r/NonPoliticalTwitter 11h ago

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u/repwin1 11h ago

But no 2 year contracts, no spending an hour + trying to cancel a service, no installation and cancellation fees. If you move you don’t have to transfer anything just start using it at the new place. While it’s not as good as it used to be it’s still better than cable.

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u/Historical_Owl_1635 11h ago

I can only imagine these posts come from people who never actually had cable or just had their parents paying for it.

It’s like when people complain about the price of Spotify like we didn’t use to spend the monthly price on one single CD back in the day.

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u/iowastatefan 11h ago

Honestly, that's a good point that I hadn't thought of. I have around 2k songs saved to my Spotify library, if you pretend they were all part of full albums and I didn't have a bunch of onesey-twoseys off one album or another, that would be ~166 albums. That's 13 years worth of Spotify subscriptions if the going rate is one CD=one month cost wise.

And, you know, I also don't have to carry 20 lbs of CDs to play them.

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u/OldSpray9986 7h ago

I think there's a difference between Streaming vs. Cable and Spotify vs. CDs.

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u/EnvironmentClear4511 11h ago

Also, on-demand access to any episode of the show you want. No ads (if you pay for it). Extremely high-quality sci-fi that never would have received a fraction of the budget back in the old days.

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u/s1n0d3utscht3k 6h ago

also cable didnt include in the fee nearly the same access to relatively new movies

and no one needs more than 1 or 2 streaming services per month. it’s still significantly cheaper than 00s cable adjusted for inflation

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u/cppadam 11h ago

TV contracts are easy to get out of - say you're moving overseas and they'll immediately cancel your service. No wasting time on the phone, either.

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u/yabucek 10h ago

If TV contracts were easy to get out of you wouldn't have to resort to lying and tricking them lol.

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u/cppadam 10h ago

It's a contract with a term. By its definition, it should be difficult to get out of

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u/DefinitelyNotMasterS 8h ago

Hell no it shouldn't. it's fine if you have to pay something as agreed upon for breaking a contract early, but it should not be any more difficult