I think you’re right — traditional cable TV is definitely fading. Most people don’t want to pay hundreds of dollars for channels they never watch when streaming lets them pick exactly what they want for a fraction of the cost. Sports and live news are really the only things keeping cable alive at this point. Once streaming fully locks those down, cable will probably only stick around in smaller numbers for older audiences or rural areas where streaming isn’t as reliable. Ten to twenty years feels about right — it won’t disappear overnight, but it’s clearly a service that’s slowly dying out.

Originally posted by CASINO IN BIO:

Most people don’t want to pay hundreds of dollars for channels they never watch when streaming lets them pick exactly what they want for a fraction of the cost.

I think this is the key point. After having cable for over twenty five years(!) I dropped it a couple of years ago, because they kept raising the price every year. Steaming grants me access to at least three times the sports programming I want to watch, plus tons of shows and movies, for at least $100/month less than the cable bundle. They were close to even about ten years ago, but cable kept getting more expensive and streaming kept adding more content, until the balance tipped the other way.

The cable companies seem intent on squeezing out every dollar they can this year, but their practices are part of what is killing off their business.

I got fed up with having to renegotiating my packages every year and thought WTF am I a union delegate here having to renegotiate every fragin year

It's been on its last legs for quite a while, but never underestimate the clinging power of archaic institutions

when the last boomer heads to the great Golden Corral in the sky

Cable is going the way of the dodo, but ironically enough watching TV on an antenna is making a comeback.

You know what?

To give the margin of doubt. it's a two take aspect,

1 maybe it's a monetization issue hence why they can't provide the same quality.
(inflation, over-saturation of market, copyrights, etc ...)

2 maybe they are actually exploiting custumers, with dwindling quality and made up costs, with the money flowing to nowhere where it matters.
(any business that doesn't invest in itself is doomed to die)

Pick your poison, i'm more than convinced which one i believe with my bills as proof.


Now my question is what the hell are they doing?
So the infrastructure needed to be built required Trillions of the most valuable currency, to make and maintain. Now the sole excuse is ads are paying less so we need to shove more down your throat, dudes the infrastructure is already built where the F* is the expense when you are producing less today than you were when building the infrastructure (even the maintnance cost is already included in what we pay).

It's the same with Prime subscriptions, you pay to not have ads?
Since when can ads destroy the medium that actually managed to built the public.
Keep the ads where we can ignore it and keep our cookies of their hands, clearly they are using them to increase the prices of what we do consume while shifting the money to who knows where.

sorry for the rant

What’s lacking is educational programs.It becomes apparent when visiting OT.

They have had decades to improve it- but they generally had the public captive for too long and they had their heads up their ***.

Now that people can get alternatives, it is only a matter of time before it hits a turning point and it's nothing but their own fault.

As long as advertisers will pay rates to place ads TV will remain in business for as long advertisers pay.

Older people keeping it alive. :P

Eventually all streaming services will become like cable. High prices and unskippable ads. The price of having no ads will eventually skyrocket and be unaffordable to many. They are already trying to push bundles and packages down our throats. I recently couldn't finish a show I was watching because they wanted me to buy a bundle to be able to watch the new eps. I cancelled my service outright. Not dealing with that garbage. I'd rather go without than to jump through hoops will getting nickel and dime'd.

It will be like aol

Last dialup just died last month i think so thats 20 yrs

Originally posted by Prinny:

... ironically enough watching TV on an antenna is making a comeback.

Free. No subscription required. Just as TV with commercials should be.

Originally posted by Enterprofilenamehere:

Originally posted by Prinny:

... ironically enough watching TV on an antenna is making a comeback.

Free. No subscription required. Just as TV with commercials should be.

i don't know about your region, but where i live we pay for that, it's included in our electricity bill pretty much since radio became a thing.

And anyone that has cable service pays that plus the cable subscription, consideiring the what's decreasing in quality imo is the actual cable pack service.
I still don't mind paying for the national radio signal. Plus the local newspapers.