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Netflix is planning to raise prices… again (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

what is this?

opposite of tl;dr?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's the reality of the economics of TV. "TV" is "TV" regardless of whether you get it from streaming or cable. And that means the consumer cost is largely going to be the same. Back when everyone had cable, streaming was probably cheap for 2 reasons:

Subscriber acquisition practices to grow the streaming subscriber base kept cost down even if margins were low.
Streaming was the icing on the cake. So TV companies were happy to make content cheap for streaming when Cable was the main cash cow.