Would be a more encouraging article if people were cutting their Netflix and streaming services as well.
We are getting there.
I cut my cable five years ago and have been slowly cutting my streaming services since as I find other alternatives.
Recently I cut off Amazon Prime. Netflix is likely next, but I would be willing to pay them for streaming on demand for content I want to see. Just not a monthly fee that would subsidize the other crap.
Ironically, Netflix has a documentary called "The Last Blockbusters" which is about how the once mighty Blockbuster Video chain went to just one store in Bend, Oregon.
It will be interesting to see what is left of Netflix 5 or 10 years from now. I predict that they will be purely a content provider and not a content distributor (i.e. paying movie studios for streaming rights for certain movies).
We are very quickly moving to a world where all content is on demand directly from the content provider. No need for middlemen.
Now Netflix does have some original content they can - they were thinking ahead. So I think they survive.
Right. Funding the Left - with subscription services, you can fund culturally damaging rot as they are not depending on “ratings” for revenue. They can put it up and still damage a huge part of the culture even if by normal standards it didn’t cut the mustard for “ratings” for views. With the antenna and free streaming services, views are what matters - no one watches = no revenue. The quality of the programming matters.
Yeah I agree. Just shifting means of how one watches and not the content is deck chair shuffling.