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I think people are tiring of streaming services for some of the following reasons:
1. Price increases
2. Lack of what they want due to licensing
3. You'll always need internet and a subscription to watch streaming movies.
4. More content and extras on DVDs
5. You'll always own it unlike if you buy a movie on Amazon Prime and for whatever reason they lose the licensing, they'll delete that movie and you no longer own it even if you bought it. (This has happened).
6. Ads creeping into streaming and you have to pay more to opt out. ::) (fucking assholes)
7. Companies changing/deleting original content because it is now considered "offensive".
Digital was the answer to combating movie piracy. There's total control and Disney, Netflix, Hulu, Paramount, Amazon and the rest make money monthly from your subscriptions
they continue raising the prices on annually. Firesticks loaded with Kodi had its day but was beat into submission.
While torrenting is still a thing, it's a Gen X and Millineal thing .
Last but not least people are broke and in debt. Having subscriptions to 3-5 streaming services won't cut the mustard.
With the options being limited to streaming, pirating, DVDs or nothing.
Redbox will be bigger, piracy via torrenting and DVDs will be a thing again and in general more DVDs will sell.
I guess we'll see... :)
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A few years ago, prior to Covid, the “blu-ray 4k” ultra HD products we’re becoming popular. But that ended abruptly. They were much more expensive than the standard discs.
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I think people are tiring of streaming services for some of the following reasons:
1. Price increases
2. Lack of what they want due to licensing
3. You'll always need internet and a subscription to watch streaming movies.
4. More content and extras on DVDs
5. You'll always own it unlike if you buy a movie on Amazon Prime and for whatever reason they lose the licensing, they'll delete that movie and you no longer own it even if you bought it. (This has happened).
6. Ads creeping into streaming and you have to pay more to opt out. ::) (fucking assholes)
Digital was the answer to combating movie piracy. There's total control and Disney, Netflix, Hulu, Paramount, Amazon and the rest make money monthly from your subscriptions
they continue raising the prices on annually. Firesticks loaded with Kodi had its day but was beat into submission.
While torrenting is still a thing, it's a Gen X and Millineal thing .
Last but not least people are broke and in debt. Having subscriptions to 3-5 streaming services won't cut the mustard.
With the options being limited to streaming, pirating, DVDs or nothing.
Redbox will be bigger, piracy via torrenting and DVDs will be a thing again and in general more DVDs will sell.
I guess we'll see... :)
Yeah they are going to bring back blockbuster and VHS
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Too many different services with separate fees.
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No, and definitely not DVDs. People who want to own physical media because of licensing issues with streamers typically buy Blu-Rays or 4K discs. It's a small, but lucrative market, but it's not a growing market.
Streamers are not making money. It's basically a survival of the fittest right now. Losers get cannibalized (streamers merge) or they sell their best IPs/TV franchises to the highest bidder.
Eventually you'll have fewer streaming services and they'll just offer different tiers of services. Also instead of paying monthly they'll start offering longer discounted contracts to try get people to stop switching in and out of services.
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No, and definitely not DVDs. People who want to own physical media because of licensing issues with streamers typically buy Blu-Rays or 4K discs. It's a small, but lucrative market, but it's not a growing market.
Streamers are not making money. It's basically a survival of the fittest right now. Losers get cannibalized (streamers merge) or they sell their best IPs/TV franchises to the highest bidder.
Eventually you'll have fewer streaming services and they'll just offer different tiers of services. Also instead of paying monthly they'll start offering longer discounted contracts to try get people to stop switching in and out of services.
I hear you but I should be more clear. DVDs/Blue Ray/4K all in the same bucket. Physical media.
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I continue to buy CDs and DVDs. Very regularly.
Particularly the former.
Order between two and 10 each week, as a matter of fact.
I ALWAYS have several in the pipeline (mail).
Yesterday I received a Japanese print of an older Vicious Rumors album.
I very much am put off by streaming.
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I continue to buy CDs and DVDs. Very regularly.
Particularly the former.
Order between two and 10 each week, as a matter of fact.
