Comments on: The Costs of Cutting Cable A Year Later http://elwoodicious.com/2009/11/16/the-costs-of-cutting-cable-a-year-later/ Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. —Voltaire Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:58:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: james http://elwoodicious.com/2009/11/16/the-costs-of-cutting-cable-a-year-later/comment-page-1/#comment-9553 james Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:46:49 +0000 http://elwoodicious.com/?p=2026#comment-9553 Yeah, my feeling is that the bulk of the Amazon purchases fall under the "behavioral transition" category and likely will slow and fade (with the exception of Mad Men as that is Management's one vice that I am loathe to let her abstain from). But the purchases (more like extended leases based on a one time license payment) from Amazon are also based on a convenience factor, they handle the storage and it is easily accessed from a browser (Linux too, which is a plus compared to Netflix's Mac/Windows only streaming service) or the Roku. I honestly see that outlay dropping to something in the $60/year range as the farther we get away from the traditional broadcast schedule the more likely we'll be compelled to jump on anything current. For example we stopped watching 30 Rock and The Office on Hulu for Red Dwarf and Jeeves and Wooster which if anything makes for interesting water-cooler talk... As for the library, when we perused the video collection we were largely disappointed by the collection, particularly the children's, as it was mostly VHS and what DVDs they had in circulation didn't interest us or were readily available through Netflix. We'll definitely check out that movie, and Gabi is far from being a girlie-girl as her obsessions center around Robots, Ghosts, Dinosaurs, and Monsters so she might find it enjoyable. :-D Yeah, my feeling is that the bulk of the Amazon purchases fall under the “behavioral transition” category and likely will slow and fade (with the exception of Mad Men as that is Management’s one vice that I am loathe to let her abstain from). But the purchases (more like extended leases based on a one time license payment) from Amazon are also based on a convenience factor, they handle the storage and it is easily accessed from a browser (Linux too, which is a plus compared to Netflix’s Mac/Windows only streaming service) or the Roku. I honestly see that outlay dropping to something in the $60/year range as the farther we get away from the traditional broadcast schedule the more likely we’ll be compelled to jump on anything current. For example we stopped watching 30 Rock and The Office on Hulu for Red Dwarf and Jeeves and Wooster which if anything makes for interesting water-cooler talk…

As for the library, when we perused the video collection we were largely disappointed by the collection, particularly the children’s, as it was mostly VHS and what DVDs they had in circulation didn’t interest us or were readily available through Netflix.

We’ll definitely check out that movie, and Gabi is far from being a girlie-girl as her obsessions center around Robots, Ghosts, Dinosaurs, and Monsters so she might find it enjoyable. :-D

]]> By: 68stationwagon http://elwoodicious.com/2009/11/16/the-costs-of-cutting-cable-a-year-later/comment-page-1/#comment-9551 68stationwagon Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:59:41 +0000 http://elwoodicious.com/?p=2026#comment-9551 surprised to see you put cash outlays on the food/travel media. isn't that stuff pretty accessible thru your local library? we'll watch zimmern from time to time but i would not spend cash and go thru the effort of archiving. we're set to ditch comcast - probably for directv - signal is not great and i hate shelling out 8bux a month for their digital box (rent!) by the by, we just came across a great flim we watched with the boys - "october sky" - gabby's too young for it + it may just be a bit more "boy centric" than your homefront consumes...but really well written + the feel-good side of it drives you knee deep into the extras. library special = a week for a buck! put it on your list and give it a full evening. surprised to see you put cash outlays on the food/travel media. isn’t that stuff pretty accessible thru your local library? we’ll watch zimmern from time to time but i would not spend cash and go thru the effort of archiving.

we’re set to ditch comcast – probably for directv – signal is not great and i hate shelling out 8bux a month for their digital box (rent!)

by the by, we just came across a great flim we watched with the boys – “october sky” – gabby’s too young for it + it may just be a bit more “boy centric” than your homefront consumes…but really well written + the feel-good side of it drives you knee deep into the extras. library special = a week for a buck! put it on your list and give it a full evening.

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