towards streaming and the whole video on demand idea 10-15 years ago reminds me so much on the attitude towards electric vehicles today: - Quality is too low - speed is too slow - many people want to own their movie, not just rent it - people don’t want to watch movies on a computer - the large studios and cable companies will never allow it And within little more than a decade that all changed.

Three things would have prevented streaming from gaining in popularity: - Slow Internet speeds. This has changed. - Cable bills not increasing. If cable was cheap no one would care about Netflix. But when it gets around $200/month most people start questioning why they need cable TV. I did and changed my plan to Internet only, and have not regretted it. Cable TV is garbage and it's cheaper to pay $10/month for HBO GO…

Slow internet speeds have not changed for all of America.

But the blame goes back to the cable companies there.

Re: Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide

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Post by therealx »

Waterluvian wrote: post #50
zwkrt wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just today I swear I was served an ad that didn't have a yellow bar, so we can all look forward to that hell. At least cable is produced to have ad breaks that make sense, as opposed to cutting sentences in half.

What's the point of the yellow bars? I'm a little surprised they exist in the first place. What were they added in response to?

To let you skip the ad before it's over. You typically have to wait a few seconds but it's less than the full wait.

Re: Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide

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Post by s_y_n_t_a_x »

ahupp wrote: post #28
mrich wrote: post #3

I do wonder how Netflix can stay competitive in this market. They already have lots of debt, new competitors coming up, stock price is quite high. It seems they need to produce or license new content, so people do not cancel. But licensing content gets harder as competitors start their own services.

85% of new spending at netflix is for original content. That's building a huge moat that will be hard for others to cross. I'd personally cancel our Hulu or HBO subscriptions before we touched Netflix.

I wish they would have a cheaper plan for non-original content only.

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Post by totoglazer »

matz1 wrote: post #63
assblaster wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use YouTube Red, no ads, ever. And you get access to the entire Google music library. Can't beat it for $7.99/month.

I have red, still plenty of ads.

What? I’ve had YouTube premium for well over a year and literally never seen an ad that wasn’t part of the actual video I was watching, added by the creator.

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Post by PKop »

spudlyo wrote: post #67
assblaster wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use YouTube Red, no ads, ever. And you get access to the entire Google music library. Can't beat it for $7.99/month.

It's YouTube Premium now, and it's $11.99/month. Also, without resorting to APK hacks I don't think it's possible to use on my Amazon Fire Stick. Otherwise I'd love to pay for YouTube to watch YouTube without advertisements.

On Fire TV you can use the web version of Youtube in the browser (Silk or Firefox) and it works pretty well as it's formatted for the larger screen. I'm not sure if this doesn't apply to Fire Stick.

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Post by matz1 »

totoglazer wrote: post #74
matz1 wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have red, still plenty of ads.

What? I’ve had YouTube premium for well over a year and literally never seen an ad that wasn’t part of the actual video I was watching, added by the creator.

Ad thats part of the actual video is an ad too.

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Post by teddyfrozevelt »

matz1 wrote: post #76
totoglazer wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What? I’ve had YouTube premium for well over a year and literally never seen an ad that wasn’t part of the actual video I was watching, added by the creator.

Ad thats part of the actual video is an ad too.

That obviously doesn’t count, as there really isn’t anything YouTube can do about that.

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Post by spudlyo »

PKop wrote: post #75
spudlyo wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's YouTube Premium now, and it's $11.99/month. Also, without resorting to APK hacks I don't think it's possible to use on my Amazon Fire Stick. Otherwise I'd love to pay for YouTube to watch YouTube without advertisements.

On Fire TV you can use the web version of Youtube in the browser (Silk or Firefox) and it works pretty well as it's formatted for the larger screen. I'm not sure if this doesn't apply to Fire Stick.

Ah, for some reason I just assumed that YouTube Premium didn't work with Firefox, which is what I use now, and you had to have the native Android App. I think the problem I had the last time I tried this had to do with the fact that I had a YouTube creator account, and Red wouldn't work with it.

Anyway, now I'm putting my money where my mouth is and am happily watching ad free YouTube content (which I love dearly) on my TV. Totally worth it.

Re: Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide

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Post by spudlyo »

matz1 wrote: post #76
totoglazer wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What? I’ve had YouTube premium for well over a year and literally never seen an ad that wasn’t part of the actual video I was watching, added by the creator.

Ad thats part of the actual video is an ad too.

... which you can pretty easily fast forward through.

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