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You’re really discounting how good things have gotten. Movies today are $12/movie. Netflix is selling you any movie for ~$10/month. Not just crap movies, Cuaro

You’re really discounting how good things have gotten. Movies today are $12/movie. Netflix is selling you any movie for ~$10/month. Not just crap movies, Cuaron! If you’re not watching a movie alone, it’s a better deal. Cable would cost you $75-$100/month. Now that service included with your movies. You could buy 5 of these services and it would still be cheaper than it cost you 15 years ago to see similar content. Most people only buy 1 and share accounts with their friends. Renting movies is easier than ever and still a great option. You don’t even have to leave your house. Previously you would drive to the rental shop and pay $4. Or waited in line at redbox and pay $1. It’s true that you can’t always rent, a lot of times ive tried it’s for purchase only. The silo doesn’t make sense though when you compare to the price of buying movie tickets, or the cost of cable TV, or even the cost of renting. It’s way cheaper today than it used to be.

nikofeyn 8y ago
> Netflix is selling you any movie for ~$10/month. are you talking about their streaming options or dvd mail service? their streaming service has very limited options for good movies. and the good ones are ones i have usually already seen (and yet netflix's machine learning "experts" constantly recommend them to me, i.e., they have nothing else to offer or they aren't experts). netflix is pushing their own content more and more, which i personally find not good. they also tend to oversell their role in production. it's gotten to the point where i watch maybe a couple of good things on netflix a month, and so the price no longer makes sense. i'm personally thinking of going back to their dvd mail service or just canceling it all together. many of these services are now not worth the $10-15 a month. for example, for hbo go or now, or whichever is the streaming only option, i just pay when i am ready to watch some tv series for a month or two and then cancel it. it's akin to renting. it isn't worth it to pay year round, although i would say their movie options for streaming are probably better than netflix's, they're just less in number.
- foolfoolz 8y ago
  your hbo story is really good. i think a lot of services fall in that category of “only when i want it”. which is exactly the shift from old world cable. just the fact that you have the option to do that with hbo go, all for less than $50 and without a single phone call, is incredibly improved over 10 years ago

nikofeyn 8y ago

> Netflix is selling you any movie for ~$10/month. are you talking about their streaming options or dvd mail service? their streaming service has very limited options for good movies. and the good ones are ones i have usually already seen (and yet netflix's machine learning "experts" constantly recommend them to me, i.e., they have nothing else to offer or they aren't experts). netflix is pushing their own content more and more, which i personally find not good. they also tend to oversell their role in production. it's gotten to the point where i watch maybe a couple of good things on netflix a month, and so the price no longer makes sense. i'm personally thinking of going back to their dvd mail service or just canceling it all together. many of these services are now not worth the $10-15 a month. for example, for hbo go or now, or whichever is the streaming only option, i just pay when i am ready to watch some tv series for a month or two and then cancel it. it's akin to renting. it isn't worth it to pay year round, although i would say their movie options for streaming are probably better than netflix's, they're just less in number.

foolfoolz 8y ago
your hbo story is really good. i think a lot of services fall in that category of “only when i want it”. which is exactly the shift from old world cable. just the fact that you have the option to do that with hbo go, all for less than $50 and without a single phone call, is incredibly improved over 10 years ago