Fairy Tale Spotlight: The Streaming Service Pie

Streaming services have proven to be an excellent means to view movies and TV shows, needing nothing more than an internet connection to access. I know a lot of people who canceled their cable services only to switch to streaming services instead. They cost a lot less and have plenty of content.

Services like Netflix and Hulu have been great platforms in the past. Many companies that produce popular fiction had signed up with them, giving them two great opportunities to see this content. But over time, those same companies have decided to make their own proprietary streaming services, pulling much of their stuff from the more open source ones.

So this causes some very unfortunate problems. Firstly, it makes it difficult to know where a particular movie or show that you want to see can be found. Sometimes I'll go looking for something only to find that it's been traded off to one of the proprietary services. This has actually happened to be more than once. It is very annoying.

The biggest problem in all of this is something I call the "Streaming Service Pie." As more and more companies want to make their own proprietary streaming services, it is going to make it very hard to find the stuff you want to see without dolling out exorbitant amounts of money. I can only afford about three or four of these services, and each of them have their own slice of the pie. But I cannot afford to subscribe to or even keep track of all the ones out there.

I came to realize this when I found out that the new Loony Tunes show that I had been waiting for was only going to come out on HBO's new proprietary service. Everything about this show sounds wonderful, but I don't want to get a whole service for only one show. So sadly I'm going to miss this one.

Meanwhile, my slice of the pie keeps getting smaller and smaller while my subscription fee stays the same or gets worse. People, we had a good thing going here! People got greedy and wanted everything for themselves. Before long the pie slices may get so small that it's just not going to be worth it anymore. There is really good fiction out there... but if we can't see it... what's the point?

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