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Netflix being the only streaming offering.
Yeah, once Netflix and other streaming companies discovered exclusive content it all went to shit.
The entire point was to have content distribution separate from production, and available in one place.
Streaming was supposed to 'replace' cable television, because people were fed up of forced commercials, unavailable content and restrictions on cable television.
Well, streaming got maybe some of that corrected. However, it has turned itself into a hydra where the content is here, there and over there with price tags on every service. Ads are now forced onto us but we now have "control" over them, I guess (if you don't ad-block).
So it's like cable television all over again.
The whole streaming thing is capitalism in a nutshell.
It forces innovation that creates awesome thing
It's never happy with the amount of money it makes, so it keeps pushing harder and harder until the awesome thing turns into shit, and on its way of turning into shit it pulls up the ladder behind it so new competitors have a harder time competing.
I miss the mailed DVDs..
I remember Brooklyn (NYC) Public Libaries had DVDs you could borrow. They even have foreign language TV shows lol.
Used to? Like they don't anymore? That's disappointing. My local library still carries DVDS.
No idea if they still have them, I don't live in NYC anymore. NYC, even Brooklyn is expensive as hell, rent was going up. My parents barely managed to borrow money from close friends + some savings to be able to afford a house in Philly, where I'm now. The last time I've been to the library was... idk 4-6 years ago... I literally only go to libraries to use their computer or like I wanna skip school and chill a bit there so I don't get home too early.
When I was younger, I remember borrowing comics and stuff... I never actually wanted to read "books".
I was facing a lot of issues...
On one hand, I barely know enough Chinese to read a Chinese book (except like a childrens book, which is just cringe for me, yes I know very hypocritical since I was a kid myself)
On the other hand, my English wasn't remotely good enough to read an English book.
So like comics were the only thing I could read.
As for the DVDs, I didn't pick them, my parents did. And it was interesting enough for me, so I just watched it anyways since there wasn't much to do. Early days I wasn't allowed much computer time / internet time, when I did have more access, I wasn't knowledged enough to find free stuff to watch. So its just TV shows in Mandarin from those DVDs. It probably helped with expanding my Mandarin skills for a bit longer, because like it soon atrophys when you don't use it. I haven't really spoken Mandarin for like... 15 years. Except rare circumstances when there was a Mandarin-speaking classmate. I kinda remember the pronunciations, but I'm gonna have to think in Cantonese, then convert it to Mandarin... so there's a bit of a lag, sort of.
I used to live off the video game equivalent of the video disk delivery service…. I forgot what it was called, but that was the shit where basically you could “rent” a game but keep the game as long as you wanted unless you cancelled your membership. That was the shit.
GameFly maybe?
Oh they're working on bringing that back.