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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
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The saloon scene..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0ZEmLosVXE
It's all way too short lived, our run in with old Buster. This puts a kink in whether or not I'll stay on with the soon to be more expensive Netflix.
]]>Rusty2019-01-22T15:58:15-00:00Re: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
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Sounds like I need to give that show a try. After reading your comments, I found it on Netflix and watched the preview. It was hilarious!
Look around on your Roku box. There are a lot of free services, like Pluto, Crackle and several others. Roku even has its own streaming service. All those are supported by commercial advertisements, much like the old television broadcast model.
And of course, there is Netflix and Amazon Prime, as well as many other fee-based services. They usually cost about $10/month and some have a TON of commercial-free movies and TV series. Netflix and Amazon have even started their own production companies and are making movies and TV series. Netflix has done literally hundreds, most with big-name actors. They're giving Hollywood a lot of competition, probably scaring the hell out of them too.
]]>Wayne Parham2019-01-22T23:17:33-00:00Re: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
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I'll probably stick with Netflix for a while and see if over time the content involves me enough. Buster Scruggs has upped the ante considerably.
]]>Rusty2019-01-23T15:58:40-00:00Re: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
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]]>Rusty2019-01-23T16:22:27-00:00Re: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
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Quick digression -
You're really lucky to have good internet. Because as you've said, "Never has there been such a choice a viewer can make for so little investment, if they have fast enough internet." You do need fast and reliable internet for video streaming.
I initially resisted all real-time streaming technologies, e.g. VoIP (voice) and video over IP. Because the whole IP protocol is designed to be fault tolerant in a way that precludes real-time signals. The packets can (and will) arrive out of order. They may not ever be lost, but if they're sufficiently delayed, then they are "lost" in the real-time stream because the feed has passed the point in time that the delayed packet was needed.
That's why buffering is so important for a video feed. It delays everything long enough to (hopefully) wait for long-lost packets. Since the video feed isn't really real-time, it can be delayed and treated as though it were a download.
That plus fast internet is a requirement for video streaming.
Live audio and video feeds are still plagued with the lost packets problem. But streaming content is a hybrid approach that isn't really live, more like a download. Still, streaming services need good internet to prevent choppy playback, broken with those annoying "buffering" messages.
- Sorry to digress. Now back to Buster Scruggs and other neat things to watch on Netflix.]]>Wayne Parham2019-01-23T16:27:18-00:00Re: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
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Rusty2019-01-23T17:14:11-00:00