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I'm willing to buy Blu-Rays. I'm also willing to stop watching "content" altogether. I'm already hating the experience of the forced unskippable ads for Paramount shows that play at the beginning (AT MAX VOLUME) of every Paramount+ channel stream (Star Trek... sigh).

If I have to watch ads like regular network TV, which I now find unwatchable, I'd just have to do without.

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Yeah, the recent NFL ads are obnoxious. I don't like sports. I never watch sports. I avoid sports related content. Forcing me to watch an ad for NFL before every episode of a show is beyond annoying. I think I've hit my limit and will be researching running my own content library now.

I find live sports are the one thing actually worth subscribing to myself. But then again I enjoy a good hockey, football, or baseball game. I know there are alternative streams but the quality is always poor and they're iffy at best. Any conventional show I can find in other ways.

Weirdly, I'm able to skip Paramount's pre-roll ads on Xbox, but not on their iPhone app. Anyway, I've heard Paramount's streaming service isn't doing so well[1], so with any luck they will give up and go back to Netflix.

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/paramount-just-quit-stre...

So long as they don't give up and try to get a tax write-off by just black-holing all those shows instead like some other studios did...

You have "content" in quotes, but during the actors and writers strike, there isn't even "content"

The business of media distribution drives us to talk about the stories we enjoy engaging with as though they are toiletries we're restocking from the store. I replaced my empty box of tissue with more "content," yay! I put that in quotes because I actually dislike the viewpoint that term comes from. I watch stories and performances, think on them, talk about them, and sometimes come back to them. I don't consume content, as if it were used up after I watch it once.

I hope the writers and actors get a fairer shake, especially with unreasonable terms for generative AI based on actor likenesses and voices. (We get to scan you once, pay you once, and use that "data" forever without ever paying you again.)

> I don't consume content, as if it were used up after I watch it once.

You may be in a minority here, many people I know (like my wife) very rarely will go back to something when they're done with it. Most people are on the lookout for something new to keep them entertained, so I would definitely argue that they are in fact consuming media.

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