motortrend... wtf

why... would you move all your content off youtube... i know things with youtube have been dicy lately but come on...
I just see more downsides than upsides to them leaving. I get keeping the paid stuff on MTOD but the free episodes, why do they need to be on your clunky interface of an app?

The guys from Mighty Car Mods wrote a very thoughtful and well stated article on this HERE.

Bottom line... The Enthusiast Network (parent company of Motor Trend) wants more money and more control of their content. The executives believe that moving their popular shows under the Motor Trend On Demand subscription service will cause people to sign up. They will still post some of their shows on YouTube two months after they air on MToD.

Personally, I'm disappointed. I feel like the audience that has supported and grown with these shows on YouTube is being shafted by the corporate bosses. I certainly don't blame the hosts. They have posted their own comments online that have indicated that they're unhappy with the change.

My biggest irritation isn't even the cost of MToD (which I don't currently subscribe to). I think it's a reasonable cost and it has a good amount of quality content. My problem is the fact that everything is being separated into compartmentalized paid content services. MToD, Amazon TV, Netflix, Hulu, CBS All Access, HBO Now, etc. If you want to watch something, you have to subscribe and pay a monthly fee. Frankly, I don't watch that much TV and I'm not going to subscribe because it would be a waste of my money.

LurpyGeek said:

My problem is the fact that everything is being separated into compartmentalized paid content services. MToD, Amazon TV, Netflix, Hulu, CBS All Access, HBO Now, etc. If you want to watch something, you have to subscribe and pay a monthly fee. Frankly, I don't watch that much TV and I'm not going to subscribe because it would be a waste of my money.

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This right here.

The way to handle it is, don't participate. Don't play their games.

This whole streaming subscription thing is in its infancy, and will take awhile to settle out. We can help it by doing everything we can not to encourage the paths they're trying to force.

And frankly, I don't mind waiting a couple of months or a year to see stuff. It's that whole "I must see it the moment it is first available to the public!" attitude that costs people money, and that drives the content owners' decisions.

I just discovered NCIS on Netflix a couple of years ago, fer chrissakes. I just started season 12. Does it matter that I didn't see it back in 2003? Hell no.

If you elect, like i do, to not have cable, by the time you subscribe to everything you have even marginal interest in, youre back at the price of a cable bill...

And that surprises you? Cord cutters from a couple years ago thought they'd have it made. But, because of greed everyone wants to charge their own price through their own app for their own content.

I am not a fan of cable TV at all, but atleast with them you could get it all in one place, now it's splintered and yes, the cost of each individual service added up is approaching or surpassing what cable providers charge.

I simply won't watch. Most of that stuff isn't important enough to me to pay for it.

Netflix and the Flex package from Dish is all I need. I'll watch stuff on Youtube as well, but I won't be paying for any Youtube content since there's nothing on there I have come across worth paying for.

The idea of a la carte viewing on cable (paying for only what you want to see)was a very popular idea. But now that it has happened (HBO (and porn) invented it) and now NetFlix, Amazon Prime Video, and You Tube are finding ways to get the money, it isn't as attractive we thought it would be.

Bäsemödel said:

If you elect, like i do, to not have cable, by the time you subscribe to everything you have even marginal interest in, youre back at the price of a cable bill...

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The cost is a huge issue, but it's not only that. I don't want to have to go to a half dozen different places just to see what is on.

I cut the cord...3 years ago. And haven't regretted it once.

It's not about replacing, one for one, what the cableco delivered to you via their crappy boxes. It's about analyzing the 24 hours you have in the day, the number of those hours you want video entertainment for, and the video entertainment choices and costs that are out there.

Face it--there's plenty for you to watch in the fairly limited time you have to fill. So what if it's not the same stuff that the cableco delivered? For $25/month, you can have Netflix and Hulu--and I dare you to say that's not enough.

But if you simply can't do without what the cableco has been presenting to you for the last 30 years, if you simply can't do without the Real Trainwrecks of Whatever City and other similar loser content, then keep the cableco. And pay whatever they ask. That's entirely your decision.

Print media and Traditional TV/Cable is dying.

I have a feeling they’ll be back.

Besides with YouTube and lots of quality content creators, car magazines seem pointless.

I cut the cord within the past year because the only show worth watching on TV anymore was COPS. I found myself watching Youtube videos more than anything. I'm into fishing, cars, PC's, tools, and tech so I watch mainly fishing shows and channels like MCM and AvE. Now that COPS is Live PD, and all their stuff is on Youtube, everything I watch is on Youtube. It's discouraging that Youtube is changing their pay structure and making it tough for content creators. There are enough ads that they shouldn't have an issue. Most of these guys do all the production on their own and deserve the compensation for their hard work, more so than the stars of TV shows who have entire crews to take the workload IMO.

I'm pretty sure Youtube is just doing all this to corral people into their new, paid service. If they can get content creators to make content thats a Youtube Red exclusive, Youtube makes more money

EDIT: I guess COPS isn't Live PD, but they are completely different shows. Either way, same content.

imthanick_a said:

...the only show worth watching on TV anymore was COPS. ... Now.....COPS is Live PD

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Dude, that is the wifey's and my go to show all the time lol.

Firstboost said:

Dude, that is the wifey's and my go to show all the time lol.

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Quality entertainment, never a dull moment

yeah the whole thing is a giant slice of stupid... I can use my ipad and watch the content for free but delayed 8 weeks behind... but I cant watch the same content on their site or on the apple tv app without having a paid account.

adam1991 said:

I cut the cord...3 years ago. And haven't regretted it once.

It's not about replacing, one for one, what the cableco delivered to you via their crappy boxes. It's about analyzing the 24 hours you have in the day, the number of those hours you want video entertainment for, and the video entertainment choices and costs that are out there.

Face it--there's plenty for you to watch in the fairly limited time you have to fill. So what if it's not the same stuff that the cableco delivered? For $25/month, you can have Netflix and Hulu--and I dare you to say that's not enough.

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BOOM. I've been cable-free for about 2 years, and I don't think I've missed out on anything at all. When I did have cable, aside from hockey and college football, I'd spend 20 minutes scrolling through the onscreen menu of garbage before I ended up watching a rerun of something I'd already seen. For that, I was paying $100/mo. Got rid of cable, and found that Netflix and Amazon provide me with more content that I want to watch (lots of documentaries), and 6 months after I dumped cable TV, they offered to add local channels and HBO onto my internet service for $5/mo, which took care of the only TV I didn't have, but wanted (GoT).

I still sort of miss the quick and easy access to NCAA football in the fall, but to be honest, I'm now starting to think that watching sport live on television is the biggest waste of time that was ever invented.