The most pleasant experience I've had paying for and consuming video in the past 15 years was Horace and Pete. Heard about it through an email subscription I vo

The most pleasant experience I've had paying for and consuming video in the past 15 years was Horace and Pete. Heard about it through an email subscription I voluntarily signed up for, bought the first episode for a few dollars (I used Amazon but there were several options including bitcoin), downloaded the DRM free MP4, watched it, liked it, bought the rest of the episodes, downloaded, watched, downloaded, watched... No previews, no ads, no proprietary viewer, no searching through huge lists of things I will never want to see. Even when there was an option to sign up for the newsletter, which I already had, it defaulted to something like "No, don't bother me ever again you fat looser". I have all the episodes on my main computer, backed up on an external drive and in Amazon Glacier (just in case of extreme loss). When my kids are older, I'm going to show it to them and I'll know right where to find it and what the experience will be like instead of wondering if it will still be available, ad free, through my mid-tier Disney Huflix subscription. Edit: Forgot to mention, I say past 15 years, because there was a brief moment in history where DVDs had a similar experience, the worst thing was maybe having to hit "Play". That was before "Disney FastPlay" which just gets to the ads faster, right after the 30 second explanation of "FastPlay".