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Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices (finance.yahoo.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology

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Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices::Finding new subscribers in a saturated streaming video market isn't easy. And with legacy media companies desperate to recoup revenue declines in their linear TV businesses, the cost of your monthly plan is likely to keep rising.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My sister, my mother, and my brother all have laptop-exclusive households. Most people these days don’t see a need for a standalone pc when they have a laptop they can take from room to room and costs the same as a desktop.

[–] Specal 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not to be pedantic but a laptop is a PC

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know. I said standalone pc to fit the earlier commenter’s point. Desktop would have been the correct choice, but I figured the gist got across. If it was unclear to anybody, I apologize.

[–] Specal 2 points 1 year ago

No need to apologise I just wanted to clear things up for anyone reading the thread.

[–] flynnguy 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can do everything you need to do on an old laptop... you don't need a desktop. You just need to make sure you disable any of the power saving settings so it can stay on all the time but then enable a display-off type of screen saver.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

I don’t think most people have an extra laptop sitting around their home. And they definitely aren’t gonna want to do that to their daily driver.

I just don’t think this is feasible for the average person.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's being very pedantic, if you start typing in Laptop V, it autofills PC on searches. Many homes don't have a desktop, you can do 90% of what you need on mobile nowadays and the other 10% can be done on a laptop.

[–] foggenbooty 4 points 1 year ago

I don't think it's being pedantic in this case. They're talking about the capabilities of a PC vs something like a mobile phone or a tablet. In this case a laptop is a PC and is fully capable of doing all the things described in this thread.