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[Dormant, move to !television@lemm.ee] Shows and TV

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Streaming subscription fees have been rising while content quality is dropping (arstechnica.com)
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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah. Netflix realized that movie and TV companies didn't understand what streaming was, so Netflix tried to sign the longest deals it could while building its own content library.

Now that content isn't subsidized by other methods, it is more expensive to stream.