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Re:Streaming service prices have more than doubled since com... by dboreham on Thursday November 09, 2023 @10:14AM (#38206028)
The solution would be one where the user could just "ask the internet" to deliver them the content they're interested in watching, and they paid per-hour.

Of course we're not going to see that solution for many reasons.

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Re:Streaming service prices have more than doubled since com... by Retric on Thursday November 09, 2023 @10:20AM (#38206104)
Amazon basically provides that right now. If my mom wants to watch some movie or series she checks if it’s on a streaming service then rents/buys it from Amazon.

D+ for a month is a lot cheaper than paying 20$ for The Last Jedi, but they are happy to take 20$ from you.

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Re:Streaming service prices have more than doubled since com... by antasvara on Thursday November 09, 2023 @10:28AM (#38206224)
The vast majority of popular content can be bought/rented online via platforms like Amazon. It's just very expensive in comparison to streaming.
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Re:Streaming service prices have more than doubled since com... by bitlevel on Thursday November 09, 2023 @11:15AM (#38206934)
It really depends on how much you actually watch on a service.

I thought that £7.99 for D+ was pushing it as there was a limit to the content that we wanted to watch.

Pay for that over multiple months, and you own nothing at the end.

Should have bought the discs instead. At least then I could continue to watch that content at leisure, without spending any more.

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