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> Renting vhs/beta/laserdisc/bluray/hd etc has long been preferable to watching something littered with advertisements every 12-15 minutes Speak for yourself.
by optimuspaul 9y ago
> Renting vhs/beta/laserdisc/bluray/hd etc has long been preferable to watching something littered with advertisements every 12-15 minutes
Speak for yourself. I haven't done that in years. My last bluray was my first. I stream or download everything these days, not to mention that many streaming services offer paid options that do not have advertisements every x minutes.
Nothing wrong at all with the phrase 'streaming television'
- Jedd 9y agoWe may be of different ages. My point was that this is not at all new phenomenon -- for people over 40yo, the appeal of 'at will' AV systems has been well understood long before the word streaming was re-appropriated to refer to a sequence of IP packets.
- mc32 9y agoPlus Hotels had in-house ripped Netflix-like AV systems for quite a long time.