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With the launch of Disney+ last month, streaming wars were officially abound Every major production house is seizing back the means of distribution, which means that instead of striking a deal with Netflix to distribute their content, they’ll charge users on an individual service basis to access it. The idea behind this shift was that content makers were no longer beholden to Netflix’s algorithms and having to compete with the front’s own slate of content, but it’s already clashing hard with the financial standing of cordcutters who once saw affordability as an irrefutable winning argument for ditching cable and relying exclusively on streaming for entertainment needs.
The price of subscription to all relevant services now that Netflix is no longer the great unifier runs in the ballpark of what a cable subscription used to cost. It looked as though for a hot second that Netflix has started to bridge that gap with popular shows in past years, and Hulu was acting as a perfect supplement for TV shows that air on cable and can take up to several months before they land in their entirety on Netflix-that reality was quickly becoming undone by the slow-setting realization that since aggregative streaming services were controlling the…
