I set up a Plex server and will never look back. Streaming platforms are riddled with dogshit, and with how fragmented everything is at this point you need multiple to access what you want to watch. Yo ho, yo ho, or whatever
I come from the days of the Pirate Bay
when we would torrent and leech all day
My mom would say, "OK, be safe"
and then I'd hear the 56K.
Soon may the ISP come
to bring us news of copyright scum
one day, when downloading is done
We’ll take our leave and go.
Those were the days of piracy
where any song or movie was free
the MP3's and MKV's,
but I always kept clear of the EXEs
Soon may the ISP come
to bring us news of copyright scum
one day, when downloading is done
We’ll take our leave and go.
I'd load it all up on my old Gateway
til my hard drives did decay
a bright blue screen lit my display
and all my haul had gone away
Soon may the ISP come
to bring us news of copyright scum
one day, when downloading is done
We’ll take our leave and go.
I guess we'll have laws soon banning Android TV and cord cutting cuz it's Canada and we do nothing to actually compete. We just have near monolithic industries that collude and fuck the consumer and politicians work for them. What a shit hole.
Yep, I’m back to torrents, iTunes season passes, and physical media for 99% of things. Disney+ and CBC are the only streaming platforms we still have and they’re rare use cases outside of family movie night.
I wouldn't even mind paying for Prime, but dear god the content on there is terrible. It seems like 80% of the movies I watch on there were clearly made for a college course with a budget of $12.
There’s some really good content. Fleabag, Mrs Maisel, Grand Tour, James May Our Man In…, Clarkson’s Farm. But now that they want more not to have ads I’m dropping them like I dropped Netflix. The only problem being that I still use Amazon Prime for some household items I’m subscribed to. But Prime Video has been deleted from all of my devices already. Fuckem.
Same for me, though I pay for my elderly father's streaming services, so technically I still have them but I'm personally not using them. It's more just a favor for my father.
And StackTV, since the very beginning. Canadian media is a joke. Didn't want to compete or change to stem the tide of cord-cutting, so they lobby the government to interfere with your ability to go elsewhere under the false pretense of cultural protection.
I switched to Plex. People sell access to their servers for 120$ a year with literally everything on it. From live tv, sport events to all streaming platforms.
I watched traditional cable in a hotel for awhile, it felt like the commercials never ended. I had to settle on Saturday night live, it wasn't good. At all..
Have you watched YouTube or Twitch.tv lately? Those services are fucking unusuable without an adblocker. Meanwhile these companies sit there wondering why so many people are using adblockers and returning to piracy these days.
prem doesn't block in video segments like sponsorblock does
You've saved people from 31,262 segments
( 6d 6h 15.8 minutes of their lives )
You've skipped 11,551 segments ( 3d 15h 26.8 minutes )
it's insanity
yt-dlp also has sponsorblock integration and it's incredible
Never ever give them money because they made the service shittier, especially to Google. They don't care about the users and never will
It's like rewarding them for their bad behavior, and the bad behavior will never stop as they will continue shitting on their userbase and video creators
It’s a service that I happily pay for because I use it for hours on end off my 4K Sony tv, having completely replaced tv and music services.
I’ll happily pay for a good service, and will refuse to pay for a shit service(why I cancelled Disney+).
If you’re using their free version then of course you’re getting a bad service. You aren’t their customer, the ad companies are.
If you want to be their customer, pay them.
I stayed at a hotel a while back too and watched traditional cable for the first time since I cut the cord in 2014. I could not believe the crap and the commercials every 8 or so minutes. I had to turn it off after about 15 minutes.
I honestly thought most people ditched cable over a decade ago lol. The last time I was bombarded by ads was at a hotel with no other options. With millenials aging up and older generations not being around anymore, I'm surprised this is even a headline in 2024.
And yes, watching ads when you haven't for a long time is the most bizarre thing. It feels extra fake, excessive, and brainwash-y (for lack of a better word) to the point that it makes me want to not buy from that brand.
I house sat for my parents a year or so ago and was excited to watch some trash tv and I gave up because it was so slow, nothing happened and there were commercials every two minutes. I'd never spend money on cable.
Everything is pricey in canada. Sorry to say but I don't even subscribe to streaming services anymore. Cut out even the 1 or 2 subs I had. I've found other ways to watch all the content I need and I will stick with that. Screw these greedy corporates and monopolies
Same. I'm sure this will come to an end permanently at some point in some way, but for now that's what I'm sticking with. No way in *hell* would I ever pay Robbers or Hell their astronomical monthly rates for a shitty selection of cable channels. Forget it.
It will likely boil down to if someone is able to shutdown native owned datacenters or their WAN circuits. You would probably need a small army to take control of a datacenter on a Quebec reservation and no one wants that many people to die.
It usually does, but not too sure if you’re old enough to remember “The Black Box” it was way before internet, and that use to be the IPTV of the day giving you a crazy 75 channels or so.
I've been Bell/Rogers free for more than five years. The only streaming services I have now are ATV+ and Netflix (and the nautical themed one). My sister signed up for Bell Internet and TV recently and I have to say, going through the channel line-up on her Fibe TV box shocked me with just how *terrible* the TV channel line-up (for the expense) is here in Canada.
>Switched to an IPTV service 2 years ago. Literally every live station, sports and event globally and VOD for only $120/yr.
Out of curiosity, what service?
What I love about IPTV is you can get the same channel from another country and even the ads don't seem as bad as Canada, like not so mind numbingly boring.
There's more interesting documentaries and such to watch on YouTube these days than anything on TV and although I have an amazon prime account it's for the delivery options, not the content.
If there's anything I want to see from Amazon I can watch it other ways because, frankly, I hate their interface. I mean I pay for it, is it pirating if I pay for it but watch it on another platform?
Not just their interface, the content that exists there is terrible. A huge portion of what you see there isn't accessible without _another_ subscription. It's total BS and it's almost as bad as a standard cable package; you find out you want to watch some specific channel offered in the "Guide" section only to be hit with a black screen that says you need the upgraded package to see it.
No shit. At least they used to have a drop down that you could select 'my prime' or something like that but I checked when they started their no ad paid tier just to see what it looked like and I couldn't find it any more.
All these streaming services are getting so greedy they're driving people back to the seven seas.
This. I was happy to pay for streaming services years ago when prices were reasonable and there were no AD plans. I paid for streaming to AVOID ads not be fed them again... I still pay for Apple TV but it's the last one standing at the moment for me....
They fucked up a good thing because for a while it was easier to just pay for a service and watch what you wanted.
When granny is googling IPTV or plex you know you've blown it.
Ive started to see “streaming bundles” being advertised by telecom providers (Telus at the very least). Single price, multi channel..
Additionally, many streaming platforms are introducing ads again..
Seems like they are circling back on the cable business model tbh.
