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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Cashmere beat me to my rebutal.
It's not a rebuttal. It's a mild addendum. Cashmere having some extras in no way provides all of the American market with movies and commentary they can watch on their laptop on holiday yet not own.
PPV ties you down to not just a cable-connected house, but quite probably your own.
It's a very weird point to try and make. I don't see any possibility of coverage here.
I did it. Yet again, I started an HTML tag with a single-quote. I tried to edit it, but the edit button didn't work.
Not very work-safe. What if you liked wearing fuzzy suits but you wanted to be a human?
Renting DVDs. Just say no.
Why? What's wrong with it?
For real, man. I only buy something that I *know* I'll watch repeatedly. PPV isn't an option if I want to watch, say, Citizen Kane.
Why? What's wrong with it?
At sell-through pricing, all the money goes to the Blockbusters of the world, who milk it with forced sales, now, or late fees, and less to the creators.
Buying going to the creators, fairly directly.
Netflix is more creator-supporting than Blockbusters, but only because they are gouging less.
But, Gus, there are quite a few movies I don't want to see $20.00 worth.
When I see it in the theator, the creators get shafted on the royalties, too. Would you suggest that it's wrong for me to go to dollar night?
Not very work-safe. What if you liked wearing fuzzy suits but you wanted to be a human?
For a brief moment, I wanted to kill myself....
Yeah. Social class is really alive and kicking in Europe. Not that it is dead in the States. The cues are just different.
I was interested in England with how, well "ok" everyone seemed to be with class. Lord so-and-so was who you talked to about finding a job in that town, the housekeeper was from the same part of the country as the middle class family I was staying with and had a distinctly different accent... and my one friend with an economics gegree from Cambridge hadn't even considered going to college at all because his family was working class and no one ever had-- and college was FREE.
Buying going to the creators, fairly directly.
But if I don't buy or rent those 273 movies, the creators get no money at all. How's that a win?
And if I hadn't just rented Sneakers (don't see how I could have PPVed it), I wouldn't be looking at buying it.
I like that fact that my cable co is at least trying to offer the extras. I am pretty selective about what I'll own in regards to DVD's. REALLY picky. And yet, not so picky as to what I'll watch.
We'll rejoin Netflix when we get around to replacing the DVD player.
PPV ties you down to not just a cable-connected house, but quite probably your own.
For people like us, this SO ISN'T a problem. In fact, it's a pretty good solution for us since with a baby, we're mostly homebound--at least for entertainment purposes.