Skavau@piefed.socialM to Television@piefed.socialEnglish · 2 days ago“Streamflation” Is Real: U.S. Inflation Data Shows Soaring Price of Streaming Video Serviceswww.hollywoodreporter.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up158
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minus-squarecircuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up18·2 days agoEntice people with low costs and huge streaming libraries Slowly raise prices Shuffle content around to fragment the market and simulate competition Raise prices some more Keep shuffling to ensure people have to keep paying for the same content more than once Introduce ads on paid services Stop dumping whole seasons at once, release things an episode at a time to make people retain subscriptions Welcome to Cable TV 2.0, where you pay more for less, over and over, and you pay for the bandwidth, too.
Entice people with low costs and huge streaming libraries
Slowly raise prices
Shuffle content around to fragment the market and simulate competition
Raise prices some more
Keep shuffling to ensure people have to keep paying for the same content more than once
Introduce ads on paid services
Stop dumping whole seasons at once, release things an episode at a time to make people retain subscriptions
Welcome to Cable TV 2.0, where you pay more for less, over and over, and you pay for the bandwidth, too.