{"id":23052,"date":"2018-01-04T04:39:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T09:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=23052"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:25:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:25:41","slug":"resolution-goodbye-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/01\/04\/resolution-goodbye-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolution: Goodbye Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"23091\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/01\/04\/resolution-goodbye-netflix\/father-time-color\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Father-time-color.jpg?fit=500%2C673&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,673\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Perfection 4490&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Father-time-color\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Resolving to get rid of Netflix&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Father-time-color.jpg?fit=223%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Father-time-color.jpg?fit=500%2C673&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23091\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Father-time-color.jpg?resize=500%2C673&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Father-time-color.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Father-time-color.jpg?resize=223%2C300&amp;ssl=1 223w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>I was a <em>Netflix<\/em> subscriber back when nobody ever heard of them &#8212; back when they were just a mail-order DVD rental outfit with but one distribution plant in San Jose, CA. I had my doubts when they leapt into streaming but was pleasantly surprised at how watchable it was on a <em>Wii<\/em> gaming system hooked up to an old tube television and DSL internet service. I soon bought <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/09\/year-roku\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my first Roku box<\/a>, and it was all over. I let my DVD rental service lapse and became a streaming video consumer. As I&#8217;ve written before, I have not subscribed to cable television since the early 1990s and streaming television was just like Heaven. Watch what you want when you want! <em>How could you beat that?<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That was then and this is now. Movie studios feeling threatened by Netflix&#8217;s dominance of streaming have gone to war with the platform forcing Netflix to create or buy their own content. It may all make fascinating reading if the backroom battles of entertainment conglomerates are of interest, but I don&#8217;t care. I just want to be entertained, and Netflix isn&#8217;t doing it for me anymore. I spend more time figuring out what to watch than I do watching shows.<\/p>\n<p>My friends urge me to stick around because the new season of <em>such-and-such<\/em> is coming up, and that worked for a while. There were shows that were truly great, but there were more shows that I put aside like a half-read novel that I&#8217;ll never pick up again. I lost my fascination for a political family&#8217;s ruthless ambition, and I don&#8217;t care if the jailbirds ever get out of jail. The Marvel series are what sealed the deal. They started off with a bang but seemed to get cheaper as they went along with tortuously padded scripts and low-rent battle scenes that all seemed to be acted out on the same corridor or warehouse set. Typical cop TV shows are more lavishly mounted than these super-hero stories. I couldn&#8217;t make it all the way through <em>The Punisher.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So I canceled Netflix. My subscription ends today, but it&#8217;s not like I am kissing streaming services goodbye. I still have Amazon Prime which has <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/04\/07\/exhuming-dead-buried-while-drawing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a really oddball selection<\/a> at their shallow end, and there are a number of free, ad-supported services such as <em>Crackle<\/em> and <em>Shout Factory TV<\/em> which have a surprising lineup of movies and TV series. There are now several fish in the sea or is that the<em> stream?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a Netflix subscriber back when nobody ever heard of them &#8212; back when they were just a mail-order DVD rental outfit with but one distribution plant in San Jose, CA. I had my doubts when they leapt into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/01\/04\/resolution-goodbye-netflix\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3456],"tags":[4285,17,3459,4284,43,5,3183,187,4286,185],"class_list":["post-23052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weird-world-of-the-roku","tag-cancel","tag-cartoon","tag-entertainment","tag-father-time","tag-humor","tag-joe-williams","tag-movies","tag-netflix","tag-resolution","tag-roku"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5ZO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22453,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/07\/11\/that-vudu-you-do\/","url_meta":{"origin":23052,"position":0},"title":"That VUDU You Do","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"July 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I've always been a fan of Netflix and I've been a customer of theirs since 1999 back when they were DVD-by-mail only and had but one distribution center on the West Coast. Joining Netflix was a no-brainer back then considering the outrageous prices, paltry selections and, worst of all, late\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weird World of the Roku&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weird World of the Roku","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/weird-world-of-the-roku\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/vudu-portal.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/vudu-portal.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/vudu-portal.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4190,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/03\/05\/wonderfully-weird-channels-roku\/","url_meta":{"origin":23052,"position":1},"title":"The Wonderfully Weird Channels of the Roku","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"March 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm starting a new category that could be considered for cord-cutters or folks looking to save some serious cash by giving cable TV the heave-ho. I could be considered a cord-cutter in a way although I never had a cord to cut in my current residence. Back when the city\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Stuff Joe Likes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Stuff Joe Likes","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/stuff-joe-likes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-18-at-12.20.52-PM.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-18-at-12.20.52-PM.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-18-at-12.20.52-PM.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-18-at-12.20.52-PM.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-18-at-12.20.52-PM.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-18-at-12.20.52-PM.png?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":23204,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/01\/30\/i-want-my-polka-music-tv\/","url_meta":{"origin":23052,"position":2},"title":"I Want My Polka Music TV!","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"January 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"When I purchased my first Roku about 8 years ago I quickly became convinced that it was the best $60 I had ever spent. The house I moved into in the mid-1990s was wired throughout it's three floors for cable, but despite the constant barrage of junk mail, telemarketer calls\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/polka-screen-cap.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/polka-screen-cap.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/polka-screen-cap.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/polka-screen-cap.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1924,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/11\/30\/i-want-my-roku-tv\/","url_meta":{"origin":23052,"position":3},"title":"I Want My Roku TV!","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"November 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"This is Tina's birthday card to me for 2010. 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