I consider myself a winner thanks to the streaming wars. I found that since I can't watch many of the big hits when they are newly released, I lose interest in watching them at all. Since I can't watch everything I want to watch, I have come to realize that it is not that important to watch the shows that I can. As a result of the streaming wars, I now watch far less TV, I read more and I do other activities more. So I'm really the winner.
Since about 2013 I still only have used netflix. The day we aren't allowed to share passwords (it's not done yet in Germany) me and my other 3 friends will go. We already talked about it and we have all the same opinion.
This comment is so bizarre I've been thinking the same lately about myself and streaming channels even the reading thing is the same with me I've not read so much in my life than I have in the last few years.
It's just cable all over again with extra steps. These companies flew too close to the sun and a lot of people content with paying for a streaming service went back to pirating it's hilarious
It's not cable. People never changed from a broadcast/cable mentality. No one is obligated to pay month over month to wait for a new series, episode, or movie. They choose to do this. Simply cancel a subscription for a few months then subscribe again when it benefits you to watch the new content.
Cable was WAY worse. It takes like 5 seconds to cancel or re-sign up for a streaming service and I can have that streaming service on any device I want. Even when I am out of town. I don’t have to call the cable company to install anything and if I cancel, I don’t have to haul installed equipment back in order to not be charged for it. Even if you got cable, each additional TV in your home usually came at a cost. Because you had to run a signal box to each separate TV (maybe it changed since the years since I abandoned cable, but proably not). Adding or subtracting channels were all controlled by your cable provider and it was an annoying process to adjust your package. Also, it wasn’t on demand. You watched what the channel aired in the timeslot it airred it for the most part. There probably will be a flux in streaming services over the coming years. Some will stick and others will fade away or combine. But streaming is still better then cable by miles. Even with ads.
@@TheDawnofVanlife Adding to cable being worse. You don't have a choice of your cable TV provider. They have been omniopolies for decades where there is only 1 provider for your area so they don't compete. You take what they offer or you do without. And naturally all of their package tiers come with 50 sport channels which most of us don't care about but have to pay for because those who want the pickle ball world championship won't pay what it would cost to license it. @Delta-Tech yes the cable companies are also most of our ISPs which are able to screw us over because once again most of us have no choice in provider.
Up until 2001, when they switched from analog to digital in the NYC tri-state area, I rarely watched network or cable/satelite tv. PBS (public broadcasting) channels like 13, 21, 25, and 31 had loads of programs and documentaries (many from the BBC) that my family had watched since I was a kid. Silent films, '30s Film Noir, Foreign films, European New Wave, 70s New Hollywood, experimental and cultural documentaries, BBC comedies and drama, live performances- as an adult I literally had no reason or interest to watch mainstream television and I still remember that bitter day I had to buy a digital flatscreen and throw out my tube tv set (if you still owned one). Well, ironically, I use the internet to watch the same (public domain) content I used to watch on PBS.
And it´s actually really hard to keep up with what is being released. Some shows I discover years after their first release. There is simply too much content, which wouldn´t be a problem if most of it were good quality. But like you said, most ain´t worth torrenting. I myself find torrenting older content more and more. I keep going back to the classics and rediscovering good content from decades ago.@@digestiveissue7710
Movies, TV shows, original content, it's yours for the taking, but you'll have to find the magnet link first. I uploaded everything I own in one torrent.
It blows my mind that people thought there was room for infinite growth in the streaming industry. Like, there are a finite amount of people that can actually use these, and very few can use more than a few because they're expensive.
@@MrPrankmastergeneral Except there is no expectation of infinite growth. And that is not the core fundamentals of Capitalism. The fact that all those streaming platform hit a wall of loses is part of capitalism. Because profits and losses are both incentives that make a business profitable or not. People invested in steaming because it was really profitable. They invested too much and have to cut back. They took a risk and will be punished for making a wrong decision with their investment. No one that actually understand economies believe there is such a thing as infinite growth. Its called economy and diseconomies of scales. There is a limit to growth which is why in a free market, monopolies cannot exist. It was so profitable because people bought the services which brought investments and now every company is struggling to see what is the best way to offer this service. Amazon probably has it best by adding so many services with their bundle. Unless you argue for monopolies and think only Netflix should exist.
@@trenvert123 For you mb. You need to be at least a little bit educated to understand what he means. Otherwise it will be just a bunch of words that mean little.
NO ADS. I will never go back to the torture of stilling through the same ads shown over and over again during an hour on a streaming channel. It's just inhuman punishment.
@@hottea2933I touch grass 5 days a week when I work over 40 hours. When I'm home watching shit, ads are literally taking time out of my life. Fuck ads
I'll either put my TV/Phone on mute for the duration of the ad or close off and watch/do something else entirely. I. Hate. Ads. And when I see them I make a mental note to avoid whatever brand I'm being marketed to.
No studio should be allowed to have one. They should be separate bussines in order to avoid unethical malptactices, but I guess in capitalism everything goes...
Regarding "only last 1 season," maybe the strategy there should be "design it for only 1 season." There are plenty of ideas that only need 10-20 episodes to tell their story, and that is preferable to "we really need 50 episodes to tell our story, but can't guarantee that it will happen," or "we only had 20 episodes in mind, your request for another 50 is just going to be seasonal rot."
In earlier times this was called a “mini series”, and it was often popular because people didn’t need to invest years to watch to its conclusion. Only about 90min. x 5
Well written TV series will wrap things up at the end of however many episodes were ordered and put something near the end that could continue things, but that fans would be OK being left somewhat unresolved. It's something that the showrunners and writers of Futurama have gotten rather good about as they're on like their 4th restart at this point. (I think, I've legitimately lost count of the times it's been canceled and uncanceled)
@fumanchu168 In a way it's worse than cable as it's not even clear what is on offer and these days most cable companies have a channel guide and DVR to help with that.
@@maestri09 A mini series generally had 4-6, 1 hour episodes. And a full series was 22-24, 45 minute episodes, so 20 episodes is enough to be a full series in reality.
Most if not all streaming services do their customers an enormous disfavor. They fail to provide a COMPLETE, UP TO DATE list off all content available. How am I supposed to make an informed decision of what to watch when I don't know what is available? Sure, I can search for content, but that assumes I know what I want and I'm looking to see if they have it. They also need to learn about and use this thing called the alphabet. I'm tired of streaming services displaying content lists in random order. It should ALWAYS be sorted alphabetically or have an option of how I want the content list to be sorted.
The "informed decision" they want you to do is to watch what they present you, and if you watch it long enough, they'll present similar things. They don't expect the mainstream audience to do a deep research before watching something. It's all about promoting what it's already successful.
They're counting on people not knowing exactly what they've got so that you think that there's stuff that you'd like that you haven't found. It's similar to why Costco is continually moving products around their warehouses.
This is all by design. They don't want you to find what you are looking for, they want you to waste time scrolling through their entire catalogue so they can get you to watch what you weren't looking for
@@Soldano999 Its the same with movies. I don’t even bother to find out what the current movies are because I never know if they’ll land on a platform I subscribe to. So why set myself up for disappointment? Now I just ignore everything.
Viewers may have lost the streaming wars but the cable companies brought this on themselves. Realistically the end result described in the video is what we had been waiting for, an ala carte plan. In the early 90s our cable company stated they were working towards an ala carte plan where we could package groups of channels or select specific channels. This was the plan as customers were complaining about having so many channels they never watched. The only channels that ever agreed to this were WGN and WTBS. As years passed and this never happened (and these two were quietly added back into the standard package) it came out the channels refused to go along. Some channels viewership was so low that it came out if they were available only by customer choice subscriptions would be so low they would have to close. It's unlikely the end result will come to much of a savings but it is a little closer to what we wanted.
Foxtel was a huge thing here in Australia, but they still refuse to change. Started out good, little to no ads and great content cycled through. Now it's full of as many ads as normal tv, costs a fortune, and is only available on one tv. How it's still going is beyond me, i'm guessing mine sites and hotels that still use it for their rooms. Hell they even had a monopoly on football showing it live while normal tv had a delay, but now theres a mix of who shows it live first and you can get most games live on free tv.
Dropped streaming when I started noticing every movie or show I fancied either wasn't on stream or I had to rent it from the streaming service. Been buying used Blu-rays since and it's actually saved me quite a bit of money in the long run.
Frankly, the increases in prices and the constant barrage of commercials, as well as the crappy content, editing of shows themselves, and the frequent deletion of really good older selections without warning is why I refuse to subscribe to streaming services. I just buy blu rays of stuff I like and is well recommended by reviewers who aren't being paid to do so, and watch youtube videos for entertainment.
@@RockBrentwood Most people could tolerate ads if it hadn't become "we interrupt your commercial stream to bring you a few seconds of interesting content".
The way to go is physical media, especially 4k quality-wise. I've seen 4ks go down to $10 on holiday sales like cyber monday so they're not always expensive. You own the film you like, don't need to worry about it ever being removed from a service & especially don't need to worry about censorship/editing. It's only a one-time payment instead of an entire year or parts of a year. Hope more people understand the importance of physical media.
Frankly, the increases in prices and the constant barrage of commercials, as well as the crappy content, editing of shows themselves, and the frequent deletion of really good older selections without warning is why I refuse to subscribe to streaming services. I just buy blu rays of stuff I like and is well recommended by reviewers who aren't being paid to do so, and watch youtube videos for entertainment.
that doesn't help with content you haven't seen already. I'm not going to pay $10 for something I might only want to watch once, and might not even like.
@@samdryden7944 what you do is check youtube for movie and series reviews. Go for the little guys, the ones who don't get paid to review, they're honest.
I anticipate that physical media will one day need an internet connection to use. People didn't complain effectively enough when this happened to video games. This will certainly tip me back to the high seas.
