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https://comicbook.com/movies/2...rease-us-13-dollars/ It’s only a couple bucks but you’d think the end of days is upon us. | ||
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Just speeding their decline when disney+ comes out... What a dumb move. Their content quality has gone down and now the prices is going up. Bad model. Yeah it's a couple bucks but 18% is pretty steep. | |||
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Only a couple of bucks a month, but still an 18 percent increase. Most will justify it as "the price of a cup of coffee." But it does start to add up, especially as many households have multiple content subscriptions. But OTOH, still cheaper than most cable bills. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
They know they have a lot of people by the balls with streaming growing by leaps and bounds. It's funny how people escape Comcast because of this...and then the ones they run to do the same. | |||
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| Unapologetic Old School Curmudgeon  |
And one day when your paying for Hulu, Netflix, Amazon prime, Disney, etc etc. and you realize you are paying as much as you ever did for cable. Then Comcast or someone will come along and offer to bundle all of these streaming services for you and circle will continue Don't weep for the stupid, or you will be crying all day | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
Except relatively few people are going to do that, compared to the numbers that (used to?) pay exorbitant subscription TV fees. Right now we have OTA TV DVR service for $6.67/mo. (pays for the guide data, essentially), Netflix for $13/mo. (new price), Amazon Prime for $10/mo. and One America News for $5/mo. That's a total of $35/mo. Doesn't sound all that far off a traditional subscription, until you consider that gives us all those things on all our TVs and mobile devices, and any more we might add--including remote access to the OTA TV, both live and DVR'd, and one of those subs gives us free two-day shipping from the world's biggest on-line store. We won't, btw, be signing up for Disney when they leave Netflix. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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At least we'll be getting our money's worth, more "not ready for Red Box" quality films and Bollywoods greatest hits. _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Except you control if you subscribe to those services and pretty much every one but Amazon Prime can be terminated at a moments notice, with you finishing out the month. Try that with cable and you'll get hit with termination fees, 1-3 hours on the phone, and much drama. Don't forget the yearly 1-2 hour call up and pretend to walk away from cable to get them to not increase pricing on you by 50-100%. | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
Yep, and they'll all cry for government help when their providers start charging by the bit vs unlimited, or throttle fees for heavy users. Wait wasn't that net neutrality or "don't charge me by amount used bro" | |||
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| Nullus Anxietas |
Why do you keep claiming NN was something other than what it clearly was? "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| Thank you Very little |
NN was a price fixing scheme, albiet surrounded by all kinds of false protection claims for the little guys, in the end it's goal was to regulate pricing of suppliers from using models that charged by use, pushed by high bandwidth users as a way to use the Feds to protect their platforms. It's fairly straight forward "Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers treat all data on the Internet equally, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or method of communication. [4] For instance, under these principles, Internet service providers are unable to intentionally block, slow down or charge money for specific websites and online content. This is sometimes enforced through government mandate. These regulations can be referred to as "common carrier" regulations.[5] This does not block all abilities that Internet service providers have to impact their customer's services. Opt-in/opt-out services exist on the end user side, and filtering can be done on a local basis, as in the filtration of sensitive material for minors.[6]" | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Why don't you start a NN thread then, mmkay? | |||
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| Nullus Anxietas |
Exactly: "[do] not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or method of communication." IOW, unlike your claim of "don't charge me by amount used bro," it's "charge me for amount used, not how I use it. Just like your telephone. You pay for what you use, not how you use it. The TelCo charges you no differently if you spend an hour talking to your meemaw than they do if you spend an hour swapping heavy breathing with dial-a-pr0n. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| Thank you Very little |
symantics, Pretty sure that's the same thing. Now Back to your regular scheduled debate on Netflix.  | |||
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Go Vols! |
Worth all that to not have to waste life skipping commercials. | |||
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| Rail-less and Tail-less |
Eventually it will cost the same as cable. Currently I pay $90 a month for just internet. I could get cable and internet at the same speed for $30 more a month. As these cable companies move towards streaming over traditional cable (like spectrum, Comcast, etc...) with their own apps the cost will equal the same. What really needs to happen is truly ala cart service without shitty bundles no one wants. The other “problem” if you can call it that is that there is just too much good content on tv these days spread out over multiple platforms. There just isn’t enough hours in the day. _______________________________________________ Use thumb-size bullets to create fist-size holes. | |||
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Better Than I Deserve! |
Netfilx sucks. It is all junk and there are no good movies on there to watch. If you like reality TV or old TV shows it may be for you. I'm canceling my account since I can never find anything to watch. ____________________________ NRA Benefactor Life Member GOA Life Member Arizona Citizens Defense League Life Member | |||
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| The Unmanned Writer |
It's a tad more than a coupe bucks when one considers the regular price (two streams with high def) was $7.99/mo a few years ago.  Now, in my opinion, if their content increases along with the quality, it'll be worth it. Although, I do find myself watching Disney (the better ones are on disc anyway) Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
What have you been watching? | |||
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thin skin can't win |
As these services continue to develop their own content this was bound to happen. If you like the content, a bargain. If you don't, it's not. Yes, I am a combo financial-entertainment genius. You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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