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I don't know if not everyone knows about this, but Amazon and YouTube offer $3 movie rentals and seem to have a really extensive catalogue, as in I've never fai
by galdosdi 2y ago
I don't know if not everyone knows about this, but Amazon and YouTube offer $3 movie rentals and seem to have a really extensive catalogue, as in I've never failed to find a movie there that would have been available in the old DVD Netflix with its huge selection. I guess they managed to get the rights from all the big IP companies, much as Spotify and Apple before them did for music.
It's honestly the best way to watch things today, and probably the best way to watch things in all history (although Netflix DVD was cheaper if you watched more than 3 movies a month). It's cheaper than video rental stores used to be and no more expensive than RedBox, but you don't have to go anywhere.
That's why RedBox is dead. Of course RedBox wasn't killed by Netflix -- Netflix doesn't compete with them at all. It's Amazon/YT Payperview that killed them, I assume.
Yeah, streaming sucks, but a la carte pay per view is amazing and underrated. And I emphasize again, it's cheap -- it only seems expensive compared to streaming, but it's cheaper than rentals used to be in video stores, which IIRC also cost $3, but that was 25 years of inflation ago.