Recent content by meStevo

I've never been happier with the media landscape, personally. Never had more options.

dfergie can you move our posts over to NFL 2025-2026 Season

I'm sure Jerry will make excellent use of those 1st round picks.

I mean, does it violate the terms of their carriage agreement or not? Pretty simple.

There are already studios that don't participate in Movie's Anywhere, it sets a higher bar for if I buy their titles. That's the closest to any of that. The more they make their content harder to watch or buy, the less they sell. It's not in their best interest to hoard these after their...

I'm being neither optimistic or pessimistic, but rather acting on data. I've been consuming content this way for more than 15 years. There has never been a merger or consolidation that I can point to that ever impacted this use case, in my experience. It's like complaining about data usage or...

Ok, and how has that negatively impacted this topic? I get the concern, but the consolidation is not new. It's FUD unless there's already been an impact that I (a relatively heavy user of PVOD) have yet to be impacted by. The closest any of us deal with that is just the ebb and flow of...

Same, the dozens that I redeemed on Vudu and elsewhere are all still there and accessible. Our actual DVDs and Blu-Rays are still in the garage, in their deteriorating cardboard boxes unpacked since our our move into this house almost 10 years ago.

What consolidation though, and how has any prior consolidation impacted this issue? I have so many titles in part because I can buy them from multiple other storefronts and because of (generous IMO) licensing that most movie distributors have agreed to I can access those same titles on multiple...

It does fluctuate due to the nature of licensing, though it's pretty rare. It's more common w/ books, which just went through a big thing on their Kindle and Audible platforms. Wife has more than 1100 books on the platform (I suppose a few might be mine), and 300 audiobooks (ok, maybe 10 are...

Doubt it goes anywhere, and if it does it'll just change terminology used on sites to purchase licenses for content. There will be no meaningful change as a result of this. I don't see how any of this can be seen as malicious on the part of Amazon when they're just engaging in industry...

It's not stealing, but it's explicitly a violation of Netflix TOS (any effort to obscure your location is), it's not uncommon for Netflix to blacklist VPN IPs. I could see this being the impetus for more emphasis on enforcement just as other high profile content has in the past. But yes, if you...

Randomly watched this last night, never heard of it. Good budget Scifi shot over 5 nights with a $50k budget. View: https://youtu.be/sEceDz1Rodc https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/coherence

They really nailed the aesthetic of the Alien movies.

Last night's AMC Unseen was Relay, if it wasn't the first day of school I'd have probably gone to see it. View: https://youtu.be/ywC__z5VgZM