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Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by westcort »

Danieru wrote: post #37
ryanisnan wrote: post #4

One counter point to why I personally pay for Disney+ is that I have kids, and kids love repeat content. I don't think new content particularly matters to them, at least not at their age. I wonder how much Disney+'s numbers will be helped by that tranche of subscribers.

We bought a DVD player and a couple high quality DVDs. Seemed rather silly to pay for a year of nothing just to watch reruns. Kids are happy, and now we get to show them higher quality shows.

Same, and the reduced strain on my internet bandwidth has also helped me. Now is the time to buy, as physical media is quickly disappearing.

Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by fullshark »

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #43
duxup wrote: post #7

I don’t really care about “new” content. Similar to video games. I consume if it is new or old. If I can’t find content then I’m done with the service. Unfortunately on all these platforms discovery is horrible unless they want you to find it.

I just want a complete list of what's available, alphabetically, and divided by broad genre. But apparently these services assume everyone is too dumb to scroll through a long list and find things on their own. So there's a landing page where the same titles appear in four different places on the same page, you have no idea what's available, items disappear without warning because of licensing issues, and the UI look…

If they do that then everyone will realize there's actually not that much content on the service

Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by citizenkeen »

jjulius wrote: post #54
citizenkeen wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why Max bought exclusive rights to Sesame Street. This is why Amazon has Nickelodeon. The services know it's harder to do the streaming juggle when you have kids.

There's something a bit twisted about using my kids for their own financial gain. Hence my pirating of said shows - no issue getting those repeat views in via Plex/NAS.

I keep thinking about Plex but I struggle with the idea of teaching my kids that stealing is okay. Like, for a little kid: "This kind of theft is okay, this kind of theft isn't." seems nuanced for a little kid.

Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by crtasm »

alasarmas wrote: post #40
lisper wrote: post #31

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> kids love repeat content Then may I suggest a DVD player?

May I humbly suggest that VHS is superior to DVD for young children, because you can manually censor naughty bits out of “too adult” movies by scratching the magnetic coating off the tape

Or record something else over that moment, bonus points if it's related to an in-joke you already have about the movie.

Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by toast0 »

alasarmas wrote: post #40
lisper wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> kids love repeat content Then may I suggest a DVD player?

May I humbly suggest that VHS is superior to DVD for young children, because you can manually censor naughty bits out of “too adult” movies by scratching the magnetic coating off the tape

Plus, VHS players are better for holding sandwiches.

Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by WXLCKNO »

cortesoft wrote: post #60
geph2021 wrote: post #25

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kids love repeat content This is very true, to a certain age. My kids would watch some things over and over again, until they reached a certain age when there was an abrupt change. Once that change happens it's polar opposite, they could not fathom watching something a second time.

My roommate in college watched Gladiator every single night for like a full year.

Were you not entertained?

Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by fullshark »

unethical_ban wrote: post #65
anjel wrote: post #38

Turner Classic Movies streaming app is quietly full of win. Approx 100 curated sometimes thematic movie classics that change every few weeks, View it or lose it.

Criterion is good too. I just wish tcm app streamed its life channel.

Kanopy is great if you have a library card and like TCM/Criterion content.

Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by WarOnPrivacy »

doh wrote: post #16
cmiller1 wrote: post #9

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140 a year? You know you can pay for a good VPN for a lot less than that...

Can you though? NordVPN for instance comes to $67.5 for the first year and then $120 every year. I know there are cheaper options too, but not that much. Plus they still have to buy the subscription. And then dealing with the hassle of the VPN.

ThePirateBay uses OVPN. $60/yr. Coupons can lower that a bit.

They've been solid and have exits all over the world.

ref: https://torrentfreak.com/ovpn-wins-court-battle-after-pirate...

Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by mvdtnz »

duxup wrote: post #7

I don’t really care about “new” content. Similar to video games. I consume if it is new or old. If I can’t find content then I’m done with the service. Unfortunately on all these platforms discovery is horrible unless they want you to find it.

There's hardly any old content on Netflix, at least in my region.
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