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blog! “Why is it so hard to watch foreign TV in the streaming era?”
It looks like it's the end of the party for streaming services. Prices are going up, choice is going down, and the quality is declining. Despite all the hype about how transformative streaming would be for the industry - there's one thing which never really seemed to take off.…
Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09/why-is-it-so-hard-to-watch-foreign-tv-in-the-streaming-era/
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@Edent The state of streaming has been a massive disappointment to me.
Even in Canada with fewer streamers available to us, it's become too disjointed & expensive. We cut our $100 cable bill, I don't want to replace that cost with a ton of services. We currently pay for Netflix, Disney+ and Prime. And we will sub then cancel AppleTV & Crave to binge shows temporarily. We also buy some shows via GoogleTV.
But there are still a lot of shows I just can't find legally like Battlebots. 
@Edent One of my biggest headaches is even just figuring out how to watch something without digging through vague keyword stuffed websites.
I can't believe no one made a website database of all shows & where to stream them per-country. This would be an awesome thing to crowd source.
@Edent The whole mess has become so unfriendly to users, and increasingly expensive, that I've even scaled back my consumption of broadcast entertainment & shifted a bit more to reading & video games.