Amazon Prime Video Ad Tier Sparks Class Action Lawsuit from Subscribers

Re:Amazon Prime Video Ad Tier Sparks Class Action Lawsuit fr... by JohnClark1337 on Monday February 12, 2024 @04:49PM (#39351003)

Cable TV didn't have ads when it started, and then started adding advertisements once they realized they could get away with it. That's when you ended up with HBO, which was an additional cost above standard cable TV. Corporations are never "content", but always require more and more income.

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Re:Amazon Prime Video Ad Tier Sparks Class Action Lawsuit fr... by paulddraper on Monday February 12, 2024 @06:49PM (#39352286)

I don't understand your analogy. Your cable company charges a subscription fee and also runs ads in its media.

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Re:Amazon Prime Video Ad Tier Sparks Class Action Lawsuit fr... by vel0city on Monday February 12, 2024 @05:18PM (#39351306)

This again.

Cable TV in the US from day one had ads, as it was literally just the broadcast networks which had ads repeated on a wire. So no, cable had ads from the beginning.

Then, decades later, the first cable only stations started appearing. Some had ads from the start, some didn't. Some charged extra fees (premium channels), some didn't. Many of the early cable-only channels had ads on day one, some added ads later.

In the US at least, there was practically never a time where there were no ad-supported TV channels on cable. There were always at least some channels that were ad-supported.

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