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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 cortesoft »

I honestly can never understand people who say there is not enough good content on streamers. Every single service I have subscribed to has way more content that I want to watch than time I have to watch it. I watch maybe an hour a night, and I have a huge backlog of shows I’d like to watch that I slowly work through. Even my current list will take me years, and I have new shows to add all the time.

Are these people who complain about not enough content watching 10 hours a day? Or just have very narrow desires about what they want to watch?

Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by eulgro »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Why??

Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by xrd »

Is anyone here paying for any of the smaller indie streaming services? And feeling like that's a better value? If I didn't have kids I would skip Netflix, Disney and HBO. Quality has really taken a dive.

Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by jakearmitage »

gcr wrote: post #46
alasarmas wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You can do the same thing with a DVD if you have a needle and a steady hand.

Thank you for this, it was a great laugh.

Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by ndriscoll »

jayd16 wrote: post #45
lisper wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Honestly, streaming easily wins when you consider the entire family can stream on any screen in the house and Disney DVDs are actually pretty expensive.

You could always buy them from a thrift store for $1-2 or borrow them from the library, and rip them to a jellyfin server. My kids don't know Disney exists yet and I don't see that changing for a few more years, but if they did, they'd be watching Homeward Bound or something.

Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by codetrotter »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

One of my flatmates was watching GoT on max volume, one or more episodes every night. I got pretty darn tired of the intro jingle blasting every damn night at like 3am.

I can’t even imagine how crazy it wouldve driven me if it was the same movie every night instead. Different episodes of the same show was bad enough. I probably would have moved out.

Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by cdubzzz »

turtlebits wrote: post #32

That was a long wall of text for stating that a subscription isn't worth it. That said, expecting 12 months worth of new content seems a bit much (almost entitled). Not everyone has consumed everything worth watching.

On every service we have ever subscribed I’d say we’ve streamed all that we want to stream within about six months at most. After that there needs to be basically a constant stream of new (good) content or it does not feel worth it.

Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by ricardobeat »

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.

A couple, or a few? Unless they are watching the same two shows over and over for an entire year, that's quickly gonna cost more than $100.

Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by [deleted] »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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Re: Please Pay for a Year of Nothing

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Post by soco »

cortesoft wrote: post #81

I honestly can never understand people who say there is not enough good content on streamers. Every single service I have subscribed to has way more content that I want to watch than time I have to watch it. I watch maybe an hour a night, and I have a huge backlog of shows I’d like to watch that I slowly work through. Even my current list will take me years, and I have new shows to add all the time. Are these people…

I'm probably in the narrow desires bunch and although with a sizeable backlog, most of it is not on Netflix/Prime/Disney and damn if I will subscribe another one. The current plan is to drop Netflix as it kinda dried out on my interests, and work on those others in parallel with pirated streaming or torrents. And still I only get one hour every second day or even less.
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