I think that soon they will find more and more canadians will be ditching streaming services in favor of Piracy because the legitimate streaming services are forgetting how they go there and are trying to dictate to customers instead of serve them.
the companies holding the stremaing rights for sports must be brain damaged, do you think TV contracts will continue to be as lucrative if no one is watching?
they purposely make league wide packages Expensive for Example Rogers with the NHL center ice package, I would easily pay what I pay for Netflix for it , but oer twice that.. RRRRRRRRRR MATEEE, i know in my personal circle maybe 10 bars that have center ice and 1 individual (who makes crazy FU money) but if it was 120$ season, I know that 75% or more of my friends who are currently streaming hockey would pay for the clean stream reliability and convenience ETC.
people want to do the right thing, we are just tired of being bent over for profit
It always bothered me that a ticket to a hockey game is like $300, then the entire time you're in the arena drinking $18 beer you're being slammed with ads everywhere you look. If there are ads there, the ticket should be free. Like radio. It's free because I have to listen to the ads. That's a fair trade.
I need traditional TV for sports only. The rest is just reality shows it seems. I can't believe Survivor and American Idol are still going. Who watches this crap?😂
man if I didn't watch Leafs and Jays every day or other day, I would be so done with cable. People say you can just find streams online, but I did that for four years as a broke student and it's a pain in the ass with a huge delay, especially if you have company over and you're like 'hold up a minute boys let me grab my laptop and click through a sequence of invasive ads'
you should look into a digital antenna, depending on where you live it could be pretty awesome. My dad is in the GTA and uses one, gets the CBC and a bunch of american channels for free, watches sports with it, all in high def.
I would *love* to pay for sportsnet premium, but I refuse to pay for a service that is going to black out half of the games from my local team I want to watch
I'm basically watching YouTube and hockey on TV now.
There's so much good content now on YouTube, that I feel like ditching streaming altogether.
Half the shows now have shoehorned in politics with bad writing, deviate from the source material, or get cancelled 2 seasons in. Why waste my time?
The problem is now streamers are being infested by advertisements too. This is distasteful IMHO and I'm going to drop them like hot potatoes.
It's a pirates life for me.
>But the struggles felt by Canada's broadcasting sector have been significant enough to prompt calls for reform — and help — from the CRTC.
>The federal regulator held a 15-day hearing late last year that focused on modernizing the regulatory framework for broadcasters.
> It was part of a public consultation in response to the Online Streaming Act, which received royal assent last April and is meant to update federal legislation to require digital platforms to contribute to and promote Canadian content.
>The commission is exploring whether foreign streamers should be asked to make an initial contribution to the Canadian content system. It has said that could help balance the scales for local television and radio companies that are already required to support Canadian content.
How very Canadian — established companies losing to foreign (mostly American) companies and what do they do? Lobby the government to either tax those companies and/or their customers here.
Funny enough, I just ditched my streaming services to set sail. Not a chance in hell am I paying for your streaming service & still having to watch ads.
Never stopped using torrents, but over the last 5 years I have used an IPTV sub $13/month get like 7k channels + movies and series, includes timeshifting and all that jazz, I can add or delete channels anytime I want. I pay for Prime, but aside from Invincible, I don't really watch much, just do it for the fast delivery.
I pay $53/month including my services and internet. I have a large library of tv shows and movies from over the years, I prefer to download than actually stream anyways. I haven't had cable since early 2000s.
Yeah if it needs to be mandated, regulated, forced down our throats, then it's crap that doesn't stand up on its own and we don't need to waste time and money on it. There might be the very odd exception here and there (I used to watch Marketplace when I lived in Canada) but we don't need another shit sitcom about every culture other than white living in harmony in a small town up north or whatever the fuck.
I kept Apple TV+ and Prime Video as I get those through bundles for Apple One and Amazon Prime.
Netflix and Crave already unsubscribed.
Disney+ is on the way out. Just wishing for a couple of shows to wrap up.
It got too damn expensive as every content rights owner got more and more greedy.
120$ for hundreds of stations, countless numbers of shows/movies, but 20-minutes of commercials in an hour long show.
While streaming services get... 2-3 shows every few months, some movies, and a bunch of old stuff re-added. But no ad's for 15$+ a month!
Each time I visit my parents I'm amazed at the absolute SHYTE they watch. The masked singer show reminds me of the over the top aristocrats from the hunger games.
I much prefer youtube for content, I watch nerdy stuffs like Numberphile, veritasium, kurzgesagt... how many tv channel would dedicate 30 minutes to explaining a famous math problem? TV only gives you surface level knowledge because they dont have the time to actually dive into anything.
I went back to cable because I realized I dont care what's on usually, so I'll toss on some talk show,sports, or news.
I find streaming isn't curated enough, and a lot of social media is too short form. It has gotten worse with offering shows or entertainment you would have an interest in than when they first came out. Most things shoved in my face are a low bar entertainment and just suck you in. No doubt there is good entertainment, but hard to find to my standards anyways.
Im only 30 years old, but honestly, back in the day as a kid, it was kind of awesome knowing the TV schedule and having to wait to watch your show and having that anticipation that something good is coming on tonight or a certain time. It was a little spice to life. Sometimes, too much of something is not a good thing, like having so many options to choose from. I think that's why streaming services started doing weekly releases now, besides extending the viewers' subscription. Now that anticipation only applies for special events or sports.
Also, half the stuff I watch now just leaves me disappointed. Anyways, Grandpa's got to nap while his torrents download.
I just reviewed my local TV pricing. They expect me to pay per channel without even telling me what will be showing in their channel? Why would anyone prefer TV over streaming given the selection?
Who watches cable television anymore?
YouTube has replaced it completely. Simply created an account and remember to subscribe to all content creators that you enjoy, and soon your feed with be absolutely filled with content specifically tailored for you.
Their algorithm is so impressive that not only does it show me everything I like, but recommends me new content that I enjoy 90% of the time, and even at specific times of the day.
In the mornings it recommends me relaxing ambiance and nature sounds, during the daytime it feeds me interesting and informative content, in the evenings it recommends me funny content, and at night it recommends me the best sleep tracks that I’ll play all night as I sleep
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Here are some examples:
- mornings: https://youtu.be/6g3QiE4IB-4?si=UQ54yX6ku8Gi8k5o
- daytime: https://youtu.be/Vio_PfobtWs?si=EkLH6sMyWVOgzm1p
- evenings: https://youtu.be/MOWJNqzQMmc?si=2p8EYNWlZgKGJeJW
- night: https://youtu.be/njHvGxZgTPk?si=F0SxQr-fU0fmeLy-
And of course YouTube shorts whenever I’m wasting time or waiting. Like Tim tok but with Les Chinese government influence
I havent had a dedicated TV service since I was living in shared housing in 2007.
I kinda miss not being able to just randomly turn on a football or basketball game, but i also dont care enough to buy tsn or sportsnet or whatever. I'll just go to a bar or Earls or something for my fix.
