Funny, I started watching Counterpart since I never finished it when it first came out. It brought to mind all the cancelled scifi series that have come and gone; Tales from the Loop, Night Sky, the Peripheral, Raised by Wolves, and so many others. What's the point of watching something if you never know how it ends (except for The Peripheral, enjoyed reading that one.)
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People are too picky
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40000 channels and only 150 of them have anything good on.
Several generations of people grew up watching a dozen TV shows and a few movies .... generations before that just read books .... and endless generations before that just talked to each other retelling stories to one another ... I think we can exist by just watching less.
I've got several subscriptions on the go right now and the more I think about it, the more I realize, I don't need all this junk and if there is something I really want to watch for some reason ... I'll go sail the high seas and get it myself.
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This is honestly why I'm an AI hater. We don't need more stuff faster, that's the last thing we need. The more I think on it the more I realize that all the art, media, even technology that I've really cherished and thought deeply about in my life had some kind of social connection; friends, family members, shared experiences.
I am now surrounded on all sides by water and I have nothing to drink.
Needle meet haystack. The worst thing is that they all are requiring commercials even if you paid for not having them.
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We just type the name of what we want to see, wait a minute and then watch it. Done.
Why would we want "hundreds of streaming services" only to not know what to watch 🤷🏻
The sheer number of streaming services, all with different content, is the real problem. At one time, you could have a Netflix subscription and be set, but now, not so much - the shows I'd potentially want to watch are spread over so many that the end result is that I don't subscribe to any of them.
If they offered like, 1 week subscriptions for 1/4 the price of a monthly one, I'd consider subscribing to watch one thing then letting it lapse, but there's not a month's worth of content on any of them, so I just go to illicit sources instead.
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I pirate seasons of interesting-looking television and copy them to my phone so I can watch them with VLC whenever I want. This macguffin in my pocket can be a television too!
Me looking for a new trash anime.
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Cable TV needed to fill timeslots...
Streaming has to put out enough to not lose subscribers, and they know most people aren't going to ever bother canceling.
It's this weird market where a streamers best customer: is someone that never launches the app. Too much content and they have to pay for the bandwidth.
Not even getting into how monopolization is limiting competition.
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I have endless unwatched DIY, travel, Investment etc utube vids and 10,000 books in my Calibre library, now that I'm retired my problem is a lack of time to watch anything (i retired at 40 and am now 61). I haven't turned the TV on for about 7 months.
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Oh buy there's. You. To watch I mean.
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justwatch.com and the JustWatch app made it a lot easier for me. You just select the streaming apps you have access to and then you can search them all at once. You can also see what’s new on all your streaming services every day, and just have one watchlist for all of them.
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