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>This is getting more expensive than the old cable and satellite packages that streaming was supposed to replace, and they're putting prices up at the moment.

Definitely not in the US. People were paying minimum $100 per month for a fraction of the content, not inflation adjusted, not on demand, not on nearly any device anywhere, 15 years ago.

Not to mention you can simply cancel and resubscribe so you only pay for one or two services per month, an option that was never available before.

Apple: $10 Netflix: $23 Amazon: $9 WarnerBros Discovery: $20 Disney: $20 Comcast: $12 Paramount: $12

The only one missing is Sony, but I don’t think they offer streaming. $106/month gets an individual on demand access to almost everything except sports, without advertising breaks. Family sharing would make it much cheaper. Either way, I would take this situation over having to pay Comcast/DirecTV/Dish Network/Verizon to be a middleman any day.

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In France, the baseline was about 15-20€/month, if my memory serves. I'm sure that I was missing something at that price, but I'd be hard-pressed to tell you what. Probably some porn and sport channels?

You can get to that by subscribing to a few services fairly easily now (if we're talking AUD, I have no idea about USD or the US market), especially if you go for the studio-specific services/add-ons too.

I don't give a crap about 'any device', and 99% of the content is not interesting, we tend to watch a handful of things on each one. We're back to paying a premium for a few things we want and a load of shit we don't want.

Sorry, I edited to specify US.

I also only watch a handful of things, so I just rent the series in my Apple TV app. Usually a few USD per episode.

We occasionally do that, where available. Movies can work that way too.

Honestly I'm not all that price sensitive, I just don't want to subscribe to 15 different things when I usually only want to access a couple of shows on each. And the interface fragmentation bothers me as well.

I should probably get something with an interface like Roku used to offer, with a unified search across services. It's a shame there isn't one subscription service I can access here that will do that automatically behoind the scenes. But rights are complex.

I thought that is Apple TV app and Google Play app (if it’s still called that?). I have not used Google Play, but Apple TV app can find pretty much every non Netflix thing I have asked it to find. And since Netflix does not make their media searchable in Apple TV, I just skip watching it.

The great thing about the Apple TV app is if you have to sign up for a monthly fee to watch something, I can subscribe and immediately cancel and still continue watching without having to remember to cancel the subscription.

The launcher on our google tv does that to some extent, but it doesn't always seem to know the right answer and quite often we run into "Not available in your country" issues.

I haven't tried using the Apple TV app that way, perhaps I should give it a go.

> almost everything except sports, without advertising breaks.

And local news which is important to a sizeable demographic. And advertising is now coming to a number of platforms - not yet within shows but give it time!

>not yet within shows but give it time!

It has long been within US shows, even before streaming, but it has gotten more and more egregious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQYwFND7rHE

If we're talking Europe prices were never even near $100

Sorry, I edited to specify US.

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