It’s all too fragmented now. I don’t want to commit to any of it. Each platform is 80% garbage and 10% good. You basically have to pay for ten services now just to have a wealth of good content available. It’s easier to just fill my thumb drive up with the content I want.
I’ll tell you which service has the best content! It runs in a docker container in my homelab…
The apps used to work flawlessly.
Now the apps spend months at a time failing to work (Disney Plus!) or whining about how many devices my family has (Netflix!).
The app bugginess is presumably because they need to add DRM to ensure I’m not stealing their precious content while voluntarily paying them to license it. This has lead to my refreshing my interest in DRM free ownable media. For me that’s DVDs. For most people piracy is the best answer.
I use the device limits as a reminder to cancel the service until the next thing I’m really interested in comes out.
It’s not fatigue. It’s that a bunch of deeply stupid assholes make the decisions at the major streaming platforms.
I would gladly pay cable prices for premier high quality on demand television and movies without ads. That was the deal two years ago, and I gladly paid for most of it.
But now I’m collecting DVDs until, presumably, a piracy service reaches a maturity level where I can’t tell it’s illegal and happily pay for it, instead.
Find it hard to believe half of Americans still have cable
For a LOT of them it’s just inertia and a handful of comfort channels. This is the way it is with my parents. They spend 90% of the time watching streaming, BUT, what if they needed to watch something on cable! So the subscription keeps going, even though it’s long outlived practicality.
dropped netflix this month for the first time in, god, like 17 years. Just not watching it and all the trash behavior they engage in. When a few services finally crash and burn and get consolidated and everyone stops piecemealing out the rights, maybe I’ll come back. Til then, ahoy.
