Streaming prices climb in 2025 after already surpassing inflation rates | Five services started charging more in January

[bobs_monkey@lemm.ee]

Look at the cost you're paying for Prime and consider how many orders you'd have to place to break even (using the Prime membership money just to pay for shipping when you need it faster, etc).

I exceed the hell out of that in probably a couple weeks for my business. I hate it, but I'm pinched to keep costs down and time is valuable, and unfortunately Amazon fills that requirement too well. I live in a small town, I don't have time to dedicate an entire day to driving to civilization and back, plus fuel costs. Plus, Amazon gets it to my mail depot faster than I can get it from other suppliers, without having to pay shipping.

[bobs_monkey@lemm.ee]

What pisses me off is the way they pass movies and shows amongst each other and arbitrarily drop them from their platforms to pull this artificial scarcity nonsense. Oh you want to watch this movie? We don't have it anymore, better sign up for that other service. Or, sorry this movie from the 60s is unavailable on any service, but you can "rent" it for $10/24hrs. And then on top of it all, the quality from every streaming provider is dog shit. You know which service doesn't have all these issues? My damn home server, and the quality is fantastic.

[moleverine@lemmy.world]

I’ve been less and less interested in TV at all. I find myself mostly rewatching the few really good shows from times past and largely ignoring the new stuff. It’s nice to have something to put on while I’m cooking, but if all the streaming services disappeared tomorrow, I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it.

[acosmichippo@lemmy.world]

clearly it be supernatural and caught them unawares.

[thepowerofgeek@lemmy.world]

I know I have, and several friends and family have. And the fact that there's been a lot of discussion online from people expressing their frustration and disappointment about price increases and dwindling value, makes me think that it's a broader trend.

[whatamlemmy@lemmy.world]

Hence, piracy is a service problem. Capitalism clearly can't be trusted to provide the services without extortion.

[unlawfulbooger@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

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[thomascrappersghost@feddit.uk]

Is this a world thing? Article only mentions US…

[tk420@lemmy.world]

My lifetime Plex subscription was sub $100 years ago. That’s a one time payment mind you. None of my media disappears nor has ads.

Granted, I had to do the footwork, but it’s all self hosted and not going anywhere.

Yes I know there are other solutions, some of us are upset with Plex, but this is still working just fine. One day I’ll start testing Jellyfin.

[thesohoriots@lemmy.world]

Definitely don’t get a drive to rip them for later either, like I didn’t do with CDs back in the day.

[thegrandnagus@lemmy.world]

No. Netflix's earnings actually shows high user growth recently.

I've cancelled, and so have some others on Lemmy, but we're an absolutely tiny amount of people.

[blattrules@lemmy.world]

It’s almost like the inflation of the past four years was just corporate greed the whole time.

[grumpyduckling@sh.itjust.works]

There's a bill being introduced in the US by a California Democrat that would allow courts to order ISPs and DNS providers to block pirating sites. Of course the MPAA authored it.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/movie-industry-loves-bill-that-would-force-isps-to-block-piracy-websites/

[shalafi@lemmy.world]

Quoting a successful capitalist (Gaben), who excelled at making money by giving us what we want, to bag on capitalism. That is some peak lemmy.

[shalafi@lemmy.world]

I got zero problem with people participating in voluntary rape. I won't play, but the rape is on them.

[frunch@lemmy.world]

New year, new price increases

[heyjoe@lemmy.world]

Started with cable and paid about $120 excluding the internet. Ditched that like 5 years ago, but my wife really wanted live tv. We went with Hulu live, and I wanna say it was like $40 fully loaded with unlimited screens and no ads. Then it went up and up and up. I think 1 year it went up twice. By the end, after ditching the no ads and unlimited screens, it was still $85 a month... just ditched all that last August and convinced my wife to ditch all cable except for 1. We now use Peacock with teacher discount for the live tv. She likes the news, some sports, the Olympics, and SNL, which is about the only things she watches live. It comes with other stuff as well, so for $9 a month, it was an incredible deal. We opted to also get Netflix with ads since we were saving so much anyway, which is about $8 i think, and paid for 1 additional year of hulu at $80. With all 3 theres not much thats missing honestly. We never use Hulu anymore, but occasionally she tells me a show we dont get and find out most of the time its on Hulu. We will probably cut it once the year is up as well. They keep rising the costs, and we keep consolidating. I love that after all that we somehow got everything, and for the lowest cost it's ever been at just under $20 a month. I host my own music, so we never cared about stuff like spotify.

[superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Would you look at that, its still $0 for me.

[wordbox@lemmy.world]

Mine does Blu-ray too. DVD wise they have more TV shows than I've heard of, cryptic ones I have heard of, anime, comedy... Almost more than the local used DVD stores.

[inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world]

Become your own streaming service because they're just greedy assholes.

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