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Prime to Insert Ads in Programming in January

Jeremy said:
I’ve watched probably a 1,000 hours of streaming this year and about 10 of those hours on Prime. They just don’t have the volume of stuff or the things that attract me.
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For comics nerds they have the best quality comic book/super hero series pretty easily…but they only have three or four series while D+ and Max feel like they have about 30.

I get Prime anyway because of free shipping and believe it or not my neighborhood Whole Foods is the reasonably priced grocery store…but I would pay for a month or two a year just to watch The Boys/GenV/Invincible. Beyond that I can’t imagine paying at all for their series. I like one or two other series but nothing to make me think it’s something I need all year.
 
Gorm said:
Guess they got tired of paying for the Lord of the Rings garbage and needed to pass on the costs.
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As a Tolkien fan I was telling people it wouldn’t matter if they adapt that faithfully or not, it’s just not compelling movie/series stuff. It’s like a feigned history or even a dry religious text more than a relatable story.

It won’t be too long and The Hobbit and LOTR will be public domain I believe.
 
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Nor'easter said:
Yeah I probably wouldn't have prime if I didn't have it already for the shopping side of it.

It's pretty pathetic that we're gonna end up with cable 2.0 again... but we all saw this coming, the suits gotta make more money than they did the year before.
Also I'd be less upset if these streaming services didn't blow their money on horrible movies with big name actors and then up their prices.
And if prime didn't spend like $50 million an episode on their lord of the rings show that was awful.
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This is what gets me. Netflix had a business model where they provided previously released movies and TV series to viewers at home, and it was a successful model. But it wasn’t enough for them. They decided they needed their own “original content” to keep the subscriber base growing, especially as other streaming services started entering the fray, and some of those services started pulling their content off Netflix to host on their own sites. So the online streaming landscape became more and more fragmented with more and more services splitting up more and more of the previously released content, which meant all those other streaming services had to also come up with their own original content, which costs a great deal of money to produce and can’t possibly be profitable on its own without increasing subscriber fees or selling commercial time or both.

And just today I saw a headline about streaming services/studios like Warner Brothers/Paramount/Disney/etc looking at huge losses and planning widespread personnel cuts. I mean, geez, come on, people - nobody asked for the overwhelming majority of these “original movies and limited series” that you keep cranking out. For every “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” there’s eight “The Tomorrow War”s; for every “The Crown” there’s fifteen “Ridiculous 6”s. Maybe stop wasting all your money on that crap.
 
Clonehomer said:
I’m also to the point that the shopping isn’t really worth it either though. It’s become a liquidator of Chinese junk. If you search for a specific product, you have to wade through a list of sponsored products to get to what you’re looking for. So with so many places having free shipping on orders over $50, I’m not sure why I’d renew when it comes due.
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That's why Temu will put them out of business. Why use an American company to pedal Chinese junk.
 
Do ads actually influence any of you? I'll get ads all the time for things I could not care less about. I don't care it's Chevy truck month. I'm not going to bank at Capital One.
 
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Dandy said:
Do ads actually influence any of you? I'll get ads all the time for things I could not care less about. I don't care it's Chevy truck month. I'm not going to bank at Capital One.
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Ads / trailers for movies may be the only thing that’s worthwhile for me. Otherwise, I’m not sure the last time I made a purchase because of an ad.
 
HFCS said:
If you like critically acclaimed older movies, Kanopy has by far the best selection of any streaming service for free with no ads. You just need a library card.
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If your library subscribes to it. Mine does not.
 
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Got Hulu for Christmas (just the cheap plan with ads). But there are ad-blockers that work when you watch online. Haven't quite found one yet that takes them off the smart TV and my android phone, despite their claims.

Not sure if Billionaire Bezos (still the largest Prime shareholder) really needs my extra $3 per month, and I am reaching the end of "Kim's Convenience."

Might have to tell Prime "OK, see you."
 
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The "everything on Prime sucks" hot takes made me look at my viewing history to see what I watched in 2023 on Prime.
  • Carnival Row S2
  • Citadel S1
  • Jack Ryan S3, S4 (S4 was like a C at best)
  • The Man in the High Castle S1-S3 (Was pretty good but haven't moved on from S3 as it seemed like an okay stopping point)
  • The Wheel of Time S2
  • Good Omens S2
  • The English S1 (recommend!)
  • Gen V S1, S2 (Like The Boys, lots of WTF and "Damn!" moments)

And a handful of movies, The King's Choice, Black Adam, Three Thousand Years of Longing, Knives Out, and The Samaritan.
 
Really thought this was going to be about coach prime. I was curious how he was going to add commercials to things.
 
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We don't use Amazon. At all. Make almost all online purchases on ebay. Occasional larger items on walmart.com
 
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