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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
you won't be subscribing to all that junk that fills the schedules of the channels you don't watch.
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Are you kidding? Have you actually browsed the catalogue of any streaming service? They are all absolutely rammed with crap, purely to create the illusion of choice. Netflix has to pay the content creator for every piece of straight-to-video gash it loads onto its platform, much of which most of its subscribers will never watch. A portion of your subscription pays for it nonetheless. Amazon Prime Video is the same. Apple appears less afflicted in this regard and is more willing to allow its menu to look sparse, but that comes with the risk of creating the impression there’s “nothing to watch” and losing subs. Apple perhaps thinks its brand and the ability to bundle its other services will mitigate that.
Nonetheless the illusion of all-you-can-eat TV on tap requires generous quantities of rubbish in a streamer’s catalogue just as it does in a broadcast TV schedule.