Quick math. I spend about $200 a year on physical media, $120 on Filmstruck. We will give it a nice generous round up to $400.
I watched 108 movies on Filmstruck last year, most criterion titles. In the interest of being fair we will say that would average $15 a piece to buy. That's $1,620.
A difference of $1,220, and I am being very generous considering criterion are $20 during sales. So I am assuming I can get half the films I watched for $10, which I probably can't.
Yeah, I love buying and owning movies too, but there isn't even a comparison on cost to me yearly.
So until you guys start buying my media for me or I all of a sudden have a weird desire to watch Kevin Bacon naked over and over, I will continue to mourn the passing of Filmstruck.
I watched 108 movies on Filmstruck last year, most criterion titles. In the interest of being fair we will say that would average $15 a piece to buy. That's $1,620.
A difference of $1,220, and I am being very generous considering criterion are $20 during sales. So I am assuming I can get half the films I watched for $10, which I probably can't.
Yeah, I love buying and owning movies too, but there isn't even a comparison on cost to me yearly.
So until you guys start buying my media for me or I all of a sudden have a weird desire to watch Kevin Bacon naked over and over, I will continue to mourn the passing of Filmstruck.
Think I can use this to show how I feel about streaming and online...
For $120 per year, you watched a bunch of films, but with that site shutting down, that's an annual $120 thrown at an online site, and nothing to show for it.
New DVD releases are always £10 per DVD... older stuff I can get on 5 DVDs for £20.
Annually I spend about £100-£120 on hardcopies, and for that £100 one-off payment, I have the movie forever... and sure that £100-£120 per year for me it means I get somewhere between 15 and 30 movies compared to the countless amount of movies you can watch online...
... but I then don't have to cross my fingers and hope I haven't given my cash to something that can just vanish in a poof of digital smoke never to be seen again after they've pocketed my cash.
Also, DVD is by far superior to the online pixelated JPG images and an electronic MP3 soundtrack.
This isn't a slight on you, Sean... I'm just using your post as an example as to why I absolutely hate online.
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