My mother is so inept where computers are concerned that the day her computer crashed I brought it home to take a deep dive. When I got into the bios I found a suicide note that said the OS couldn't take it anymore and pulled it's own plug.
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Media Companies Are Ready to Sell. Does Anyone Want to Buy?
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Oh, hell, if we're gonna do that.....
My mother-in-law complains all the time about everything. We got her an Amazon Alexa smart speaker and it just sits there going "I know, I know....." all day.
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(Full disclosure---a made-up story. Neither of my mothers-in-law is alive, nor would have fit the description)
Good idea. That is exactly what my 90 year old aunt used to do. She used to call me every night, complaining that the computer was broken. I used to spend an hour with her doing Geek-squad style toubleshooting. I should have installed the RDP. God bless her, she tried so very hard. I was glad to spend the time with her; but if I had installed the RDP, she and I could have had fun chats instead of troubleshooting. She was always very fearful that she had ruined the computer. -- D.
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Albuquerque will just get a nearby market's teams and associated fees (probably mostly Phoenix).
Looking at Journal TV listings from last month, it appears there's actually a channel called Fox Sports New Mexico. Or maybe was, because the Journal shows no actual listings for it. Instead, there's something for "BSAZ-NM" which has Diamondback games.
Not anymore. MLB took over the D'backs' broadcasts last month. Like in AZ, NM can get the games via MLB.TV, but for a separate fee of $20/month or $54 for the remainder of the season (might be lower now, since there's only another 5 weeks left in the season), apart from the out-of-market games.
My father often did the same to my brother and I, and then started in on a few other family members when he needed "tech support" including when he'd simply forget his password(s). He'd tell us one moment that he would never knowingly open anything from anyone he wasn't absolutely sure about, and then a few moments later he'd say "Oh, by the way, what was this e-mail you sent me with an attachment about Oprah's weight loss secrets? McAfee tried to stop me from opening that attachment and it took me some time, but I finally worked around it and got it open". Upon further checking, someone had hacked his address book - the e-mail wasn't actually from me and he'd installed a virus or malware. On another occasion it was "FedEx sent an e-mail that they were trying to deliver to our house and no one was here, they asked me to fill out an attached form - took me a hell of a lot of trouble to get it open but I've not got it downloaded, I just need to fill it out and send it to them with all my information". Of course, when I'd ask him to expand the details on the e-mail he'd received, the actual address it came from had nothing to do with FedEx.
When he was in the market for his last laptop we steered him to Best Buy where he'd get complimentary Geek Squad for a year, they'd copy all his files and programs from his existing laptop to the new one he bought, etc. BEST THING WE EVER DID! Our phones stopped ringing and every few weeks we'd hear about how he went to Best Buy and chewed out the guys there for being incompetent, how he'd go to them one day and demand that they disable something, then realize he'd made a mistake and he'd drive back the following day, demanding they put switch it on again. We were free and clear at that point, but heaven bless the guys and gals at his local Geek Squad!
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That cartoon you posted is spot on.
It's been happening. The extent of it that cuts into Amazon and other large online retailers is a good guess, but according to this article large brick and mortar retailers have complained about large scale cargo theft.
Thieves target another source for stolen goods: Delivery trucks and trains full of packages
Major retailers, including Target and Best Buy, have spoken out about organized thefts and urged Congress to make it harder for criminals to sell stolen goods.
I can understand your frustration -- to a certain extent. I don't do cable, as I don't watch TV (aside from news reports on YT), and I don't subscribe to any streaming service. That said, I have friends who both do cable, and do internet streaming subscriptions, and although they used to go to movies, they simply don't anymore. The bother, the cost, it's just not worth it to them. I personally haven't gone to a movie since a couple years before the pandemic.
The internet has changed the way all media is delivered to the consumer. Of course, you and I and everyone here at RD knows that.
But these streaming sites also see potential pitfalls in their future ROI.
TV networks are slowly aging out (average age of network TV viewer: 54) and losing share to internet streaming (prime demos decreased their TV watching time by around 20% between 2014-2018, acc. to the last stats I could find on the subject), and internet streaming pays less per view of a movie than the traditional methods of movie watching.
At the same time, advertising doesn't rake in the big bucks it used to when there were 4 or 5 main TV or Cable networks -- back when there was no internet to speak of. So the streaming sites have to figure out a way to make money beyond just advertising. Right now sports is a way for them to make money. At least for the time being.
Sports like NFL football (average age of fan: 47) and baseball (average age of fan: 53) and hockey (average age of fan: 50) are aging out, and the media folks know this. The big sports we all love are maybe a decade or two behind AM radio in their aging out. They won't completely disappear, of course, but they will lose importance. So, if these video networks can make money off the sports now, they will.
And the same bundling metrics that worked so well with the cable industry are just being transferred to the streaming industry. it worked before. It will work now. It will work because they can make it work, and because they can get away with it. It's their ball game. They can control your access to their content, just as the cable company had the ability to control your access to content.
The great cancellation: why megabucks TV shows are vanishing without a trace
To save money, streaming services are axing finished shows without bothering to air them and deleting classics. What next? Game of Thrones? Succession? It doesn’t bear thinking about
Very odd way of 'making money'... to cut your video inventory to pay less in taxes.The great cancellation: why megabucks TV shows are vanishing without a trace
To save money, streaming services are axing finished shows without bothering to air them and deleting classics. What next? Game of Thrones? Succession? It doesn’t bear thinking aboutwww.theguardian.com
From the Guardian article:
"In May, Disney+ announced a content removal plan designed to cut US$1.5bn worth of content, meaning it substantially reduces the company’s value, giving it a lot less tax to pay."
And you cut the show right after you spent all this money producing it -- and right before it's destined to be aired on the platform?
Isn't that a streaming service's reason for existence -- to air shows on your platform, and draw an audience by having interesting new content? It seems the costs were already sunk in the new show they jettisoned before playing it. Seems like a stupid way to compete with other content providers. Oh well.
They devalue them and then get a tax credit for the loss.
Same thing happened with Batgirl and that was going to be released in theaters and on HBO Max, but it was scrapped because of low audience test scores.
Becky on CNBC Squawk Box mentioned this the other day. Apparently, certain exclusive store brands unique to Home Depot are being sold on Amazon. So if you see Behr, Rigid, or Ryobi being sold on Amazon, chances are it was stolen merchandise either from a HD, warehouse, or freight carrier.
Exactly. Plus, as mentioned last week, dormant titles don't rack up licensing fees and residual payments.
COVID made it a necessity for continuing to get an education. "Snow days" have essentially been replaced with e-learning. Some rural areas are making wi-fi available in specific locations. Sort of like school bus stops that serve a lot of students.
Eventually, we will all "go away" so your prediction is not a stretch.
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