I ALWAYS have several in the pipeline (mail).
Yesterday I received a Japanese print of an older Vicious Rumors album.
I very much am put off by streaming.
Sounds like someone forgot to cancel their Columbia House Records and Tapes Club subscription from the 80s
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That would be nice I have just about every streaming service there is and it’s around 100+ a month plus fucking cable at 230 a month. 330 monthly for tv, craziness.
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That would be nice I have just about every streaming service there is and it’s around 100+ a month plus fucking cable at 230 a month. 330 monthly for tv, craziness.
I shitcanned cable over a year ago and never looked back.
Internet only + streaming services....save about 100/mth
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I shitcanned cable over a year ago and never looked back.
Internet only + streaming services....save about 100/mth
I’m embarrassed to say what I just did. It’s sad haha.
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I’m embarrassed to say what I just did. It’s sad haha.
What was the embarrassing part, that you want to save $100 a month or you spend $330 on entertainment?
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What was the embarrassing part; that you want to save $100 a month or you spend $330 on entertainment?
Incorrect use of a semicolon.
Did anyone go to school?
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What was the embarrassing part; that you want to save $100 a month or you spend $330 on entertainment?
Spend 330 haha.
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Incorrect use of a semicolon.
Did anyone go to school?
I fixed it. Are you typing on a computer when you post here or your phone?
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Louie F will be pleased to hear this.
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Incorrect use of a semicolon.
Did anyone go to school?
semicolon should be banned, its stupid.
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I got rid of cable and land line about 10 years ago.
Netflix quality is down but I don't think we'll see a return to cable or DVDs (DVDs?) because of it. Hopefully more streaming competitors will step up and become more popular and through competition quality will improve.
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Incorrect use of a semicolon.
Did anyone go to school?
At least it wasn't a dangling participle.
I actually do not know what that means. I heard
Dean Martin say it on the tonight show and he received
a ton of laughs.
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Louie F will be pleased to hear this.
:D
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:D
DVD’s
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DVD’s
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DVD’s
DVD’s
DVD’s
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Classic ;D
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I think people are tiring of streaming services for some of the following reasons:
1. Price increases
2. Lack of what they want due to licensing
3. You'll always need internet and a subscription to watch streaming movies.
4. More content and extras on DVDs
5. You'll always own it unlike if you buy a movie on Amazon Prime and for whatever reason they lose the licensing, they'll delete that movie and you no longer own it even if you bought it. (This has happened).
6. Ads creeping into streaming and you have to pay more to opt out. ::) (fucking assholes)
7. Companies changing/deleting original content because it is now considered "offensive".
Digital was the answer to combating movie piracy. There's total control and Disney, Netflix, Hulu, Paramount, Amazon and the rest make money monthly from your subscriptions
they continue raising the prices on annually. Firesticks loaded with Kodi had its day but was beat into submission.
While torrenting is still a thing, it's a Gen X and Millineal thing .
Last but not least people are broke and in debt. Having subscriptions to 3-5 streaming services won't cut the mustard.
With the options being limited to streaming, pirating, DVDs or nothing.
Redbox will be bigger, piracy via torrenting and DVDs will be a thing again and in general more DVDs will sell.
I guess we'll see... :)
Nope. Just another case of wishful thinking of "I want to go back to the good old days." Not going to happen.
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I was thinking this as well, after I heard Disney streaming was getting sold to Hulu or whatever. I was assuming this would make cable have a resurgence.
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semicolon should be banned, its stupid.
Incorrect use of a comma.
Should be a period.
Two distinct statements.
Look into it.
(Obviously other issues, but we will leave it at this, for now.)
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DVD’s
DVD’s
DVD’s
DVD’s
DVD’s
DVD’s
DVD’s
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Doesn’t require an apostrophe.
DVDs
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(The) Semicolon should be banned. It’s stupid.
There. Fixed.
If you have questions, look into it. Fortress is leaving for the gym.
