I am still a lazy slob.
This year I recorded the channel of all movies seen via television. If you’ve ever wondered why I watch so many Warner movies, now you know: that’s what I can access. I am still begging Mr Radish to get Paramount’s streaming service, but the app won’t run on our TV, and he refuses to stream via his Amazon account or his PlayStation or my tablet. Ho hum.
Surprises: YouTube is starting to become a major player, about the same as ARD and ZDF together.
The graph becomes more useful when I drop everything into a category. “ÖRR” is all the German-tax-funded channels–and here I include arte, even though it is an EU project headquartered in France, because they get 33 cents from our 18,36€ every month. They supply nearly a quarter of the movies I saw last year, which is 10% more than Netflix. (I am still begging Mr Radish to let me stop paying for Netflix, but it runs on our TV. Harrumph.) I’m going to attribute that to the fact they show movies from the whole history of Hollywood, while Netflix only shows movies from the last twenty years. Anything older than that is Swedish or Italian, but as you can see from my analysis of original language, I can always find something better to watch.
I was surprised by the library films, first because I don’t remember checking so many out, and then because I should check out more, before they all get thrown away.
“Free” streaming, like Nicht-ÖRR, is ad-supported and thus not “free”, but I wanted to break it out from the paid subscriptions.
Streaming is catching up to television, but I also stream from the couch, so I can’t really learn much from this chart. For 2024, I have started recording where I am when I saw the movie. I suspect I will be disappointed this time next year.