It didn't really happen to video games. A very small portion of games are like that, and I don't buy them. I'm assuming you're talking about games that require a connection for offline play and not multiplayer games because I don't see how they'd work without a connection
@@Matt-jc2ml i love playing games but only just recently come back to them after a 20 year brake 😅 (mid 40's old git here). I played cyberpunk and one day i played without internet.. must of lost over 3-4 hours of that game as i didn't know it saved through the Internet. 😢
As consumers we win the streaming wars by buying Blu-rays. Put that streaming money into physical media and eventually you will own everything you care about and not need to spend anything at all when you feel like watching something. Enjoy superior audio and video. Be happy knowing that your collection will not change suddenly due to a licensing dispute. Rest easy knowing that if twitter decides to cancel a movie, you can decide for yourself if that has any merit.
Nah. They would have to pay stupid ammounts of money just for the rights to so much content. Also it was already a thing when Netflix was important. The other companies just don't want their content outside their own platforms.
SKY TV in the UK have essentially done exactly that. They are the UK's biggest pay TV provider and have struck up deals with : Netflix ( you can now add a Netflix sub to the SKY TV bundle) Disney + ( you can now add a Netflix sub to the SKY TV bundle) Peacock (The app is free to SKY TV subscribers) HBO ( NO app because SKY have an exclusive deal to show their programs on their SKY Atlantic channel and on demand) Paramount+ ( Free if you have the SKY movie channels) Although you can get most of these apps (except HBO) separately direct from the providers it has enabled SKY to control the competition and reduce their threat by offering them access to their ready made subscriber base. It's reducing competition though which is not always a good thing as SKYs prices are completely out of control $$$$$$
We dropped Netflix after nearly 15 years of loyalty as our only streaming platform. We're sailing the high seas now, over this streaming foolishness altogether.
If it wasn't for my younger siblings and other family members, I wouldn't even be paying for netflix. Oba side note I just realised this while writing. My 2010' siblings don't really know how to sail the high seas, they don't know they can jailbreak their iPhones and iPads. They don't know they can download games safely online for free. They grew up with on demand and you have to pay for everything, I never showed them how to pirate because I didn't want to deal with viruses they might get but yh, kinda weird.
When they are 14-17, show them. Till then, pirate things for them if you've got the time. That's what my parents did for me and now I can navigate any rough sea without catching a single virus
@@michaelb2westgaedu Yes! It comes naturally to us. We haven't had a SINGLE streaming service in the house since I was born! I do feel the need to support authors now and then so I buy merch or physical things whenever I do, but its rare i feel that need for these bigass anti-consumer companies, lol! They don't need more money
It’s great except most shows and movies I will watch once then never watch again. So I could pay $12 for one month max, watch it, then cancel. I only buy blu rays for stuff that has meaning to me or I know I will rewatch. Otherwise movie blurays are $20+ and tv show box sets are like $70+.
@@BlackWolf207 I hardly bought DVD's (Except for Lois and Clark, lol ). I rent DVD's from a company I won't name and burned them for pennies, now I have a huge collection.
I brought loads off cheap movies of the pound store. US calls it dollar store. At the moment, you can still password share. I'm still expanding my collection, just incase
I used to do that but, if I was honest with myself, I was rarely rewatching any of my glorious collection. So I sold 90% and I actually made some money.
Personally, I think the real problem is the budgets for these new shows are WAAAY too high. Like Wandavision was what, 300million? Like that cannot be necessary
Sony is really unique in all of this. In addition to TV, they are involved in gaming such as their PlayStation lineup and mobile games- one mobile game came out 6 years ago and has gotten them over $5 billion. Sony also is a big music producer. Also, they seemed to have cornered the anime market, their studio Aniplex, produces roughly half of all anime in japan and Sony effectively owns about all of the anime streaming market in the US.
I like how people would rather bring up anime than the fact that Sony made the only genuinely praised movie of the entire 4th phase of the MCU, not to mention spiderverse and they're countless other Ws. Sony is out to make money, and they're succeeding, so the consumers are winning too. It's only when companies start to work towards ulteriour motives quality goes downhill. Realistically, even if content was split between platforms, it still wouldn't be an issue if it was good, but it isn't, so it is. Sony isn't trying to preach, they're just trying to make content people actually want.
@@robonator2945 I was bringing up some information that was not said in the video and that is not well known. Anime has been growing in popularity and profit for the last decade and many entertainment companies around the world have been investing in anime and similar animation. Sony is doing the same and making anime content, something people actually want.
Disney screwed up when they pulled their IP's from Netflix. Its not that they pulled the shows off, its that they did not continue to make them. Disney+ would have been well served to keep making The Punisher, Iron Fist, Dare Devil etc.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Netflix contracts for "Originals" include a must-not-compete clause forbidding the production companies from making their own versions of the series within X years.
Or at the very least some mini series marvel team up just like the comics. I remember reading when Like Cage Spider-Man Daredevil Punisher would eventually cross paths. Even Dr Strange was part of this group. And recast some upcoming Brandon Lee type for an Iron Fist upgrade. They have so much to choose from and to work with.
Well Netflix was never profitable since they went into streaming, and shows would be cancelled in season or to later. Don't be fooled they pulled the plug on shows with more viewers
I find I watch less streaming overall because I can’t remember what service I watched something on. So yeah doing more projects and less tv plus canceling some that I never get back to has saved me money and gotten me out more. Thanks over abundance.
Great to hear you focus on important stuff rather then cheap entertainment butvanyway it's better to watch a movie over most of the cheap tv shows no issues watching older content too and if you go the piracy route with fen + debrid You can get blurays quality streamed of any movie / tv show
@@dreamsdeep1076 Crunchyroll has consistently poor performance when compared to platforms like Netflix. Crunchyroll uses way more bandwidth and tends to buffer far more. Between that and the ridiculous censorship, I cancelled my Crunchyroll subscription and went back to pirating
@@mikea5745 pirating anime is the way to go, crunchy roll just doesn’t work and they have bad menus when the worst anime site is far better (and for some reason no paid service has dubs)
@@mikea5745 I still can't believe they haven't fixed that shit, I always had a bad time with their TV app, plus the censorship was a big no no for me. I always find it funny that they missed out on the two biggest anime of the season (I believe one of which ended up on HiDive).
Two things surprise me about the streaming wars. One, that the fcc hasn't butt in yet like they did with theaters & early cable tv. Two, that linear broadcast tv providers didn't take advantage of the situation by drastically lowering prices to at least try to compete on some level.
You didn't mention the additional problem of not being able to find old shows or movies from the 90s and earlier because no one thinks it is profitable enough to digitize yet or an old school company/person has the rights to it and won't let it go To be streamed.
Another problem there is that so many movies from the 80s and 90s went through so many companies that, technically, no one actually knows who owns them now, so no one steps up to try to make money streaming them. 😂
Columbo, Robin Hood (1950s/60s), and Donna Reed show on Tubi, and Roku are free and very good. When they took the original Maverick off Tubi, I bought the complete 5 seasons DVD set.
I've been really surprised by how good a service it is. They've mostly filled their catalogue with odd (but worthwhile) curios from the past as a way of saving money, and as a result it's become a unique window into the history of television.
According to them Netflix cancels shows based on the percentage of people who watch the first episode to the last, and if less and less people watch episodes throughout the season then that shows that there isn’t demand
There are so many amazing shows where the first season was truly dog shit i.e. The Office. I don’t think we’re going to be seeing great TV for a long time since everything has to he a hit right off the bat. I think like gaming, we’ll just be trending towards the average in order to appeal to as many people as possible. This is exactly what made streaming good to begin with.
@@adrianlemus2768 Yeah, but the only reason the Office escaped the cancellation Bear was Steve Carrell being in the 40 year old virgin. The movie did so well they gave the show another season and it just kinda took off. I agree with you though, companies don't give their shows enough time to shine.
@@JayMuggah88 I actually didn’t know that, but regardless I do think that the age of great television is behind us. Maybe in a few years we’ll have a great revitalization.
@@adrianlemus2768 yeah I wasn't a big fan of the Office....I just remember reading about it. I was in/out toward the later seasons like 5-7...when Carrell left I left lol
This is such a DUMB metric. I am the sort of person who will take time watching a show. In some cases several weeks. I will get there at the end but I will go at my pace, not the pace Netflix expects me to go at to justify their algorithms. A better option would be to see how many people complete a show 1 year after release, to give time for people to discover it and see it. Making a decision to axe a show within a few months of release is nuts.
@@sharrpshooter1 you’re on some Grandpa type shit vato! that was the thing to do years ago, in todays society we have unlimited access too all kinds of accounts you just have too be smart too get them ;)
Money has been tight in my house, so we cancelled services and went to free only. What I found was that my kids got used to commercials quickly and even started taking more of an interest in reading actual books. The library in my home office hadn't been touched in a while, even by me, so this was a great surprise. My eldest daughter just read "Benchley" by D. Preston and now she is moving on to the book that inspired it...Jaws. We still watch TV, but the instant and uninterrupted gratification is no longer driving us to just mindlessly watch the screen ad nauseam.
Great review. I still can’t believe Apple was too arrogant to buy up some of the libraries. One tip: if you’re going to put a graphic up you have to leave it long enough to be read. Many others botch this too.
I rarely watch streaming services. Since Netflix dropped the only show I wanted, The Dark Crystal, I didn't care for anything else. However, I am paying for a few steaming services because it's cheaper than cable for the family. So if they decide to cut password sharing I'm dropping them. If they start adding ads I'm dropping them, I will never EVER pay for ads again!
@@yrdyekcy2709 not everyone watches TV off their computer. Of course I use AdBlock whenever I can but you really can't when streaming on your phone or smart TV. Hell even twitch goes around that and streams the ad to you!
@@carybeweary7209 I waited 30 years to see a cowardly Obi Wan run away from Darth Vadar and be upstaged, outsmarted, and out thought by a brave toddler. I must not be high enough yet.
@@Fallen_Family Isn't that the truth. The are sitting on that turkey like soiled bedsheets, waiting for the least worst time to sneak them out and finally deal with what they made.
As a avid anime fan in the 2010s, anime certainly went through this problem way before the streaming wars. Piracy was honestly the only option to go to, to watch your favorite anime. Crunchyroll only had a limited catalog, most likely trying to keep the "free" model. Due to the multiple streaming services having limited catalogs, piracy grew and the anime industry was struggling. I was scared about Sony absorbing all legal streaming services for anime couple years ago, but it might save the industry having all the anime in one place. Though, Sony threw away the "free" model that CR had so the service can now pick up more anime. It is a wonder that companies did not look at what happened to the anime industry and learn from it but i guess they just fell right into the trap.
