I'm sick of goddamned streaming services

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  1. Shirogayne

    Shirogayne Gay™ Formerly Important

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    Netflix is the new Blockbuster, it seems, which is so incredibly ironic :no:
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  2. Diacanu

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    Blockbuster did their "family image" bullshit, which drove porn to have to invent streaming, which caused Netflix.
    Blockbuster committed Darwin Award suicide.
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  3. Steal Your Face

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    While I think your comment is funny, I think Netflix will eventually survive this somehow. I think they’ll do more original content and eventually drop their prices and if they’re smart, start advertising more.
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    Not really. Blockbuster was horribly censored, avoided risky titles, and was mainly distributing pop culture titles. Blockbuster would have never put out an orange is the new blavck, Ozark, stranger things, a whole slew of documentary and silly contest series, and also had investment in foreign filmaking like india, europe, korea, and venezuela.

    Netflix may not end up being gobbled up because it is also funding creation content on foreign shores like a mad scientist. Netflix is pouring moneyt into slick hollywood style movies and shows that I do not see other american streamers doing as much. As an american viewer a lot of the gems I have found on netflix are foreign movies and series that are in really odd countries and languages. I love the netflix korean TV shows that come around. I love romanian and venezualen comedy producers. One of the things I love about netflix is netflix international. I don't even care that they block me from seeing american titles that they show on foreign feeds. I want the foreign titles dubbed or subbed in english because those people do not adhere to the american formula of movie and TV show making, even though they do have some of their own versions.

    I forgot, I love watching comedians in non-english speaking countries on netflix. That is awesomely different. There are things you get in the phillipines, japan, and other asian areas that you don't get seeing comics in the US, UK, and Australia.
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    That may happen, or it may not. The problem is they built their investment story around their constantly growing user base. They were spending huuuuuge amounts on new programming (some of it quite good). However, HBO/Max, Paramount+ and Peacock have ginormous libraries of older content that dwarfs Netflix. If they can't put out as much new content, they lose some of the marketing appeal that's been driving new subscriptions and it could become a death spiral. Apple+ doesn't have a massive library either, but it and Amazon are tools for keeping you in a particular ecosystem, not standalones. Not a prediction, just one scenario that's not as rosy as yours. Since I don't subscribe or invest in Netflix, I'll just grab the :corn: and watch with moderate interest.
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    Wow.

    What is even worse is I have been to the CNN building and the surrounding area. It would be so fucking easy to put together a couple of shows in the building or on the street daily or nightly. During the year you have a number of conventions in Atlanta that could spark interest. You could put on a number of daily life streaming shows from that building and produce some pretty cool shit if you had any sort of imagination at all.

    In their atlanta location you could just put some internet talent in there and make a huge streaming center. You could fuck youtube and netflix with that place and a bit of investment. You could have beat fox and MSNBC with a hub of streaming production in that atlanta base. They could be the next generation of news, but not the fucking mainstream.

    What a fucking waste of an awesome venue.
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    Damn, I'm glad I'm out of the news biz. If I had been a teacher, I'd be coming to the end of a career molding young minds (or at least not throttling the little...) instead of lamenting the disintegration of the industry. :brood:
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    Jesus, it's looking like HBOMax just wants to commit suicide. TL;DR version: Not only are they yanking stuff off of the streaming service (because they don't want to have to pay residuals), but they're killing physical media versions of stuff. So good luck in getting this stuff legally.
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    Yo-ho, yo-ho....

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    I don't actually remember the last time I pirated media, it has to have been at least a year or two. But that's because it was getting easier and easier to find stuff on the various streaming platforms. Take that convenience away (or pull content entirely and eliminate physical media, WTF HBO?) and piracy remains the only viable option.
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    I know Paramount is pulling TMP 4K off, I thought Trek was their bread and butter?
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    That’s fucking weird. And Amazon drops bond films left and right despite owning the studio.
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    Streaming services are the new cable companies. Apple seems to have the most sustainable model. They're kind of the new HBO. YoutubeTV strikes me as Google's forgotten asset. Hopefully it stays that way.
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    Actually, in light of whatever the fuck is happening with that unholy union between HBO Max and Discovery+, I have to officially retract this cuz NO ONE is fucking up like Warner Bros is right now :doh: :jayzus:
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    I hear spiced rum is required when alternatively acquiring media.
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    Wow, that's an offensive stereotype.
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    Don't you have a digital copy of the movie on your HD, or did they market it as you will always have this on the cloud? I have not done this with any movies so I am not sure how they scammed people into a copy that only existed on the cloud under their service where you would lose the access when you stopped paying for your login and cloud storage. A digital copy should mean on my personal physical HD space under a format that is able to be viewed by a public codec.

    If it is not on your machine, then what is the point of paying extra for a digital copy?

    At any rate, if you paid that much money for a digital copy and they pull it then just pirate a digital copy and fuck them.
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    Just something you kids should know. CDs, DVDs, and Blue ray have a lifespan of a couple decades before they can become very unreliable. Yes, I have CDs that are probably older than you boy. I have cassettes, 8-tracks, and vinyl that are probably older than your mom also considering she probably had you when she was 13 or 14. That is the good age for young conservative christians in the US.
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  26. Shirogayne

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    A few people who bought copies of the shows HBO are scuttling for tax write off are learning this the hard way.

    At any rate, I'm definitely pulling out the eye patch and hitting the high seas because fuck going to 20 different streaming sites.
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  27. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    You know I can just buy another copy if something happens to my physical media, right?
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    Not someting that is out of print. Also, if you buy a really old DVD you might have a problem with degradation.

    But don't let me stop you. There is a reason I have backed up all of my DVDs to digital copies, and I also consider owning the DVD a reason to find a digital copy. Once I have paid for the fucking shit I have paid for my copy.
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    I am getting that way with some places. If yoiu are never going to license your old library out to the lower priced services for some profit then fuck you. I am not talking new releases, but if it is over a decade old and you are keeping it on some premium bullshit and not tossing it to the netflix and amazon type libraries I am going to pirate your shit.
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