Why Streaming is DYING

Streaming is dying. But pirating is flourishing.

If buying subscriptions is not ownership, then downloading the content isn't piracy.

I buy Blu-rays. I want to own my favorite movies.

I dumped everything but Prime and I only keep that because of the free shipping. I am just beefing up my home disc collection.

This is making me feel nostalgic for video stores.

Saved all my dvd and blurays also started adding 4k movies since 2020. Im done with streaming

If there's no way to own media, and everything is permanently rented, piracy is justified

streaming is consolidating and becoming as exspensive as cable was before

Canceled prime today. Just not worth it now that ads are 3 days away. Have never seen anything delivered in a day. Can shove the gaming and music. Shipping and prime vids is what kept me on the fence. Ads pushed me over. Was nice while it lasted. Going back to pirating and cable. Can ff through commercials with the dvr. Be well....

I'm on my second streaming service, which as it happens, is Netflix. Once I can't find stuff I want to watch, I'll be gone. Yet they don't exactly make it easy for me to find programs, because they persist in suggesting things I've already watched, and which I'm sure they know that I've already watched. I find it hard to believe that that strategy makes any kind of commercial sense. A few people with dementia might be willing to watch the same things over and over, but surely most viewers will realise, with annoyance, that the've seen something before, and immediately bail on it.

Funny how these old videos said that hulu was profitable only for now hulu is under Disney's full control.

Streaming is crap. Spinning buffering wheels and dots. Tons of commercials. I watch You Tube videos. I am in my mid 60s. You will be surprised of some of the creative stuff on You Tube. If you avoid the Far Right Vs. Far Left BS

Streaming is "dying" because of normality and ad free services having ads. I have YouTube TV though, so it's like cable without the box.

After Netflix banned family and friend sharing I REFUSE to pay for any subscription like how greedy can you be ugh.

Notice how YouTube's streaming service isn't mentioned here? Its just as expensive as all the rest!

Bring back video stores 😊. I dont pay for streaming apps anymore. I use my cable and dvds blu rays .

I cancelled all my streaming months ago. Happy about. And I have not missed it

I'm hoping they go back to physical media like DVDs and there is a way to get it back but you're not going to like it there needs to be protests in front of every single entertainment Industries headquarters like never before make them force their hand

I have little issue with the current iteration. I watch one for a few months then cancel and move to another platform. I don't watch much that's in active production so I just wear out a catalog and move on. When it was just Netflix, if they didn't have it, you didn't get to see it. Use their greed against them. They splintered this market for their own gains, make sure they also feel the losses.

The Pandemic really just helped me double down on spending all my free time with Steam, and there are enough free games there to spend the rest of your life playing them so I never understand how people use more than zero or MAYBE one streaming service, haha.