@@prede89 Buying anime on DVD was ridiculous expensive. If you are a student, this is not an option. Depending on where you live, getting your hands on a DVD was sometimes literaly imposible. Piracy was in fact the only option.
Actually, it's not so gloomy. Anime has increased it's profits recently, according to the NYT the industry is booming. They just recorded their largest increase in 2022 since 2002. The problem for anime is that the workers don't get paid fairly, and the corpos take the lion's share of the booming profits, not piracy.
I canceled all my streaming services and cable put all my DVDs on a hard drive. With the help of my two sons, and their DVD libraries, I have enough movies and old TV shows to keep me busy. That’s what I watch now. It’s actually a lot of fun. Me and my wife will sit and watch the honeymooners than welcome back Kotter and then end the night with Seinfeld. and I have hundreds of more shows to choose from.
Dvd, bluray, and 4k bluray is the answer. Better quality, you actually own your content, and you can make a library of movies, and shows that are tailored to your taste.
This will happen in exactly the same way when everyone is "obligated" to switch to EVs until electricity companies raise their prices to meet the demand that gas companies lost
That's a silly comparison. EVs are needed for environmental reasons. Streaming isn't. The prices of electricity are mad ATM due to unexpected wars but again, nothing to do with streaming. Also go independent if you can and install solar etc to be more self sufficient.
@@sullychow4123 "EVs are needed for environmental reasons" is reductionist beyond the purpose of conversation, and calling our war in Ukraine "unexpected" shows your geopolitical opinions are worthless.
Streaming for cord cutters, now has turned into what cable TV is. Everything splintered on separate streaming services. Its kinda hilarious watching it in real time
Not so sure I miss the cinema, you were lucky if it was empty so you could sit in the middle with enough arm room. The people talking through the movie, the guy in the back throwing popcorn, when you're in the back the sound is way too loud and you don't see anything. If you sit in the front, you will be dead of neck pain within 10 minutes and probably not visible again in the coming week. While the other way is to enjoy a movie on the couch while having everything you could ever want at hand.
I consider myself a winner bc I don’t watch TV anymore. It’s honestly amazing how I couldn’t imagine life without it, but after a month, I don’t miss it at all
I think the future will go back to licensing and advertising since it’s easier to metric. Streaming will only get more streamlined as time goes on. Not sure how sustainable the current model for pricing is and I would suspect many would eventually promote an ads only option for payment. This is my prediction.
Yeah, me too. That is a good idea. I didn't realize that I was already done that. I had dropped Netflix for a while, then the new season of Stranger Things came to Netflix, and signed back up, binge watched, then cancel my subscription. 😂
I don't understand why Everyone does not even mention this. You can watch anything you want, when you want from the titles from a streaming service, and you only have so many hours to watch them, so just watch everything you want to watch from one service at a time, cancel, then switch to another service. Subscribing to multiple does not give you more hours in a day
They are the reason streaming was created. I build apps & own cdn, with the right content, any direct to consumer channel can succeed. Ppl are just sick of the propaganda and agendas. Good content is always rewarded.
Very true. My wife pays for Hulu and every time before I watch a show on there I have to read reviews to make sure it doesn't degrade to political propaganda. I error on the side of caution for the most part and don't watch the streaming service because of it. My wife continues to pay for it though because her garbage reality TV is on there.
Rotating streaming services is a great strategy, but honestly, not being able to see shows soon after they release kills all the hype. There was something exciting and special about going to the cinema and watching a movie everyone was watching at the time. Or waiting for a new episode of TV to drop each week and if you missed it you wouldn't be able to join the conversation with your friends the next day. Streaming has already made it so more people watch content alone, but if we can't even watch shows when they are hot we completely loose the social component of this type of entertainment. It will be even less appealing than it is now, at least for me
Note that once upon a time, Netflix released every episode of a series all at once--the "binging model," as we came to call it. But services like Disney Plus couldn't do this because, well, they only had a couple of shows, so they had to resort to the archaic TV model of dribbling out an episode per week. Then, for some reason, social media geniuses decided this was a brilliant creative stratagem instead of an admission of weakness, and now it's dangerously close to becoming the norm.
Love the streaming wars! I’ve found that if I alternate services every few months, I save money PLUS I can binge all series and watch all exclusive films bouncing around different services. I think it’s nuts people will pay for services they cannot fully enjoy
Haha damn this is actually a genius idea! So basically you drop a service for a month or 2 and then when you add it back you watch all the shows you previously did except this time there are more episodes built up? Lmfao damn I need to do this!
Same here! I'll sign up, watch whatever releases I'm behind on or interested in, maybe a few other things, then move on to the next one. If I'm lucky the gaps in time are long enough that a trial week/month are offered too lol
Great detail video. Thanks. As a screenwriter, I am aware of nother issue that is about to cause an industry shut down in the US with the TV and film writers strike. Writing for cable and network there was a chance of making a living because they made so many episodes writers could count on having year-round employment on shows that lasted over 20 episodes. Now, very few streaming shows last more than 10 episodes at the most. Because they cost so much, they disappear for a year to 18 months before another batch shows up. Ironically, there are more shows but far fewer episodes of them. This adds up too much less work for writers despite the fact there seems to be more television with over 500 scripted shows last year. The other thing that streaming has done is wipe out the syndication market. Screenwriters get royalties on international sales and re-broadcasting of their work. Not unlike, a musician getting royalties based on the plays of their songs on various platforms. When streamers make a series they own world rights. there is no secondary market for TV produced for streamers. Therefore, far fewer royalties for writers and everyone else. Yes, we get a very small percentage for digital royalties, but it does not compensate for the rollback of income in every other area.
Let's hope the strike pushes the studios to start negotiating in better faith ✊ You guys shouldn't be made to bear the cost of all their stupid overspending on proprietary streaming services that no-one was asking for.
I liked 1899, but I also think it was a good thing that it only got a single season, something I feel should also have been the case for Westworld and Altered Carbon, continuation of those 2 with extremely strong first seasons made it an overall worse experience, I have no doubt the same would have been true for 1899.
I actually won the streaming wars by setting up my own streaming server with my content by ripping my DVDs onto an external drive. I rarely watch anything anymore anyway because I spent most of my time with hobbies and trades.
I grew up in the 80s in a household where nobody believed in cable. As an adult, I couldn't wait to get it, to see everything I'd missed. Turns out, it wasn't much. I subscribe to Hulu Live during college football season and then cancel it. Since I already have an Amazon Prime account, I make do with the shows I can find there and TH-cam fills in all the gaps. I've found that I'm generally happier and more productive the more I have the TV turned off.
Agree ... Amazon seems to be the only real winner, because you subscribe to Prime not for the streaming services, but for the free shipping service, and the streaming services are an added bonus. The video creator did not mention IPTV... the true winner for the future.
The part about TH-cam filling the gaps describes my modern day viewing experience. TH-cam is like my very own fine-tuned version of Cable. I'm subscribed to over 200 channels because they've produced content I've liked in the past. And if they change, if they don't produce content I like anymore, I can simply unsubscribe and move on with my day. I don't have to pout about losing money when I have my AdBlocker on and never directly give them money regardless. TH-cam provides endless amounts of content for me to watch. It has everything except for straight-up unedited copyrighted movies and tv shows being uploaded. I would include porn and gore too, but if you search hard enough and look up the right terms you will find that shit lmao
Releasing movies into a cinema and then farming it out to streamers in a manner which maximised profits, before moving onto physical media, was still a viable strategy for movies. The issue was the studios were obsessed with streaming subs. The studio's destroyed their standard movie model in order to use those movies to boost subs. That strategy was a disaster and is currently being reversed by many studios. But for streaming, I agree the main focus is tv-shows, but apart from Netflix this is not giving anyone any profits.
I basically unsubscribed almost all services and watch instead my own personal backlog of shows that I already own as well as old faves...I doubt I am alone.
Its just funny how in the height of the “piracy days” they were making 10000% better content. We got Game of Thrones season 1,2,3... now that people are paying top $ for their services they produce the crapiest content ever. I guess BitTorrent really worked for everyone. I mean even if you paid me to watch any of it now i would not even think of wasting any of my bandwidth and ssd soace to download their attrocious content into my systems.
The issue with streaming is, in 2 or 3 months, you can binge your favorite shows and start diving into the more crappy shows to where you just simply get bored or burnt out of content. Its an issue with too much content, to little relation to at least my pallete for shows and movies. I haven't had a streaming service for a good year and a half or more and honestly I don't even really need the background noise for it anymore. I haven't had regular tv in over 5 years, so its just one of those things to where television at least for me is loosing its appeal. Id rather pay for an interactive environment or game more so than a television situation. Also, as stated in the video, with all these services going native to there own platform, I've lost alot of content if I stick to just one situation.
This is why I still collect DVDs and Blu-Rays you buy it once and done, no accounts, no wondering if its moved to another service, walk up to your shelf and pop it into the player, sit back and enjoy.
got this video suggested! was well worth my time, very good analysis and ughhh 2023 feels so empty with movies ... Hope it gets better soon. meanwhile youtube will serve.
There are still good movies, one just has to look harder. I have a handful of movie reviewers who's opinions i have respect for. If one gives something high praise or more than one says it's good for whatever reason- i make it a point to watch. Also look out for hidden gems that didn't get attention at first, but after some years in circulation- found an audience. Unfortunately i can't make any suggestions, not knowing how similar/different our tastes are.
I will just stick to my cinema subscription, for €20,50 a month I can go as often as I want. It's not the most convenient way but I get to see almost every new movie I want to watch.
The beauty of Netflix is that it replaced the video store, that was a one stop shop. The addition of original shows was cool, and again replicated HBO and Showtime. Now though, it's too much and I don't maintain subscriptions. If I really feel like it's a month where I will consume media, like around the holidays or vacation, I'll choose one with the most media I want to watch and pay for that subscription for one month and cancel. I'm not going to spend $60+ a month maintaining a ton of subscription services.
