Quibi

[october_midnight]

Since this launches on Monday with a pretty sick looking selection of shows, thought it'd warrant its own thread. I love the concept of this.

For those unaware, it's 50+ shows, some reality, sports, news, etc. but actual series too (with pretty big names)...episodes are 7-10 min each, and will release every day. So if you're bonkers about something you can watch every day...or you can wait a week and you'll have ~45-50 min of content to watch like a normal weekly show.

[thelastdisciple]

I hate the entire idea of this service.

I'll just leave this here.

[october_midnight]

I have a son, so I'm pumped. The ability to watch stuff in this time format is perfect for us since we can rarely get in a full episode of anything. I'm a cinephile as much as the next person and hate watching on smaller screens, but yeah...Lynch can kiss the fattest part of my ass lol.

[thelastdisciple]

I hear you, it's just hard to feel like this isn't just enabling short attention spans and making things worse in that department.

Of course i know that some people can't help it either because of busy lives or mental health reasons and everything.

[october_midnight]

Oh definitely, this is 100% the product of the attention spans of today's average person being that of a small rodent, to be sure. lol.

Definitely going to cast this to our 65" TV though, I ain't watching jack shit on my iPhone haha. Still, so far so many of the shows seem fantastic, and the fact that every single day there's going to be what, like 5 more hours total of content? Works for us lol.

[versusreality]

We're already living in a shortened attention span era. haven been for the past 5 years or so. Snapchat, vine, Instagram stories, now Tik Tok. Music too (long symphony music morphed into short pop music over a long period of time) . I think at this point, nothing enables it, it just confirms it more than anything.

as someone who watches 4 hour movies like they're nothing, I hope it isn't the way going forward, but on the other hand, I can admit it already is the way going forward.

[TheBang]

If they don't have Kiefer Sutherland yell, "We're running out of time to catch him!" then they're doing it wrong.

[thelastdisciple]

The end is nigh for Quibi.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/quibi-w...nt-11603301946

[october_midnight]

LOL wowwwww just saw that. Too bad, there were a few shows that were actually pretty decent.

[Self.Destructive.Pattern]

Dam.. Must have really been problems. Lost 92% of its subscribers after the trial periods ended and it only launched in April next Peacock which showed a surge in subs in July.

I'm juggling 3 services at the moment and it is still almost 100 dollars cheaper than a cable package.

[Leviathant]