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Remember when all those articles about 'cord cutting' was a thing. How streaming ushered in a new age.
So what's this going to be called? Are people going to switch back to the cable? Are TiVo stocks about to go skyrocket? Or is pirating about to see an all time surge? Since storage has never been cheaper, VPNs are mainstream (you can't watch YouTube without hearing about it), the number of applications to help facilitate it has never been more user friendly and plentiful, and internet speeds have only increased...
I mean, I know what a bunch of people here will do, but I mean the general public at large. Because it's hard not to notice those price increases, especially if you have more than one service. Because their price increases (based on percent) is far out pacing the pay increase people are getting. I already cancelled my Netflix (due to policy changes even though they didn't affect me, price increases, and their response to the writers strike).
Most people are sharing where possible or canceling after signing up for a few months. The content is also jumping from platform to platform which makes it difficult to find. Some will “rent” a digital movie or buy a season of a show because piracy is not super simple. Others will simply skip it because Hollywood has been putting out crap anyway so why bother.
We keep YoutubeTV as a cable replacement because of sports. Everything else we watch on that platform is available elsewhere now including those Bravo shows ladies like.
What sports does YouTube TV have? I get to watch 90% of the baseball and hockey games i want since i live of market for my favorite teams, but am not aure how to watch college football aside from just hanging out at the local bar on Saturdays.
Basically YoutubeTV has all of the ESPNs including SEC & ACC network, Fox sports networks, NFL network, Big10, Tennis and Golf. Also TNT and TBS for college bball. It lost NHL network a few seasons ago and MLB network last year though.
When NFL season rolls around I usually pay an extra $11/month for an extended sports package with Redzone and some other random soccer, horseracing, poker etc channels.
Was going to say piracy then realised you said the general public. I don't think piracy will ever be as prolific as it was when you could just physically hand your mate a VHS tape - torrenting etc is a bit complex for most, as well as the risk of your ISP getting in touch. Those in the know use VPNs and the like but this is a bit techy for the general public.
I think they'll just cough up. Most average people don't micromanage their finances so they don't notice how a tenner for this streaming a service, a tenner for that streaming service etc ends up adding up to more than their cable/satellite/etc subscription did. They just see "a tenner for Paramount" (or whatever) in a vacuum and figure that it's not much, rather than adding them all together to work out what their monthly TV cost is.
Cord mending.
All I know is that I'm paying more for all my streaming services + internet than I ever was for internet+cable. Like, double.
Maybe there will be a way to bundle all these streaming services into one package and sell it to consumers at a discount? We can call it Cable2k? Sable? Stream-able? CableAI? Cable-blockchain?