Similar for me. Netflix finally gave me a practical consumer option to give me high quality content I wanted. I was HAPPY to pay for it! Unfortunately, no streaming service gives me similar access to 3D content as my viewing choices have evolved. Back to the high seas, Arrrrgh
Excellent video and it should be getting 10x views! It does get old having several streaming services especially when it's painfully evident the quality is significantly going down. If I only had to choose one, it would be Netflix. However, my most watched streaming services by far is TH-cam and thankfully we have TH-cam Premium.
I don't imagine that rotating platforms is going to remain a viable strategy for long. I think we're going to get the equivalent of annual streaming leases at some point and it's going to be hella hard to unsubscribe.
This is why I bought a blu-ray player. It’s so much cheaper just to buy a movie or show I want to watch instead of hoping it shows up (and stays) on a streaming site.
And it will have superior resolution, colour grading, depth, and audio from the equivalent streamed version. So yes, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray is best for home viewing.
Streaming kind of killed watching movies for me. Especially with the multiple subscriptions needed to watch most stuff you would want to see. I find I read more now and play games instead of watching TV and movies.
I believe the streaming services will eventually collapse back into bundled services like cable and satellite TV. Multiple streaming services is unsustainable and unless you pay for premium level, you get commercials just like the old services.
I like streaming because it has saved me a lot of money. Going to the theatre every week for $25-$50 was expensive. Now I just gotta wait 45 days and it will show up on Netflix or Disney+, or Amazon Prime, or I can rent it for $6.
I was wondering why amazon was making it harder to read their reviews on movies. It actually makes me less inclined to watch a movie if I don't read the reviews on them (I'm one to watch a movie with bad reviews if those bad reviews show that it is up my ally).
It's true. The bad streaming situation has been pushing me more and more to books. I'm just that irritated with everything Netflix and others are trying to push at me. I am so unsatisfied I am finding alternatives to tv.
You can setup torrents in a way to track your shows, automatically download them and display them in a convenient desktop, mobile or tv view. Seems much more preferable than using these streaming services tbh.
I’m able to afford TH-cam premium, Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime by simply not going to theatres anymore. I have not been since Bad Boys 3, right before COVID, with one exception: Top Gun Maverick and that was only cause our employer paid for it. I pretty much have no FOMO with catching movies as soon as they are released. It’s quite economical for me since one movie ticket is almost as much as one monthly subscription. If you can wait for content then you can save a good chunk of change and, also, I don’t miss the theatres. I don’t miss the asshole patrons or overpriced food.
The Critical Drinker had shown Robert Downey Junior so often and always saying "not a great plan", that I literally heard it when I saw him here in the court scene.
Another thing killing the movies is the writing and lack of originality. Very rarely today are movies well written (especially big budget films). Its like ChatGPT has taken over for writing these days. Either that or those writing are just no good at their jobs...
How much do you think these services make from the free trial=automatic subscription model? I noticed a $40 charge on my account yesterday, called my bank and got the # to this place. It said they were in PA, but when she looked up their info it had a Canadian flag. I called and talked to an Indian rep that said they do customer support for streaming services. I asked him, as a customer what streaming services I'm getting w this. He couldn't answer, so I told him I would just cancel it so I could figure it out. This shit is rampant tho.
I already do that “rotating subscriptions” strategy. The Mandalorian is the only worthwhile show on Disney+ so I just subscribe when the latest season is out. I watch the whole season in a month and then unsubscribe until the next season releases. If they stagger episode releases, which is bullshit, I will just wait until they are all out.
Yep, i used to enjoy Netflix, it was the only video streaming service i had and i always found lots of great content to watch. Now, i sub to 3 services (not including YT) and i still don't find a lot of stuff i want to watch. I spend most of my time watching YT and curiosity stream.
They are making everything to instantly accessible. You used to have to wait to see a show each week or wait until a movie was released. Now they come out so fast, it's insane.
@@lindsayantwine1097 Yeah, the instant gratification has genuinely hurt TV. There's no more 'water-cooler' talk. That would build anticipation and really spread word of mouth views.
I sure miss the old days of Netflix back in 2014-2018. Those seemed like the golden years. Alas things change, but one thing sure didn't change; my strategy to use these streaming services to find content I like, then find the physical media for them and buy that. Given how atrocious the streaming situation is now, I think that was the right horse to back. Plus, I find there's something more gratifying have actual VHS and DVD's vs. relying solely off a streaming service. Plus the shows I do want that are originals, haven't been released yet, so I have no qualms with binging a series a few times, then canceling my subscription.
Bro it's actually wild all the different ways I have streaming services like I pay for one, my family shares another, extended family shares another, like it's so complicated I can't even be bothered anymore
HBO Max has been the best change in the industry. Netflix fell off when Disney+ came out. I don't understand how Netflix remains and how HBO isn't just dominating.
Netflix basically dominates the international market by city miles. Largely because the other services aren’t that available. Also Netflix offers much more variety and even more if you have a vpn compared to HBO and Disney+ by itself has virtually no variety.
I consider myself a winner thanks to the streaming wars. I found that since I can't watch many of the big hits when they are newly released, I lose interest in watching them at all. Since I can't watch everything I want to watch, I have come to realize that it is not that important to watch the shows that I can. As a result of the streaming wars, I now watch far less TV, I read more and I do other activities more. So I'm really the winner.
That doesn’t make you better
Spot on. Watching less would be better for everyone!
Since about 2013 I still only have used netflix. The day we aren't allowed to share passwords (it's not done yet in Germany) me and my other 3 friends will go. We already talked about it and we have all the same opinion.
@@SaintGBar22 it doesn’t make him better person, but it may give him a better, more fulfilling life.
This comment is so bizarre I've been thinking the same lately about myself and streaming channels even the reading thing is the same with me I've not read so much in my life than I have in the last few years.
It's just cable all over again with extra steps. These companies flew too close to the sun and a lot of people content with paying for a streaming service went back to pirating it's hilarious
It's not cable. People never changed from a broadcast/cable mentality. No one is obligated to pay month over month to wait for a new series, episode, or movie. They choose to do this. Simply cancel a subscription for a few months then subscribe again when it benefits you to watch the new content.
Cable was WAY worse. It takes like 5 seconds to cancel or re-sign up for a streaming service and I can have that streaming service on any device I want. Even when I am out of town. I don’t have to call the cable company to install anything and if I cancel, I don’t have to haul installed equipment back in order to not be charged for it. Even if you got cable, each additional TV in your home usually came at a cost. Because you had to run a signal box to each separate TV (maybe it changed since the years since I abandoned cable, but proably not). Adding or subtracting channels were all controlled by your cable provider and it was an annoying process to adjust your package. Also, it wasn’t on demand. You watched what the channel aired in the timeslot it airred it for the most part. There probably will be a flux in streaming services over the coming years. Some will stick and others will fade away or combine. But streaming is still better then cable by miles. Even with ads.
Thats Rickdickulous, Sh!t are we in the Miniverse or the Teenieverse
@@TheDawnofVanlife Adding to cable being worse. You don't have a choice of your cable TV provider. They have been omniopolies for decades where there is only 1 provider for your area so they don't compete. You take what they offer or you do without. And naturally all of their package tiers come with 50 sport channels which most of us don't care about but have to pay for because those who want the pickle ball world championship won't pay what it would cost to license it.
@Delta-Tech yes the cable companies are also most of our ISPs which are able to screw us over because once again most of us have no choice in provider.
Up until 2001, when they switched from analog to digital in the NYC tri-state area, I rarely watched network or cable/satelite tv. PBS (public broadcasting) channels like 13, 21, 25, and 31 had loads of programs and documentaries (many from the BBC) that my family had watched since I was a kid. Silent films, '30s Film Noir, Foreign films, European New Wave, 70s New Hollywood, experimental and cultural documentaries, BBC comedies and drama, live performances- as an adult I literally had no reason or interest to watch mainstream television and I still remember that bitter day I had to buy a digital flatscreen and throw out my tube tv set (if you still owned one). Well, ironically, I use the internet to watch the same (public domain) content I used to watch on PBS.
The golden age of streaming wars turned into the golden age of piracy. I couldn’t be happier.
Same, except a lot of things nowadays aren't even worth pirating.
the one piece
And it´s actually really hard to keep up with what is being released. Some shows I discover years after their first release. There is simply too much content, which wouldn´t be a problem if most of it were good quality. But like you said, most ain´t worth torrenting.
I myself find torrenting older content more and more. I keep going back to the classics and rediscovering good content from decades ago.@@digestiveissue7710
Movies, TV shows, original content, it's yours for the taking, but you'll have to find the magnet link first. I uploaded everything I own in one torrent.
@@digestiveissue7710 iptv. Everything from every streaming app in a single app, for 1/10 of the price.
It blows my mind that people thought there was room for infinite growth in the streaming industry. Like, there are a finite amount of people that can actually use these, and very few can use more than a few because they're expensive.
It blows my mind that people in general think there can be infinite growth for anything.
you just defined capitalism. The expectation of an unlimited growth in a limited market .
@@MrPrankmastergeneral Except there is no expectation of infinite growth. And that is not the core fundamentals of Capitalism. The fact that all those streaming platform hit a wall of loses is part of capitalism. Because profits and losses are both incentives that make a business profitable or not.
People invested in steaming because it was really profitable. They invested too much and have to cut back. They took a risk and will be punished for making a wrong decision with their investment. No one that actually understand economies believe there is such a thing as infinite growth.
Its called economy and diseconomies of scales. There is a limit to growth which is why in a free market, monopolies cannot exist.
It was so profitable because people bought the services which brought investments and now every company is struggling to see what is the best way to offer this service.
Amazon probably has it best by adding so many services with their bundle.
Unless you argue for monopolies and think only Netflix should exist.
@@Eddie_of_the_A_Is_A_Gang You wrote a lot of words to say so little.
@@trenvert123 For you mb. You need to be at least a little bit educated to understand what he means. Otherwise it will be just a bunch of words that mean little.
