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The Fresh Pope Of Bel-Air

*subscribes*

Thank u for the obsessive rundown, sic. Generally agree that there's a whole lotta nothin' there. I appreciate these streaming services justifying my dedication to an ever-growing library of physical media.

Can I sub/rent from amazon if I’m located in belgium?

Perry Mason
This new spin on the show from the late '50s- to the mid '60s is set in 1932. The limited series stars Matthew Rhys and is executive produced by Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey. There's no release date yet.

dys

oh wait I googled and Rhys is a) an abled actor, so expect this to be hashtag cancelled before it is actually cancelled

i think you're thinking of ironside?

Perry Mason had no arms iirc

"Little Ellen" jfc

would happily pay a reasonable monthly fee just for sic's one-liners abt hbo max content though

In addition to driving up value by controlling scarcity, Disney, Netflix, etc. have a vested interest in limiting access to film history, which poses them an existential threat. They are cultivating a subscriber base with no memory of good movies as a point of comparison.

— ℑ 𝔇𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔅𝔩𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔜𝔬𝔲 (@NickPinkerton) October 29, 2019

Let's be real: no one who's been exclusively from streaming services or on demand for their film choices has any real interest in good movies.

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL VIDEO STORES/PHYSICAL MEDIA MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES

'been DRAWING exclusively' that is

be more optimistic about people's ability to grow, my dear Lunchie

I am! I'm optimistic that paltry streaming offerings will hip everyone to the fact that people are still pressing discs.

"SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL VIDEO STORES" there are like two of these left in the US so that's a bit hard to do.

Criterion btw

I would advocate that everyone blow their money on blu-rays and dvds as recklessly as I but I don't feel that I can do that in good conscience.

i think you're thinking of ironside?

damn I forgot that these two shows I’ve never seen aren’t the same show

even with this helpful mnemonic device:

Cop on wheels is Ironside
East, sleep, work, cheap, nine to five
Reagan won in a landslide
Which brings us back to Rawhide

you're a weird dude sic.

sic got sicced

Does stuff streaming through Criterion Channel actually look good? I feel like streaming generally looks like shit.

Also lol @ how streaming services are basically just a la carte cable now.

criterion channel looks great on my tv; ymmv of course based on cable/internet service

Gotta use that ethernet cable instead of wifi

for sure

Might also consider turning of that motion smoothing

One of my biggest complaints about streaming in general also applies to Criterion, unfortunately. If I'm going to pay a subscription fee for a library of content, I'd like that library to have some predictable stability. Swapping out selections on the reg just makes streaming a more protracted version of bog standard TV inasmuch as you have to watch stuff when/if they make it available to you.

The HBO Max lineup looks like a bunch of lame crap, but Netflix is basically a bunch of lame crap and people can't get enough of it

one upside of netflix (and then HBO) for a lot of folks was that you could watch anything on there and if you liked it you could recommend it to almost anyone secure in the knowledge that they probably also had access to it. With Disney, I think your self selecting audience is parents, completists and dudes who wanna watch the boba fett show so i'm not sure that translates into the new balkanization.
Realistically, if you want to be UP ON modern TV CULTURE, you are gonna need netflix, hulu, amazon, apple, disney, hbo as a starter pack and even with all that you don't get to see better call saul

Also lol @ how streaming services are basically just a la carte cable now.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, October 31, 2019 9:53 AM (eighteen minutes ago)

yeah but I remember people wanting to be able to opt in/out of things for years, lots of stories about what ESPN was charging

having three months to set aside an hour and a half to watch something any time you like, if you’re interested in it, is VERY different to having three seconds across 2 years in which you can start watching that thing


you're a weird dude sic.

look I’m as ashamed as anyone that the deathless lyrics of Don Letts briefly slipped my mind, but I’d had a couple of glasses of box wine

This six-part comedy show follows what happens when a young woman sleeps with a celebrity.

wow hey maybe the celebrity is a man decades her senior

Think we'll see a second golden era of torrents/newsgroups or a newer alternatives very soon.

along the same lines, I'm somewhat nervous that there will be a proactive throwback to the good ol' Modest Mickey RIAA days and AT+T starts shutting off internet connections

Realistically, if you want to be UP ON modern TV CULTURE, you are gonna need netflix, hulu, amazon, apple, disney, hbo as a starter pack and even with all that you don't get to see better call saul

not for the keeping up reason so much but I do think there will be a shift from multiple vendors requiring subscription to them all offering free sign up and only charging you for the shows/films you select (time limit on viewing as with rental) - seems like the only reasonable way out of the ensuing mess

Think it’s more likely that there’ll be mergers and consolidation with libraries being subsumed into other vendors. Unless there’s a unique usp e.g. Anime,arthouse movies, horror, documentaries etc I think a lot of these new offerings will struggle to differentiate themselves against Netflix, Amazon, Apple and Disney+.

most of those streaming programs are being offered as sweeteners: hbo is free with At+T service, amazon comes with prime, Apple+ comes with the purchase of new tech, netflix is free with tmobile
living in the era of content is water here

I think there's an opportunity to create a service that just buys one or two services per month and rotates between them so you can binge all of that service's stuff and move on.

curated content

ILPLEX yall

Being an "I don't even own a TV" person gets more and more enticing

Netflix, meanwhile is still padding its numbers of films earlier than, oh, 1996, with such fare as racist but copyright-free WW2 propaganda films.

AMC holding out on Hulu means their viewership is just going to fucking drop off and everyone will torrent their shows.

if you want to be UP ON modern TV CULTURE

Not guilty.

I have a TV, and library DVDs. That's about it.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/31/study-claims-disney-already-has-over-a-million-u-s-subscribers-pre-launch/

Cancelled Hulu and signed up for Netflix this morning, and this afternoon my physical TV (which I used to watch network shows and other stuff via a digital antenna) died. But it seems like a replacement will cost less than $150, so I'll probably buy one in a couple of weeks.

I have a weirdly proportioned living room and watch most movies/netflix/whatever there and am in a constant struggle between moving the couch closer in a way that seems awkward and just being more comfortable with increasingly larger screens

if I’m sitting nearly twelve feet away and love movies, I need more than a 50” screen, right? probably no

i have a 50" screen at 8 feet away and that's about perfect imo. i'd go at least one size up at 12 feet

thank you for your enabling

We have a 60" (it came with the apt) and have two couches set up in an L shape. I think the viewpoints are 6-9* away and 11". We also have a rower at around the 10-11" mark and I have really terrible eyesight (like - 10 in each eye for contact lenses) and all seems fine.

Ugh but I also have maybe a 30 inch or something 20" away, high up, and that was probably a bad idea.

want to give you a sympathy hug for that -10 nearsightedness

"The long-running British sci-fi series Doctor Who will stream exclusively on HBO Max, including the last 11 seasons, which will be available at launch."

...if the previous 26 seasons are not available at launch, is that because another entity has the rights to stream them, and therefore it will not stream exclusively on MAX?

From Boxing Day, 627 episodes predating the last 11 seasons will be available for streaming on Britbox.