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>In my experience new releases have long waiting lists at libraries. True, but libraries are more my goto for things that aren't on streaming. For example I wa

>In my experience new releases have long waiting lists at libraries. True, but libraries are more my goto for things that aren't on streaming. For example I wanted to watch "Reanimator" and none of my steaming services had it but the local library had a DVD. For new stuff I'm willing to pay a dollar or two on Amazon. (Especially since you can earn that easily by picking a slowing shipping speed on nonessential items... so order a dvd the library doesn't have, get a credit for a current release, and rent an old favorite to tide you over.) It's not perfect, but in my experience you're often paying for convenience, and being willing to be slightly inconvenienced pays dividends.

tzs 8y ago
FYI, Shudder has "Re-animator" for streaming. No, I'd never heard of Shudder either. It's a streaming service specializing in "Horror. Thrillers. Suspense". $3.99/month on an annual subscription, $4.99 month to month. $5 would be a bit much just to watch one movie, but if you had 3 or 4 horror/thrillers/suspense movies you wanted to watch, subscribing for a month, watching them, and canceling might be reasonable. I suspect that is where we are headed for now. That's certainly how I plan to deal with Disney's new streaming service. There is no way that I'm going to become a regular subscriber to that, because most of the Disney movies I've watched over the last few years are Marvel stuff, Disney/Pixar animation, and Star Wars. For most of that I'm content to wait until it shows up on FXX/TNT/TBS/Freeform. If something comes out from Disney that I do not want to wait that long for, I'll subscribe for a month to watch it, and catch up on all the others I've been waiting for at the same time, and then cancel. I just did that with Netflix for MCU. I want to catch "Avengers: Endgame" in theaters, because I'm pretty sure that it is going to be nearly impossible to avoid major spoilers for the whole thing before it reaches non-premium cable, or even streaming, and so took advantage of a weekend stuck at home due to snow to sign up for the Netflix trial, catch up on Marvel, Disney/Pixar, and a few other things, and then canceled.
- dontbenebby 8y ago
  I think once you've paid for Netflix, Prime video, and your taxes to a public library and can't get content, creators are running the risk people will get fed up and buy a fast VPN instead.

tzs 8y ago

FYI, Shudder has "Re-animator" for streaming. No, I'd never heard of Shudder either. It's a streaming service specializing in "Horror. Thrillers. Suspense". $3.99/month on an annual subscription, $4.99 month to month. $5 would be a bit much just to watch one movie, but if you had 3 or 4 horror/thrillers/suspense movies you wanted to watch, subscribing for a month, watching them, and canceling might be reasonable. I suspect that is where we are headed for now. That's certainly how I plan to deal with Disney's new streaming service. There is no way that I'm going to become a regular subscriber to that, because most of the Disney movies I've watched over the last few years are Marvel stuff, Disney/Pixar animation, and Star Wars. For most of that I'm content to wait until it shows up on FXX/TNT/TBS/Freeform. If something comes out from Disney that I do not want to wait that long for, I'll subscribe for a month to watch it, and catch up on all the others I've been waiting for at the same time, and then cancel. I just did that with Netflix for MCU. I want to catch "Avengers: Endgame" in theaters, because I'm pretty sure that it is going to be nearly impossible to avoid major spoilers for the whole thing before it reaches non-premium cable, or even streaming, and so took advantage of a weekend stuck at home due to snow to sign up for the Netflix trial, catch up on Marvel, Disney/Pixar, and a few other things, and then canceled.

dontbenebby 8y ago
I think once you've paid for Netflix, Prime video, and your taxes to a public library and can't get content, creators are running the risk people will get fed up and buy a fast VPN instead.