How streaming changed the way you watch TV
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Remember popping in a CD?
It could hold up to like 15 songs!
Nostalgia is good & nice but nah I don't need artificial limits on stuff today.
Artificial limits can be great though. They force you to think about what you’re doing. Only 80 minutes of space on the CD? 36 frames in my camera? Make them count.
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Don't worry, Netflix planning to add interstitial ads to their low tier plans
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Well we went full circle. YouTube and Netflix killed the tv because they were young rebels that challenged status quo and had no ads, and ads on tv went very long.
Now YouTube, Netflix and all others just went to shit because of annoying and long ads, or paying extra to skip ads, gathering of usage data, spying on users, selling data, censoring, and building huge monopolies.
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Don't worry, Netflix planning to add interstitial ads to their low tier plans
Interstitial cheese and pickle.
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They also won't know what its like to watch a movie on DVD and all the cool features they used to come with
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Or getting in trouble and missing an episode of your favourite show, which happened to be the most crucial episode to watch that season.
Yep, still mad I missed the final episode of Season 6 of Stargate SG-1
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Well we went full circle. YouTube and Netflix killed the tv because they were young rebels that challenged status quo and had no ads, and ads on tv went very long.
Now YouTube, Netflix and all others just went to shit because of annoying and long ads, or paying extra to skip ads, gathering of usage data, spying on users, selling data, censoring, and building huge monopolies.
Time for the next thing.What arrrr we looking forrrr?
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The joy of when that Big Screen movie that you never got to see finally comes to the TV. With ad breaks. You absolutely didn’t care about the ads because they were normal at the time. And you had to be there on time to watch it, and make sure nobody else in the house was going to try to watch something at the same time. While I appreciate the huge variety and the ability to binge some great series today, it’s still the same old shit even with all the streaming services: A lot of bad TV, lots of uninteresting TV, with a few bright spots and plenty of ads.
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Now it's going to the bathroom or grabbing a snack wile in matchmaking queue
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Kids not having the Saturday morning ritual and being disappointed because golf.
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The joy of when that Big Screen movie that you never got to see finally comes to the TV. With ad breaks. You absolutely didn’t care about the ads because they were normal at the time. And you had to be there on time to watch it, and make sure nobody else in the house was going to try to watch something at the same time. While I appreciate the huge variety and the ability to binge some great series today, it’s still the same old shit even with all the streaming services: A lot of bad TV, lots of uninteresting TV, with a few bright spots and plenty of ads.
Here in Mexico channel 5 used to play trilogies on Saturday afternoons that's how I saw the Indiana Jones trilogy, Back to the future and Star wars to name a few when I was a kid.
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Hmmm.
Favourite show only on 2 times a year (Season), 2nd is replay of the same episode .
Lots of unstoppable ads.
No other way to watch it later.
This went on for a couple decades.Less TV’s and no one had a device.
The battles for who got TV time were epic between my brothers and I.Then VCR’s showed up.
Recording show with commercials was the only way. You could fast forward but annoying.Then Netflix and other streaming services would have no commercials and you could watch anytime.
Golden age.Now ads are back even if you pay.
Guess we are back to cable era again.
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Me, who never had a Netflix era but still never experienced this.
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Hmmm.
Favourite show only on 2 times a year (Season), 2nd is replay of the same episode .
Lots of unstoppable ads.
No other way to watch it later.
This went on for a couple decades.Less TV’s and no one had a device.
The battles for who got TV time were epic between my brothers and I.Then VCR’s showed up.
Recording show with commercials was the only way. You could fast forward but annoying.Then Netflix and other streaming services would have no commercials and you could watch anytime.
Golden age.Now ads are back even if you pay.
Guess we are back to cable era again.
Regression sucks.You don't have to obey the law.
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They also won't know what its like to watch a movie on DVD and all the cool features they used to come with
I'm not sure about that. With streaming prices soaring, public libraries offering DVD and Blu-ray discs are gaining popularity with families looking to tighten their financial belts.
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Well we went full circle. YouTube and Netflix killed the tv because they were young rebels that challenged status quo and had no ads, and ads on tv went very long.
Now YouTube, Netflix and all others just went to shit because of annoying and long ads, or paying extra to skip ads, gathering of usage data, spying on users, selling data, censoring, and building huge monopolies.
Time for the next thing.Well we went full circle. YouTube and Netflix killed the tv because they were young rebels that challenged status quo and had no ads, and ads on tv went very long. Now YouTube, Netflix and all others just went to shit because of annoying and long ads, or paying extra to skip ads, gathering of usage data, spying on users, selling data, censoring, and building huge monopolies.
I don't think your gripe is with Netflix on this. The reason they were able to offer mountains of commercial free content was because content owners didn't think "streaming licensing rights" were worth very much, so they sold them very cheaply. When content owners saw their DVD sales dry up and the started looking where their audiences went, and found them subscribing to Netflix. So when the content licensing contract renewals came up, the content owners jacked up the prices to high heaven. Netflix had the choice to either drop content or raise prices. They did a chunk of both, then again at the next renew, and again, etc.
Scripted content is generally expensive. The alternative is the dirt-cheap-to-produce "reality TV". If you wonder why you're seeing so much more "reality tv" this is why.
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Remember the C64 cheat cartridge? Saved off your game / reloaded it whenever you wanted.
I wanted one so much, but I never got one
Me either, but I would have wanted a Fast Load cartridge instead, but we couldn't afford that either.
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You don't have to obey the law.
I was a pirate before there was even Pirate Bay. Was just talking about the state of things now.
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Remember popping in a CD?
It could hold up to like 15 songs!
Nostalgia is good & nice but nah I don't need artificial limits on stuff today.
Remember popping in a CD?
It could hold up to like 15 songs!
And remember paying $20 in 1996 for that 15 song CD, and remember your heartbreak when you listen through for the first time and find out there was only the one song you knew that you really liked and maybe two others that were just okay?
Dark days indeed.
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Remember popping in a CD?
It could hold up to like 15 songs!
Nostalgia is good & nice but nah I don't need artificial limits on stuff today.
what about when they started to make cd players that could read a data disc full of mp3s? what a time to be alive. no need for a changer in the trunk!
