When did cable TV die?
When did cable TV die?
2009
when there started to be 21 minutes of ads and 9 minutes of shows
is Australia cable fost $120pm for anything decent, and had as many ads as free to air
cuz it doesnt work on your phone
The answer is simply netflix. I unironically miss cable sometimes. I would play $100 a month again if it had the content equivalent of all of the major streaming services combined
When Netflix aired that Kevin Spacey political show.
too expensive
4 minutes worth of commercials every 5 minutes
everything is edited
It was never alive, antenna is king
But streaming services are more expensive and play commercials now, just like cable.
Between 2011 and 2013, when Netflix, accounting for 30% of all Internet traffic at the time, began releasing entire seasons of new shows all at once and creating the "binge watching" model of consumption. House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, and Arrested Development led the charge at the time. It gave a new dimension to the "view on demand" model - the newest generation of TV watchers are not a patient people. They don't sit through ads and commercials and won't suffer through weekly syndication broadcast models, months long periods between mid season finale and part 2's, or any sort of hiatus of any kind. They want all the things, all the time, right away. Netflix drove the model into what we know it as now.
How did netflix go from $8.99 to $25.99 (assuming you dont want to watch ads).
if you pay for digital entertainment you deserve what you get.
it never died. it was rebranded as max.com/netflix/paramount+/disney+/peacock/etc
Paying for all of these together easily matches the cable bill people used to pay
they ran out of cables?
Less expensive than cable with no long term contracts and less ads
When they killed analog cable.
It went from being Basic Cable+ PPV and HBO/Showtime to 15 different tiers of mostly sloppa.
At that point it became worse than satellite and more expensive.
I was spending most of my time watching cable with an ATI All-in-Wonder tuner card.
I started torrenting about the same time so I never moved to the digital cable platform and just ended my service when they shut off analog cable.
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i would pay for streaming services if good movies and show were still being released. its all shit and tubi and pluto have the movies i like
For most of the 90s people wanted to only pay cable providers by the individual channels because most people only watched like 5-10 channels anyways
But streaming services are more expensive and play commercials now, just like cable.
Exactly, that's my point. I'd rather it all be bundled in one app if it is going to be a shitty experience anyways. Of course in practice this would mean an (even greater) monolopy on IP rights and that would be terrible but I am so sick of switching between apps and UIs just to hunt shit down. I find myself just watching a lot of the free roku tv channels because I have decision fatigue
I watch I love Lucy and Frasier on repeat.
Now they got what they wanted, right? Problem is, studios are like porn sites. They advertise their best product and lure people into a contract. Once signed, the signatory realizes the advertisement was their only good product.
It's so infuriating when you're watching old shows that have the clear fade-in fade-out commercial breaks but then there's like another break that just happens abruptly and was obviously added after the fact. It just makes it so obvious that the amount of breaks has gone up
If a show's going to be like 30% ads it should be free. And I don't mean not a premium channel I mean FREE, over the air, buy an antenna once and then never pay again free. That used to be the deal. You got the content for nothing and the ads paid for it. Putting ads on a paid service should never have been accepted. If Subscribers are directly subsidizing the costs then ads are no longer necessary. It's just double dipping.
What the fuck do you think streaming tvs do?
i didnt. companies trying to make people pay for less by making them think streaming is the new thing. cable is great to have for tv reception as opposed to antennae back in the day. in the 90s cable channels tried more. you had specialty channels like tcm, nick at night, tv land and the game show channel that showed a variety of good stuff but in recent years seems like every channel gave up. if they do play old shows the shows are shit and they are on multiple channels for hour+ blocks
when instead of X-Files they started running shitty rusnigger tv shows about how nazis are LE BAD
cable $200 a month
streaming service $20 a month
???
This was it for me. Also I know it was a lot shittier/more annoying to use but I kinda miss having a local program guide channel before they got killed by DVR cable boxes having the guide built in.
2011. the highest subscriber amounts ever I believe, then it was all downhill from there.
invaded by dark spirit
based pluto chad
When they added commercials.
There was a time when there were no commercials in cable tv?
It didn't die, streaming is just a replacement.
The limitation of cable was that you just had to buy everything for the sake of seeing a handful of shows. The best technology at the time was to beam programs into your TV 24/7 and people could tune into what they wanted.
We have the exact same thing with streaming services. People buy and pay for 4 or 7 different services purely for the sake of watching only a handful of shows, in the same way you used to pay for lots of channels. A lot of the rest of it goes to waste and never gets watched, yet you still pay for it.
The entire streaming industry is a farce anyway. Imagine having to buy multiple DVD players because Sony DVDs only worked on Sony player, or Universal DVDs only worked on Universal players.
back in the late 70s/early 80s
when there started to be 21 minutes of ads and 9 minutes of shows
they are doing the same cable slop model for streaming now. Soon we will be paying no ad prices, but with ads.
2016 for me
Cable tv never died, it's just called streaming now.
That was the whole point of paying for it. Then when everyone got used to it they added commercials. Now they're doing the same with streaming.
The worst part? Every channel breaks at the exact same time now so you can't surf around and see what else is on. It's fucking infuriating.
I thought stiffing my cable company out of their final payment was funny till it ruined my credit!
kek hilarious
When they forced everyone to have a cable box
I’ve tried to get my parents to stop the cable. I told them I can download the shows they watch and send them to them. I’ve told my mother I can send her a CNN stream (yeah my parents are libs who watch CNN nonstop). They just refuse to do it. They’ll just continue pay whatever crazy amount they pay and it pisses me off.
for me it was the moment i heard of torrenting