The email arrived late last year, a harbinger of a new era. Disney+ was jacking up their annual plan to a whopping $140. It wasn't an isolated incident. Netflix announced their cheapest tier would now come bundled with ads, Amazon Prime would be $3, TV went from $66.99 to $999 a month there are so many great things to watch and they're all spread across so many different Services. I want to watch them all but man does it hurt to Fork up so much money every month to do it it kind of makes you won
  • PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    To be fair, the amount of things being held exclusive is really growing recently. I finally gave up on paying for TV to watch sports because every league wants to have their own subscribers and are blacking out more and more games. Can’t watch NBA games live on YouTubeTV, have to pay an extra $20 if I want to watch the local basketball and baseball teams through their own app.

    I’m done trying. I’m just gonna pirate the streams or go watch at a bar.

    • Dragxito@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      At least here in India we have to pay 1$/month for all HBO, hostar and live sports and no ads. We use Jio cinema