Comment on Comcast Unveils Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Streaming Bundle

Jaysyn@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Copernican@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Say what you will about streaming, but I think everyone born before 1995 will understand that todays streaming is way way way better than renting and old school cable. In the old days there was no on demand, so you could only watch what was on at the time you wanted to watch it. You literally had to go to to block buster to rent physical media that wasn’t always available for things like new releases. TV shows weren’t easily available by VHS/DVD. So with streaming, it’s basically cheaper than what Cable + Renting movies used to cost, but I can do it without limits of physical media and have access to crazy amounts of back catalog. I purchased Band of Brothers back in the day on DVD box set for like 70 bucks which is 10 1 hour long episodes. For 99 bucks a year I can get all of band of brothers and a lot more content than that. Sure I don’t own it all, but that’s fine for most of my purposes.

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  • Bizarroland@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Counterpoint:

    Thanks to streaming we don't spend quite as much time thinking about the media we consume and the deeper meanings and subtext and generating internal fanfictions about what could possibly be coming up in the next episode a week from now.

    Streaming makes media easier to consume but fills it with culturally empty calories.

    The grand majority of conversation I see about a show is, "Have you seen _? No? You should totally watch _, it's really good!" Or alternatively, "Yeah, it's great isn't it?"

    Since Netflix came out we've definitely taken one step down the ladder rung closer to Idiocracy ass movies.

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