NO ADS. I will never go back to the torture of stilling through the same ads shown over and over again during an hour on a streaming channel. It's just inhuman punishment.
My hate for TV ads is visceral. And now when I watch YT it must be on PC with SponsorBlock otherwise I'm loosing my mind.
Touch grass
@@hottea2933I touch grass 5 days a week when I work over 40 hours. When I'm home watching shit, ads are literally taking time out of my life. Fuck ads
I'll either put my TV/Phone on mute for the duration of the ad or close off and watch/do something else entirely. I. Hate. Ads. And when I see them I make a mental note to avoid whatever brand I'm being marketed to.
Sad but i reckon they'll still make money when Netflix costs $50 a month and has a dozen ads every episode/movie.
Every studio doesn’t need to have their own streaming platform.
Not every studio needs*
They realized this way too late. All of these streaming bundle packages are the different companies trying to make up for it.
No studio should be allowed to have one. They should be separate bussines in order to avoid unethical malptactices, but I guess in capitalism everything goes...
@@pdzombie1906 exactly
But you want to own the platform and not just rent.
Regarding "only last 1 season," maybe the strategy there should be "design it for only 1 season." There are plenty of ideas that only need 10-20 episodes to tell their story, and that is preferable to "we really need 50 episodes to tell our story, but can't guarantee that it will happen," or "we only had 20 episodes in mind, your request for another 50 is just going to be seasonal rot."
In earlier times this was called a “mini series”, and it was often popular because people didn’t need to invest years to watch to its conclusion. Only about 90min. x 5
Well written TV series will wrap things up at the end of however many episodes were ordered and put something near the end that could continue things, but that fans would be OK being left somewhat unresolved. It's something that the showrunners and writers of Futurama have gotten rather good about as they're on like their 4th restart at this point. (I think, I've legitimately lost count of the times it's been canceled and uncanceled)
Locke and Key did that with three seasons. Cobra Kai is getting season 6 and that's it.
@fumanchu168 In a way it's worse than cable as it's not even clear what is on offer and these days most cable companies have a channel guide and DVR to help with that.
@@maestri09 A mini series generally had 4-6, 1 hour episodes. And a full series was 22-24, 45 minute episodes, so 20 episodes is enough to be a full series in reality.
Most if not all streaming services do their customers an enormous disfavor. They fail to provide a COMPLETE, UP TO DATE list off all content available. How am I supposed to make an informed decision of what to watch when I don't know what is available? Sure, I can search for content, but that assumes I know what I want and I'm looking to see if they have it. They also need to learn about and use this thing called the alphabet. I'm tired of streaming services displaying content lists in random order. It should ALWAYS be sorted alphabetically or have an option of how I want the content list to be sorted.
The "informed decision" they want you to do is to watch what they present you, and if you watch it long enough, they'll present similar things. They don't expect the mainstream audience to do a deep research before watching something. It's all about promoting what it's already successful.
They're counting on people not knowing exactly what they've got so that you think that there's stuff that you'd like that you haven't found. It's similar to why Costco is continually moving products around their warehouses.
This is all by design. They don't want you to find what you are looking for, they want you to waste time scrolling through their entire catalogue so they can get you to watch what you weren't looking for
Yes now when i want to watch a show i need to research what streaming service and what countries have it.
@@Soldano999 Its the same with movies. I don’t even bother to find out what the current movies are because I never know if they’ll land on a platform I subscribe to. So why set myself up for disappointment? Now I just ignore everything.
Viewers may have lost the streaming wars but the cable companies brought this on themselves. Realistically the end result described in the video is what we had been waiting for, an ala carte plan.
In the early 90s our cable company stated they were working towards an ala carte plan where we could package groups of channels or select specific channels. This was the plan as customers were complaining about having so many channels they never watched. The only channels that ever agreed to this were WGN and WTBS. As years passed and this never happened (and these two were quietly added back into the standard package) it came out the channels refused to go along. Some channels viewership was so low that it came out if they were available only by customer choice subscriptions would be so low they would have to close.
It's unlikely the end result will come to much of a savings but it is a little closer to what we wanted.
Foxtel was a huge thing here in Australia, but they still refuse to change. Started out good, little to no ads and great content cycled through. Now it's full of as many ads as normal tv, costs a fortune, and is only available on one tv. How it's still going is beyond me, i'm guessing mine sites and hotels that still use it for their rooms. Hell they even had a monopoly on football showing it live while normal tv had a delay, but now theres a mix of who shows it live first and you can get most games live on free tv.
If Netflix doesn't want to make more than 1 season, they should just go in with the mind set of it being a limited run. Like a mini-series
They really are destroying their own IP when they refuse to admit that's all they're willing to invest in
Dropped streaming when I started noticing every movie or show I fancied either wasn't on stream or I had to rent it from the streaming service. Been buying used Blu-rays since and it's actually saved me quite a bit of money in the long run.
Apple should make a movie device where people can upload their dvd/ Blu-ray collection onto the tv like the iPod with cds
Frankly, the increases in prices and the constant barrage of commercials, as well as the crappy content, editing of shows themselves, and the frequent deletion of really good older selections without warning is why I refuse to subscribe to streaming services. I just buy blu rays of stuff I like and is well recommended by reviewers who aren't being paid to do so, and watch youtube videos for entertainment.
@@jacobfilasky2729 you mean like a hard drive? 😂
@@poindextertunes I mean like I tunes for movies. Hard drive doesn’t store that much or allow disc input transfer
If you dont mind me asking, where is a good place to buy said used blurays.
If only there were some way you could watch any show for free with no ads 🏴☠️
@@RockBrentwood Most people could tolerate ads if it hadn't become "we interrupt your commercial stream to bring you a few seconds of interesting content".
wow talk about r/whoosh guys lmao
But you are stealing. Since you don’t pay the creator anything.
You could also get a job so you could afford a few bucks to watch something
@@RealityCheck6969 difference is the services are stealing from people the dude is stealing from thives.
The way to go is physical media, especially 4k quality-wise. I've seen 4ks go down to $10 on holiday sales like cyber monday so they're not always expensive. You own the film you like, don't need to worry about it ever being removed from a service & especially don't need to worry about censorship/editing. It's only a one-time payment instead of an entire year or parts of a year. Hope more people understand the importance of physical media.
Your physical media (dvd-bluray) are all going to decay eventually, and it won't take too long. Look it up, it's a thing.
Frankly, the increases in prices and the constant barrage of commercials, as well as the crappy content, editing of shows themselves, and the frequent deletion of really good older selections without warning is why I refuse to subscribe to streaming services. I just buy blu rays of stuff I like and is well recommended by reviewers who aren't being paid to do so, and watch youtube videos for entertainment.
that doesn't help with content you haven't seen already. I'm not going to pay $10 for something I might only want to watch once, and might not even like.
@@samdryden7944 what you do is check youtube for movie and series reviews. Go for the little guys, the ones who don't get paid to review, they're honest.
@@samdryden7944 understandable, you can always sell a blind buy if you don't like it. But I personally own films I have seen & do enjoy.
I anticipate that physical media will one day need an internet connection to use. People didn't complain effectively enough when this happened to video games. This will certainly tip me back to the high seas.
arr matey welcome back
It didn't really happen to video games. A very small portion of games are like that, and I don't buy them. I'm assuming you're talking about games that require a connection for offline play and not multiplayer games because I don't see how they'd work without a connection
@@Matt-jc2ml i love playing games but only just recently come back to them after a 20 year brake 😅 (mid 40's old git here). I played cyberpunk and one day i played without internet.. must of lost over 3-4 hours of that game as i didn't know it saved through the Internet. 😢
@@John-c2u3j yeah I actually got that in a secret santa at work and never played it because of all the bad press on it 😂
Woah. You're worried about online-only services. You must be the smartest person in the world.
As consumers we win the streaming wars by buying Blu-rays. Put that streaming money into physical media and eventually you will own everything you care about and not need to spend anything at all when you feel like watching something. Enjoy superior audio and video. Be happy knowing that your collection will not change suddenly due to a licensing dispute. Rest easy knowing that if twitter decides to cancel a movie, you can decide for yourself if that has any merit.
Twitter is largely irrelevant now (thank goodness) but yes, the social media trigger types. And yes, nothing like a good hard copy.
And be severely limited to watching the same things over and over, and having to physically take it with you when traveling, etc
Eventually someone will come along and start a service where all the streaming services are available in one place and reinvent cable.
Nah. They would have to pay stupid ammounts of money just for the rights to so much content.
Also it was already a thing when Netflix was important. The other companies just don't want their content outside their own platforms.
SKY TV in the UK have essentially done exactly that. They are the UK's biggest pay TV provider and have struck up deals with :
Netflix ( you can now add a Netflix sub to the SKY TV bundle)
Disney + ( you can now add a Netflix sub to the SKY TV bundle)
Peacock (The app is free to SKY TV subscribers)
HBO ( NO app because SKY have an exclusive deal to show their programs on their SKY Atlantic channel and on demand)
Paramount+ ( Free if you have the SKY movie channels)
Although you can get most of these apps (except HBO) separately direct from the providers it has enabled SKY to control the competition and reduce their threat by offering them access to their ready made subscriber base.
It's reducing competition though which is not always a good thing as SKYs prices are completely out of control $$$$$$
Yeah, it’s called real-debrid.
And it will cost $150 per month.
It already exists on alternative streaming platforms.
We dropped Netflix after nearly 15 years of loyalty as our only streaming platform. We're sailing the high seas now, over this streaming foolishness altogether.
Welcome back matey, enjoy your time out at sea
If it wasn't for my younger siblings and other family members, I wouldn't even be paying for netflix.
Oba side note I just realised this while writing. My 2010' siblings don't really know how to sail the high seas, they don't know they can jailbreak their iPhones and iPads. They don't know they can download games safely online for free. They grew up with on demand and you have to pay for everything, I never showed them how to pirate because I didn't want to deal with viruses they might get but yh, kinda weird.
When they are 14-17, show them. Till then, pirate things for them if you've got the time. That's what my parents did for me and now I can navigate any rough sea without catching a single virus
@@kvproductions2581 Generational Piracy. Love it.
