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Needs (2018) tag. I wonder how this trend has changed (if at all) since this article was written? If anything, the trend towards more and more exclusivity and t

Needs (2018) tag. I wonder how this trend has changed (if at all) since this article was written? If anything, the trend towards more and more exclusivity and the proliferation of streaming services seems to have continued unabated.

JohnWhigham 5y ago
I'm unironically thinking about getting DirecTV. I loved channel surfing the movie channels as a teen, found so many good movies I never would have sought out otherwise. I'm sick of all the walled garden bullshit and companies throwing a deluge of low-quality shows against the wall to see what sticks.
- mindcrime 5y ago
  I don't have an issue discovering something I would find interesting at any given moment in time, between subscribing to Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+ and HBO Max. And I have a few "add ons" on Amazon Prime as well. If anything, if I'm randomly looking for "something" to watch, I have more choice than I could ever need. BUT... what is still frustrating as hell is that I pay for all these subscriptions, and if and when there is a time that I want to watch something very specific for whatever reason, it's probably 50/50 at best if that "something" will be included in a subscription I already pay for, or will require me to pay yet again. It really is starting to push me back to bittorrenting stuff again, as TFA talks about. All of that said, if it's a movie I want to watch, and I'm pretty sure I will only ever want to watch it once, and its rental price on Prime is about $3-4, I don't mind so much doing a rental. And if anything, the option to rent movies like this is one thing that has been keeping me on Prime more than on Netflix lately. But if a movie isn't available on Prime, or costs too much to rent... hello KTorrent.
- joshstrange 5y ago
  The idea of going back to commercials makes my skin crawl. I haven't seen a single commercial while watching TV in over 5 years if not longer. Whenever I'm back home and my parents are watching sports I'm reminded of how lucky I am that I don't have to see commercials (and that I don't care for sports which doesn't have a legal OR illegal way to watch that doesn't suck).

JohnWhigham 5y ago

I'm unironically thinking about getting DirecTV. I loved channel surfing the movie channels as a teen, found so many good movies I never would have sought out otherwise. I'm sick of all the walled garden bullshit and companies throwing a deluge of low-quality shows against the wall to see what sticks.

mindcrime 5y ago
I don't have an issue discovering something I would find interesting at any given moment in time, between subscribing to Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+ and HBO Max. And I have a few "add ons" on Amazon Prime as well. If anything, if I'm randomly looking for "something" to watch, I have more choice than I could ever need. BUT... what is still frustrating as hell is that I pay for all these subscriptions, and if and when there is a time that I want to watch something very specific for whatever reason, it's probably 50/50 at best if that "something" will be included in a subscription I already pay for, or will require me to pay yet again. It really is starting to push me back to bittorrenting stuff again, as TFA talks about. All of that said, if it's a movie I want to watch, and I'm pretty sure I will only ever want to watch it once, and its rental price on Prime is about $3-4, I don't mind so much doing a rental. And if anything, the option to rent movies like this is one thing that has been keeping me on Prime more than on Netflix lately. But if a movie isn't available on Prime, or costs too much to rent... hello KTorrent.
joshstrange 5y ago
The idea of going back to commercials makes my skin crawl. I haven't seen a single commercial while watching TV in over 5 years if not longer. Whenever I'm back home and my parents are watching sports I'm reminded of how lucky I am that I don't have to see commercials (and that I don't care for sports which doesn't have a legal OR illegal way to watch that doesn't suck).