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  • Hey guys, and welcome to This Is Now.

  • Once again, Ken and Austin are out of town

  • at IFA in Germany, so here I am.

  • The Minecraft Let's Play is coming, I promise,

  • and as soon as Austin gets back in the country,

  • I'm making him do it.

  • Over the past 10 years or so,

  • we've been living through the cord cutter movement.

  • Millions of people fed up with the big cable companies

  • have canceled their expensive subscriptions

  • in favor of far cheaper streaming services.

  • But have we reached a point

  • where we officially have too many services to chose from?

  • Just off the top of my head there's Netflix, Hulu,

  • Amazon Prime, HBO, YouTube TV, Spotify, Apple Music,

  • Tidal, Disney+, Apple TV+,

  • Sling, Crackle, CBS All Access,

  • I mean the list goes on and on.

  • Now I think we can all agree that streaming video

  • is pretty awesome.

  • I mean back in my day you had to go to Blockbuster,

  • spend an hour trying to pick out a movie you wanted

  • then you had to go to the counter to pick it up

  • because all those VHS cases

  • were actually just empty displays.

  • And then only to find out that they were all out of Shrek

  • and then you had to start that whole process over again.

  • But now if I want to watch something

  • I spend that hour just trying to figure out

  • what platform it's on.

  • I mean, Stranger Things is on Netflix,

  • Game of Thrones is on HBO,

  • The Boys is on Amazon Prime.

  • And I need a paid subscription to each of these

  • to get to get all that content.

  • Or, you could just do what we did before streaming platforms

  • and just pirate it.

  • First of all, let me be clear,

  • we are not endorsing that everyone go out

  • and just pirate a bunch of movies.

  • However, the way the streaming platforms

  • have fragmented the market,

  • it almost feels like we're being pushed back into piracy.

  • I mean we're already starting to see it.

  • Game of Thrones season 8 premiere was pirated

  • over 55 million times in the first 24 hours alone.

  • And HBO only had only around 16 million paying viewers

  • at the time.

  • Back in 2007 when Netflix first started streaming content,

  • to be honest the experience kinda sucked.

  • Their catalog wasn't all that full,

  • it was consisting mostly of older movies

  • and internet speeds really weren't fast enough

  • to even stream video at higher resolutions.

  • It was way better to just hop over to KaZaa

  • or The Pirate Bay and just download a movie or 12.

  • I did have LimeWire as well, I did prefer KaZaa,

  • that was just my preference.

  • Not only could you get the most popular movies

  • but since they were rips of DVDs,

  • they were often a higher qualities

  • than what you could stream,

  • even if the movie had that little DIVX logo

  • watermarked in the corner.

  • There are of course gambles with torrenting content.

  • Like is it a virus or is it even actually

  • what it says it is.

  • I mean you think you're downloading Shrek 2,

  • it takes all night to download and then bam!

  • It's actually just two Shreks having fun with Fiona.

  • But I mean like hey, it's free, right?

  • I remember trying to download all these songs from KaZaa

  • and I would constantly get this fake song

  • that was actually just a guy pretending to be Bill Clinton,

  • and be like,

  • - [Bill] My fellow Americans.

  • But at the end of it it would be like an advertisement

  • for some sketchy website.

  • I don't know if anyone else ever downloaded this

  • but it happened to me like a ton of times.

  • However as Netflix grew they expanded their catalog

  • and streaming technology got better and better.

  • And a lot of people started to realize

  • that they would just rather pay for the convenience

  • of something like Netflix

  • instead of going through the hassle

  • of trying to pirate something.

  • It use to be easy to choose Netflix over another platform

  • because the quality of their original content

  • was just so much higher than anyone else.

  • But now, pretty much every company

  • has super high quality shows.

  • And now as these companies keep producing

  • more and more of their own original content,

  • they're no longer just platforms

  • but now they're more like a TV network.

  • The problem here is that all the other networks

  • like NBC and CBS have realized that there's a lot more money

  • to be made by having their own streaming platform

  • and completely eliminating Netflix or Hulu as middle men.

  • But of course you have to have a catalog of content

  • in order to justify that service.

  • Our good friends over at Snazzy Labs did a great video

  • on why Apply TV Plus will fail

  • because they only have five shows at launch.

  • And that's why NBC is taking back The Office

  • for their up coming service,

  • that's why Disney is taking back all of it's content

  • for Disney+.

  • I mean soon Netflix will consist solely

  • of it's own original content.

  • For as long as I can remember,

  • people have said the same thing about cable.

  • That's it right there.

  • Now I can't believe I'm about to say this,

  • but in defense of the cable companies,

  • it is not entirely their fault for the high prices.

  • But they still do some real sketchy,

  • (child grunts)

  • When cable companies such as Spectrum or Comcast

  • make deals for airing networks,

  • those networks usually come as a package.

  • Take Disney, the owners of ABC and ESPN,

  • obviously the cable companies wanna carry

  • those massively popular channels.

  • But Disney will also push to include

  • one of their less popular channels as well,

  • like Freeform or ESPN8: The Ocho,

  • in a package with their more popular ones.

  • While technically gives viewers more options,

  • it also drives up the cost of cable.

  • And I mean let's be honest,

  • nobody's watched Freeform since Pretty Little Liars ended.

  • So here we are full circle,

  • we finally have an a la carte option.

  • But for most people it's just not feasible

  • to have subscriptions to each of these services.

  • Personally, I canceled Netflix a couple months back,

  • but with all this amazing content locked in behind paywalls,

  • I may need to find a new way to watch all these great shows.

  • Thank you so much for watching this episode of This Is.

  • You could check out a couple of our other episodes here,

  • be sure to hit subscribe, ring that notification bell

  • because if you do, I'll finally be able to afford

  • all these subscription services

  • and I won't have to pirate all my content.

Hey guys, and welcome to This Is Now.

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