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I’ve gotta say that we find there is less and less worth renting these days.

YES!!!! My wife gets BOGO's from Redbox (which is blue now... ?????), and we look and look and look for something, anything worth watching and.... nothing. we haven't got anything in months. We've ended up (re)watching The Middle, Breaking Bad, even Seinfeld....

we look and look and look for something, anything worth watching and.... nothing

I have noticed similar with HBO and STARZ. I watch, maybe, one series and one movie every 2-3 months. They aren't worth the subcription. I only kept HBO for Game of Thrones and read that it is being delayed until summer.

Similar with Amazon Prime and Netflix. Usually around the first of each month, they release dozens of new offerings. I find a couple or 3 to put in my queue and that is about it. Mostly, I watch some of the TV series that were not available in the US or were on TV when I did not have cable.

Regular TV is flooded with the superhero/Marvel/DC Comics stuff. It is better than the reality crap that used to flood every channel, but not much better. Then, there are the remakes. Some do make it, but most fold.

We live in a rural area, which means “rental stores” are still somewhat profitable. We actually became a member so we could watch the stuff over a couple of years old, at 50 cents for 5 nights. This winter we burned through even pretty much all of that though.

We don’t have TV or cable and haven’t since 1997, so if we’re gonna watch the TV it’s either discs or internet. And since we use our phone broadband for that, we can’t stream stuff without hitting the 40 gig monthly ceiling. So it’s youtube videos and disks, and that’s it.