Subj : Highly profitable
To : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Jul 13 2022 04:30 pm
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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