After years of inflation, Americans are used to sticker shock. But nothing compares to the surging price of streaming video.
Last week, Apple TV+ became the latest streaming service to raise its price—up from $6.99 to $9.99 per month—following the example of Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, and Netflix, which all hiked their prices in October.
Half of the major streaming platforms in the U.S. now charge a monthly fee that’s double the price they charged when they initially came to market. And many of these streaming services haven’t even been around for 10 years.
I’m referring to just about everyone under 35.
You mean the ones who didn’t have any alternative?
What about the ones who do? It’s just a quick internet search away, but they’d rather use their wallets to fit in with everyone else.
You mean the same young people who aren’t even the ones to make the household decision to cancel streaming because they were borrowing passwords from their parents until just this year? Why would most have their own accounts when the policy just changed?
Young people watch on their laptops or tablets. Middle aged people watch on their big screen smart TV in their suburban home. You think Boomers and older Gen X, the wealthiest generation in history with the most disposable income, most of whom are tech illiterate, are abandoning the convenience of streaming to set up Plex servers?
No, I mean the same young people who pay for the streaming services themselves and constantly say things like “it is/isn’t available on x service” when it’s all available here for free: https://fmoviesz.to/
So glad you mentioned Plex. That’s just another meme for the 🧩’s of this generation who think they’re smarter than the rest. Not only are they a gross minority, the vast majority of them don’t even pirate the content they download. They still buy it like rubes, lol.
You don’t even recommend the free alternative to plex, Jellyfin. You’d rather use the one owned by a for-profit corporation that has ads.
If this generation cared more about saving money than fitting in, we’d see people sharing free streaming services before paid ones and ‘plex’ bullshit.
Gonna block you now, though. It’s painfully obvious you’re just going to move goalposts and twist your brain in knots to avoid admitting you may be wrong.
Have a nice day.
It makes absolutely no sense to say that young people make most of the streaming subscription decisions. Why would they when they were sharing passwords just this year? You have no response, which is why you didn’t address that point.
I don’t use Plex, but I’m not your average user. We’re talking about the average middle aged person. You have WAY more faith in the average consumer if you think they’re going to set up an open source solution to play their torrents!