• Eczpurt@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I thought this would’ve been the case almost 10 years ago. Especially when streaming wasn’t littered with ads.

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      3 days ago

      Makes sense to me that streaming would get worse only after it managed to capture that market.

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      3 days ago

      I’d guess that the stats were thrown off every small business that has an annoying TV blaring in the background

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        2 days ago

        It’s based on Neilson ratings so it’s entirely dependent on whatever methodology they choose to use at the time. They can’t actually directly count what every TV is tuned to.

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      2 days ago

      Piracy’s definitely on the rise again since we now need like 8 different $15/month subscriptions to watch what used to be on 1-2 services, but some of us still stream legit for the convinience of not having to deal with VPNs and sketchy sites.

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      3 days ago

      Network TV still has a huge benefit: it’s not capable of watching you.

      (Not accounting for the smart TVs, which are basically the only kind of TV you can buy now.)