@@michaelb2westgaedu Yes! It comes naturally to us. We haven't had a SINGLE streaming service in the house since I was born!
I do feel the need to support authors now and then so I buy merch or physical things whenever I do, but its rare i feel that need for these bigass anti-consumer companies, lol! They don't need more money
I used to think my roommate was weird for collecting shelves upon shelves of DVDs and BluRay's. Now i realize he was a genius.
I did the same thing, now I don't need anybody!
It’s great except most shows and movies I will watch once then never watch again. So I could pay $12 for one month max, watch it, then cancel. I only buy blu rays for stuff that has meaning to me or I know I will rewatch. Otherwise movie blurays are $20+ and tv show box sets are like $70+.
@@BlackWolf207 I hardly bought DVD's (Except for Lois and Clark, lol ). I rent DVD's from a company I won't name and burned them for pennies, now I have a huge collection.
I brought loads off cheap movies of the pound store. US calls it dollar store. At the moment, you can still password share. I'm still expanding my collection, just incase
I used to do that but, if I was honest with myself, I was rarely rewatching any of my glorious collection. So I sold 90% and I actually made some money.
Personally, I think the real problem is the budgets for these new shows are WAAAY too high. Like Wandavision was what, 300million? Like that cannot be necessary
Sony is really unique in all of this. In addition to TV, they are involved in gaming such as their PlayStation lineup and mobile games- one mobile game came out 6 years ago and has gotten them over $5 billion. Sony also is a big music producer. Also, they seemed to have cornered the anime market, their studio Aniplex, produces roughly half of all anime in japan and Sony effectively owns about all of the anime streaming market in the US.
Does FGO still make Sony money?
@@WhiteBeard640 Sure is. That was the one I was referring to as a matter of fact.
I like how people would rather bring up anime than the fact that Sony made the only genuinely praised movie of the entire 4th phase of the MCU, not to mention spiderverse and they're countless other Ws. Sony is out to make money, and they're succeeding, so the consumers are winning too. It's only when companies start to work towards ulteriour motives quality goes downhill. Realistically, even if content was split between platforms, it still wouldn't be an issue if it was good, but it isn't, so it is. Sony isn't trying to preach, they're just trying to make content people actually want.
@@robonator2945 I was bringing up some information that was not said in the video and that is not well known. Anime has been growing in popularity and profit for the last decade and many entertainment companies around the world have been investing in anime and similar animation. Sony is doing the same and making anime content, something people actually want.
@Celio Fate Grand Order
Disney screwed up when they pulled their IP's from Netflix. Its not that they pulled the shows off, its that they did not continue to make them. Disney+ would have been well served to keep making The Punisher, Iron Fist, Dare Devil etc.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Netflix contracts for "Originals" include a must-not-compete clause forbidding the production companies from making their own versions of the series within X years.
Iron fist was a joke. So was luke cage.
Or at the very least some mini series marvel team up just like the comics. I remember reading when Like Cage Spider-Man Daredevil Punisher would eventually cross paths. Even Dr Strange was part of this group. And recast some upcoming Brandon Lee type for an Iron Fist upgrade. They have so much to choose from and to work with.
Well Netflix was never profitable since they went into streaming, and shows would be cancelled in season or to later. Don't be fooled they pulled the plug on shows with more viewers
They are making those things though
I find I watch less streaming overall because I can’t remember what service I watched something on. So yeah doing more projects and less tv plus canceling some that I never get back to has saved me money and gotten me out more. Thanks over abundance.
Yawn
Great to hear you focus on important stuff rather then cheap entertainment butvanyway it's better to watch a movie over most of the cheap tv shows no issues watching older content too
and if you go the piracy route with fen + debrid
You can get blurays quality streamed of any movie / tv show
Streaming might be the only industry where a monopoly had actual benefits over having several options
Yeah like Crunchyroll owns 98% of all anime. Hidive owns the rest of 2 percent. Streaming can’t do much to differentiate other than content
@@dreamsdeep1076 Crunchyroll has consistently poor performance when compared to platforms like Netflix. Crunchyroll uses way more bandwidth and tends to buffer far more. Between that and the ridiculous censorship, I cancelled my Crunchyroll subscription and went back to pirating
@@mikea5745 pirating anime is the way to go, crunchy roll just doesn’t work and they have bad menus when the worst anime site is far better (and for some reason no paid service has dubs)
@@mikea5745 I still can't believe they haven't fixed that shit, I always had a bad time with their TV app, plus the censorship was a big no no for me. I always find it funny that they missed out on the two biggest anime of the season (I believe one of which ended up on HiDive).
Once yhe monopoly acyually had formed (cBle and physical media died) Netflix would have raised prices anyways cause they could.
Two things surprise me about the streaming wars. One, that the fcc hasn't butt in yet like they did with theaters & early cable tv. Two, that linear broadcast tv providers didn't take advantage of the situation by drastically lowering prices to at least try to compete on some level.
Maybe if the fcc can start letting Eminem be.
Why lower prices? Look up the current profits. Cable TV is still trouncing streaming services, so they have no need to compete.
You didn't mention the additional problem of not being able to find old shows or movies from the 90s and earlier because no one thinks it is profitable enough to digitize yet or an old school company/person has the rights to it and won't let it go To be streamed.
Another problem there is that so many movies from the 80s and 90s went through so many companies that, technically, no one actually knows who owns them now, so no one steps up to try to make money streaming them. 😂
I rotate subscriptions, and use A LOT of Tubi. I love Tubi. Classic 80s & 90s movies that I really enjoy
Columbo, Robin Hood (1950s/60s), and Donna Reed show on Tubi, and Roku are free and very good. When they took the original Maverick off Tubi, I bought the complete 5 seasons DVD set.
I just found them too, and it's free, with fairly rare ad breaks.
Oh gosh Tubi, the company that had the world asking “where’s the remote?”
I've been really surprised by how good a service it is. They've mostly filled their catalogue with odd (but worthwhile) curios from the past as a way of saving money, and as a result it's become a unique window into the history of television.
According to them Netflix cancels shows based on the percentage of people who watch the first episode to the last, and if less and less people watch episodes throughout the season then that shows that there isn’t demand
There are so many amazing shows where the first season was truly dog shit i.e. The Office. I don’t think we’re going to be seeing great TV for a long time since everything has to he a hit right off the bat. I think like gaming, we’ll just be trending towards the average in order to appeal to as many people as possible.
This is exactly what made streaming good to begin with.
@@adrianlemus2768 Yeah, but the only reason the Office escaped the cancellation Bear was Steve Carrell being in the 40 year old virgin. The movie did so well they gave the show another season and it just kinda took off. I agree with you though, companies don't give their shows enough time to shine.
@@JayMuggah88 I actually didn’t know that, but regardless I do think that the age of great television is behind us. Maybe in a few years we’ll have a great revitalization.
@@adrianlemus2768 yeah I wasn't a big fan of the Office....I just remember reading about it. I was in/out toward the later seasons like 5-7...when Carrell left I left lol
This is such a DUMB metric. I am the sort of person who will take time watching a show. In some cases several weeks. I will get there at the end but I will go at my pace, not the pace Netflix expects me to go at to justify their algorithms.
A better option would be to see how many people complete a show 1 year after release, to give time for people to discover it and see it. Making a decision to axe a show within a few months of release is nuts.
They don’t care about location. Three people in my house were trying to use Netflix and it blocked me saying I needed to pay more to do that.
Standard plan allows 2 devices. Premium plan allows 4 devices.
You could always also pirate too
@@sharrpshooter1 you’re on some Grandpa type shit vato! that was the thing to do years ago, in todays society we have unlimited access too all kinds of accounts you just have too be smart too get them ;)
Money has been tight in my house, so we cancelled services and went to free only. What I found was that my kids got used to commercials quickly and even started taking more of an interest in reading actual books. The library in my home office hadn't been touched in a while, even by me, so this was a great surprise. My eldest daughter just read "Benchley" by D. Preston and now she is moving on to the book that inspired it...Jaws.
We still watch TV, but the instant and uninterrupted gratification is no longer driving us to just mindlessly watch the screen ad nauseam.
Great review. I still can’t believe Apple was too arrogant to buy up some of the libraries.
One tip: if you’re going to put a graphic up you have to leave it long enough to be read. Many others botch this too.
I rarely watch streaming services. Since Netflix dropped the only show I wanted, The Dark Crystal, I didn't care for anything else. However, I am paying for a few steaming services because it's cheaper than cable for the family. So if they decide to cut password sharing I'm dropping them. If they start adding ads I'm dropping them, I will never EVER pay for ads again!
I don’t buy books I just read the free ones on internet like wattpad
Internet + adblock is even less.
@@yrdyekcy2709 not everyone watches TV off their computer. Of course I use AdBlock whenever I can but you really can't when streaming on your phone or smart TV. Hell even twitch goes around that and streams the ad to you!
@@dreamsdeep1076 That's called a Fanfic.
Disney have managed to kill their Star Wars and Marvell IPs because of the poor streaming and low quality TV like movies
And soon Indiana Jones will join the list of destroyed ips that Disney has left in it's wake
Kill Star Wars? Are you high? The Disney Star Wars shows are awesome!
You are un the minority with that opinion
@@carybeweary7209 I waited 30 years to see a cowardly Obi Wan run away from Darth Vadar and be upstaged, outsmarted, and out thought by a brave toddler. I must not be high enough yet.
@@Fallen_Family Isn't that the truth. The are sitting on that turkey like soiled bedsheets, waiting for the least worst time to sneak them out and finally deal with what they made.
As a avid anime fan in the 2010s, anime certainly went through this problem way before the streaming wars. Piracy was honestly the only option to go to, to watch your favorite anime. Crunchyroll only had a limited catalog, most likely trying to keep the "free" model. Due to the multiple streaming services having limited catalogs, piracy grew and the anime industry was struggling. I was scared about Sony absorbing all legal streaming services for anime couple years ago, but it might save the industry having all the anime in one place. Though, Sony threw away the "free" model that CR had so the service can now pick up more anime. It is a wonder that companies did not look at what happened to the anime industry and learn from it but i guess they just fell right into the trap.
