...when it comes to watching films on the platforms, I am one extortionate paywall away from buying a DVD player off eBay and Googling: “Does Blockbuster still exist?”
What’s the problem?
It is not simply that Netflix and co are killing cinema – although, yes, that is a thing that is objectively bad. It is that the advent of streaming has made watching a movie in your own home more costly, more restricted and often incredibly annoying.
Really? Is this part of Frances' disability then?
Nowadays, if you rent a film that has recently been released it’ll cost you up to £20, far more than if you saw it in most cinemas – plus you’re paying the electric and heating bills.
Rubbish! I watched 'Zootopia 2' at the weekend, a film that was in the cinema at Christmas, on Disney+, it cost me nothing extra, whate sort of niche vieeing is she after?
When I fancied rewatching Sense and Sensibility recently, it struck me how it had become the norm to have to search through Netflix, Prime and Disney+ to work out which one currently owns the rights to each film. I eventually unearthed it on iPlayer. I think it was quicker for Jane Austen to write the novel.
You can just google that, you know...
My personal loathing is what I pettily insist on calling Prime’s “double paywall”, in which Amazon blocks off popular films from its own subscribers unless they stump up a £3.49 rental charge on top of the £8.99 we’re already paying monthly.
I just want to be able to rewatch a beloved film without helping Jeff Bezos buy another yacht.
What do you care what he spends his money on? Is that the real issue?
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Mine today I just posted was 1935. Fairly recent.
My experience of being exposed to Netflix on my daughter's account is more basic. "Vikings" was fine until they cast a historically documented Viking jarl as a black woman: wokeism with a capital "F"! "Game of Thrones" first few episodes were worthy of a sixth form dramasoc. Other time fillers they have inflicted on their viewer have been seventies European castoffs with bad acting, worse dubbing and the production quality of - that dramasoc again.
The DVD player that is built into our telly died, we bought a small one that plugs in with a cable for twenty quid. DVDs are now really dirt cheap from charity shops as, thanks to streaming services, nobody wants them. I suppose having a cheap and easy solution to her viewing problems would leave her with nothing to write a column about.
Stonyground.
Hoarders like me don't need to buy a second hand DVD player off eBay - I've still got several lying around. Along with cassette & record decks, and some VHS recorders...
Jeez! First world problems. If it's such an issue, buy the damn DVD player off Ebay. And the DVD's too, or look round some charity shops. It's actually quite fun, although I get the impression she'd rather moan than actually enjoy anything
Market economics in action. Can't have that and still write for the Guardian, you know.
I would expect nothing less of you!😂I only wish that I'd kept my cassette players when I found all those John Peel tapes is my loft recently.
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