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Netflix and Chill Remember way back in the olden days when TVs only had 10 channels? Well I don’t because I’ve grown up in a world when I have a plethora of visual content at my fingertips. Imagine, it’s the year 1970 and you’ve been waiting all year to watch your favorite movie, The Wizard of Oz. It’s a dark and stormy night you’re sitting around the TV with your family and just as Dorothy begins singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow, the power goes out. Yes, you read that right, the power has gone out and you are missing your all-time favorite movie and you’re going to have to wait a whole entire year to see it again. Fast forward to 2017 and it’s a dark and stormy night you’re about to watch your favorite movie, The Wizard of Oz. Just as …show more content…

The biggest negative that Netflix brings is the loss of anticipation and excitement. The loss of anticipation and excitement is bad because it takes away the motive to continue watching TV shows. The motive for watching TV shows is taken away because you have nothing to look forward to. One of the great things about cable TV is that you must wait every week for a new episode. I know this sounds like it’s a negative but if you think about it you probably wait all week long and get so excited for the day that your favorite TV show finally airs a new episode. Loss of anticipation and excitement is taken away with Netflix. This excitement is taken away because, it’s all there at one time you don’t have to wait for anything to come out. This means that you can burn you on the TV show that was once your absolute favorite thing to …show more content…

Having so many movies is bad because they don’t have any new movies. The movies Netflix brings to us are older and while still good they don’t have any of the newer movies that come out. Cable TV has newer movies sooner after they leave the theatres. But Netflix doesn’t get the movies after they leave the theatres. If Netflix gets a newer movie it’s long after it left the theatre and it is already available on cable TV and on DVD. Access to so many movies can cause you to be overwhelmed. It’s a great thing being able to watch movies whenever you want but when you have so many options it’s not easy to pick a movie, which can cause you to be overwhelmed. Being overwhelmed is bad and adds stress to your

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