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I think people are tiring of streaming services for some of the following reasons:
1. Price increases
2. Lack of what they want due to licensing
3. You'll always need internet and a subscription to watch streaming movies.
4. More content and extras on DVDs
5. You'll always own it unlike if you buy a movie on Amazon Prime and for whatever reason they lose the licensing, they'll delete that movie and you no longer own it even if you bought it. (This has happened).
6. Ads creeping into streaming and you have to pay more to opt out. ::) (fucking assholes)
7. Companies changing/deleting original content because it is now considered "offensive".
Digital was the answer to combating movie piracy. There's total control and Disney, Netflix, Hulu, Paramount, Amazon and the rest make money monthly from your subscriptions
they continue raising the prices on annually. Firesticks loaded with Kodi had its day but was beat into submission.
While torrenting is still a thing, it's a Gen X and Millineal thing .
Last but not least people are broke and in debt. Having subscriptions to 3-5 streaming services won't cut the mustard.
With the options being limited to streaming, pirating, DVDs or nothing.
Redbox will be bigger, piracy via torrenting and DVDs will be a thing again and in general more DVDs will sell.
I guess we'll see... :)
what do you mean torrenting is a gen x or millennial thing? boomers aren't aware of it?
i still own all of my favorite movies on dvd, maybe about 100 or so and i still have some vhs tapes, yeah "tapes" i never heard anybody call them "vhs" until they became obsolete, though i don't have a VCR
i just like having a physical copy of my all time favorites even if i never use them, even if the quality is worse i like having a copy of that point in time you can say
i worry more about losing my playstation and xbox digital library, i would cry like somebody died if i lost that
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Incorrect use of a comma.
Should be a period.
Two distinct statements.
Look into it.
(Obviously other issues, but we will leave it at this, for now.)
;D
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I have about 2,000 or so films on VHS, SVHS, Laser Disc, DVD, BluRay and 4K UHD BluRay.
Including one or two that are not available in the US. One night the interwebs went down and my wife wanted to know how I was still playing music.
I told her, "Records". ;D
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I have to return some video tapes
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I used to love going to the local video store. Would be great to see one around.
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I used to love going to the local video store. Would be great to see one around.
I looked forward to that every Friday my video store had some special I think it was rent 2 get 1 free. I would go up there and spend half hour or so going through movies to see what I was going to watch that weekend.Then all of a sudden that ended. I am not even sure when .
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I have to return some video tapes
Want to grab drinks at Dorsia after?
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Nothing has worked
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Want to grab drinks at Dorsia after?
Nobody goes there anymore
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I have to return some video tapes
Be kind, please rewind. Also please don't use the standalone rewinding machines, they break the tapes :).
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Be kind, please rewind. Also please don't use the standalone rewinding machines, they break the tapes :).
I will stay far, far away from those VHS death machines while tightly clenching my 2000 mint BTFO tape (and butthole)
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Be kind, please rewind. Also please don't use the standalone rewinding machines, they break the tapes :).
i wondered why anybody bought those when you could just use your vcr to rewind the tape
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i wondered why anybody bought those when you could just use your vcr to rewind the tape
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Using your vcr to rewind tapes supposedly caused the vcr to breakdown.
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i wondered why anybody bought those when you could just use your vcr to rewind the tape
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As mentioned, gearheads used it to save wear and tear on the machines, but I think a large number of people had them because of late fees. They were crazy in my neighborhood at one time. I can remember having a stack of 3-4 movies to rewind some days, 1 in the vcr, one in the rewinder then switching trying to play beat the clock.
Growing up, my dad knew a guy that owned a couple of mom and pop type video stores. It was a mixed bag, sometimes they'd break a block buster, and he'd lose money because no one would pay the $30-90 tapes were at the time, they'd just get a new membership somewhere else. But sometimes, that would be offset by one of those rewinders breaking a few porno tapes.
A broken "Star Wars"? Screw you! A broken copy of "Flabby Face F@ckers 8"? Yes, I will pay your $97.50, just stop sending those bright pink bills to our house :).
