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Originally Posted by Hitch
God, I know that feeling! It's irritating to hae hundreds of "channels" or whatever we're calling them these days, paying some, if not a lot, of money for choice and 95% of what's out there isn't fresh content but, let's face it, reruns for which we are now privileged to pay. I mean, man, talk about being sold a bill of goods.
Yeah, sure, someone will say "yes, but now it's on-demand! You can watch them (mostly) when you want." Sure, but they're also nearly pure manna to the networks/stations, whatever, tons of stuff is royalty-free or rights-free to them--actors didn't have residuals at that time or what-have-you. I'm pretty sure that the estate of Raymond Burr isn't getting a penny when I watch Perry Mason reruns from the 50's!
I don't know how they work the concept of "one person in Lower Slobbovia streams it, so Netflix has to pay you $0.0001 for that single stream," or whatever, but by and large, selling us reruns is nearly pure profit to them. Set up a server, make sure you have the bandwidth to deliver (which for NFLX is largely free, thanks to US laws), and voilą.
Hitch
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For us in the Netherlands it isn't mostly reruns like for you in the US. We don't get all of those series and if they do air a new season is often broken up with old episodes. So streaming is great.
Every once in while I get in a mood where I just don't know what to watch and nothing catches my fancy. Usually watching movies for a while works. Sometimes I just start a new series or season and hope it'll interest me.
Last night I watched Book of Shadows: The Blair Witch 2, which was a lot worse than I remember from watching it the first time when it was just released.
I've no idea what I'm going to watch tonight. I might give Succession or Severance a try, I've read good things about both.