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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh how I hate those graphs that could but doesn't start at zero.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It wouldn’t make any sense in this case, their prices never started at 0.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's about perceived change.

For me it's not the same if 1000 to 1001 shows up as a 50% hike because the diagram starts on 999, as a 1 to 2 hike which also shows up as a 50% with the diagram starting at 0.

They both look the same, but in the first case the hike is 0,1% as in the second it's really 50%.

So for me it's bad journalism or trying to fake things (which here isn't needed IMO).