Yah literally everyone with more than two brain cells saw this coming…start out cheap to suck you in to kill competition and then raise prices every quarter…
Yup, while attacking the older generation from educating the young about the good things in the past, can’t let those pleb kids have physical bank notes.
They took away my headphone jack and now they’re taking away my PlayStation disc reader so they can force me to stream movies and video games.
Don't forget that data center's are making hardware incredibly pricey, including hard drives. Almost tripled in a year where I live. This makes even local storage of media so much harder.
Hans Island will seek revenge against data centres.
I initially misunderstood so I just had the silliest picture in my head of an underground smugling tunnel on Hans Island
We got a plan to cave in our data centres from the rebel hole on the island.
It's called "courage"
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The seven seas streaming service, however, is keeping its prices frozen for another year making it now the longest streak ever of a service without raising prices.
Shocking /s
Excuse me while I grab my fainting salts, I am so SHOCKED to find exactly what I expected has occurred!
Still, cable was like $75 - $100 a month for me, iirc. Streaming services I pay for one at a time until I run out of things to watch, then switch services for a while.
And had contracts to keep you locked in
Cable also had difficult connection and disconnection processes. You had to call the company, schedule an installer (maybe take time off work). When you canceled, your bill didn't stop until you drove the cable box to the cable company. Oh, you had to pay monthly to rent the cable box and even rent the remote too!
Streaming, for all its faults, is still a superior experience.
If buying streaming services ain't owning, piracy ain't stealing.
Honestly piracy and going to the theatre are the move nowadays
It's still so much better than it was. At least with most services I can pay to opt out of ads, that didn't exist for cable.
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