Posted on 01/05/2024 10:38:59 AM PST by davikkm
The idea of paying for cable was that there wouldn’t be ads.
Then the ads came, but there was around five minutes of ads for an hour of content.
Then it went to ten minutes for a half hour.
In 2023, there are now ten minutes of ads for every ten minutes of content.
What was a 90 minute movie is now strung out to three hours on a channel.
(Excerpt) Read more at citizenwatchreport.com ...
For those that watch Hallmark you now can get it through a lot of libraries via Hoopla. Also Kanopy provides movies, etc through your library.
We DVR just about everything and then fast forward through the endless commercials.
Classic DVDs can be quite cheap, free at the library. Brave browser cuts ads out of youtube and tubi
Classic DVDs can be quite cheap, free at the library. Brave browser cuts ads out of youtube and tubi
Not with one of these, we watch pretty much anything for free. Movies, TV Shows, what ever.... We have been using this for several years now saving us thousands of $$$$$. No I am not affiliated with this product just passing this along.
https://www.ustreamingstick.com/
Uses Kodi with addons and with a Real-Debrid account ($17.00 for 6 Months).
It now makes no sense to have streaming services over standard cable—in fact, cable is cheaper for us than what we were paying to stream. Insane streaming companies have priced themselves out of the market.
Hmmmmm, that sounds exactly like what happened to the US gubment. To hell with the people.
Streaming with commercials? Only if you get .99 a month deals or pay less to stream with commercials. I have Paramount plus and Prime and don’t see any commercials.
Hulu that I got for .99 cents a month and $1 a month for Peacock I do -— but during movies, there’s 3 minutes of commercials at the beginning, not a big deal.
Am I missing something from the article? Because I pay $40 a month for internet, $22 for streaming and no money for “peer to peer” streaming...a total of (about) $62 per month with no commercials.
Before the switch to streaming, I was paying $220 for basic cable plus streaming.
Never going back...
The primary reason people are dropping services is because there is no new quality content. Between the various free services, you can get about any TV or movie content worth watching for free, provided some patience. Tubi, Freevee, Crackle, Roku to name a few sources. There are a few commercials that repeat frequently, but not awful.
I prefer not to watch much television.
I know it sounds like dismissive contempt, but after you give up TV for a while and try watching it again, you realize two things;
1) It really is a bunch of mind-rot.
2) The length and frequency of commercials are intolerable.
Even programming that is supposed to be informative or educational is often fluffy and lacking in serious content, and the ads make it a waste of time.
Pick up a book, or at least go online. One method is seriously more in-depth and immersive, and the other method is much more precise and efficient.
Sitcoms an serials? Do you really need coastal hollyweird types giving you cheap laughs with their perverted superficialities?
I don’t pay or watch stream, so I didn’t know that it is now commercial TV.
Greed dominates everything in America now.
Business has lost a sense of balance between profit versus product, they have become soulless vampires that will even suck the life out of the 100-year-old corporation they are now responsible for with little thought to what it means for the well-established and respected, even beloved corporation or product line and its future.
We see the same impulsive greed with individuals, only the now counts, the immediate payoff and gain with no view or thought to the long-term reputation or enduring image.
Even immigration and military careers are in that same zone of greed, me, and grab it now and suck out everything you can squeeze out of it.
Youtube will sock you with three minute ads while all you want to watch is ten plays from a football game. Then they interrupt your video or blank out your screen.
"Dear Prime member, We are writing to you today about an upcoming change to your Prime Video experience. Starting January 29, Prime Video movies and TV shows will include limited advertisements. This will allow us to continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a long period of time. We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers. No action is required from you, and there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership. We will also offer a new ad-free option for an additional $2.99 per month* that you can sign up for here."
Umm it’s not 10 and 10. Currently most cable is running 42 minute hours (ie 42 minutes of content, 18 minutes of commercials). Which sucks, don’t get me wrong on that. But it ain’t 10 and 10.
As for commercials in streaming, look it’s a business. They gotta make money. And most of them have the “or pay $3 more and don’t get commercials”. Sure that can add up. But like any other act in a capitalist world you’ve got to make your decisions.
Streaming is just high tech cable.
People are still being told to pay for for they don’t watch.
And I hear churn is through the roof.
Go figure.
Apparently the viewers are happy with that scenarion since the channel recently had nearly 200k signups.....
I can stream YouTube videos all day long without seeing a single ad or commercial just by using the Brave browser.
It is interesting how the TV industry kept saying “menu pricing” (choose just the channels you want) for cable services was not going happen. Ah, but now “streaming sevices” are often just that.
What was missing all along was a lack of transparency as to why “menu pricing” was not happening. The public was sold the lie that it all was the problem/fault of the “cable TV” providers. Why was that a lie? it was a lie because they were being forced into the same kind of bulk channel choices they offered to their customers. Seldon is a single channel the only channel owned and run by the company that owns that channel. In fact it is a very short list of companies that one the majority of channels on cable TV. When they negotiate with the cable TV providers THEY DEMAND those providers take blocs of their channels together.
Here’s a graphic example of what I am talking about - and it is outdated, with even more concentrations since then:
https://www.webfx.com/blog/internet/the-6-companies-that-own-almost-all-media-infographic/
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