Piracy was never the only option. Dvds always existed and always put out almost every possible show you could want. Such a lie
Piracy with anime is starting to grow again, but companies are doing every anti consumer action possible to stop it
@@prede89 Buying anime on DVD was ridiculous expensive. If you are a student, this is not an option. Depending on where you live, getting your hands on a DVD was sometimes literaly imposible. Piracy was in fact the only option.
Actually, it's not so gloomy. Anime has increased it's profits recently, according to the NYT the industry is booming. They just recorded their largest increase in 2022 since 2002. The problem for anime is that the workers don't get paid fairly, and the corpos take the lion's share of the booming profits, not piracy.
@@prede89how about anime that wasn't available in the west mr 180 iq genius
I canceled all my streaming services and cable put all my DVDs on a hard drive. With the help of my two sons, and their DVD libraries, I have enough movies and old TV shows to keep me busy. That’s what I watch now. It’s actually a lot of fun. Me and my wife will sit and watch the honeymooners than welcome back Kotter and then end the night with Seinfeld. and I have hundreds of more shows to choose from.
Dvd, bluray, and 4k bluray is the answer.
Better quality, you actually own your content, and you can make a library of movies, and shows that are tailored to your taste.
Streaming platforms slowly becoming glorified tv channels
This will happen in exactly the same way when everyone is "obligated" to switch to EVs until electricity companies raise their prices to meet the demand that gas companies lost
Gotta switch consumers over to a more profitable platform. But first, incentives to get market share.
That's a silly comparison. EVs are needed for environmental reasons. Streaming isn't. The prices of electricity are mad ATM due to unexpected wars but again, nothing to do with streaming. Also go independent if you can and install solar etc to be more self sufficient.
This is the dumbest comment I've ever read. It's like saying the same thing happened with ICE cars after everyone switched over from horses
@@sullychow4123 "EVs are needed for environmental reasons" is reductionist beyond the purpose of conversation, and calling our war in Ukraine "unexpected" shows your geopolitical opinions are worthless.
Streaming for cord cutters, now has turned into what cable TV is. Everything splintered on separate streaming services. Its kinda hilarious watching it in real time
Not so sure I miss the cinema, you were lucky if it was empty so you could sit in the middle with enough arm room.
The people talking through the movie, the guy in the back throwing popcorn, when you're in the back the sound is way too loud and you don't see anything.
If you sit in the front, you will be dead of neck pain within 10 minutes and probably not visible again in the coming week.
While the other way is to enjoy a movie on the couch while having everything you could ever want at hand.
I consider myself a winner bc I don’t watch TV anymore. It’s honestly amazing how I couldn’t imagine life without it, but after a month, I don’t miss it at all
yes and what few shows i want to watch i can find on my pc through the ol yar-har-fiddle-dee-dee
I think the future will go back to licensing and advertising since it’s easier to metric. Streaming will only get more streamlined as time goes on. Not sure how sustainable the current model for pricing is and I would suspect many would eventually promote an ads only option for payment. This is my prediction.
I really like the idea of "rotating subscriptions" only paying for a short period and catching up on shows on that platform.
Yeah, me too. That is a good idea. I didn't realize that I was already done that. I had dropped Netflix for a while, then the new season of Stranger Things came to Netflix, and signed back up, binge watched, then cancel my subscription. 😂
Oh knowing the pattern of these corporations, they will eventually stop that with "Lock In Period For 2 Years, No Cancellation".
I don't understand why Everyone does not even mention this. You can watch anything you want, when you want from the titles from a streaming service, and you only have so many hours to watch them, so just watch everything you want to watch from one service at a time, cancel, then switch to another service. Subscribing to multiple does not give you more hours in a day
I'll probably always keep NF and Prime, but I am fine rotating among SHUDDER, Hulu, etc.
They are the reason streaming was created.
I build apps & own cdn, with the right content, any direct to consumer channel can succeed. Ppl are just sick of the propaganda and agendas. Good content is always rewarded.
Very true. My wife pays for Hulu and every time before I watch a show on there I have to read reviews to make sure it doesn't degrade to political propaganda. I error on the side of caution for the most part and don't watch the streaming service because of it. My wife continues to pay for it though because her garbage reality TV is on there.
Rotating streaming services is a great strategy, but honestly, not being able to see shows soon after they release kills all the hype. There was something exciting and special about going to the cinema and watching a movie everyone was watching at the time. Or waiting for a new episode of TV to drop each week and if you missed it you wouldn't be able to join the conversation with your friends the next day. Streaming has already made it so more people watch content alone, but if we can't even watch shows when they are hot we completely loose the social component of this type of entertainment. It will be even less appealing than it is now, at least for me
Note that once upon a time, Netflix released every episode of a series all at once--the "binging model," as we came to call it. But services like Disney Plus couldn't do this because, well, they only had a couple of shows, so they had to resort to the archaic TV model of dribbling out an episode per week. Then, for some reason, social media geniuses decided this was a brilliant creative stratagem instead of an admission of weakness, and now it's dangerously close to becoming the norm.
Love the streaming wars! I’ve found that if I alternate services every few months, I save money PLUS I can binge all series and watch all exclusive films bouncing around different services. I think it’s nuts people will pay for services they cannot fully enjoy
Haha damn this is actually a genius idea! So basically you drop a service for a month or 2 and then when you add it back you watch all the shows you previously did except this time there are more episodes built up? Lmfao damn I need to do this!
Same here! I'll sign up, watch whatever releases I'm behind on or interested in, maybe a few other things, then move on to the next one. If I'm lucky the gaps in time are long enough that a trial week/month are offered too lol
A better approach is to pick a service and buy only one month of it
Great detail video. Thanks. As a screenwriter, I am aware of nother issue that is about to cause an industry shut down in the US with the TV and film writers strike. Writing for cable and network there was a chance of making a living because they made so many episodes writers could count on having year-round employment on shows that lasted over 20 episodes. Now, very few streaming shows last more than 10 episodes at the most. Because they cost so much, they disappear for a year to 18 months before another batch shows up. Ironically, there are more shows but far fewer episodes of them. This adds up too much less work for writers despite the fact there seems to be more television with over 500 scripted shows last year.
The other thing that streaming has done is wipe out the syndication market. Screenwriters get royalties on international sales and re-broadcasting of their work. Not unlike, a musician getting royalties based on the plays of their songs on various platforms. When streamers make a series they own world rights. there is no secondary market for TV produced for streamers. Therefore, far fewer royalties for writers and everyone else. Yes, we get a very small percentage for digital royalties, but it does not compensate for the rollback of income in every other area.
Let's hope the strike pushes the studios to start negotiating in better faith ✊ You guys shouldn't be made to bear the cost of all their stupid overspending on proprietary streaming services that no-one was asking for.
I liked 1899, but I also think it was a good thing that it only got a single season, something I feel should also have been the case for Westworld and Altered Carbon, continuation of those 2 with extremely strong first seasons made it an overall worse experience, I have no doubt the same would have been true for 1899.
I actually won the streaming wars by setting up my own streaming server with my content by ripping my DVDs onto an external drive. I rarely watch anything anymore anyway because I spent most of my time with hobbies and trades.
I have started buying physical media again. I forgot how good the quality is.
I grew up in the 80s in a household where nobody believed in cable. As an adult, I couldn't wait to get it, to see everything I'd missed. Turns out, it wasn't much. I subscribe to Hulu Live during college football season and then cancel it. Since I already have an Amazon Prime account, I make do with the shows I can find there and TH-cam fills in all the gaps. I've found that I'm generally happier and more productive the more I have the TV turned off.
Agree ... Amazon seems to be the only real winner, because you subscribe to Prime not for the streaming services, but for the free shipping service, and the streaming services are an added bonus. The video creator did not mention IPTV... the true winner for the future.
I grew up in the 50's so there isn't anything I'm interested in watching anyhow.
@@hellskitchen10036 you're missing out
The part about TH-cam filling the gaps describes my modern day viewing experience. TH-cam is like my very own fine-tuned version of Cable. I'm subscribed to over 200 channels because they've produced content I've liked in the past. And if they change, if they don't produce content I like anymore, I can simply unsubscribe and move on with my day. I don't have to pout about losing money when I have my AdBlocker on and never directly give them money regardless. TH-cam provides endless amounts of content for me to watch. It has everything except for straight-up unedited copyrighted movies and tv shows being uploaded. I would include porn and gore too, but if you search hard enough and look up the right terms you will find that shit lmao
@@rarelibra I live and lived an incredible life and haven't missed out on anything important. ...but thanks for your concern.
Releasing movies into a cinema and then farming it out to streamers in a manner which maximised profits, before moving onto physical media, was still a viable strategy for movies. The issue was the studios were obsessed with streaming subs. The studio's destroyed their standard movie model in order to use those movies to boost subs. That strategy was a disaster and is currently being reversed by many studios. But for streaming, I agree the main focus is tv-shows, but apart from Netflix this is not giving anyone any profits.
A fantastic analysis and a great look at how things have changed 🙌🏻👏🏻
Im sooo glad they're ad supported free content and that I invested in DVDs for my favorite content and know how to "priate"😊
Everyone lost the Streaming Wars. It was like the Vietnam War. It was a war with no winners. Only losers.
sailing the high seas has never been as lucrative as it is now
hi, fellow enlightened one
I basically unsubscribed almost all services and watch instead my own personal backlog of shows that I already own as well as old faves...I doubt I am alone.
Let's be honest being a pirate was only punishable when the Navy caught up to you. We shall never die Yo Ho!😅
Yo ho yo ho , a pirates life for me!
Its a victimless crime, those who worked on it were already paid. May you find good weather at sea matey
Its just funny how in the height of the “piracy days” they were making 10000% better content. We got Game of Thrones season 1,2,3...
now that people are paying top $ for their services they produce the crapiest content ever.
I guess BitTorrent really worked for everyone.
I mean even if you paid me to watch any of it now i would not even think of wasting any of my bandwidth and ssd soace to download their attrocious content into my systems.
