Nolte: Studios Panic as Streaming Fails to Offset Cord Cutting – Yeah, Cuz Your Content Sucks

breitbart ^ | 12/8/2022 | john nolte

[xp38]

I have watched way too much tv in my life. More than enough for multiple lives. Same with the movies. The last 20 years has seen my network tv watching decline to zero. Same with movies. Spectator sports...ditto but I might watch the odd thing still. The world cup final this Sunday is a flip of the coin for me. Like this article says I need something compelling for me to watch now and the world of woke ain’t got me biting.

[Bullish]

There’s no hope for entertainment going forward. It’s all been captured and neutered by a bunch of butt-humping homosexuals. Good, wholesome people want no part of the soft porn crap and counter culture they’re constantly promoting.

[DoughtyOne]

That’s how I see it also.

I’m done with tolerance.

Don’t get me wrong, I treat people decently in person. I’m
just tired of them thinking they have a right to push everything
off on us as if we have no choice. No, we do have a choice
and we made it at birth.

We’re not going to play along with fantasyland any longer.

[dennisw]

Dittos. My thinking is the same.

[dennisw]

“Gone, a $100+ mnth comcast bill”

I am hooking into Comcast/xfinity for internet only. Their rate is fair and they jacked up the speed last month to 75Mbs for free last month. The real world speed comes out to 85-90mbs. As tested on Ookla a few times a month

I cannot complain about “the libs of Comcast”

[NWFree]

You mean people don’t want to watch FagTV?

[webheart]

Not-so-conservative mind: she uses 100gb streaming their tv shows from their phone.

[asinclair]

The cable company known as TCI cut the cable for me, due to a dispute with a housemate who died with money owing. Therefore, no cable for me. That held over when Comcast took over that cable system.

And I haven't looked back. I haven't watched ANY three-letter-network programs for decades, because I wouldn't "cure" the payment problem that followed me. Indeed, I had cable Internet resold as business service by an ISP for a few years -- payments went to the ISP.

Today I have fiber with AT&T, with no hassle.

I'm pelted with "offers" to come back into the cable TV fold. No sale. I have Roku and Amazon Prime.

[Louis Foxwell]

Turned off the TV more than 10 years ago and have not looked back. I use the web to find and learn. I am better informed than those stick on TV.

[minnesota_bound]

#7 Sling Blue + Hollywood extra at $6 is what I have. Total $46 a month. It is all of cable and a lot extra as you can watch past content of many shows. The price has been going up. Prior to 2020 it was $25. If it goes to $50 I will probably cancel as I watch Pluto tv (free) and Amazon (I buy most everything there and they throw in tv, movies, music etc) and Tubi tv (free). Pluto tv has the best tv guide and you can set up favorites to de clutter what is offered.

[Bob434]

we looked into cutting hte chord, but for the channels we wanted, it was gonna cost right aroudn the same- and we’d lose htigns like being able to see who was calling, being able to record shows etc- this was quite awhiel ago-

We like channels like TMC, Discovery, A&E, TNT, ESPN, Newsmax, SCI FI, and some others which seemed to be we had to pay ‘ala-cart for? I know some services offer free old movies, but looking through them, they were all kinda not great old movies-

If you don’t mind, what do you pay per month for all the channels you like? and what do you mean about adding to hotspot to create 10 more GIG of phone service?

Our lousy cable bill (we get the bundle with internet and phone too) has almost doubled in just a few years=- We used to pay around $125 or os- now it’s over $200 a month- and that doesn’t even include any premium channels liek hbo or movie channels

[Bob434]

[[(no DVR though). ]]

Yeah that was a big drawback which made us not want ot cut chord- We tape all kinds of htings- especially hte older movies- for viewing later- at leisure

[Bob434]

[[I have thought for a long time that someone ought to offer a package based only on the channels the subscriber wants.]]

We had one of those super large Dish devices back i n the early 2000’s and we used to be able to get only the channels we wanted, and they were pretty cheap back then- the big dish though was a pain i n the winter months- our bill thogh was rediculously low- can’t remember now how much, but it was nice getting raked over the coals for TV

[Bob434]

[[#7 Sling Blue + Hollywood extra at $6 is what I have. Total $46 a month.]]

Tha’ts about what we pay for cable- (or used to- i think it’
s over $50 now)

[Adder]

We find Tubi almost unwatchable due to the number of repeated commercials. Same ones over and over and often.

[Caipirabob]

Disney, Hulu, AMC and others tried to promote their large subscriber bases. Right up until it was revealed that their services are packaged as free add-ons to Verizon wireless and other packages.

No one under those plans pays a cent for those channels.

[MayflowerMadam]

The DirecTV we had kept creeping up a few times a year, eventually going to about $140/mo. And we didn’t have any of the premium things like HBO. We cut that a couple years ago.

Got Fubo for $70/mo., which has pretty much everything we had before, and you can record. Paid $30 for a Roku box flat purchase price with no monthly cost — tons of apps that are free like Tubi, Freevee, RAV, Get TV, even Charles Stanley’s “In Touch” app for good sermons if we can’t get to church.

We have Prime because of the shipping, and sometimes watch their content.

[Sicon]

To make money, these outlets are going to have to come to terms with two facts: 1) They are going to have to produce original, compelling, and nonpartisan content that appeals to the wider population, and 2) they cannot afford to make content that only appeals to their circle of elite friends.

That’s actually the same point said two different ways.

[Timber Rattler]

We had Dish network for years, but the monthly rates started creeping up until it finally hit $150 per month for us, with most of the content either Spanish language TV, sports, or commercial channels. So we cut the cord about 6 years ago and went with Netflix (before it went woke and was still good) and also had our Amazon Prime Account (from our business), so we had a pretty good selection of a la carte content.

I like to watch war movies and old TV shows from the 1970s and 1980s, when I was growing up, but lately have grown bored since the new content on both services is mostly garbage. My wife likes the documentaries and “Brit flicks” but am not sure how much longer I will keep them. Like everything else, political correctness and wokeness has totally ruined them.

[Scarpetta]

If you have a library card, there’s a streaming service called Kanopy with tons of movies, documentaries, etc. You can watch up to 10 items a month for free. I watched Dressed to Kill yesterday. Movies is more than 40 years-old but it seems no one knew what a transsexual was back then.