This is what everyone wanted though because with Cable you were force to get channels that you didn't want. Multiple services only seem bad to people who believe that under cable you got everything and sure if you were willing to spend 100 plus dollars yeah you got everything. Realistically what most people want when cable was a bigger thing is the 5 major players CBS,ABC,FOX,NBC and the CW then you pick other 5 to 10 channels you actual wanted. But Cable had a greedy tier system to prevent that so they could make more money. Just for fun I went and checked what price for cable cost now it was 25 dollars for basic(The stuff you can pick up for free with antenna) and 65 for the next tier and that price will be important later.
The only reason Cable is "dead" because they wouldn't do the thing they are doing now which is charging individually. CBS has Paramount+ (MTV,Nickelodeon,CBS Access), ABC/FOX has Hulu/Disney+, NBC has the Peacock, and CW is a free service. HBO has always been it own thing, along with Showtime,Starz, Cinemax and other premium channels. Netflix is premium channel on the level of HBO. And of course there is Amazon Prime Video, Apple tv and couple others. Now there is live tv and sports but we will leave that out for now. So being honest it is HBO (14.99),Netflix (8.99), Disney package (12.99) Paramont +( at least 9.99) Peacock plus(9.99) which comes up to about 56 dollars. The average American cable bill was
99 dollars so most people would still be quite a bit away from spending what they use to on cable even getting most services. And they are getting exactly the channels they want to watch. When I ever see comment on how bad it is why have so much services this what pops in my mind.
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As for the topic as long Netflix has to spend produce twice as much content to make up for all content they are losing and hurriedly build up a back catalog they are going to be one of the better service if not the best. Netflix is absolute the best service at monthly putting out new content not everyone of those things are a hit but it is to have a wide variety as an option compared to the others who are depending their back catalog of things you have already seen. If you are like me you don't watch old stuff unless you can't find any new stuff to watch or have specific urge to watch something. A great backcatlog only matters to me if you have nothing new and if you have nothing new I can cancel, wait until stuff builds up re up and binge on them and then cancel again.HBO and Disney are great one month rentals. Netflix for me is only one that consistently drops enough new stuff to were I don't consider cut it.
Ironic today I saw this "Netflix promises at least one new movie every week in 2021"
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/12/2...on-zack-snyder