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Would be nice if we could watch and listen to Media on "Crystals" which we sat down on "Pods", lighting up a "Wall" like a "Projector" and emanating "Sounds".
"Music" is different "Here", not like Planet "Earth".
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Would be nice if we could watch and listen to Media on "Crystals" which we sat down on "Pods", lighting up a "Wall" like a "Projector" and emanating "Sounds".
"Music" is different "Here", not like Planet "Earth".
We wuz Space Kangzez! Sun Ra is nuts.
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Bump. For the DVDs
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Using your vcr to rewind tapes supposedly caused the vcr to breakdown.
I used to do it by hand
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Bump. For the DVDs
DVDs are always the answer
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I looked forward to that every Friday my video store had some special I think it was rent 2 get 1 free. I would go up there and spend half hour or so going through movies to see what I was going to watch that weekend.Then all of a sudden that ended. I am not even sure when .
Probably ended around mid 00's. DVD rentals through the mail was actually what killed video stores and then streaming post 2010s killed that.
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How many moves you figure this took? ;D
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I'm considering starting a small collection of blu rays
I'm a buyer of vinyl (and even CDs) and love physically owning media and seeing it on the shelf
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That would be nice I have just about every streaming service there is and it’s around 100+ a month plus fucking cable at 230 a month. 330 monthly for tv, craziness.
I cancelled cable and all streaming services a couple years ago. I only have internet service. I stream all my TV content (movies, cable news, network TV from every local market across the country) from the dark web from a service provider outside of the country; I use a VPN. They charge me $13/month. I can get all the content from Disney+, Netflix, Hulu, etc.
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I would never pay for a streaming service, I simply don't care. I use other people's accounts and my girlfriend has HBO Max, I grew up in the piracy era, paying for something I can get for free feels wrong to me. Most series and movies nowadays are shit anyway.
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I continue to buy CDs and DVDs. Very regularly.
Particularly the former.
Order between two and 10 each week, as a matter of fact.
I ALWAYS have several in the pipeline (mail).
Yesterday I received a Japanese print of an older Vicious Rumors album.
I very much am put off by streaming.
Same here. I have a whole library of DVDs.
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How many moves you figure this took? ;D
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Looks like Arnold's queen has Lou's king in check?
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It seems most lap tops, computers and cars have no slot for a music cd or Dvd. Haven't seen a new car in awhile that has a slot for music. Does everyone play music from their phone to the blue tooth connection in their car? I have a pile of music CD's in my car.
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It seems most lap tops, computers and cars have no slot for a music cd or Dvd. Haven't seen a new car in awhile that has a slot for music. Does everyone play music from their phone to the blue tooth connection in their car? I have a pile of music CD's in my car.
Short answer is yes, most are just using streaming off of their phone. You can also buy a bluetooth FM transmitter that plugs into the cigar lighter plug if you don't have an 1/8" aux jack. I have them on a couple older fun cars that I want to keep original and not hack up the dash with a screen, etc. They work okay once you find a frequency that isn't being used by local terrestrial radio.
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It seems most lap tops, computers and cars have no slot for a music cd or Dvd. Haven't seen a new car in awhile that has a slot for music. Does everyone play music from their phone to the blue tooth connection in their car? I have a pile of music CD's in my car.
I still have a horse and buggy.
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Just like the almighty Fortress, I never stopped buying CD's and DVD's.
I like the idea of owning something I pay for, not just a computer file.
Most give you both these days anyways a lot of the time. Buy the CD, get the free download MP3 or FLAC.
I still use the phone in the car to listen to full-albums (Clean Tube is the App) its a Youtube overlay that blocks all ads.
But the ones I want to own, I buy the media... I still have all my albums from childhood (500 or so)...
SO fun in the day, getting a new album like Kiss Alive II. The double-jacket of photos, the booklets inside, lyrics, the stickers, etc...
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How many moves you figure this took? ;D
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After Lou’s first move, Arnold quickly placed an Ouija board on the table to tell his mother that he won.
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Looks like Arnold's queen has Lou's king in check?
story of Lous life