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Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices::Finding new subscribers in a saturated streaming video market isn't easy. And with legacy media companies desperate to recoup revenue declines in their linear TV businesses, the cost of your monthly plan is likely to keep rising.

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[–] Lightor@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'll give you a reason, pirating. Pirating with obfuscated networks (VPN, onion, etc) will never die. People just put it down because the convenience was worth the price. When it no longer is, ships will sail the seas again, and having everything already digital in these services will make it that much easier.

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[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hulu is currently the only streaming service I still pay for, and that's mainly because TV shows are a removed to pirate (disk space and download times being the main annoyance), but it won't take more than one or two more price hikes for the balance to shift so that it's worth the effort to just go full pirate instead of forking out so much cash.

The fact that Disney just fully bought Hulu bodes very poorly too - I'll bet anything that it's going to get folded into Disney+ soon as a "pay an extra 15/month to access Hulu content, but only through your Disney+ membership sort of deal"

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's a tip: I went to cancel my Hulu subscription, and they offered on my way out to instead lower my price for 6 months. I decided to go with it.

I can't guarantee the same would happen for others, but ultimately it's all gonna be a haggling situation.

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Charge the analysts more first. I’m sure they’ll charge their tune.

[–] TheLobotomist@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
[–] Savaran@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Nope, because every time another one raises the price we cancel it. It’s working out quite well

[–] iz_ok@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't it be great if one company would get with each of the streaming services and put them under one umbrella. They could rent you a device that is mandatory for the service. While charging you a large subscription fee. Even better yet that could lock additional content behind another paywall. Direct TV and the cable companies need to hurry before someone beats them to it.

[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Laughs in $0 a month payments for streaming services

Remember March 2012, when SOPA and PIPA were about to pass, and many websites were blacking out as a form of protest, some people were advocating for a "Black March" to have everyone boycott Big Media, pirated or not, for the entire month? Yeah sure it didn't spread like wildfire because of course, the population is already too addicted to popular culture to drop it cold-turkey, but at this rate people may be forced to give it a go by force.

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