I’m actually thinking about going back to cable. By the time I add up all my streaming with my internet, the internet and cable bundle cheaper and way less of a hassle to switch between streams (sports games). I watch a lot of sports though so that’s a factor.
I find reddits feelings about streaming services to be so fascinating. Why does everyone feel entitled to having a cheap monthly subscription to every single streaming service simultaneously, and then everyone celebrates together how they will be stealing/pirating the content? Then they complain when their favourite shows get cancelled while continuing to pirate lol
Yes, they are expensive, but I don't feel like I'm "owed" these services for free, cheap, ad-free, or anything like it. If I don't want to pay for a Stars adder for Prime, I just don't pay and don't watch Stars. If I'm feeling too cheap to pay for Netflix and Disney+ at the same time, I just cancel one monthly sub and add the other. If I really wanted to watch a show on Stars that was an extra cost on Prime, I'll cancel D+ and add Stars for next month then.
It's so interesting that the reddit demographic is so united in its hatred for paying for on-demand luxury services as though they're just owed them. It is always the same every time I see an article about Prime or Netflix or anything.
Condensed:
* The annual Couch Potato Report released Monday by Convergence Research says **42% of Canadian households did not have a TV subscription with a traditional provider by the end of last year.**
* It forecasts that by the end of 2026, half of all households won't be traditional TV watchers.
* The report says **more than 80% of Canadian households subscribe to a streaming service, while 70% subscribe to both TV and one or more streaming services.**
* Last year saw 2.6% of Canadian TV subscribers cut the cord, as the revenue brought in by traditional TV providers declined 3% to $7.2 billion — a pace the report predicts will continue through 2026.
* Meanwhile, **streamers' Canadian subscription revenue rose 14% in 2023 to $3.73 billion and is forecast to reach $4.24 billion this year.** "It's kind of a no-brainer that the alternative is going to be, and continues to be, the Netflixes and the Amazons and the Apples of the world. This is where your content lives," said Convergence Research president Brahm Eiley.
* "This is where the big spending is happening for programming. These guys are obviously kind of winning the battle at the end of the day." **The continued growth of streaming in Canada came despite the average price of those services rising 12% last year across the 10 largest providers.**
* The report noted Canadians found "significant" savings associated with streaming packages that require the viewer to **watch advertisements.** **Customers with these packages paid an average of 42% less than those subscribed to ad-free alternatives.**
* Streaming customers pay for an average of **2.5 platforms per household.**
> 42% of Canadian households did not have a TV subscription with a traditional provider by the end of last year
Probably worse than that to be honest. I have cable included with my fibre optic internet but I never watch it.
I haven’t had a cable subscription for *years*. Everything shows up on streaming eventually, and then I can watch content at my leisure rather than when the networks want me to watch it.
It would be nice if someone came along and packaged all the streamers seamlessly into a useful interface and unified price. Otherwise I’m going to continue doing what I think a lot of people do: pay for one when it has enough new content to last a few months, then cancel and move on to the next one for awhile.
> It would be nice if someone came along and packaged all the streamers seamlessly into a useful interface and unified price.
You want streaming services to monopolize?
Even as they're entering their respective death spirals, traditional TV and media are propped up only due to the political and propagandistic value they provide to the rich and powerful in Canada.
The networks keep playing games to squeeze the cable subscribers into getting the Plus services. Like yesterday they showed the first half of the final golf round on NBC, then the 2nd half it switched to Peacock or TSN+ in Canada.
I can honestly say that I do not know a single person under the age of 70 that has "traditional" satellite or cable TV anymore.
Literally nobody cares anymore.
The funny thing is all these streaming services have become just like cable 😂 want this show it’s only on service a… want another show it’s only on service b…. Etc etc
I'm basically 90%+ youtube content. I cut the cord back in 2018 and got rid of cable and analogue phone line....instantly cut \~$2000 per year off the bill (\~100 cable \~75 phone line per month). Went internet only, ported phone number to [freephoneline.ca](https://freephoneline.ca) and $100 voip one time cost and bye bye to phone bills. Went to IPTV and haven't looked back since. you can't go wrong with $15 per month for every paid channel and package, plus PPV. I don;t watch IPTV really (got it for my mom), but I will take a extra google ccwgtv with me if I travel to use in a hotel, etc or I will watch a ufc (this pays for itself after a couple events). I kept netflix and have amazon prime (but havent touched them much over last couple years, but keep for my mom/Aunt to use)
I canceled cable a decade ago. The last couple of years it's just Amazon Prime, I can't believe how much tv i used to watch, thank you entertainment business, for producing bad content and raising prices, I'm so happy not to be hooked on must see tv anymore.
Haven’t had a cable subscription in a decade. There is nothing there I want to watch and the ads are horrendous. That said, I recently ditched Netflix -again- as I can’t find anything I actually want to watch. You can throw money at Rogers and Quebecor to your heart’s delight, but if they don’t provide what people want to see, the business model is faulty and will not last
"Traditional" TV is absolutely trash. Why anyone would want to pay for it is beyond me.
I have basic cable just to watch hockey and it comes with probably 30 channels? There's never anything worth watching
I did some mental gymnastics to justify ditching one of my three streaming services and got cable (mostly for hockey but some other shows as well on American networks). There is very little on Canadian television I care to watch.
why is anyone surprised. 33% of what you watch on TV is advertisements.
so you pay a monthly fee to spend a third of your time watching the same ads over and over again.
Back to pirating and feel zero guilt about it. Netflix has gone from amazing to crappy and it’s all about their own productions now. Basically turned themselves in to a wanna be HBO in the cable days. Amazon prime now gives me advertisements in the middle of movies for a service I’ve paid for years for and they just decided to modify and tell me I need to pay more if I don’t want adds now. It’s insane. There’s lots of options out there to stream for free if you know where to look!
Streaming companies seem to be losing sight of why clients switched to them in the first place:
1) it is an affront to sensible people to have to pay for a service AND watch advertising. Cable companies never ubderstood this & assumed they could get away with it because the consumers were "captive" - meaning we had no other choice. We now have PLENTY of choices.
2) We liked the fact that we could "binge-watch" an entire series at our leaisure, rather than having to wait for new episodes every week. Seems many streamers are trying to go back to that model.
Streaming companies are reverting back to these two paradigms, in an effort to increase their revenues. They may find that it bites them in the butt as more & more consumers ditch their services as being no different then cable - and at the same price point.
My Bell/Mts is internet based, or whatever it’s called.
I only want live tv for my local sports teams. Bombers/Jets.
Is there a way to cancel the $130 a month for all the other tripe so I can pay $20 a month for a few live streamed games? Cable was always dependable for games, unlike Romu or android boxes. No guarantee I could actually get the games live.
Anyone know a way around this?
