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My roommate in college watched Gladiator every single night for like a full year.
Why??
Not exactly sure. Strange guy. He liked to fall asleep to the same movie every night.
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My kids like repeats, but not THAT many repeats… and they mostly like tv shows. A full run of a TV show on DVD is around $50. So less than 3 tv shows would pay for a full year of Disney+ with all the shows. Also, my kids go through phases… watching the same shows on repeat, then switching. It would cost way more to buy the shows than stream them.
We hit up the local library and Goodwill. Streaming dollars get a lot of movies that way, and reduced ads. But having kids can totally justify a Disney+ subscription.
There are also many people on ebay selling bulk lots of dvds for pennies apiece. The top search result right now for “disney dvd lot” is $140 for 600!
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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
A magnet works as well and doesn't affect the lifespan of the tape as much.
It would be VERY hard to erase just a small portion without damaging the rest.
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#94Basically there was a finite amount of content and a lot of it appeared on Netflix. Then 4+ services launched and a near fixed amount of content was divided by 4. Then they doubled the price. So now for a worse discovery experience you are effectively paying 8x the price.
Does anyone has experience with cancelling and switching services periodically so that you can access all the content, but not at the same time?
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Once you see a detective show, you basically seen 80% of all detective shows. That's why it seems that there can be nothing to watch, because 80% is basically a rehash, just with different characters and slightly different plots.
And at some point, you'll feed all that stuff into GPT-(N+1) and get as many new shows as you want.
That will be too much work, most will subscribe to a few curators with matching taste that fulfill all your content needs. Can we eventually do away with other people entirely? Idk
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Once you see a detective show, you basically seen 80% of all detective shows. That's why it seems that there can be nothing to watch, because 80% is basically a rehash, just with different characters and slightly different plots.
Yeah, you're right, I watched one season of Law and Order and thought "Great, I've seen 80% of all detective shows, no need to watch any more." /s
I think it comes down to personal taste. I could likewise see someone say that 80% of all soccer matches are the same. That once you’ve seen one you’ve seen them all. And then on the opposite end you have people enjoying soccer who will be happy to tell you about the nuances between different matches, different players, different teams, etc.
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Why do you say it's a fixed amount of content? Finite, sure, but it's not fixed.
However, I doubt just because there are 4x streaming platforms there are suddenly 4x studios capable of producing even a low budget show. Knowing nothing of media production, but I assume there are a large number of technical roles which are advisable if trying to produce mainstream content.
The number of scripted shows tripled from 2009 to 2022. From 210 to 599.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/peak-tv-2022-co...!
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#99I love paying for streaming services that make original shows like HBO Max so I can watch Infinity Train, or Hulu so I can watch Marvels’s Runaways
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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.
Used DVD's are cheap.
Libraries carry DVD's, and some libraries also have streaming services available for free.