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Seriously, I just went looking for Gilligan's Island episodes online for fun. Some trivia got me thinking about it and I went looking. Got to have em on-line from somewhere, huh? Hulu, AOL, TVLand, whatever. Fail. Someone has them locked up tighter than a drum.
Now, it used to be that you couldn't avoid it on TV. That's all there was sometimes... on several channels! Now, not on cable, or online. Oh, you can get pirated versions, I'm sure. But that's not what I was interested in. Netflix has em, but you have to pay. I frigging don't believe it. We're talking Gilligan's Island here. Not some new show...Gilligan's Island! I probably have them all memorized anyway, so I'll just have to "remember" them. Read a synopsis or something, and remember.
If some idiot thinks I'm going to shell out bucks for Gilligan's Island (DVD, On-Demand, or On-line $) when it used to be all over the place for free, no way. Advertiser supported content is fine. I don't mind a commercial or two while watching hulu or other on-line content providers. If I paid for a subscription, I guess they could skip some (or all) ads. Freeloaders like me get more adds. OK.
I remember the old days....when they ran actual shows to fill gaps instead of all that "Paid Advertisement" crap. The networks got their advertising revenue, the shows aired.
OK, so the market must be changing. Either there is no demand for it (G.Isle) or there is enough demand that someone thinks they can "lock it up" and charge for it. IDK.
This gets, finally, to my question. I guess I can cut cable down, and pay for some streaming service. But that just chews my bandwidth to hell. So... I have to pay for more bandwidth along with the streaming service. I don't use on-demand (pay) since I could rent a redbox movie for a $1.00 rather than $3.99 or whatever. So, I'm limited right now to cable content, free on-demand, and free-streaming.
Since the ECF group is pretty tech savy, I was wondering what you were doing with content these days. Are you moving from cable to streaming? Is it really the money saver that some sites [used to] make it out to be? Is the market changing, and who owns all this stuff now? Anyone know?
Oh, and where the hell are the Gilligan's Island episodes? Grrrr.
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Seriously, I just went looking for Gilligan's Island episodes online for fun. Some trivia got me thinking about it and I went looking. Got to have em on-line from somewhere, huh? Hulu, AOL, TVLand, whatever. Fail. Someone has them locked up tighter than a drum.
Now, it used to be that you couldn't avoid it on TV. That's all there was sometimes... on several channels! Now, not on cable, or online. Oh, you can get pirated versions, I'm sure. But that's not what I was interested in. Netflix has em, but you have to pay. I frigging don't believe it. We're talking Gilligan's Island here. Not some new show...Gilligan's Island! I probably have them all memorized anyway, so I'll just have to "remember" them. Read a synopsis or something, and remember.
If some idiot thinks I'm going to shell out bucks for Gilligan's Island (DVD, On-Demand, or On-line $) when it used to be all over the place for free, no way. Advertiser supported content is fine. I don't mind a commercial or two while watching hulu or other on-line content providers. If I paid for a subscription, I guess they could skip some (or all) ads. Freeloaders like me get more adds. OK.
I remember the old days....when they ran actual shows to fill gaps instead of all that "Paid Advertisement" crap. The networks got their advertising revenue, the shows aired.
OK, so the market must be changing. Either there is no demand for it (G.Isle) or there is enough demand that someone thinks they can "lock it up" and charge for it. IDK.
This gets, finally, to my question. I guess I can cut cable down, and pay for some streaming service. But that just chews my bandwidth to hell. So... I have to pay for more bandwidth along with the streaming service. I don't use on-demand (pay) since I could rent a redbox movie for a $1.00 rather than $3.99 or whatever. So, I'm limited right now to cable content, free on-demand, and free-streaming.
Since the ECF group is pretty tech savy, I was wondering what you were doing with content these days. Are you moving from cable to streaming? Is it really the money saver that some sites [used to] make it out to be? Is the market changing, and who owns all this stuff now? Anyone know?
Oh, and where the hell are the Gilligan's Island episodes? Grrrr.
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