- cross-posted to:
- movies@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- movies@lemmy.world
Summary
In 2024, Americans spent 23% less on streaming services, averaging $42.38 per month, down from $55.04 in 2023.
Factors include “streaming fatigue,” with 27.8% overwhelmed by the number of apps, and increased spending on cable/satellite TV, which rose 11% to $89.29 monthly.
Many switched to cheaper ad-supported streaming options, which hit a record 43% of subscriptions.
The average American now has two streaming services, watches four hours daily, and 26.5% share accounts with others, reflecting shifting viewing and spending habits.
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Gouging pricing, fewer interesting shows. Water flows downhill.
I finally got my media server back up after being down for a couple years, and it’s a breath of fresh air. I didn’t realize how many great movies are just flat out not available to stream without “renting/purchasing” them.
And no more fucking ads.
Don’t forget paying for the privilege of watching commercials. That caused me to cancel 2 subs this year.
I paid for the 4 screen 4k subscription for Netflix for ages, one of the reasons being that I could share my account with a good friend who was a student.
Then they decided to dictate who I can share with despite the fact that I’m paying for the ability to view on four screens simultaneously.
Now on the rare occasions I want to watch anything I find alternative ways.
When people talk about runaway capitalism, this is a good example. I tried to watch something on Amazon Prime because I had briefly subscribed to it. No lie: six commercials before it started, and ad breaks throughout! This was on a service that I was paying for! Enshittification in full effect. Fuck these giant, greedy corporations, too much revenue will never be enough…
People also have less disposable income. It’s easy to be lazy and keep a streaming service or two going that you’re not really using when money is flowing. When you have to cinch the belt, you tend to remember that you can cancel at any time and just jump from one service to another.
Assuming you don’t have more… piratic tendencies.
Well no shit. They do everything in their power to make the experience as shitty as possible, worse day by day. Insert surprised pikachu face
We have Disney+ due to kids and nothing else. Did Netflix for a bit but eventually didn’t like the price and policy change.
I had actually enjoyed it a lot since it wasn’t too $$ at first. The price increase and stupid lawsuits made me rethink. Still decided the shows we watched as a family were worth the price and convenience.
However in the past week they started adding things that were only available with the espn and Hulu subscriptions. So now we are seeing tons of things we can’t watch.
It’s now really pissing me off. So all the other shit bothered me but not to the point of canceling. This however is going to be the catalyst.
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Yo-ho yo-ho
Yarr harr, fiddle dee dee
How long until streaming services will “reflect customer changes” with “improved” price points that reflect their “premium service” and “premium content”?
The trend will continue. You can’t bleed water from a stone. All of this has a ceiling.
People are likely spending less because they have to spend more in other areas. That won’t change, and wages certainly aren’t going up.
Every corporation everywhere cannot continue to increase profits year over year. It is a mathematical impossibility.
In other news my hard drive collection grew this year
If I get anymore I’m gonna need an actual server rack, I already had to get a SAS expander card.
People are broke. Cut out the easy things first.
I literally went back to manually downloading music this year. Have a unit ready for jellyfin, too. If my catalysts weren’t annoying I’d have set them up to network it all already.
Every streaming service now hordes their decent IP and sprinkles it in amongst a vast pile of shovelware content. They prize exclusives but don’t adequately communicate what they have access to or why, or when the rights to that content expire.
There’s nothing more ridiculous than paying for two streaming services, having shared access to two more, and then realizing the old movie you want to watch is only available as an ala carte $1.99 rental on a 5th service.
At that point just Yarr that shit.
You know the ole adage, when yo-ho is easier, yo-ho it be.
I use a nice app called BitTorrent.
Does it let you stream now? I have to use Stremio for that.
Or do you mean protocol?
BitTorrent is just to download afaik. I either just play the video or ure Jellyfin. Stremio is good as well
I dont understand why people ever paid for streaming. Stremio is fantastic and free.
Any addons you recommend?
Torrentio
Does this operate similarly to vlc-bittorrent or is it just clearnet streams of torrents?
I dont know what that is. This just uses bittorrent to stream things.
It has a UI like Netflix but doesn’t tell you to watch something else shitty when its not in their library, because it has all the torrents.
Also subtitles “just work”. I really dont understand how they do it, but its fantastic.
vlc-bittorrent is meant to stream bittorrent files on VLC. So yes the two are similar.
Spotify is the only streaming service I’ve ever paid for and few months back I even canceled that.
We needed a family plan for music streaming because we all do stream a lot of music and if you like to discover new stuff- my wife and daughter do, I don’t, it’s just harder to do if you expect to purchase or pirate music.
But we did get rid of all other streaming services and get the YouTube Premium family plan, which cost slightly more than Spotify, has the same amount of music, still has the whole ‘discover new stuff’ thing with their music app, allows you to watch or listen to YouTube videos while in other apps, lets you also listen to YouTube videos with your phone off, and, best of all, no YouTube ads.
Yes, I’m giving money to Google. I’m also not giving money to a bunch of other awful companies and you just have to pick and choose in this capitalist nightmare world if you want to live a non-shitty life.
Edit: YouTube also offers a bunch of streaming movies and TV shows that are not just crappy copies someone has uploaded or whatever, which is a nice bonus.
Edit 2: Forgot to say that you can put five people on the family plan, so we put our mothers-in-law on it too, they contribute, so it is actually cheaper for us than Spotify.