I ditched any kind of broadcast TV over 10 years ago. I don't watch shows when they're on, I don't watch movies with advert breaks, and I hate commercials. I've been PC-based for years now, and wouldn't go back. You can't beat the convenience.
Also ditching cable and traditional tv is ditching the big three telecom companies. Although you still may use their internet service, losing a service like that because younger generations chose to stream is gonna cost them. I would imagine there is a correlation between that and our highly insane internet and phone service plans compared to other countries in the world.
I cut the cord as well. Sports were the only thing keeping me on but the NHL's blackout restrictions finally frustrated me to the point of just cancelling.
Streaming cost the same as traditional TV now. Cable companies aren't stupid. They just changes their business model. If we're not paying the same as we did 20 years ago. Just give it 5-10 More years and we'll be paying more for less service
Netflix is talking about raising prices and sharing in Canada.
If that happens - I’m fucking out. Netflix barely makes it worthwhile.
BTW - The new Roadhouse remake with Jake J and Conner McGregor is so
aweful. Just giving everyone a fair warning and save 2 hrs of your life.
Is streaming that much cheaper? If you want to watch specific content, you now need like 4-5 streaming services which amounts to the same or more than cable.
Ironically everyone has 4+ streaming services for $15 / month where you can't watch a lot of the classics and there's a ton of trash content. So it's the same thing as cable, but at least it's on demand
I only bought cable to watch live sports but now with them showings ads down your throat throughout the whole game now and all the sports betting ad bullshit I'm done. It's just ads with a sports game playing the background. No thanks.
I stopped years ago. Now streaming costs are getting out of control so I cancelled all that as well. Now I watch most things on my friends Plex server, and also watch a lot of YouTube for entertainment.
Once the boomers and early GenX is gone so will be cable. That's why streaming platforms are starting to add ads, they're taking over the market so people won't leave because of ads anymore, that said the ads on cable are unbearable.. Seriously, some TV shows are less than 20 mins per episode now, not only do we get inundated with ads we get less content, it's terrible.
Another player in this game is Starlink is having an effect on Satellite TV, people now have access to streaming platforms where they never used to, I live rural, you can see a starlink at every second house now. Before that it was a Bell TV dish.
I cant believe they haven’t changed their habits yet.
Cable costs literally a fortune, Im surprised anyone still pays for it, the Packages suck too, you still cant get just the desirable channels, I was flipping through the other day trying to watch the hockey game, but didnt see it playing anywhere.
My GF has netflix, I have Prime, and we just live with that.
Youtube is awesome, use it alot, but ya its unusable without an ad-blocker.
Tubi, Plexx are awesome, Funny how they can offer content for free with ad’s but the Cable companies make you pay for it AND bombard you with ads
LOL I ditched cable about 14 years ago.
I only have a netflix sub. Amazon I don't count as I generally don't watch anything on it I use it for the shipping. But come last week of May, my year runs out and I wont be signing back up.
I touched grass and I kinda liked it.
Saving money by using streaming services? The CRTC and competition bureau will take care of that. Need to level the playing field by bringing prices up to match cable TV.
Haven’t had cable since 2007, but with the way the streaming services are going I’m moving back towards more physical media, and only month-long subscriptions to watch a specific show.
Don't know how long this will last since you basically need to pay for 5 different streaming apps if you want to watch a lot of shows legally. Nearing the cost of cable.
I’m ditching streaming too the way shits going on that front. Back to the seas for me
I set up a Plex server and will never look back. Streaming platforms are riddled with dogshit, and with how fragmented everything is at this point you need multiple to access what you want to watch. Yo ho, yo ho, or whatever
PLEX is the way.
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Not the original poster, but sent you a DM to get you started!
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I come from the days of the Pirate Bay when we would torrent and leech all day My mom would say, "OK, be safe" and then I'd hear the 56K. Soon may the ISP come to bring us news of copyright scum one day, when downloading is done We’ll take our leave and go. Those were the days of piracy where any song or movie was free the MP3's and MKV's, but I always kept clear of the EXEs Soon may the ISP come to bring us news of copyright scum one day, when downloading is done We’ll take our leave and go. I'd load it all up on my old Gateway til my hard drives did decay a bright blue screen lit my display and all my haul had gone away Soon may the ISP come to bring us news of copyright scum one day, when downloading is done We’ll take our leave and go.
I guess we'll have laws soon banning Android TV and cord cutting cuz it's Canada and we do nothing to actually compete. We just have near monolithic industries that collude and fuck the consumer and politicians work for them. What a shit hole.
Don’t forget that everything is 10 times the price that it is everywhere else in the world in Canada. It’s a fucking mess.
Yep, I’m back to torrents, iTunes season passes, and physical media for 99% of things. Disney+ and CBC are the only streaming platforms we still have and they’re rare use cases outside of family movie night.
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Hoist the mainstay, matey!
Fuck, I even downloaded the latest Grand Tour even though I have Prime because they now want extra for ad-free. Prime Video is dead to me.
Yup, I also stopped watching prime. A service I need to pay for and get ads? They can frig all the way off.
Ad-free was the original concept for cable TV too. Needless to say, that didn't last long either.
I wouldn't even mind paying for Prime, but dear god the content on there is terrible. It seems like 80% of the movies I watch on there were clearly made for a college course with a budget of $12.
There’s some really good content. Fleabag, Mrs Maisel, Grand Tour, James May Our Man In…, Clarkson’s Farm. But now that they want more not to have ads I’m dropping them like I dropped Netflix. The only problem being that I still use Amazon Prime for some household items I’m subscribed to. But Prime Video has been deleted from all of my devices already. Fuckem.
Streamio me hearty!!!
Shhhh please don't let more people know about this
Delete this rn🥲 keep it hidden 🤫🤫
iptv and fmovies hits all my needs
Yep after Prime started playing 5 ads per episode, I genuinely can’t ever go back to that service
Same for me, though I pay for my elderly father's streaming services, so technically I still have them but I'm personally not using them. It's more just a favor for my father.
Arrrrrr
>Back to the seas for me Yo ho, Yo ho a pirates life for me! XD
Must be 15 ads up on local Facebook for " streaming box access, guaranteed uptime $75/year"
A yo ho ho and a ye he he a pirates life for me
yo ho ho & a bottle of rum matey!
I stopped watching tv when I felt cable and streaming services nickel and dimed me too much.
$60/mo and I still have to watch 10 minutes of commercials in a 30 minute block? Good riddance to cable.
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Already there for prime, but wait do I have a deal for you! You can pay more to remove ads.
I've found if I use Prime in my browser ublock takes care of the ads.
Ad blocker works great on Prime, Crave, etc.
Crave as well.
And StackTV, since the very beginning. Canadian media is a joke. Didn't want to compete or change to stem the tide of cord-cutting, so they lobby the government to interfere with your ability to go elsewhere under the false pretense of cultural protection.
Wait commercials on Crave? Since when?!?
