Subj : Re: Media Servers To : jack phlash From : Accession Date : Mon Oct 09 2023 16:21:17 Re: Re: Media Servers By: jack phlash to Accession on Sun Oct 08 2023 08:13 am JP> Jesus, didn't know it was so expensive, but Live TV is something I don't JP> really need (or want) personally. If I wasn't a fan of the local sports teams around here, I wouldn't need it either. As of right now I'm considering it a sacrifice, but depending on how our new quarterback performs this season, I may not need it for the next 15 years. :D JP> I don't think this requires a Prime membership (but I could be wrong) but JP> one compelling case (well, to me at least) for Amazon is "renting" with JP> media credits. If you buy stuff from Amazon even semi-regularly, you JP> sometimes get the option to receive a few bucks credit that you're only JP> allowed to spend on media (I think) when you group items for slightly JP> slower delivery. They've been doing this for years now, but I rarely did JP> it and when I did I'd be like "cool, I'll have to use that credit JP> sometime..." and then forget about it. Nowadays, anything we're not in a JP> hurry for, we pick that option, and every time I watch something I can't JP> stream for free, I see if I can rent it from Amazon (I usually can) and JP> just use those credits to do it for free (which it actually defaults to JP> doing.) The only downside is that they expire after a while, but it's JP> several months. I think my wife gets something like that. But I had thought they were redeemable for e-books only or some shit like that, so we just give them to our neighbor. JP> compelling case for piracy too.) Unless there's some kind of major event JP> going on I want to watch live, I have zero need to watch TV on *someone JP> else's* schedule. Yeah definitely. We basically watch TV as a last resort when we wind down for the night. We're going to watch what we want to, when we want to. JP> I'd guess the millennials are the last generation to experience that, but JP> it's really ingrained in a lot of older people. My parents, for example, JP> whose evening pretty much every night of the week is turning on the ol' JP> boob tube to watch... well, whatever the fuck there is to watch. I mean, JP> they have their favorite shows of course, but they watch stuff they'd JP> probably not watch otherwise just to pad out their schedule, they watch JP> reruns, or whatever random stuff if nothing better is on. It's kind of JP> gross to me to think of how much time they've wasted in their lives JP> watching some bottom of the barrel bullshit they never had any real JP> interest in, and a third of which was commercials anyway. When I spend all JP> evening watching TV, it's at least a show or a movie that I actively want JP> to watch. Oh same, for sure. My parents watched shit like Wheel of Fortune and Married with Children (and probably other's I'm forgetting) like it was religion. I was the one who had to get up and change the dials on the TV to whatever they wanted to watch. I basically got an hour or two after school and Saturday/Sunday mornings. Then again, they made me go outside and not come home till the street lights came on too. ;) JP> I admit, I do miss occasionally finding a hidden gem or developing an JP> appreciation for something you might have never gotten into if you weren't JP> in an entertainment desert, but then there's virtually limitless stuff on I don't think I ever would've watched The Office until streaming services. Then came to realize it's probably one of the best shows ever, hell we've probably watched it from front to back about a dozen times already. We turn it on to fall asleep to. Superstore was another one that I probably never would've even heard of. Also kind of nice they hold on to some of the oldies like Married with Children, Frasier, and random shit like that that we watched as kids but there's no way we caught every episode. Regards, Nick .... A man's only as old as the woman he feels. --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux * Origin: thePharcyde_ telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin) (46:1/700) .