Author: Jacob Kastrenakes
Last week we put out a video about how the golden age of streaming services — where you sign up for one service and find a wealth of content from all over — is rapidly ending. And tellingly enough, one of the best examples of a service like that, FilmStruck, which specialized in classic cinema, announced plans to shut down just days later.
I’ve complained about this plenty of times before, but you can already feel the squeeze, especially on Netflix. Netflix isn’t just pushing its own TV shows because they’re new — it’s pushing them because they’re the only content Netflix can truly guarantee.
In some ways, it’s the à la carte TV dream — now you’ll just have to pay for the streaming service you want. But when you have to sign up for more...
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Last week we put out a video about how the golden age of streaming services — where you sign up for one service and find a wealth of content from all over — is rapidly ending. And tellingly enough, one of the best examples of a service like that, FilmStruck, which specialized in classic cinema, announced plans to shut down just days later.
I’ve complained about this plenty of times before, but you can already feel the squeeze, especially on Netflix. Netflix isn’t just pushing its own TV shows because they’re new — it’s pushing them because they’re the only content Netflix can truly guarantee.
In some ways, it’s the à la carte TV dream — now you’ll just have to pay for the streaming service you want. But when you have to sign up for more...
Continue reading…
Continue reading...