Subj : "Highly profitable" Bay Street Video store n Toronto thrives
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Jul 13 2022 16:30:01

  Re: "Highly profitable" Bay Street Video store n Toronto thrives
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Wed Jul 13 2022 03:32 pm

 >   Re: "Highly profitable" Bay Street Video store n Toronto thrives
 >   By: Digital Man to MRO on Wed Jul 13 2022 02:23 pm
 >
 >  >> we are 100% streaming at this house. youtube, netflix, slingtv with
 >  >> all that stuff.  it's working out great.
 >
 >  DM> We are too. I went through all the trouble of getting an HDTV antenna
 >  DM> mounted on the roof with an HDHomeRun to record OTA content (for my
 >  DM> "Plex DVR"), but nobody here ever watched any of the live or recorded
 >  DM> content. If we want to watch something that was on OTA/network TV (e.g.
 >  DM> SNL), we end up streaming it from some service anyway.
 >
 > Some of those shows on OTA TV, I'm not sure is available elsewhere.
 > Sometimes I like to watch Jeopardy, Family Feud, local news, etc., which is
 > available on OTA, but is that stuff on any online streaming service?

I assume it is... somewhere (there are so many), but my family hasn't ever asked for content they couldn't find streaming or online, so it just hasn't been a problem for us.

 > Another thing is that I feel like there are many separate streaming services
 > now, and if I have to pay around $6 for each service, that adds up.  If
 > there's only one show I'd watch on their service, I'm not sure if it would
 > be really worth it.

True. We only pay for Netflix, Hulu and Apple TV+ and that total I think is about $30/mo.

 >  DM> I still have all the CDs and DVDs, but have stopped accumulating. Yeah,
 >  DM> there is a weird human instinct to hold on to things that have no
 >  DM> obvious/immediate use any longer and I'm sure eventually they'll get
 >  DM> donated or trashed. But man, the $$$ we spent on those discs is pretty
 >  DM> baffling.
 >
 > I wonder how that compares to the cost of monthly subscriptions for
 > streaming services you'd pay each month.

We used to (especially in the early part of the century) buy at least 2-4 DVDs a month *and* pay for DirecTV (at $100+ a month), so we pay far less now and have way more content to choose from.
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