The issue with streaming is, in 2 or 3 months, you can binge your favorite shows and start diving into the more crappy shows to where you just simply get bored or burnt out of content. Its an issue with too much content, to little relation to at least my pallete for shows and movies. I haven't had a streaming service for a good year and a half or more and honestly I don't even really need the background noise for it anymore. I haven't had regular tv in over 5 years, so its just one of those things to where television at least for me is loosing its appeal. Id rather pay for an interactive environment or game more so than a television situation. Also, as stated in the video, with all these services going native to there own platform, I've lost alot of content if I stick to just one situation.
This is why I still collect DVDs and Blu-Rays you buy it once and done, no accounts, no wondering if its moved to another service, walk up to your shelf and pop it into the player, sit back and enjoy.
That kind of satisfaction is unparalleled for home viewing.👌🏼
got this video suggested! was well worth my time, very good analysis and ughhh 2023 feels so empty with movies ... Hope it gets better soon. meanwhile youtube will serve.
There are still good movies, one just has to look harder. I have a handful of movie reviewers who's opinions i have respect for. If one gives something high praise or more than one says it's good for whatever reason- i make it a point to watch. Also look out for hidden gems that didn't get attention at first, but after some years in circulation- found an audience.
Unfortunately i can't make any suggestions, not knowing how similar/different our tastes are.
I will just stick to my cinema subscription, for €20,50 a month I can go as often as I want. It's not the most convenient way but I get to see almost every new movie I want to watch.
The beauty of Netflix is that it replaced the video store, that was a one stop shop. The addition of original shows was cool, and again replicated HBO and Showtime. Now though, it's too much and I don't maintain subscriptions. If I really feel like it's a month where I will consume media, like around the holidays or vacation, I'll choose one with the most media I want to watch and pay for that subscription for one month and cancel. I'm not going to spend $60+ a month maintaining a ton of subscription services.
So right now I can watch a movie the same day it is released in theaters for free and I am somehow losing?
I spent a bout a decade without pirating anything, but anti-consumer practices have brought me back into the life.
You can choose to not watch that stuff and focus your energies elsewhere.
Similar for me. Netflix finally gave me a practical consumer option to give me high quality content I wanted. I was HAPPY to pay for it! Unfortunately, no streaming service gives me similar access to 3D content as my viewing choices have evolved. Back to the high seas, Arrrrgh
@@mechanicalmonk2020 Could, won't.
Yeah this guy said about mid budget movies almost going extinct is 100% right
Excellent video and it should be getting 10x views! It does get old having several streaming services especially when it's painfully evident the quality is significantly going down. If I only had to choose one, it would be Netflix. However, my most watched streaming services by far is TH-cam and thankfully we have TH-cam Premium.
Same.
I don't imagine that rotating platforms is going to remain a viable strategy for long. I think we're going to get the equivalent of annual streaming leases at some point and it's going to be hella hard to unsubscribe.
Nice to come full circle.
This is why I bought a blu-ray player. It’s so much cheaper just to buy a movie or show I want to watch instead of hoping it shows up (and stays) on a streaming site.
And it will have superior resolution, colour grading, depth, and audio from the equivalent streamed version. So yes, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray is best for home viewing.
All of this leaded to stop caring about shows and movies. However, if spotify collapses I guess it's truly the time to go back to piracy
Streaming kind of killed watching movies for me. Especially with the multiple subscriptions needed to watch most stuff you would want to see. I find I read more now and play games instead of watching TV and movies.
When it comes to movies, UHD/Blu-ray for the win.
Exactly! I much prefer owning my favorite movies on 4K or Blu-Ray instead of streaming them.
@@Lona_Chess with streaming you're essentially renting them. I personally prefer to buy dvd.
@@Lona_Chess Some old movies shot on film and restored on 4k can be like watching a classic that was just recently made 🤩
Doesn't that cost more ? Plus its not as convenient nor will you have the same selection at no extra cost
You can't beat the quality, especially the audio. Used Blu-ray discs are cheap; I generally spend less than $4 per.
I believe the streaming services will eventually collapse back into bundled services like cable and satellite TV. Multiple streaming services is unsustainable and unless you pay for premium level, you get commercials just like the old services.
I like streaming because it has saved me a lot of money. Going to the theatre every week for $25-$50 was expensive. Now I just gotta wait 45 days and it will show up on Netflix or Disney+, or Amazon Prime, or I can rent it for $6.
In asia you just watch from websites with all the movies and series in 1 place, no subs / download needed
Just need to look enough and it’s free
I was wondering why amazon was making it harder to read their reviews on movies. It actually makes me less inclined to watch a movie if I don't read the reviews on them (I'm one to watch a movie with bad reviews if those bad reviews show that it is up my ally).
You also forgot to mention the controversies of shows like Cuties where Netflix saw a significant loss of subscribers.
Cuties wasn’t a show. It was a French Indie film for which they were the American distributor.
I'm surprised other shows they put on their platform isn't banned (too much sexual content, basically porn)
It's true. The bad streaming situation has been pushing me more and more to books.
I'm just that irritated with everything Netflix and others are trying to push at me. I am so unsatisfied I am finding alternatives to tv.
Gravity Falls exists
Epic clickbait victim moment.
You can setup torrents in a way to track your shows, automatically download them and display them in a convenient desktop, mobile or tv view. Seems much more preferable than using these streaming services tbh.
I’m able to afford TH-cam premium, Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime by simply not going to theatres anymore.
I have not been since Bad Boys 3, right before COVID, with one exception: Top Gun Maverick and that was only cause our employer paid for it.
I pretty much have no FOMO with catching movies as soon as they are released. It’s quite economical for me since one movie ticket is almost as much as one monthly subscription.
If you can wait for content then you can save a good chunk of change and, also, I don’t miss the theatres. I don’t miss the asshole patrons or overpriced food.
I am able to afford piracy because it's free.
The Critical Drinker had shown Robert Downey Junior so often and always saying "not a great plan", that I literally heard it when I saw him here in the court scene.
He has some of the best soundbites! "MODERN AUDIENCES" is probably my current fave.
He's a voice of reason in all the Hollywood shyt.
@@TheFourthWinchesterno,he isn't lol
He's a grifting hack
@@carybeweary7209 He's the only one who is not a hack trying to blindly appease their base.
He's very right wing
Another thing killing the movies is the writing and lack of originality. Very rarely today are movies well written (especially big budget films). Its like ChatGPT has taken over for writing these days. Either that or those writing are just no good at their jobs...
@Corvus Anime has been having the same. It's getting so bland and fanservice has basically disappeared when that covered up bad writing.
How much do you think these services make from the free trial=automatic subscription model? I noticed a $40 charge on my account yesterday, called my bank and got the # to this place. It said they were in PA, but when she looked up their info it had a Canadian flag. I called and talked to an Indian rep that said they do customer support for streaming services. I asked him, as a customer what streaming services I'm getting w this. He couldn't answer, so I told him I would just cancel it so I could figure it out. This shit is rampant tho.
I think thats a seperate issue...
I already do that “rotating subscriptions” strategy. The Mandalorian is the only worthwhile show on Disney+ so I just subscribe when the latest season is out. I watch the whole season in a month and then unsubscribe until the next season releases. If they stagger episode releases, which is bullshit, I will just wait until they are all out.
Yep, i used to enjoy Netflix, it was the only video streaming service i had and i always found lots of great content to watch. Now, i sub to 3 services (not including YT) and i still don't find a lot of stuff i want to watch. I spend most of my time watching YT and curiosity stream.
I miss when everything was on Netflix
I used to love buying dvd’s and blu rays long before streaming. Going back to that.
So am I.
I'm sorry did we just hear the word, "success" while there was footage of She-Hulk on screen?
“How do I watch this?” is an insult I do not tolerate anymore.
My only Netflix experience was getting those red DVD mailers.
Feels like a lifetime ago 😮
Old school! I used to love getting mail back in those days, now it's just bills with 0% chance of anything good coming.
@@edition-deluxe I forget the plan I had, but I had two DVDs and another two on the way, so there was a constant stream of movies.
@@uhoh7541 I got into Anime back then and rented all the Anime they had after I watched all the Anime Blockbuster had.
They’re discontinuing that service.
I usually have like 1 or 2. TH-cam always and maybe one other. It works well for me since I don’t watch tons. If I only had one, it would be TH-cam.
They are making everything to instantly accessible. You used to have to wait to see a show each week or wait until a movie was released. Now they come out so fast, it's insane.
I kinda miss the anticipation you got to have back then.
@@lindsayantwine1097 I don't miss it personally.
I’m glad they don’t make you wait.
@@lindsayantwine1097 Yeah, the instant gratification has genuinely hurt TV. There's no more 'water-cooler' talk. That would build anticipation and really spread word of mouth views.
@@acerimmer8338 Is this the real Ace Rimmer?? What a guy! 😆
Nah bro. It’s always been a pirates life for me. 🏴☠️
I started sailing the high seas again. It was good while it lasted.
I sure miss the old days of Netflix back in 2014-2018. Those seemed like the golden years. Alas things change, but one thing sure didn't change; my strategy to use these streaming services to find content I like, then find the physical media for them and buy that. Given how atrocious the streaming situation is now, I think that was the right horse to back. Plus, I find there's something more gratifying have actual VHS and DVD's vs. relying solely off a streaming service. Plus the shows I do want that are originals, haven't been released yet, so I have no qualms with binging a series a few times, then canceling my subscription.
The issues mentioned in this video, is the reason I don't want the subscription based model to take over gaming.
The subscription based model isn't taking over gaming
Bro it's actually wild all the different ways I have streaming services like I pay for one, my family shares another, extended family shares another, like it's so complicated I can't even be bothered anymore
So the platforms will essentially become cable networks.
HBO Max has been the best change in the industry. Netflix fell off when Disney+ came out. I don't understand how Netflix remains and how HBO isn't just dominating.
Netflix basically dominates the international market by city miles. Largely because the other services aren’t that available. Also Netflix offers much more variety and even more if you have a vpn compared to HBO and Disney+ by itself has virtually no variety.
I hope the whole entertainment industry burns to the ground.