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To: sphinx; al_c; AFreeBird; Albion Wilde; aMorePerfectUnion; A Navy Vet; AnotherUnixGeek; Antoninus; ..

FYI.

I personally don’t want to see Netflix, Disney, Apple and Amazon achieve a distribution cartel that completely controls the movie and tv industry.


2 posted on 08/26/2026 7:43:40 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: sphinx

I could care, I suppose, but I abjured television watching almost forty years ago and my movie attendance slid over the following fifteen years or so to zero. I had walked out of too many movies that had appeared to be interesting in the reviews but had no intelligent content.


8 posted on 08/26/2026 8:08:03 AM PDT by arthurus (l| covfeve |l ii!ili)
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To: sphinx

What’s the difference between 4 or 5? Of course back in the day they’re were 3. And actually Apple is a very tiny player, they spend a lot of money on shows, but they have a tiny subscriber base. Replace Apple with Google, with YouTube Google is a massive player.


10 posted on 08/26/2026 8:20:10 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: sphinx

It isn’t that difficult to just abstain from movies. Books, at least the old ones, are better than any movie. Since I’m getting older, I can read books multiple times, each time seems like the first. ;-D


25 posted on 08/26/2026 11:45:38 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: sphinx

They kind of already do. Truly independent movie makers are still small potatoes, by comparison.


28 posted on 08/27/2026 11:19:57 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim
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To: sphinx

They’ll all still fail anyways. But I agree.

They aren’t learning from thsir mistzkes. More people are rebuilding the8r physical media collections.


32 posted on 08/27/2026 5:16:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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