It was a fool's errand to think that we were going to have 10-20x more content for 1/5th the price forever<p>Streaming's original premise was cheap content in Netflix. People were fine waiting 2-3 years to watch a show when it came to Netflix (Breaking Bad, anyone?)<p>But when Netflix became more than just reruns with a good interface and became original content, and then a race to have more original content among all the players, it was obvious that we'd eventually be back to paying the same overall as we did for cable<p>Cable companies and traditional media companies could've easily prevented all of this by not getting so greedy on pricing and actually caring about the customer experience. Shitty cable boxes and $250 a month broke the system.<p>In many ways streaming is actually worse (broadcast of high def video is way more efficient than point-to-point individual streams, aggregation of all content into one UI was better than now having to bounce between apps) but in many ways it's better (Rokus and Apple TVs are lightyears better than 15 year old recycled cable set tops, and even if the total of all streaming ends up not being that much cheaper at least you can pick and choose what you get instead of a bundle)