Hollywood Is Dead: Here's Why No One Cares – This article is SPOT ON

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[T.B. Yoits]

I was expecting to have access to thousands of movies at any time. Instead, they have a few dozen available at one time. Really a ripoff when you consider the only overhead is data storage and server capacity.

The streaming companies may not own the rights to the film and have to pay licensing fees. They may have cloud-hosting fees on others' servers. There are also aggregators' fees and song royalties.

Much like broadcast television, the streaming providers end up offering the videos with the lowest fees which means reruns of such shows as "The Honeymooners".

[SMARTY]

You’re right.

Some of my favorite movies are older. You actually had to bring somethng with you to the movie besides the price of a ticket.

Hollywood panders to the least discerning and the MOST impressionable.

[NetAddicted]

Read later.

[Grampa Dave]

we find ourselves watching less and less tv period....tv is not on during the day and sometimes we don’t turn it on til 87 pm or so.

During the day we read books on Kindle and follow some news on our computers.

At about 7 pm, my wife has dinner about ready, and I try to find something on tv. Often we end up watching some old Brit while eating and discussing the day. mystery series until bedtime at about 9 pm.