I grew up with ads on cable, but I think it was back in the digg days someone said cable started that way too. You paid for cable for shows. Then the ads came. Streaming is almost exactly like cable now, except with the on demand part and how it’s over IP.
Exactly right, it is the greediest model possible people will accept, ads+sub like cable TV and many popular streaming services became are the same garbage following the same enshittification path because art doesn’t exist in most TV and movies anymore, it’s just a commodity/product in a store.
I grew up with ads on cable, but I think it was back in the digg days someone said cable started that way too. You paid for cable for shows. Then the ads came. Streaming is almost exactly like cable now, except with the on demand part and how it’s over IP.
Yes
Ads were part of over the air but if you bought cable then you had none
Exactly right, it is the greediest model possible people will accept, ads+sub like cable TV and many popular streaming services became are the same garbage following the same enshittification path because art doesn’t exist in most TV and movies anymore, it’s just a commodity/product in a store.
You either die the hero or live long enough to become the villain…