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> Starting off with the car rental analogy was strange. The car rental content was speaking to a different issue than his media consumption content. This was h

by ktsmith 15y ago

> Starting off with the car rental analogy was strange. The car rental content was speaking to a different issue than his media consumption content. This was his reasoning for speaking publicly about it not his reason for downloading instead of buying. He had a bad experience with a car rental company and rather than just silently taking his business elsewhere he called the company and complained. That action made him realize that instead of just silently downloading content for free he should speak up to content creators as well. > All the music you want is $10 a month. All the movies are $8 a month. This isn't exactly true. Some movies are available for $8 a month, with restrictions, staggered releases, device restrictions (hulu), etc. Spotify, Pandora and the like let you have access to music on demand but it's still not available everywhere and they still have limited catalogs. Not nearly as bad as the movie/tv catalogs but still limited.

ctdonath 15y ago
$18/mo may not give you all music & movies, but it will give you more than 720 hours' worth of material worth watching/hearing.
- ktsmith 15y ago
  I don't disagree that for many people these services provide plenty of content worth watching/hearing. I stream in excess of 200 hours of pandora per month. We use Netflix for kids movies/shows quite a bit and my wife gets the few shows she's interested in from Hulu including some older shows. For my in laws they love the Roku I bought them and their ability to get older content. They maintain a DirecTV package because they can't get most of the newer content they are interested in at all. I personally find Hulu and Netflix to be extremely lacking. I'd be more than happy to pay more for a better selection of content but it's simply not available. The amount of worthwhile content being available is entirely dependent on your personal preferences. I think technical people largely over state the value and amount of content that is available via these services and really that's all I wanted to draw attention to.

by ktsmith 15y ago

ctdonath 15y ago

$18/mo may not give you all music & movies, but it will give you more than 720 hours' worth of material worth watching/hearing.

ktsmith 15y ago
I don't disagree that for many people these services provide plenty of content worth watching/hearing. I stream in excess of 200 hours of pandora per month. We use Netflix for kids movies/shows quite a bit and my wife gets the few shows she's interested in from Hulu including some older shows. For my in laws they love the Roku I bought them and their ability to get older content. They maintain a DirecTV package because they can't get most of the newer content they are interested in at all. I personally find Hulu and Netflix to be extremely lacking. I'd be more than happy to pay more for a better selection of content but it's simply not available. The amount of worthwhile content being available is entirely dependent on your personal preferences. I think technical people largely over state the value and amount of content that is available via these services and really that's all I wanted to draw attention to.