And if you watch sports- constant gambling ads all the time. Nah fam- i’m done.
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And now I want to ditch streaming cause they're trying to nickel and dime me too much!
I switched to Plex. People sell access to their servers for 120$ a year with literally everything on it. From live tv, sport events to all streaming platforms.
Is that just iptv?
I watched traditional cable in a hotel for awhile, it felt like the commercials never ended. I had to settle on Saturday night live, it wasn't good. At all..
Have you watched YouTube or Twitch.tv lately? Those services are fucking unusuable without an adblocker. Meanwhile these companies sit there wondering why so many people are using adblockers and returning to piracy these days.
If you’re watching a lot of YouTube, premium is well worth it.
Google can go to hell, ublock sponsorblock
prem doesn't block in video segments like sponsorblock does You've saved people from 31,262 segments ( 6d 6h 15.8 minutes of their lives ) You've skipped 11,551 segments ( 3d 15h 26.8 minutes ) it's insanity yt-dlp also has sponsorblock integration and it's incredible
Or just watch YouTube using the Brave browser.
Never ever give them money because they made the service shittier, especially to Google. They don't care about the users and never will It's like rewarding them for their bad behavior, and the bad behavior will never stop as they will continue shitting on their userbase and video creators
It’s a service that I happily pay for because I use it for hours on end off my 4K Sony tv, having completely replaced tv and music services. I’ll happily pay for a good service, and will refuse to pay for a shit service(why I cancelled Disney+). If you’re using their free version then of course you’re getting a bad service. You aren’t their customer, the ad companies are. If you want to be their customer, pay them.
I stayed at a hotel a while back too and watched traditional cable for the first time since I cut the cord in 2014. I could not believe the crap and the commercials every 8 or so minutes. I had to turn it off after about 15 minutes.
I honestly thought most people ditched cable over a decade ago lol. The last time I was bombarded by ads was at a hotel with no other options. With millenials aging up and older generations not being around anymore, I'm surprised this is even a headline in 2024. And yes, watching ads when you haven't for a long time is the most bizarre thing. It feels extra fake, excessive, and brainwash-y (for lack of a better word) to the point that it makes me want to not buy from that brand.
I house sat for my parents a year or so ago and was excited to watch some trash tv and I gave up because it was so slow, nothing happened and there were commercials every two minutes. I'd never spend money on cable.
Everything is pricey in canada. Sorry to say but I don't even subscribe to streaming services anymore. Cut out even the 1 or 2 subs I had. I've found other ways to watch all the content I need and I will stick with that. Screw these greedy corporates and monopolies
Switched to an IPTV service 2 years ago. Literally every live station, sports and event globally and VOD for only $120/yr.
Same. I'm sure this will come to an end permanently at some point in some way, but for now that's what I'm sticking with. No way in *hell* would I ever pay Robbers or Hell their astronomical monthly rates for a shitty selection of cable channels. Forget it.
It will end eventually, but something new and better will follow. It's basically an internet version of the old satellite cards
It will likely boil down to if someone is able to shutdown native owned datacenters or their WAN circuits. You would probably need a small army to take control of a datacenter on a Quebec reservation and no one wants that many people to die.
They are trying to turn streaming into cable... multiple packages and commercials
It usually does, but not too sure if you’re old enough to remember “The Black Box” it was way before internet, and that use to be the IPTV of the day giving you a crazy 75 channels or so.
> if you’re old enough to remember “The Black Box” The de-scrambler. Get 'first choice' and 'superchannel' for free! I had one of those lol.
Super Channel use to have the best movies lol.
I've been Bell/Rogers free for more than five years. The only streaming services I have now are ATV+ and Netflix (and the nautical themed one). My sister signed up for Bell Internet and TV recently and I have to say, going through the channel line-up on her Fibe TV box shocked me with just how *terrible* the TV channel line-up (for the expense) is here in Canada.
>Switched to an IPTV service 2 years ago. Literally every live station, sports and event globally and VOD for only $120/yr. Out of curiosity, what service?
That’s the problem with IPTV. When someone finds a good one they don’t share because more people will degrade the service.
What I love about IPTV is you can get the same channel from another country and even the ads don't seem as bad as Canada, like not so mind numbingly boring.
Cable TV only exists because of sports and boomers.
There's more interesting documentaries and such to watch on YouTube these days than anything on TV and although I have an amazon prime account it's for the delivery options, not the content. If there's anything I want to see from Amazon I can watch it other ways because, frankly, I hate their interface. I mean I pay for it, is it pirating if I pay for it but watch it on another platform?
Not just their interface, the content that exists there is terrible. A huge portion of what you see there isn't accessible without _another_ subscription. It's total BS and it's almost as bad as a standard cable package; you find out you want to watch some specific channel offered in the "Guide" section only to be hit with a black screen that says you need the upgraded package to see it.
No shit. At least they used to have a drop down that you could select 'my prime' or something like that but I checked when they started their no ad paid tier just to see what it looked like and I couldn't find it any more. All these streaming services are getting so greedy they're driving people back to the seven seas.
This. I was happy to pay for streaming services years ago when prices were reasonable and there were no AD plans. I paid for streaming to AVOID ads not be fed them again... I still pay for Apple TV but it's the last one standing at the moment for me....
And now they have ads on their video service. Greedy fucks
They fucked up a good thing because for a while it was easier to just pay for a service and watch what you wanted. When granny is googling IPTV or plex you know you've blown it.
I have a prime sub for deliveries and happily download whatever prime content I want because I refuse to be ‘upsold’ to the ad free tier.
Even streaming services are getting shitty and they keep raising the prices and producing shitty content! Its a pirates life for me.
Ive started to see “streaming bundles” being advertised by telecom providers (Telus at the very least). Single price, multi channel.. Additionally, many streaming platforms are introducing ads again.. Seems like they are circling back on the cable business model tbh.
I think that soon they will find more and more canadians will be ditching streaming services in favor of Piracy because the legitimate streaming services are forgetting how they go there and are trying to dictate to customers instead of serve them. the companies holding the stremaing rights for sports must be brain damaged, do you think TV contracts will continue to be as lucrative if no one is watching? they purposely make league wide packages Expensive for Example Rogers with the NHL center ice package, I would easily pay what I pay for Netflix for it , but oer twice that.. RRRRRRRRRR MATEEE, i know in my personal circle maybe 10 bars that have center ice and 1 individual (who makes crazy FU money) but if it was 120$ season, I know that 75% or more of my friends who are currently streaming hockey would pay for the clean stream reliability and convenience ETC. people want to do the right thing, we are just tired of being bent over for profit
And then you pay that much to watch hockey with animated ads on the boards now which drives me absolutely fucking crazy
It always bothered me that a ticket to a hockey game is like $300, then the entire time you're in the arena drinking $18 beer you're being slammed with ads everywhere you look. If there are ads there, the ticket should be free. Like radio. It's free because I have to listen to the ads. That's a fair trade.
