On Tue, 2019-10-15 at 17:12 +0000, Rod Beck wrote:

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The video streaming wars are this years version of last years cable channel bundling. Everyone knows the game the cablecos play where they bundle 14 channels of crap with one channel that people actually want and because it's 15 channels, hey, well that's going to cost $20.99/mo., you know, because you are getting 15 channels! Oh, no, sorry, no way to get just that one channel you want for just it's cost. You need to buy all 15. How many streaming services is the average consumer going to have to start subscribing to for $10-20/mo. each to get all of the content they want? Or, as I (and I am sure others have) predict(ed), while consumers were willing to pay a modest amount of money for a streaming service or two to get all of the content they wanted, consumers are going to reject the skyrocketing costs of the streaming fragmentation and go back to the same solution they had for the high costs of cable channel bundling. Welcome back piracy. Cheers, b.