God help us. Apart from content, what hollywood movies offer is some competition on viewing experience. The netflix content is 'fine', but the UX is hateful an

God help us. Apart from content, what hollywood movies offer is some competition on viewing experience. The netflix content is 'fine', but the UX is hateful and activates every anxiety center that exists in my brain. I get anxious just thinking about looking for content I might actually like on Netflix (and I'm not the anxious type!). HBO/Hulu/Amazon are better in this regard for now. But it's a sure bet that they will also go the netflix route of trying to push you to WATCH SOMETHING NOW versus mindfully choose something. (E.g. HBO-Go rarely has previews now - why would they show previews when you can just waste 20 minutes deciding you don't like it?) This says nothing of there being a half-dozen walled-garden services. You basically have to subscribe to all of them to see new-releases. Hollywood content: you pay per viewing. It's annoying to pay $15+ for a movie (or be forced to buy it online when you just want to rent it for the weekend), but at least you don't have to pay for a service every month that's full of B-rate content that you hate to dredge through. We're on the edge of a dystopian version of "the golden age of television."