Needles & Grooves

Soon enough we’ll come full circle and go back to cable boxes because it’ll be cheaper.

We will probably go back the old pirate route. Yar, mateys

Greed and capitalism took all the good out of streaming and just went backwards to the shitty days of cable tv packages

People pay for tv? Why would they do that when it's all free on the internet?

Find people to split the cost with. My family share a lot of subscriptions
Me: Disney+, Hulu, Spotify, PBS
Sister: HBO Max, Netflix, Prime
Dad: Youtube TV

@Woob_woob I used to pirate everything, but I don't have as much free time to do that so I pay for the convenience of it being instant. It also has gotten a little more difficult to pirate stuff now than it used to be like 5+ years ago.

@Memo yup! I pay for Netflix, Hulu/Disney+/ESPN+ (one big bundle price). My girlfriend pays for Prime and Spotify. My parents still get cable so I use their login to get HBO Max, Peacock and any other cable channels for free.

My favorite site on the internet is my tv/movie site that I've been a member of for over a decade at this point. I pay for spotify for the convenience, but I refuse to pay for multiple TV streaming sites.

I'm cool with Paramount+ because Star Trek

Folks complained for years about the high costs of cable and asked for things to be a la carte. Now they finally have it. It was never going to be like $1 channel.
Honestly I get how people are annoyed but I prefer it this way. I have a large amount of these services and still pay less than I did for cable. And most of the content I actually like and is more user friendly instead of 300 bs channels

yeah I agree with @wynn72 Cable is just outrageously expensive. I pay like $40~ for everything. which is fine. If there's anything I need to watch I can download it. The main benefit is being able to watch on demand. I can't imagine actually watching something when it airs on live tv except for sports.