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Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Dankry@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 36 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The music industry figured it out. Now the video streaming industry needs to. Until then, arrrrrr.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The music industry figured it out: I listen to way more music than ever before and I willingly pay more than ever before

Video streaming keeps trying to make my experience more frustrating, less value to me. They’re scrounging for dollars is driving me away. I’ve considered my options for making video entertainment enjoyable again, and I’m just tired of the whole thing. I’m spending more time in projects, more time online, more time reading ebooks from my library. I’m watching less video than before, enjoying it less, getting less value for my money and it’s just all not worth it. Their efforts to profit more from my attention are getting them less of it and losing my willingness to pay

[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The big difference is exclusive content. Music has a few exceptions but in general sign up for one service and you can listen to anything.

That forces music services to compete on the overall experience (and price), while video services pretty much exclusively compete based on what content is available and literally none of them offer all of the things a person wants to watch. So nobody will ever be happy with any streaming service.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I think exclusive content is only a symptom of the larger problem, which is that we're letting movie production companies run their own (new-fangled versions of) theaters again.

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Yo ho ho my friend. Yo ho ho.