this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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what is this?
opposite of tl;dr?
It's the reality of the economics of TV. "TV" is "TV" regardless of whether you get it from streaming or cable. And that means the consumer cost is largely going to be the same. Back when everyone had cable, streaming was probably cheap for 2 reasons: