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I can barely find something to watch on Prime which is why I only subscribe like 1 month a year, and for that month I spend maybe 8 total hours watching. Maybe if Amazon made better content, then they could get more revenue.
The Expanse was excellent, IMO. Apart from that I mostly agree. I've tried Jack Ryan and Wheel of Time, which were good but not amazing.
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Streaming just came full cycle to traditional TV broadcasting. An impressive feat of disrupting an industry right there.
You need a streaming aggregator for the cycle to be complete.
As long as they have an add free option for a reasonable price I’m fine with it. It seems likely that with the money they are spending on shows streaming isn’t currently profitable. Looks like $2.99 extra a month gets you no ads.
That's only a reasonable price if you discount the $15/month you're already paying. I mean, maybe it's reasonable anyway, and sure that $15/month is also paying for other things; but let's not discount the existing price just because it's existing.
I'm willing to buy Blu-Rays. I'm also willing to stop watching "content" altogether. I'm already hating the experience of the forced unskippable ads for Paramount shows that play at the beginning (AT MAX VOLUME) of every Paramount+ channel stream (Star Trek... sigh). If I have to watch ads like regular network TV, which I now find unwatchable, I'd just have to do without.
Yeah, the recent NFL ads are obnoxious. I don't like sports. I never watch sports. I avoid sports related content. Forcing me to watch an ad for NFL before every episode of a show is beyond annoying. I think I've hit my limit and will be researching running my own content library now.
This is equivalent to shrinkflation: pay the same, get less. Streaming platforms want to retain most users, but also extract more value from them. Slowly a new threshold for what's "normal" is set, and perhaps then -more- adds can be added. There's no need to speculate where things go from there. Just look at where cable TV is.
With a cable DVR you can arbitrarily control the video stream. You never have to watch an ad if you don't want to. Amazon won't let you conveniently skip these ads.
Streaming was always going to be about losing that freedom. Cable companies weren't bold enough to take that away, or it never occurred to them.
The last time I had Spotify installed, it wouldn't even credit me with having heard an ad if I muted my speakers.
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Let's coin a new term for this, "adflation".
Streaming just came full cycle to traditional TV broadcasting. An impressive feat of disrupting an industry right there.
Everything being VoD is a pretty nice feature though.