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

[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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[swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Is this an ad? This is a thread bitching about streaming prices and you gleefully recount noticing increases and still loving your services.

[landedgentry@lemmy.zip]

That’s the beauty of the fediverse - no they don’t!

[landedgentry@lemmy.zip]

When HBO dropped Westworld I lost my shit lmao like really? You can’t even keep your own show? Unsubscribed after that.

[citizenkong@lemmy.world]

And speaking of MPAA, I can't recommend the documentary "This film is not yet rated" enough. Delves into the origins of the MPAA and why a private company that is very secretive about its members has so much power in Hollywood.

[callouscomic@lemm.ee]

Democrats sure know what's important right now. Can't imagine why they lost so fucking hard.

[anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Yeah they do. Lemmyworld blocks the piracy subs

[iowagneiss@midwest.social]

Yeah Mullvad is coming in pretty steady on that front.

[otb@lemmy.world]

What’s a recommended instance that doesn’t?

[heyjoe@lemmy.world]

Definitely not... I was pointing out how the raising of both cable and subscription services led me specifically to find alternative cheaper services to go to. Because they keep rising them so aggressively, it's super noticeable and a kick in the face. Obviously, my situation isn't the same as others where I was already spending too much due to live tv, so figuring out how to get it as low as I can now felt like an accomplishment for me and a wake up call. I hope, just like everyone else here, that rising prices hurts them, but I really have my doubts seeing the stats that show otherwise.

[landedgentry@lemmy.zip]

Ahh didn’t know that. How dumb. Well the first mistake is being part of lemmyworld lol

[africangrey@lemmy.zip]

Yeah it's mostly YouTube for me these days. The rest of it I get with Kodi or Stremio.

[kandoh@reddthat.com]

The only way to get them to atop raising prices is to cancel and unfortunately our society is incapable of denying themselves little treats

[drapermache@lemmy.world]

That's because the only thing American society are the treats. We don't have healthcare, we don't have a third space ( a place besides home and work where we can just enjoy life without spending money), we don't have a house we could ever afford, but damnit, we can buy $5 jalapeño poppers at Chili's and buy streaming services! American society has placed importance around net worth and what material things you have.

Prices will never ever go down because it's honestly the only thing we have.

[bobo@lemmy.world]

Your library may also have streaming services like Kanopy and Hoopla