Shadow era forum11/28/2023 ![]() Plus they find that people tend to rate movies lower when the access is super easy and they feel something is missing. Meanwhile in physical media was king days, they'd make piles and piles of net profit post theatrical release (which itself used to bring even larger profits generally).Įven consumers don't seem quite as enthused (although still much moreso than many here), forget the worse video and audio, but more are seeing titles constantly disappear, new versions replace old, but even more just things slit across so many different services that it is like no different than subscribing to max cable packages now, but worse in some ways. ![]() Wall Street and the Motley Fools kept saying it was 100% profits and totally control and monopoly and endless profits and they went for it hook, line and sinker.īut now they are starting to see that they maybe should not even have allowed Netflix to get streaming rights and that decided to go all in themselves has actually maybe not led to infinite riches and that to keep subscribers they have to spend so much on their own personal streaming services that they end up with less than zero net profits (other than for Netflix, I believe), especially with everything split between like thousands of different streaming services. The ran into streaming because Netflix disrupted the industry (to an unsustainable degree) and now are all paying the consequences by losing billions on their streaming services. If they could release things on disc and make the massive amounts they did in the past they would, same with the music industry. I'm not quite sure when it went wild, but maybe 15 years ago and then even moreso 8-10? ![]() In the 80s those stores had 0.0 anime/manga stuff. The little local indie bookstore/comic shop here seems to have a lot more shelves devoted to comics over the last 20 years than back in the 80s and it is still open 7 days a week.Īnd I can't even avoid anime/manga today and it seems mainstream cool not beyond obscure, it is shocking to me, but the local big book stores have like way more shelf space devoted to that than to say Star Wars stuff!?!!, which feels like insanity to me and the gigantic shelf walls of that stuff are always crowded with teens/twenty-somethings(and some thirty-somethings). Back in the 80s comics seemed like such an obscure, niche thing and anime/manga even more so still. The comic store I go to now is only open on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturday and he's been telling me basically what you just told me. My dad would do the grocery shopping and I was reading all the comics at the grocery store. Not to mention that comics were everywhere back then. Growing up in my hometown, there was like 5-6 comic stores.
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