It seems the life time for the next big thing is getting shorter and shorter. Netflix had a great idea with it’s DVD rentals and then it went streaming and became too successful as the owner of the content saw what they were doing and took back their product.
Some of the best content on Youtube is created by “amateurs” with low overhead.
Hollywood should not ask for whom the bells toll, because the toll is for them (if they don’t change their way).
I finally canceled their disc service after 15+ years. A big reason is there just haven’t been that many movies lately I’d want to even rent. And they don’t offer 4k discs either.
If they raise prices one more time this year, I’m done. Prime and thepiratebay have everything you’d need anyway.
“Netflix had a great idea with it’s DVD rentals and then it went streaming”
Seems that was the original plan: knowing that _someday_ internet speeds would be high enough to support high-quality movie streaming, Netflix jumped the holding-pattern competition by starting the DVD-by-mail service. Someone recognized the old aphorism “never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic tapes”. Over time, streaming became viable and the DVD service waned (BTW: has it died entirely yet?).