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Most things are on Amazon if you’re willing to pay for them individually. It’s more buffet style streaming services that splintered. Per movie may seem expens
by Retric 2y ago
Most things are on Amazon if you’re willing to pay for them individually. It’s more buffet style streaming services that splintered.
Per movie may seem expensive, but at the low end of hours per month watch time streaming services are a bad deal.
- babypuncher 2y agoI don't like buying DRM-encumbered digital copies. I'm OK with streaming subscriptions because their catalogues are fundamentally ephemeral, but if I buy a movie I want to know I can keep it forever, even if the platform I bought it from disappears entirely. To that end, I only buy physical media that can be copied and have its DRM removed. On the plus side, Blu-Ray turns 20 next year and still provides better image quality than your typical 1080p stream.
- Retric 2y agoI get you, but to be clear I was referring to renting movies rather than purchasing them. It’s not a service I use, but it’s surprisingly close to the anything anywhere anytime ideal.
- oangemangut 2y agowe're trying to cut back to only Disney+ for kids and we use prime video for us. Amazon's genius "take this prime video credit for slow shipping" has us renting movies maybe once a week and it's much better value for us than all subscriptions services that get no playtime.
- linsomniac 2y agoI had thought that, until recently I went to watch Spinal Tap with my son, and it's not apparently on Prime Video, even for pay. Which is odd, because I'm pretty sure I previously "bought" it there.
- Mistletoe 2y agoI think I would rather eat glass than rent a movie on Amazon Prime for $3.99. I'm so sick of those polluting the search on there.
- al_borland 2y agoApple has a rental model like this as well, dating back to the iPod Video days. It still exists for the AppleTV. For people who only watch a couple movies per month, this is cheaper, with more variety, than any streaming service. While also avoiding the trap of forgotten subscriptions that aren’t being used.