Yes, those points you made contribute to the reason why cable sucked. Though I think the core reason cable sucked was that it was a subscription with mandatory minimum periods, like a year or whatever. For the time being (I don't have any streaming service accounts, mind you), you can at least just pay for a month of Netflix, binge everything you want to watch, then cancel and pay for a month of the next streaming service that has the content you want. For the time being.

[–] dmention7@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fair point. That was never really a huge deal for me because my watching habits tend to be pretty stable, so signing up for a year minimum wasnt a big deal. But that is a place where streaming is still better.

[–] Kinglink@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Though I think the core reason cable sucked was that it was a subscription with mandatory minimum periods, like a year or whatever.

You can "think" anything, but that wasn't a thing for most places I lived, nor a big problem. But if you're going to make up your own problem and say it doesn't exist now, ok.

[–] ngdev@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Right, I can think that. It's an opinion. It's also not a made up problem, and it doesn't exist now. Yet. Which was the real point I was trying to make. Just anticipating that someone will do it, make you sign up for a year of netflix instead of month to month for example.

Never did I imply you made an invalid point and even agree with you. But if you want to make this into some argument for whatever reason, ok.