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The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021

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Re: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021

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Post by hypfer »

throwaway_ab wrote: post #6

Hi honestlyranked you might want to reach out to the mods, your comments are dead. I think you are meant to put info in the submitted post text field, not in the comments, I could be wrong!

Likely dead due to obvious LLM writing. I would suspect that the (auto)moderation is working as intended there.

Re: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021

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Post by thfuran »

acd wrote: post #9

What is the alternative to subscribing to streaming services? Can you purchase your movies online and be guaranteed to have access to the movies in the future?

You can still buy physical media online, though an increasing portion of movies and shows are produced by the streaming companies, and you don’t really have an alternative there.

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Post by whstl »

swingboy wrote: post #10
acd wrote: post #9

What is the alternative to subscribing to streaming services? Can you purchase your movies online and be guaranteed to have access to the movies in the future?

Piracy is one.

If you want guaranteed future access, then this is probably the only online option that actually fulfills this guarantee... other than that, physical media.

Re: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021

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Post by not-so-darkstar »

hypfer wrote: post #11
throwaway_ab wrote: post #6

Hi honestlyranked you might want to reach out to the mods, your comments are dead. I think you are meant to put info in the submitted post text field, not in the comments, I could be wrong!

Likely dead due to obvious LLM writing. I would suspect that the (auto)moderation is working as intended there.

>Likely dead due to obvious LLM writing

I think it's the look of the page: dark background and bright colours with an halo.

Re: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021

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Post by iso1631 »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #4

$702 more is relative and tells nothing without the basis. It's 61% increase in 5 years.

So in real terms it's up 26%. Which of course is to be expected, people have a set amount they are willing to spend on entertainment, in the past it was cable -- in 2015 the average US cable TV subscription was about $100, that's about $140 today in real terms, or $1700 a year.

Seems that streamers have a long way to go before they extract all that money.

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Post by bossyTeacher »

acd wrote: post #9

What is the alternative to subscribing to streaming services? Can you purchase your movies online and be guaranteed to have access to the movies in the future?

No. The whole issue is that the seller needs to maintain an online service to allow you access to the movies. This online service costs money so over time is likely not worth the cost. This plus the online service provider undergoing changes (bankruptcy, acquisition, mergers, etc) or they themselves losing rights to the movies. Seems to me that rental or purchases are still unbeatable. The alternative is streaming but the downside is higher costs over time and worse quality movies.

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Post by footy »

mbeavitt wrote: post #5

Bring back DVD rentals! In the US, you don't even need to pay a licensing fee when you buy a DVD with intent to rent it out to people (this is not the case in the UK), thanks to the "First-sale doctrine" - Bobbs-Merrill v. Straus (1908).

I don't know about in the US, but I live in a fairly small city in Canada and we have DVD rentals. I go to the video store almost every week, and it was on the papers that a second one (which will also rent out VHS!) is opening.

The Library does DVD rentals too, I check it out every couple of months.

It's even better in Toronto, Bay Street Video is an institution.

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Post by MYEUHD »

iso1631 wrote: post #16
ivanjermakov wrote: post #4

$702 more is relative and tells nothing without the basis. It's 61% increase in 5 years.

So in real terms it's up 26%. Which of course is to be expected, people have a set amount they are willing to spend on entertainment, in the past it was cable -- in 2015 the average US cable TV subscription was about $100, that's about $140 today in real terms, or $1700 a year. Seems that streamers have a long way to go before they extract all that money.

How did you come up with the 26% number?
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