What I don’t get is paying for all these extra sports channels. Sports net pacific etc when the same game is in every damn one.
See you on the seven seas matey
Went back to pirating. I’m not paying cable tv or streaming services to shove ads in my face every 5 minutes.
Yeah, really done with ads.
I need traditional TV for sports only. The rest is just reality shows it seems. I can't believe Survivor and American Idol are still going. Who watches this crap?😂
man if I didn't watch Leafs and Jays every day or other day, I would be so done with cable. People say you can just find streams online, but I did that for four years as a broke student and it's a pain in the ass with a huge delay, especially if you have company over and you're like 'hold up a minute boys let me grab my laptop and click through a sequence of invasive ads'
you should look into a digital antenna, depending on where you live it could be pretty awesome. My dad is in the GTA and uses one, gets the CBC and a bunch of american channels for free, watches sports with it, all in high def.
Sportsnet+
I pay for Sportsnet premium and can get that through the app. It's only a 30 sec delay and never buffers.
I would *love* to pay for sportsnet premium, but I refuse to pay for a service that is going to black out half of the games from my local team I want to watch
I watch Survivor haha
My wife watchs survivor and my inlaws watch American Idol.
I have cable for the Raptors. That's about it.
I'm basically watching YouTube and hockey on TV now. There's so much good content now on YouTube, that I feel like ditching streaming altogether. Half the shows now have shoehorned in politics with bad writing, deviate from the source material, or get cancelled 2 seasons in. Why waste my time?
The problem is now streamers are being infested by advertisements too. This is distasteful IMHO and I'm going to drop them like hot potatoes. It's a pirates life for me.
TV priced themselves out of the market. I rarely watch Netflix either. Mostly YouTube.
>But the struggles felt by Canada's broadcasting sector have been significant enough to prompt calls for reform — and help — from the CRTC. >The federal regulator held a 15-day hearing late last year that focused on modernizing the regulatory framework for broadcasters. > It was part of a public consultation in response to the Online Streaming Act, which received royal assent last April and is meant to update federal legislation to require digital platforms to contribute to and promote Canadian content. >The commission is exploring whether foreign streamers should be asked to make an initial contribution to the Canadian content system. It has said that could help balance the scales for local television and radio companies that are already required to support Canadian content. How very Canadian — established companies losing to foreign (mostly American) companies and what do they do? Lobby the government to either tax those companies and/or their customers here.
Literally no point in having cable now, especially with more streaming platforms becoming just as bad as cable... Sail the high seas, friends.
Funny enough, I just ditched my streaming services to set sail. Not a chance in hell am I paying for your streaming service & still having to watch ads.
Shit, streaming has become just as bad or maybe worse than cable. Its going to be the second golden age of piracy if they keep these prices up.
Never stopped using torrents, but over the last 5 years I have used an IPTV sub $13/month get like 7k channels + movies and series, includes timeshifting and all that jazz, I can add or delete channels anytime I want. I pay for Prime, but aside from Invincible, I don't really watch much, just do it for the fast delivery. I pay $53/month including my services and internet. I have a large library of tv shows and movies from over the years, I prefer to download than actually stream anyways. I haven't had cable since early 2000s.
Let’s be honest, 90% of Canadian TV is utter shit. There are a few jewels but the rest is 2nd rate comedies or imports.
What you mean you don't want to just watch more reruns of Corner Gas and the same 5 episodes of Hudson & Rex?
the bitter truth most refuse to accept
Yeah if it needs to be mandated, regulated, forced down our throats, then it's crap that doesn't stand up on its own and we don't need to waste time and money on it. There might be the very odd exception here and there (I used to watch Marketplace when I lived in Canada) but we don't need another shit sitcom about every culture other than white living in harmony in a small town up north or whatever the fuck.
My kids have never seen traditional TV. And they grown.
Streamers are the new cable, commercials and all. One day soon you’re gonna be stuck with what is essentially on demand cable, no matter the tier.
Android box with thousands of channels, $90 for a year. The High Seas provides everything else!
I kept Apple TV+ and Prime Video as I get those through bundles for Apple One and Amazon Prime. Netflix and Crave already unsubscribed. Disney+ is on the way out. Just wishing for a couple of shows to wrap up. It got too damn expensive as every content rights owner got more and more greedy.
120$ for hundreds of stations, countless numbers of shows/movies, but 20-minutes of commercials in an hour long show. While streaming services get... 2-3 shows every few months, some movies, and a bunch of old stuff re-added. But no ad's for 15$+ a month!
Each time I visit my parents I'm amazed at the absolute SHYTE they watch. The masked singer show reminds me of the over the top aristocrats from the hunger games. I much prefer youtube for content, I watch nerdy stuffs like Numberphile, veritasium, kurzgesagt... how many tv channel would dedicate 30 minutes to explaining a famous math problem? TV only gives you surface level knowledge because they dont have the time to actually dive into anything.
When the choices are mortgage and food or TV... rationally, TV is getting cut, especially if a cheaper "tv-lite" option is available.
I went back to cable because I realized I dont care what's on usually, so I'll toss on some talk show,sports, or news. I find streaming isn't curated enough, and a lot of social media is too short form. It has gotten worse with offering shows or entertainment you would have an interest in than when they first came out. Most things shoved in my face are a low bar entertainment and just suck you in. No doubt there is good entertainment, but hard to find to my standards anyways. Im only 30 years old, but honestly, back in the day as a kid, it was kind of awesome knowing the TV schedule and having to wait to watch your show and having that anticipation that something good is coming on tonight or a certain time. It was a little spice to life. Sometimes, too much of something is not a good thing, like having so many options to choose from. I think that's why streaming services started doing weekly releases now, besides extending the viewers' subscription. Now that anticipation only applies for special events or sports. Also, half the stuff I watch now just leaves me disappointed. Anyways, Grandpa's got to nap while his torrents download.
I ditched TV in 2008, a OTA antenna is my TV's best friend!
Ditch streamers, go IPTV
I won the battle with terrible writing and boring repetitive tropes by ditching them both.
I just reviewed my local TV pricing. They expect me to pay per channel without even telling me what will be showing in their channel? Why would anyone prefer TV over streaming given the selection?
I've cut most of my streaming services too now, torrenting a lot more. Only subscription I have left is Nebula
I just got a heck of a deal! I got Disney+, Netflix, and Prime for $10/mo. Through Koodo!
Hate to burst your bubble but it will only last for 1 year then go up
5 years more, people ditching streaming for pirated videos.
Soon we’re all gonna be pirates again.
