The whole of the TV industry has lost their damn minds. I saw this shit coming when studios started pulling their content from Netflix without any obvious reason, sure enough, they all made their own version of Netflix and turned it into an idiotic turf war. The only ones that are losing, are the users.
But this is par for the course, looking back, TV started over the air, it was the only feasible way to deliver fast scan image content with sound to a large number of people. First for news, but eventually, for other entertainment content, but people need to make money, so ads. So many ads.
Anyways, cable comes along, now you can get perfect reception of all the ad filled stations all day every day, and we’ll even throw in stations you wouldn’t otherwise be able to receive, just pay us for the privilege of getting the ads.
Rinse and repeat for every cable or TV technology or service. Pay us for ads. Justify it how you want, that’s what’s happening.
Streaming enters the market, finally, no ads… Streaming wars. Now your favorite shows are on entirely different platforms… Is there a new stranger things? Go check Netflix, nope, nothing new here, what about the mandalorian? Go log into dickney+ and see… Nothing here, ok, let’s go over to paramount+ or MAX or whatever… Oh, by the way, we all cost more than your cable, but at least there’s no ads…
Meanwhile OTA still exists, and you don’t have to pay for it. Everyone not going OTA, is ending up on the pirate ship. Yo ho ho, me maties!
The whole of the TV industry has lost their damn minds. I saw this shit coming when studios started pulling their content from Netflix without any obvious reason, sure enough, they all made their own version of Netflix and turned it into an idiotic turf war. The only ones that are losing, are the users.
But this is par for the course, looking back, TV started over the air, it was the only feasible way to deliver fast scan image content with sound to a large number of people. First for news, but eventually, for other entertainment content, but people need to make money, so ads. So many ads.
Anyways, cable comes along, now you can get perfect reception of all the ad filled stations all day every day, and we’ll even throw in stations you wouldn’t otherwise be able to receive, just pay us for the privilege of getting the ads.
Rinse and repeat for every cable or TV technology or service. Pay us for ads. Justify it how you want, that’s what’s happening.
Streaming enters the market, finally, no ads… Streaming wars. Now your favorite shows are on entirely different platforms… Is there a new stranger things? Go check Netflix, nope, nothing new here, what about the mandalorian? Go log into dickney+ and see… Nothing here, ok, let’s go over to paramount+ or MAX or whatever… Oh, by the way, we all cost more than your cable, but at least there’s no ads…
Meanwhile OTA still exists, and you don’t have to pay for it. Everyone not going OTA, is ending up on the pirate ship. Yo ho ho, me maties!
OTA rules; locast was too beautiful for this world
Always been part of the plan: de regulate, corner the market, profit.