04-08-2018, 12:15 AM
These services such as Netflix ,amazon, hulu etc, have really changed how we watch films and television series at least for most of us..a few are sticking to over the air like da good old days when we WERE the remotes for dad..
I use a roku stick for most everything anymore and we still have cable although I rarely watch it.. My dad is the cable junkie in our home .
Anyways, I got to thinking about how much cheaper it is to subscribe through streaming sticks and other types of devices than just a few years ago when if you wanted to watch recent movies you either went out to the movies or rented a vcr tape for a few days and 5 or 6 movies for the weekend was a 20 dollar bill out the window and half the time the tapes were already shot..
Now you can subscribe through (in my case roku) to various streaming services for $5-8 per month each and have access to hundreds..thousands of titles ,both movies and television series from around the world . Compare that to the old system with stores like Blockbuster and the 1000s of mom and pop video stores when each movie typically ran somewhere around $2 each and you had to take them back in a few days .
So now I have Netflix ,hulu, amazon (through my old woman's daughters account ) MHz Choice and now Sundance Now.. All for about $20 a month and even better I can drop services real quick if I don't like them with 1000s of different movies and genres to pick from. I don't have to drive anywhere, don't have to worry about the vcr tape getting lost or chewed up in the machine.
Us old guys remember back when you wanted to see a new flick it was either a theatre or wait 5 years for it to show up on one of the networks and if you weren't home that night or the folks wanted to watch Lawrence Welk or some crap then tough luck ..
I enjoy a lot of foreign produced films with subtitles so I watch a lot of series from other countries.. My two current favorites are MHz Choice and Sundance now .
What are you currently subscribing to for your binging pleasures?
I use a roku stick for most everything anymore and we still have cable although I rarely watch it.. My dad is the cable junkie in our home .
Anyways, I got to thinking about how much cheaper it is to subscribe through streaming sticks and other types of devices than just a few years ago when if you wanted to watch recent movies you either went out to the movies or rented a vcr tape for a few days and 5 or 6 movies for the weekend was a 20 dollar bill out the window and half the time the tapes were already shot..
Now you can subscribe through (in my case roku) to various streaming services for $5-8 per month each and have access to hundreds..thousands of titles ,both movies and television series from around the world . Compare that to the old system with stores like Blockbuster and the 1000s of mom and pop video stores when each movie typically ran somewhere around $2 each and you had to take them back in a few days .
So now I have Netflix ,hulu, amazon (through my old woman's daughters account ) MHz Choice and now Sundance Now.. All for about $20 a month and even better I can drop services real quick if I don't like them with 1000s of different movies and genres to pick from. I don't have to drive anywhere, don't have to worry about the vcr tape getting lost or chewed up in the machine.
Us old guys remember back when you wanted to see a new flick it was either a theatre or wait 5 years for it to show up on one of the networks and if you weren't home that night or the folks wanted to watch Lawrence Welk or some crap then tough luck ..
I enjoy a lot of foreign produced films with subtitles so I watch a lot of series from other countries.. My two current favorites are MHz Choice and Sundance now .
What are you currently subscribing to for your binging pleasures?
In the immortal words of my old man, "Wait'll you get to be my age!"
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.