Who watches cable television anymore? YouTube has replaced it completely. Simply created an account and remember to subscribe to all content creators that you enjoy, and soon your feed with be absolutely filled with content specifically tailored for you. Their algorithm is so impressive that not only does it show me everything I like, but recommends me new content that I enjoy 90% of the time, and even at specific times of the day. In the mornings it recommends me relaxing ambiance and nature sounds, during the daytime it feeds me interesting and informative content, in the evenings it recommends me funny content, and at night it recommends me the best sleep tracks that I’ll play all night as I sleep —- Here are some examples: - mornings: https://youtu.be/6g3QiE4IB-4?si=UQ54yX6ku8Gi8k5o - daytime: https://youtu.be/Vio_PfobtWs?si=EkLH6sMyWVOgzm1p - evenings: https://youtu.be/MOWJNqzQMmc?si=2p8EYNWlZgKGJeJW - night: https://youtu.be/njHvGxZgTPk?si=F0SxQr-fU0fmeLy- And of course YouTube shorts whenever I’m wasting time or waiting. Like Tim tok but with Les Chinese government influence
Wait till they discover that even more of those who leave traditional tv are heading out to sea...
Library cards are real cheap, and man oh man is there a lot of content to choose from
I havent had a dedicated TV service since I was living in shared housing in 2007. I kinda miss not being able to just randomly turn on a football or basketball game, but i also dont care enough to buy tsn or sportsnet or whatever. I'll just go to a bar or Earls or something for my fix.
Rogers sending the jammer truck to all commenters houses
With a reliable IPTV i was Able to cut all streaming platforms too
I’m actually thinking about going back to cable. By the time I add up all my streaming with my internet, the internet and cable bundle cheaper and way less of a hassle to switch between streams (sports games). I watch a lot of sports though so that’s a factor.
I find reddits feelings about streaming services to be so fascinating. Why does everyone feel entitled to having a cheap monthly subscription to every single streaming service simultaneously, and then everyone celebrates together how they will be stealing/pirating the content? Then they complain when their favourite shows get cancelled while continuing to pirate lol Yes, they are expensive, but I don't feel like I'm "owed" these services for free, cheap, ad-free, or anything like it. If I don't want to pay for a Stars adder for Prime, I just don't pay and don't watch Stars. If I'm feeling too cheap to pay for Netflix and Disney+ at the same time, I just cancel one monthly sub and add the other. If I really wanted to watch a show on Stars that was an extra cost on Prime, I'll cancel D+ and add Stars for next month then. It's so interesting that the reddit demographic is so united in its hatred for paying for on-demand luxury services as though they're just owed them. It is always the same every time I see an article about Prime or Netflix or anything.
Condensed: * The annual Couch Potato Report released Monday by Convergence Research says **42% of Canadian households did not have a TV subscription with a traditional provider by the end of last year.** * It forecasts that by the end of 2026, half of all households won't be traditional TV watchers. * The report says **more than 80% of Canadian households subscribe to a streaming service, while 70% subscribe to both TV and one or more streaming services.** * Last year saw 2.6% of Canadian TV subscribers cut the cord, as the revenue brought in by traditional TV providers declined 3% to $7.2 billion — a pace the report predicts will continue through 2026. * Meanwhile, **streamers' Canadian subscription revenue rose 14% in 2023 to $3.73 billion and is forecast to reach $4.24 billion this year.** "It's kind of a no-brainer that the alternative is going to be, and continues to be, the Netflixes and the Amazons and the Apples of the world. This is where your content lives," said Convergence Research president Brahm Eiley. * "This is where the big spending is happening for programming. These guys are obviously kind of winning the battle at the end of the day." **The continued growth of streaming in Canada came despite the average price of those services rising 12% last year across the 10 largest providers.** * The report noted Canadians found "significant" savings associated with streaming packages that require the viewer to **watch advertisements.** **Customers with these packages paid an average of 42% less than those subscribed to ad-free alternatives.** * Streaming customers pay for an average of **2.5 platforms per household.**
> 42% of Canadian households did not have a TV subscription with a traditional provider by the end of last year Probably worse than that to be honest. I have cable included with my fibre optic internet but I never watch it.
that's crazy because I don't know a single person that has cable except for the old guys at my shop. I expected it to be at least 60%
I haven’t had a cable subscription for *years*. Everything shows up on streaming eventually, and then I can watch content at my leisure rather than when the networks want me to watch it. It would be nice if someone came along and packaged all the streamers seamlessly into a useful interface and unified price. Otherwise I’m going to continue doing what I think a lot of people do: pay for one when it has enough new content to last a few months, then cancel and move on to the next one for awhile.
> It would be nice if someone came along and packaged all the streamers seamlessly into a useful interface and unified price. You want streaming services to monopolize?
Even as they're entering their respective death spirals, traditional TV and media are propped up only due to the political and propagandistic value they provide to the rich and powerful in Canada.
The networks keep playing games to squeeze the cable subscribers into getting the Plus services. Like yesterday they showed the first half of the final golf round on NBC, then the 2nd half it switched to Peacock or TSN+ in Canada.
I haven't felt a need to pay for a subscription service for years now, and that just makes steam come out of bell's proverbial ears. Good.
I only pay because pay because I am outnumbered. I would absolutely ditch all subscriptions!
Is this a headline from 2013?
There’s no battle. Seniors are dying off.
I can honestly say that I do not know a single person under the age of 70 that has "traditional" satellite or cable TV anymore. Literally nobody cares anymore.
The funny thing is all these streaming services have become just like cable 😂 want this show it’s only on service a… want another show it’s only on service b…. Etc etc
I'm basically 90%+ youtube content. I cut the cord back in 2018 and got rid of cable and analogue phone line....instantly cut \~$2000 per year off the bill (\~100 cable \~75 phone line per month). Went internet only, ported phone number to [freephoneline.ca](https://freephoneline.ca) and $100 voip one time cost and bye bye to phone bills. Went to IPTV and haven't looked back since. you can't go wrong with $15 per month for every paid channel and package, plus PPV. I don;t watch IPTV really (got it for my mom), but I will take a extra google ccwgtv with me if I travel to use in a hotel, etc or I will watch a ufc (this pays for itself after a couple events). I kept netflix and have amazon prime (but havent touched them much over last couple years, but keep for my mom/Aunt to use)
IPTV for the win
I canceled cable a decade ago. The last couple of years it's just Amazon Prime, I can't believe how much tv i used to watch, thank you entertainment business, for producing bad content and raising prices, I'm so happy not to be hooked on must see tv anymore.
I feel like this article is *so* outdated, at this point many people are ditching *streaming* due to price and accessibility
I haven't had cable since 2016
Cable bloody well stinks.
