And again, things are coming full circle.

So, I'm old enough that I remember a time before being able to stream almost anything that you wanted to watch on demand. Either you waited for things to show up on the television, or you would wind up heading down to a local video store to pick out a video for the evening. 

When I was around it wasn't even blockbuster that you would go to - there were piles and piles of independent video stores that were scattered around. In my neck of the woods there were at least five that I can remember off hand each with a slightly different selection. 

Over time they dwindled and were bought out and amalgamated into larger chains but in the end streaming, specifically Netflix, basically killed off the whole rental experience. 

That's something of a shame since going to the video store and browsing for something to watch was always kind of fun. You could go in there looking for something specific, but if it wasn't there you might have to pivot and find something else, and depending on who was with you you could wind up having a polite discussion about what you are going to watch on a given night. 

Despite that the convenience of streaming eventually killed the local video store, but the main reason why that happened was simply availability - having everything in one place so that you didn't have to go hunting for a video, or worry about it being out of stock was a huge thing. I remember times where I would go to get a movie and be unable to see it because they just ran out of copies. 

Since Netflix was the standard and everything was on there getting a Netflix account was basically a no-brainer. Now however we have more and more streaming services popping up and the content is splitting up between different services. Like Star Wars? Pay out for Disney+, like Star Trek, go get yourself Netflix, like something from HBO, or Paramount? Well there's two more in there and we still are not counting for things that are service exclusive like Fallout, Altered Carbon, or others. 

Even if you are paying for a service that still doesn't mean you that you don't get bombarded with adds.

The current situation with the streaming services reminds me more of the situation with cable subscriptions back in the 80's when you had to pay to get the channels and then had to sit through the adds even through you where paying.  And frankly that having to pay hand over fist was what made things like Netflix attractive, and if they are going to continue to adopt the things that made cable frustrating I don't know how much longer I'm going to be willing to put up with it.