If you collect streaming movies
6You should sign up for fanflix. Seriously. Every month or so they send out an email with deals. Like today, it’s 3 horror movies (from their list) for five bucks! Some are UHD. And they aren’t all unheard of movies. The Saw collection is there, Cabin in the Woods…lots more.
Sad I don’t watch horror movies.
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I love horror movies. Thanks!
@sammydog01 that explains your fantasy performance.
Nice that they work with the major streaming platforms. I think I also had something at movieSPREE, which now seems to be dead.
Here is the link to the fanflix sale. I don’t know if it will work without having signed up, though.
@lisaviolet I gave them my address and immediately got an email with the link.
Speaking of horror movies VUDU has a bunch of old ones 2 for $11.99. Kind of expensive I know but it’s October. I bought Curse of the Demon, a standard on TCM this time of the year, and William Castle’s 13 Ghosts which scared the bejeebers out of me as a kid. I may go back for a couple more. Lots of great old Universal monster movies too but I already own all the good ones.
https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/mixandmatch/44104
@sammydog01 I LOVE CURSE OF THE DEMON! [That’s the “Casting the Runes” one, right?]
@mossygreen YES THAT’S THE ONE! I used to keep checking for it on TCM. Then we ditched the cable. Now I can watch it anytime I want!
@sammydog01 IT’S SO GOOD!
A couple of the secondary band HDTV stations (Comet, Antenna, MeTV, etc) are doing horror movies all month, so if you can record OTA, it’s FREE.
I recorded the entire series of SG1, X-Files, Seinfeld, and more. Legally. I love syndication!
@mike808 watching The Revenge of Frankenstein on Movies now! Preceded by The Curse of Frankenstein and before that Young Frankenstein!
@ybmuG Why, thank you, Doctor.
@ybmuG
Oh, and for those with Plex, I’m sure they have a ton too, as well as Tubi TV.
@mike808 Oh! sweet mystery of life, alas I’ve found you!
@mike808 Curious, why do you mention “legally”? Isn’t it always legal to record things off your tv, for you own personal, private use? OTA or cable? I’m not worried about the feds busting down my door, I was just wondering if I was missing something.
Anyway, congrats on your new selection of flix!
@elfunkman It is only legal to record things broadcast over the air off your TV. Not everything on your TV these days comes from a public airwaves OTA source.
Even that right is at risk with the new ATSC3 specification which adds cable-company/streaming service DRM features even to “free” TV.
Big Media has bribed their way to get laws in place to ensure you no longer “own” any ideas, only rent them, and must render tribute when you do.
More and more, I’m less inclined to let them have rent-free synapse space and neural network time in my head with their “intellectual property”.
One need only look at the monthly income for the Twitch streamers just released recently, and consider the valuable contribution to society watching some dude/chick play video games and rant about how much it sucks or how much everyone else playing sucks (except themselves, of course, because they’re “influencers”).
@elfunkman @mike808 YOUR MIND’S THE ONLY THING YOU OWN
/youtube the effigies security
@mike808 You can legally record anything off your tv for your own personal use. OTA, cable, etc. it doesn’t matter. Not suggesting this won’t change in the future, but as of now, there’s no need to fear, recording of tv is still here!
@elfunkman Not if the cable company has the do-not-copy flag set and encrypts it. And guess what? They all do, on all the channels, even the forced-carry local channels. That was the whole point of the DMCA - to defraud the public from exercising that right you say we have. It’s baked into the HDMI cables. Yes, those are encrypted, and enforce the do-not-copy flag too.
And ATSC3 adds the same DRM to OTA broadcast too, and finally closing “the analog hole”.
I haven’t signed up for the email but i have purchased from them via Facebook ads. Several were UHD upgrades, but for $5, why not?
This sounds like the Columbia Record Club updated for the 21st century. … but for movies