“So tired”: Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ prices increase by up to 25 percent in October
“So tired”: Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ prices increase by up to 25 percent in October
Not even ad tiers are safe as Disney looks to coax people into bundle packages.
To be fair, none are an alternative. They're all only front ends to the torrents you downloaded.
They're not frontends for torrents though. They're media servers just as they all advertise themselves to be. They make media files available to a network of consuming clients. Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Disney+, all of these services also do the same. They host media on centralized servers that consuming clients can playback. In that regard, these are all self-hosted alternatives to the aforementioned.
It should also be noted that the media in question doesn't have to be torrents, they can be legitimately purchased songs that you playback via Plexamp or Jellyamp on your phone, or all the books you've gotten from HumbleBundle. They're media servers, so they're not limited to hosting just TV shows or movies.
I need emby to mature. I like it over Plex but for somethings it's just doesn't measure.
Pirates stay winning
I cut D+ loose last Oct when they doubled prices and dusted off the ol' sloop. I'm just sorry I can't protest similarly a second time.
One of the lessons of the old AOL era is that people will subscribe to a thing and then just forget they have it. So you can keep raising their prices over and over again, and they'll pay it unwittingly, until they finally bother to check their credit card statement and asking where their $96/mo is going.
Hulu and Live TV with ads: $77/month
Genuinely shocking that people would sign up for this.
One of the lessons of the old AOL era is that people will subscribe to a thing and then just forget they have it.
Gyms started taking advantage of this before AOL was a thing.
Hulu is the cable TV companies. They bought out the board seats to have a place where they could monetize their stuff and kill the concept of streaming your favorite show for cheaper.
I like that unlike Reddit, one can advocate for piracy on Lemmy without a permanban. Old Reddit was pro-piracy but Reddit in the last 10 years has been brutal with anti-piracy garbage.
Apparently the instance I’m on banned the piracy subreddit… so how does that work? Am I still allowed to talk about it or will they ban me too? New to Lemmy.
Fuck it. I don’t really care. $3/mo for Real-Debrid to watch high quality, ad free streams of anything I want on Stremio is a no brainer.
This is Business 101. Get rid of your low-value customers, keep the high-value subscribers. Would you rather support 10 people paying $1/mo. for your service, or 2 people paying you $5?
Hiking the price retains the people willing to pay, or forgot they're paying, and ditches the rest. This saves on a myriad of costs; Customer service, tech support, bandwidth, infrastructure, staffing, much more.
It's a no-brainer from a corporate perspective. It's also a no-brainer for me to continue piracy. $6/mo. and I get a VPN bouncing out of Amsterdam on a Digital Ocean droplet I spun up years ago.
Fewer customers at a lower price seems safer; you lose one, no big deal, you don't lose half of your revenue stream.
Netflix did it, many people stayed, they made more money. Now other services are just doing the same. If you stay, it's your fault 🤷♂
Bro, streaming services have been steadily increasing prices for years.
"now" doesn't mean right this femtosecond.
Based on McDonald's earnings, there is a chance peasants will do the thing
McDonald's has been seeing a decrease in customers due to their prices.
Yes... That's called people voting with their feet ;)
It is beautiful and helps fight "inflation"
thanks for reminding me to cancel my Spotify. fuckers raised the price AGAIN, i feel like they juust did that. fuck all these corps, I'll stick to Libby and a free podcast player until something else comes along.
0 for me
My girlfriend pays for Netflix even though we pirate everything at home because she flies and wants to be able to easily download stuff to her phone when she's at the airport
Plex will do downloads too ya’ know?