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Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

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Re: Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

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Post by saltyfamiliar »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #612
caeril wrote: post #512

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> No it isn't. It's a workaround. Sure, but it's a trivially easy workaround. Our focus of attention on matters of regulation ought to be in those areas where working around the problem is not nearly as dead simple as a torrent client, a NAS, and a Plex server.

It's really not. I'm a computer geek, and I'm LONG past the point where setting up safe VMs and signing up to half a dozen services like newsgroup server and directories and search engines and what nots, download software with impossible names like sabnzbd (I'm waiting up for somebody to scream how nobody uses sabnzbd anymore, it's been replaced by jidwiaj and iqerqip, which are super easy, and that just proves my po…

I truly cannot relate. All one needs is a VPN, a torrent client, a browser and an internet connection. Most tv's nowadays are smart enough to either connect to a simple Windows share or at least be able to play movie files. My SO and I watch a new movie almost every single night with a very simple setup and rarely encounter problems. It reads to me like you've over engineered movie night and are now complaining about the complexity.

Re: Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

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Post by asdff »

scyzoryk_xyz wrote: post #23

So what we're seeing is a repeat of the film industry from 1930's-1950's. You want to see a Paramount movie, you must go to a Paramount theater. Today you want to watch an Apple show you must go to Apple's VOD. We could really use laws that force, once again, some sort of separation between production and distribution. Better stuff gets made in this kind of ecosystem.

Netflix already owns the Egyptian Theatre. Disney owns El Capitan. History repeats again!

Re: Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

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Post by jxramos »

jxramos wrote: post #370
DrBazza wrote: post #244

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I've just made this comment myself. It's amazing how much casual violence there is in modern films that you just don't notice because it's everywhere. I've watched more black and white classics in the last 15 months than I have in the last 20 years. Particularly the old sci-fi, horror, and slapstick films. Harold Lloyd, The Three Stooges, and Chaplin. Plus all the old St Trinians, and Sherlock Holmes. Abbot and Coste…

oh yah, my family totally dropped out of modern media, and man whenever we go to visit extended family and other stuff and they happen to be watching something on TV or a movie or whatever holy smokes it's pretty incredible how resensitized we have become to that violence. I can't stomach it. Probably took several years to happen quietly in the background, not even doing anything particular other than not consuming s…

Now that I think about it, I've come to realize that a large fraction of entertainment operates at the extrema of human experience, otherwise it would be too mundane and unentertaining. But if most of those so called entertaining things took place in front of you they'd be crazy intense, too intense for daily living. Even something ordinary like a makeup commercial, if you had women staring at you like they do in those shoots that be pretty out of the ordinary. In that regard everything is sort of exaggerated.

Re: Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

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Post by asdff »

chrisseaton wrote: post #110
mivade wrote: post #75

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The difference is simple: NBC was (and still is) free to watch if you have a television and an antenna.

'free to watch' as long as you like commercials.

Advertising is a thing in netflix productions too, you know. Really takes you out of Stranger Things when you see them set down a coke can with the label perfectly aligned to the camera.

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Post by chatmasta »

WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #32

Dear Amazon, the Prime menu is fairly awful - especially trying to find a way back to a previously watched series.

Ugh, so bad. I pay for Prime in the US and UK, but the app gives me no way to switch countries like I can with the store. When I’m in the UK, I expect it to show me the local UK library that I get with my Amazon UK prime account. Instead, the app assumes I’m “traveling” and forces me into a reduced version of the US library. Worse, it renders all the thumbnails in the catalog view, while only telling me content is unavailable after I’ve decided to watch it and click play.

For this reason I only watch Amazon originals on Prime, since I know they’ll be available.

Re: Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

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Post by d0gbread »

saltyfamiliar wrote: post #651
NikolaNovak wrote: post #612

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really not. I'm a computer geek, and I'm LONG past the point where setting up safe VMs and signing up to half a dozen services like newsgroup server and directories and search engines and what nots, download software with impossible names like sabnzbd (I'm waiting up for somebody to scream how nobody uses sabnzbd anymore, it's been replaced by jidwiaj and iqerqip, which are super easy, and that just proves my po…

I truly cannot relate. All one needs is a VPN, a torrent client, a browser and an internet connection. Most tv's nowadays are smart enough to either connect to a simple Windows share or at least be able to play movie files. My SO and I watch a new movie almost every single night with a very simple setup and rarely encounter problems. It reads to me like you've over engineered movie night and are now complaining about…

Three comments so far that highlight the exact point the parent was making, a true lack of empathy. VPN alone is enough complexity for most... it's hard to find one that doesn't have comments calling it potentially insecure, questioning the owner, nevermind keeping tabs on if it sells to another owner.

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Post by asdff »

tguedes wrote: post #419
hrktb wrote: post #400

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In France McDonalds partnered with a book publisher to create a whole new collection to bundle books with Happy Meals. Small steps yet, but they could be getting there.

For years McDonalds and other fast foods in America bundled toys with Happy Meals. Building cheap little toys is way less expensive than big budget media.

Happymeal toys probably cost McDonalds nothing. I'm sure Nintendo was covering the cost of those Pokemon. It's advertisement.

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Post by NaturalPhallacy »

vanderZwan wrote: post #219
brightball wrote: post #124

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Our whole family has been doing that this year. Watching older movies and TV shows is much more pleasant all around. This was tougher growing up when kids all watched the same shows and talked about them, but with content so all over the place now that common thread seems to be mostly gone at school (outside of internet video stuff).

> Watching older movies and TV shows is much more pleasant all around. My girlfriend somehow grew up completely unaware of Star Trek, so I introduced her to The Next Generation last year and we've been watching it (rewatching in my case, but for the first time in over two decades) one episode a day. It's so relaxing, in a way that almost no modern TV is. No end-of-episode cliffhangers or other mechanisms trying to ma…

>No end-of-episode cliffhangers

There are a handful of those in TNG. But only a handful.

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Post by [deleted] »

remir wrote: post #198
rchaud wrote: post #74

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Indeed. The acquisition opens up numerous product placement opportunities. I can't wait to watch John Krasinski watching a mission briefing with his mPow 2021 Slim Noise Cancelling Bluetooth USB-C headphones.

How meta would that be to see Amazon Basics products on their movies/shows. I think that would be too much.

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Re: Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B

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Post by RandallBrown »

Dumblydorr wrote: post #322

Does anyone else think Amazon will acquire video game producers next? When I look at digital content, this seems the one area they're not already in, as they have TV, movies, books, but no games.

They already sorta do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Games

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