Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal wrote that Netflix was planning to raise its prices once again. The streamer implemented its last hike in January 2022,...

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  • @online@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2•8 months ago

    The cost of cable where I can choose what I want to watch when I want to watch it. Whereas before I had to hope that the programming directors for the different channels picked something somewhere worth watching when I turned on the tube.

    • Something Burger 🍔English
      1•8 months ago

      Now, you only have to hope whatever show you want to watch is on any of the services you are subscribed to, and won’t be pulled before you finish it.

      • @online@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2•8 months ago

        Yes that’s true too. It’s still better than cable. I had access to even less content back then compared to now.

        I use this to find what I want to watch when I have something specific that I’m looking for: https://www.justwatch.com/

        I also think people should be pirates.

        But streaming, at the same cost as cable, is much better than the decades of cable I remember before streaming actually became a real competitor.