It's not that bad anymore. The recorders got quite smart, record the whole series for you, figure out by themselves to find the new episodes and can record upto 8 things simultaneously. The advantage being that you can always ffwd through commercials. More and more streams nowadays lock you into watching commercials. A unified guide is quite handy, plus it still airs first before it becomes available for streaming. It's no different than waiting on a streaming service to add a new episode every week.

I already find it a waste of time to browse through Netflix' catalog, can't imagine browsing through multiple stream services to find anything likeable, then have to remember what service it was under. I have all the apps as well on the tv, yet hitting list on the pvr has it all together in one place.

I guess at some point there will be an app to combine all the streaming services you use, coming full circle, except now you're paying every network seperately while they can make you pay extra to allow you to skip commercials.

AlI can say is, if they want my money they can continue to make their content available via PlayStation Vue and PlayStation Video. I am not going to support a dozen different services, apps, and companies. If I can't get Disney through my preferred channels, I will spend my money on those that bring their content where my money sits.

I don't even bother with Netflix. Good luck trying to sign me up for this. Haha.

I don't want streaming, I want a digital library akin to what Steam offers where I own the content on offer.

Sorry for the double post. For some reason only half my comment was showing up.

Soooo...what we're looking at, in reality, is a future where you will get NEW cable subscriptions that will have, instead of the old channels, access to various streaming services per month, as this market continues to fracture. Someone, at some point, will bring it all back together (<- this is a funny word for me, I don't know why) under one subscription and we'll be back to the same old shit, except that we'll be launching whatever we feel like launching instead of waiting for a specific time to get something on TV.
That being said, I hope Disney has a steady stream of new quality content, at a reasonable pace of production, so as to actually justify the move to a streaming service all their own.

You're just driving people back to piracy, Disney.
Streaming was so successfull because it offered people an affordable entrance to hop on legal viewing of a big catalogue of movies and shows. This fragmentation is driving costs, as everyone is trying to maximize their profits, wich will ultimately lead to people jumping off the streaming wagon.

They get this and they raise prices. How the hell is this good in any way?

Seriously though, I can see us going back to Cable buttfuckery.

That would actually be cool.

The only streaming service I use in Netflix and it will probably stay that way tbh..

Oh my yes, I remember. I remember when youtube didn't have any ad's as well.