I hope Amazon can provide what they say they can. Seriously, these guys need to get their crap together. I've been with Netflix for years, and recently switched to streaming only. When I first signed up, it was DVDs. Then the streaming came along, and I got excited... Finally, we'll be able to cut the physical medium tether, I thought. The early days of streaming didn't offer much, but it slowly grew to include more recent titles and television shows. Great.
However, I have noticed in recent months that the available titles on Netflix has been shrinking! I checked today and some 25 movies and shows I HAD on my instant queue that were once available are no longer available for instant play. Some of it is baffling, too. For example, Penn & Teller's BS was on there, and it was the only place I could watch the episodes. Well, guess what? It's not anymore. Neither is the movie UP, most of the Star Trek films, even some of the old Attenborough documentaries. You get the point.
The other day, my wife and I wanted to start watching How I Met Your Mother from the beginning, so we started looking around. It's not on Netflix, and it's not on Hulu. In fact, a lot of the stuff you'd WANT to watch isn't available anywhere legally.
This is a big problem, and I assume it has to do with DRM and failure to adopt distribution strategies to the changing landscape that is digital media and internet content. In the meantime, we as consumers have to suffer, while we are promised a golden streaming world filled with everything ever made and rainbows. Well, it just doesn't exist, and frankly I'm tired of paying for crap.
Get your s**t together, content providers. I'm looking at you, Netflix and Hulu. Figure it out so we don't have to pay a mint for the privilege to watch content.
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