Posted on 01/05/2024 10:38:59 AM PST by davikkm
Same here. It broke and no desire whatsoever to replace it. Learned with my kids if you tolerate or reward bad behavior you only get more of it.
I always used the commercials for bathroom breaks and refilling the snacks.
Yes, rounded up a few cents. $15, best deal in town.
We do the same thing, but the ones we see often aren’t even $2.
However, you don’t always find what you want. Sometimes it needs multiple trips, but that’s OK. There’s always turnover.
One thing about giving up television is that it only gets easier not to watch it.
Or you could just watch the movies on the many free sites on the web.
Prime will be introducing commercials
” Dear Prime member,
We are writing to you today about an upcoming change to your Prime Video experience. Starting January 29, Prime Video movies and TV shows will include limited advertisements. This will allow us to continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a long period of time.
We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers. No action is required from you, and there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership. We will also offer a new ad-free option for an additional $2.99 per month* that you can sign up for here.”
I like going to the thrift shops anyway, so finding a good DVD is a bonus.
We’ve noticed this already. It doesn’t bother us - we both grew up knowing only network TV with ads. But I imagine it’s annoying to younger people.
I noticed this kind of thing during a period when the US Military or members of it were somehow always the villains.
They are paying way too much for content and leadership which gets passed on to users. Netflix has a co-CEO model....why pay 2x salary? Nextflix partners with Obamas, Susan Rice on BoD. Amazon delivers a bunch of in-house produced lemons. Disney piling on the losses with MCU using the dead horse strategies.
These platforms are about to experience the pain of customer churn due to price elasticity. Customers are simply rejecting their product for the reasons above.
I saw that. Its bad enough paying $14.99 per month th but then to have to watch ads? 😤
Cable was the ultimate scam...
Create a channel that NOBODY watches... then charge the cable companies a few pennies per subscriber to carry it, and then also sell adds on it.
MAKE tens of Millions...
Literally could play nothing but old shows you would have found on UHF stations back in they day that cost next to nothing to broadcast, and rake in millions upon millions.
Yep. Netflix isn’t releasing quality content, most of what it does release is totally ‘woke’ garbage.
I was a young lad before there was TV, and when it came in, had 15 minute commercials, usually running the ad for the Magic Slicer Dicer.
Oh you will starting January 29th on Amazon prime.
Literally. I haven't had TV in ages. When I go to a friend's house and they want to watch something, it doesn't really matter what it is, I can almost physically feel my brain turning off.
LOL! hahahahahahahahaahahahaa
“We see the same impulsive greed with individuals, only the now counts, the immediate payoff and gain with no view or thought to the long-term reputation or enduring image.Even immigration and military careers are in that same zone of greed, me, and grab it now and suck out everything you can squeeze out of it.”
Hear! Hear!
Hate to say it but Youtube TV gives you almost unlimited recording and skip over commercial capabilities.
If you watch live or VOD you have to watch commercials but if you start a recording, the come back in 30 minutes you can skip commercials.
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