Netflix is screwing around again and I'm gonna get hurt.
They are changing their focus, allowing certain licensing fees to expire, moving in a new direction. trying to become the internet's HBO, and the king of video streaming.
I understand. Technology is moving fast and you gotta keep up.
What I don't like is that from what I have read, a lot of what is being sacrificed is "old Movies."
Precisely the movies I want to see.
I am not comfortable with a corporation making decisions based on what the public wants.
The public is overrun with morons. (See Reality TV).
My dream is instantaneous access to every movie ever made. In today's world I am willing to bet that is not so far fetched an idea.
My nightmare is what is happening now, where quality entertainment is deemed superfluous and expendable in favor of a dive towards stupidity.
I have not even reached the streaming phase yet. I tried to set it up, but the woman I spoke to over the phone asked me 318 frustrating questions that drove me out of my mind.
I hung up.
I am aware that there are options out there that I haven't investigated. Amazon prime. Roku. I don't know what the hell these things are, I don't know how they work.
My ignorance is my own fault. I gotta make the effort. Gotta do a forty five page cost/benefit analysis, coupled with an efficiency study.
Lurking in the diseased corner of my mind is the belief that even if I have the stamina to make this effort, I won't be able to get the things I want.
I am an independent movie guy. Classic movie guy. Sub-titled movie guy.
I like blockbusters, like a little action, love a lot of violence and insanity, but my focus is on the above.
I am in an irrelevant demographic consumer wise, unless you are talking about Depends and coffins.
This does not please me.
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