Kiss goodbye to cable, then kiss your cable provider straight on the lips when they circle around to the back door, charging you an arm and a leg to deliver your video subscriptions over the internet tubes they ownā¦
See, Iād probably jump at this if it became available in the UK. And thatās even though I already see most of the HBO shows Iām interested in. Basically, Iām sitting here waiting to pay them money.
Itās kind of insane that a handful of gatekeeper companies have seemingly convinced the world that consumers like me donāt exist, and that everyone is either a penny-pinching criminal or wants to pay a fortune for a big worthless spume of ad-encrusted crap.
A promising start.
Good for you HBO, welcome to 2001.
Just in time for Game of Thrones to be wrapping up!
You are not alone. Iām more than happy to pay (a reasonable amount) for the content I want but refuse to pay for cable package deals that heap on a bunch of crap I donāt want.
Iām probably going to kill my cable anyway, but it would be nice to have HBO I guess. Thereās very little I donāt get from Amazon already, with their HBO back-catalog and pretty much every movie either available for free through Prime or for a fee of between $4-$6 for other movies. Iād spend far less if I just bought movies rather than paid for cable movies via subscription that I never watch.
The one thing that I think is still broken is the per-episode or per-season pricing for TV shows through services like Amazon. Itās crazy to pay $3 an episode. I think Amazon will be able to fix this with their āwith/without special offersā model though. It sure is an interesting time to be a consumer of TV entertainmentā¦
$3 per episode - with no commercial interruption. Itās too much, but for the two shows I watch currentlyā¦ itās fine.
And I sort of hate Hulu. Even when you pay, you get served ads. NO NO NO I say! Bad model!!
I donāt suppose this will have any effect, either way, on network neutrality.
If it really turns out to be $3 per episode, that makes GOT quite affordable to not pirate. Iām looking forward to seeing what they end up doing.
My only problem with this (on the heels of my saying Iād love to see FX and AMC do this as well)ā¦
I would honestly rather pay $50/month for Netflix and have access to everything, rather than $10 for Netflix plus $10 for HBO plus $10 for Amazon plus $10 for Hulu.
$2.50 for Doctor Who in HD gets me on Amazon.
It means more companies with a vested interest in countering the bribery efforts of ISPs with bribery efforts of their own.
Because I refuse to call it ālobbyingā.
Iād get hopeful but canāt imagine this will be available to me here in Japan w/o some jumping through hoops.
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