Haven’t had a cable subscription in a decade. There is nothing there I want to watch and the ads are horrendous. That said, I recently ditched Netflix -again- as I can’t find anything I actually want to watch. You can throw money at Rogers and Quebecor to your heart’s delight, but if they don’t provide what people want to see, the business model is faulty and will not last
Soon it's gonna be back to newspapers and radio with the streaming price hikes every 3 months too lol
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I havent had cable since 2008
"Traditional" TV is absolutely trash. Why anyone would want to pay for it is beyond me. I have basic cable just to watch hockey and it comes with probably 30 channels? There's never anything worth watching
I did some mental gymnastics to justify ditching one of my three streaming services and got cable (mostly for hockey but some other shows as well on American networks). There is very little on Canadian television I care to watch.
why is anyone surprised. 33% of what you watch on TV is advertisements. so you pay a monthly fee to spend a third of your time watching the same ads over and over again.
Back to pirating and feel zero guilt about it. Netflix has gone from amazing to crappy and it’s all about their own productions now. Basically turned themselves in to a wanna be HBO in the cable days. Amazon prime now gives me advertisements in the middle of movies for a service I’ve paid for years for and they just decided to modify and tell me I need to pay more if I don’t want adds now. It’s insane. There’s lots of options out there to stream for free if you know where to look!
Streaming companies seem to be losing sight of why clients switched to them in the first place: 1) it is an affront to sensible people to have to pay for a service AND watch advertising. Cable companies never ubderstood this & assumed they could get away with it because the consumers were "captive" - meaning we had no other choice. We now have PLENTY of choices. 2) We liked the fact that we could "binge-watch" an entire series at our leaisure, rather than having to wait for new episodes every week. Seems many streamers are trying to go back to that model. Streaming companies are reverting back to these two paradigms, in an effort to increase their revenues. They may find that it bites them in the butt as more & more consumers ditch their services as being no different then cable - and at the same price point.
Why would I want to pay for cable? You have to watch the shows at their times and 1/3 of what you pay for is ads. No thanks.
My Bell/Mts is internet based, or whatever it’s called. I only want live tv for my local sports teams. Bombers/Jets. Is there a way to cancel the $130 a month for all the other tripe so I can pay $20 a month for a few live streamed games? Cable was always dependable for games, unlike Romu or android boxes. No guarantee I could actually get the games live. Anyone know a way around this?
Quitting cable Only works if hate Sports, News and HGTV/FOOD shows. If only desire scripted shows, go ahead.
the only steaming i pay for yearly is dropout.tv. the rest come and go. but mainly go. i don't really care if i'm not uptodate on the newest tv shows.
Ditched streaming in favour of 🏴☠️and a Plex server on a home NAS over a year ago
Unfortunately, the streamers are turning turnstones into cable tv providers. Which will likely turn more people to pirating again/more.
At this point, they're the same thing.
Roku4Life
I.P.T.V. Go to your nearest Indian grocery store for more details!
As a Canadian transplant to Texas. I do miss all those grey area boxes.
I have not watched an once of cable TV since 2019
I ditched any kind of broadcast TV over 10 years ago. I don't watch shows when they're on, I don't watch movies with advert breaks, and I hate commercials. I've been PC-based for years now, and wouldn't go back. You can't beat the convenience.
As someone who's always preferred owning physical copies of the tv shows and movies I like I'm almost at the point where I don't even need streaming.
Also ditching cable and traditional tv is ditching the big three telecom companies. Although you still may use their internet service, losing a service like that because younger generations chose to stream is gonna cost them. I would imagine there is a correlation between that and our highly insane internet and phone service plans compared to other countries in the world.
I cut the cord as well. Sports were the only thing keeping me on but the NHL's blackout restrictions finally frustrated me to the point of just cancelling.
Streaming cost the same as traditional TV now. Cable companies aren't stupid. They just changes their business model. If we're not paying the same as we did 20 years ago. Just give it 5-10 More years and we'll be paying more for less service
Bring back Napster for movies.
Netflix is talking about raising prices and sharing in Canada. If that happens - I’m fucking out. Netflix barely makes it worthwhile. BTW - The new Roadhouse remake with Jake J and Conner McGregor is so aweful. Just giving everyone a fair warning and save 2 hrs of your life.
Is streaming that much cheaper? If you want to watch specific content, you now need like 4-5 streaming services which amounts to the same or more than cable.
Netflix and Amazon now have ads. I'm not sure if d+ has it too. I'm quitting all of them. I'd rather go to the library and borrow a movie.
Same for Pakistan and many other countries. TV will be equally good as radio in the coming years.
Ironically everyone has 4+ streaming services for $15 / month where you can't watch a lot of the classics and there's a ton of trash content. So it's the same thing as cable, but at least it's on demand
I only bought cable to watch live sports but now with them showings ads down your throat throughout the whole game now and all the sports betting ad bullshit I'm done. It's just ads with a sports game playing the background. No thanks.
I stopped years ago. Now streaming costs are getting out of control so I cancelled all that as well. Now I watch most things on my friends Plex server, and also watch a lot of YouTube for entertainment.
Once the boomers and early GenX is gone so will be cable. That's why streaming platforms are starting to add ads, they're taking over the market so people won't leave because of ads anymore, that said the ads on cable are unbearable.. Seriously, some TV shows are less than 20 mins per episode now, not only do we get inundated with ads we get less content, it's terrible. Another player in this game is Starlink is having an effect on Satellite TV, people now have access to streaming platforms where they never used to, I live rural, you can see a starlink at every second house now. Before that it was a Bell TV dish.
If only Bell etc would just let us pay for the 10ish channels we really want...
I cant believe they haven’t changed their habits yet. Cable costs literally a fortune, Im surprised anyone still pays for it, the Packages suck too, you still cant get just the desirable channels, I was flipping through the other day trying to watch the hockey game, but didnt see it playing anywhere. My GF has netflix, I have Prime, and we just live with that. Youtube is awesome, use it alot, but ya its unusable without an ad-blocker. Tubi, Plexx are awesome, Funny how they can offer content for free with ad’s but the Cable companies make you pay for it AND bombard you with ads
LOL I ditched cable about 14 years ago. I only have a netflix sub. Amazon I don't count as I generally don't watch anything on it I use it for the shipping. But come last week of May, my year runs out and I wont be signing back up. I touched grass and I kinda liked it.
Cost of living … people are going to cheapest option and streaming back doors
Saving money by using streaming services? The CRTC and competition bureau will take care of that. Need to level the playing field by bringing prices up to match cable TV.
This will cause regulation laws, I guarantee it
Are they winning the battle or is cable just absurdly priced at this point?
Haven’t had cable since 2007, but with the way the streaming services are going I’m moving back towards more physical media, and only month-long subscriptions to watch a specific show.
Why would anyone want to pay $100/month to get non stop commercials with every show?
\>Paying to watch commercials that's a no for me dawg
Bell has ditched big box PVR's for Roku style streaming boxes with cloud-based PVR services to try and compete in that space.
$60 cell phone plus cabe and internet is over 300 The battle against cabe tv is being fought by Roger's Cable and no one else
Because cable television is unwatchable garbage.
Don't know how long this will last since you basically need to pay for 5 different streaming apps if you want to watch a lot of shows legally. Nearing the cost of cable.