Subj : The Disney+ price hike ha
To   : MRO
From : Arelor
Date : Thu Oct 09 2025 13:58:54

  Re: The Disney+ price hike ha
  By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Sat Oct 04 2025 03:53 am

 > so i went with using ooma (phone service only using the  cost for 911,etc)
 > and using  using slingtv.  that lasted for a while but then the shows we
 > wanted where on other networks.  that's how they play the game.
 >
 > there's no way to win except going to the download/steal model of doing
 > things.
 >

You have reminded me of a video on which somebody complained that private equity was purchasing so many American cultural products it was becoming dangerous.

One of the points he made was that it was becoming harder to have mass cultural references that connect people within a generation. When I was a kid there were 4 TV channels, the show offer was limited, so if they had anything good a given year you could be sure everybody in your classroom had watched it, or knew about it, and it was a potential common theme of conversation that helped tie the culture together.

Fast forward to today, there is so much stuff and all of it is scattered. If you ask somebody about a recent thing you have watched it is becoming incresingly likely they are not connected to what you are talking about.

The answer to this problem, ofcourse, was pirating everything to ensure things were widely available.

Personally, I am not sure having the population absorved by the same set of shows is that good. I was the weird kid that didn't watch TV, therefore I found the fixation people had regarding certain shows... unhealthy. On the other hand, since I belonged to the 1% who was not watching those shows, I was automatically classified as a weird nerd everybody had to avoid. That kind of proves the point the guy was making, in that TV generated tribal bonds, but I am not sure it was that good.


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