[jp555]

Not sure about that analogy. Ingredients tend to get mixed together in many ways to make many different kinds of meals.

You can only watch one show at a time, and the marginal effort of "travelling between stores" - flipping from Netflix to Youtube/Amazon/HBOGo/Etc, is essentially zero.

[wlesieutre]

Only if you assume a subscription to each of those services, instead of just one. It'd be like $100/month if you wanted access to every single streaming service.

[aeharding]

It might be a low barrier for some, but for me I don't want to manage multiple services which could contain duplicated content (less value per $). In this case, I'll choose the most valuable service to me as a compromise.