Non-cape tv show

[McGinnis]

I think they're doing it because the number of streaming services has inflated to the point that none of them can be sustainable from subscriptions alone.

At which point people might as well ask 'why are we bothering to pay for this streaming service when we can get the same service from cable TV?'

[rabidtictac]

And Netflix is going (or is already doing) to do it, too. They're fleecing they goyim with jacked up prices, throwing ads in while they're at it, and providing nothing but the worst goyslop entertainment possible. They audacity of these kikes knows no bounds.

All of them are slowly jacking up their prices and bringing in ads.

Turns out collecting physical media like a boomer was the smart(er) play all along.

[McGinnis]

Turns out collecting physical media like a boomer was the smart(er) play all along.

Especially if you like Disney movies or anything made by Fox, because they're pulling physical releases and most licences so you have to buy into their shit streaming service with their shitty censored content.

[Le Redditeur]

Turns out collecting physical media like a boomer avoiding the mountains of garbage (((they))) release and pirating the few good stuff was the smart(er) play all along.

I wouldn't want to own a physical collection of the MCU even if it someone gifted it to me, for example. If Disney wants to charge a fee plus slap ads plus censor whatever the screeching harpies deem problematic that day, it wouldn't make physical copies of that garbage any better.

[McGinnis]

Good luck pirating enthusiast media

[Le Redditeur]

Dude, I managed to find torrents of Korean movies plus their English subtitles. Everything is possible if you search deep enough.

Anyway, if you're really worried some niche stuff will be hard to find by all means purchase the physical copies. But there's no reason to own the physical media or whatever shit its being showed on mainstream streaming services.

[McGinnis]

Dude, I managed to find torrents of Korean movies plus their English subtitles

Because there's a subculture for it. Same with Japanese shit. Most of that stuff never sees official translation or official Western release. So there's a piracy subculture. Pirating it is literally the only way most Westerners will ever see that stuff.

But Criterions, stuff like that, there's no subculture for them. A) because most of the people who are into that stuff tend to be older and B) they tend be into buying things. Good quality rips are so hard to find that it really is easier just to buy it.

But there's no reason to own the physical media or whatever shit its being showed on mainstream streaming services.

Literally nobody here was talking about buying physical copies of MCU shit. You've brought that into it all on your own

[rabidtictac]

Dude, I managed to find torrents of Korean movies plus their English subtitles. Everything is possible if you search deep enough.

I wish that were true, but it's sadly not. Especially if what you're looking for are commentary tracks which were only ever produced for a single DVD release and never replicated on any other media source for any other market.

Finding a torrent of Oldboy with English subs isn't even comparable to some of the obscure-ass shit I have in my dvd library. One example: Wu-Tang Clan's RZA 's live commentary track with film critic Andy Klein over 36th Chamber of Shaolin. That's nothing compared to some others. One of the dvds I have a commentary track for doesn't even list the track being on the dvd. It's like that shit never existed. I think the only place on the internet that mentions the existence of that track is an Amazon review.

Then you've got shit like Kurosawa that's easy to pirate but not easy to find the extras for. Like McGinnis said, you can't find a lot of the Criterion shit by pirating. It's just not available. You want a shit version of Kurosawa? Yeah, you can find it. You want high quality with multiple audio tracks and all the extras? Get absolutely fucked.

You're still correct if we're talking about mainstream garbage though. I wouldn't accept a capeshit movie even if someone paid me to take it.

[Le Redditeur]

But there's no reason to own the physical media or whatever shit its being showed on mainstream streaming services.

Literally nobody here was talking about buying physical copies of MCU shit. You've brought that into it all on your own

The context of the conversation was literally streaming services.

[Lindsay's Liver]

The idea of streaming would have been the coolest thing ever when I was a kid. The video store was a hassle. The movie you wanted might be checked out. Late fees. Most stores had tiny foreign and classics sections. The store with the REALLY good selection of that stuff was sometimes ten miles across town.

Netflix's old DVD-by-mail model improved on all of that, but had new problems. Slow post offices. The way that Netflix seemed to "throttle" your account if you rented too much. Fucked up, broken DVDs sometimes.

Streaming solved all of those, but had new problems and, to me, worse problems. Media can disappear now. Or be altered overnight.

Movies also seem to get buried these days. Before streaming, movies had three lives. Theaters, home video, and cable. A movie that bombed in theaters could still be a hit on video. That was common in the 80s and 90s. It was also good for small, independent films.

Today, I have no idea how any small movie makes ANY money languishing in the streaming sludge pit. The whole trajectory of how films like "Eraserhead" or "Reservoir Dogs" or "Slacker" found an audience is gone.

Enter capeshit galore.