OT: Greyhound

[RTRMR]

Anyone watch it yet?
Just got done, and I really liked it.
Did a great job of portraying how intense The Battle of the Atlantic really was.

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

Anyone watch it yet?
Just got done, and I really liked it.
Did a great job of portraying how intense The Battle of the Atlantic really was.

Are there any big WW2 stories left to tell? There have been 1,300 movies about it. Pretty nuts.

 

[Nitwit]

Vodka and grapefruit juice?

 

[Roar More]

Are there any big WW2 stories left to tell? There have been 1,300 movies about it. Pretty nuts.

Pointe du Hoc. Those guy went through hell. I worked for one of them. A much better Ranger story than the fictional "Saving Private Ryan."

 

[Metal Mike]

The Battle for the Atlantic was one of the major battles of WWII. Churchill said it was the one area of conflict that worried him. In 1941 and 1942 the Germans were getting the upper hand. In 1943 the tables were turned and the Allies started to hold down loses and then went on the offensive.

 

[Lyons212]

I thought it was great.

I can’t wait to see Hanks’ multi episode take on “The Mighty Eighth” next year.

That should be really interesting, the air war is often overlooked in just how horrible it was.

 

[Nitt1300]

If I don't have apple tv is there any other way to get it?

 

[Lion78]

Great watch.

 

[mmp121]

If I don't have apple tv is there any other way to get it?

Legally, no. There are always other ways that skirt the legal system.

 

[Lion Lineage]

If I don't have apple tv is there any other way to get it?

No, and I’m getting sick of all these stand alone streaming services. I got rid of Netflix because I had Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Netflix and I seldom watched Netflix. How the hell much TV can a person watch? And I didn’t feel it was worth the monthly subscription price to watch a movie or series (I love Peaky Blinders) every now and again. If you want to watch Star Wars or Marvel movies you have to subscribe to Disney Plus. Now it’s Apple TV Plus if you want to see Greyhound or the new series coming out in the fall on the Mighty Eighth, which is probably going to be great. Talk about “nickel and diming” yourself.

 

[Nitt1300]

No, and I’m getting sick of all these stand alone streaming services. I got rid of Netflix because I had Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Netflix and I seldom watched Netflix. How the hell much TV can a person watch? And I didn’t feel it was worth the monthly subscription price to watch a movie or series (I love Peaky Blinders) every now and again. If you want to watch Star Wars or Marvel movies you have to subscribe to Disney Plus. Now it’s Apple TV Plus if you want to see Greyhound or the new series coming out in the fall on the Mighty Eighth, which is probably going to be great. Talk about “nickel and diming” yourself.

I really wanted to see this, I invested a few years on destroyers and thought this would be right up my alley- but I'm not adding another service just to see it.

 

[Beachwineguy]

No, and I’m getting sick of all these stand alone streaming services. I got rid of Netflix because I had Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Netflix and I seldom watched Netflix. How the hell much TV can a person watch? And I didn’t feel it was worth the monthly subscription price to watch a movie or series (I love Peaky Blinders) every now and again. If you want to watch Star Wars or Marvel movies you have to subscribe to Disney Plus. Now it’s Apple TV Plus if you want to see Greyhound or the new series coming out in the fall on the Mighty Eighth, which is probably going to be great. Talk about “nickel and diming” yourself.

You mean, kind of like having to subscribe to HBO, Showtime and Cinemax if you wanted to watch all their created content?

 

[RTRMR]

No, and I’m getting sick of all these stand alone streaming services. I got rid of Netflix because I had Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Netflix and I seldom watched Netflix. How the hell much TV can a person watch? And I didn’t feel it was worth the monthly subscription price to watch a movie or series (I love Peaky Blinders) every now and again. If you want to watch Star Wars or Marvel movies you have to subscribe to Disney Plus. Now it’s Apple TV Plus if you want to see Greyhound or the new series coming out in the fall on the Mighty Eighth, which is probably going to be great. Talk about “nickel and diming” yourself.

Is there a release date yet for Masters of the Air/The Mighty Eighth?

 

[Lion Lineage]

Is there a release date yet for Masters of the Air/The Mighty Eighth?

Last I read it was this fall - don’t recall if it was August or later.

 

[Lion Lineage]

You mean, kind of like having to subscribe to HBO, Showtime and Cinemax if you wanted to watch all their created content?

HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, NBC (goodbye Office), Hulu, Amazon, Netflix, Disney Plus, Apple Plus, Brit Box (for all the BBC programming - old and new). And get ready...Warner Media is about to do the same - do you know how many movies will disappear from other streaming services if/when this happens?

There are over 300 streaming services in the US and it’s only going to get worse. It’s going to get to the point where people will have to constantly subscribe and unsubscribe to numerous streaming services all year long unless they want or pay upwards of several hundred dollars per month. And that doesn’t include the live streaming provider people will have to subscribe to if they want to see live sports.

Ironically, this proliferation of streaming services, the intention of which was to provide more options more cheaply and conveniently, appears to be driving people back to pirating content.

It’s a cluster that’s only going to get worse. There’s a great Vice article about this and about how the proliferation of streaming services appears to be leading to more piracy - people saying I’m not subscribing to yet another service for content that used to be on Netflix or for content one could reasonably expect would have wound up on Netflix, etc.

 

[mal106]

I believe if you have a fire stick with kodi on it..it is available there.

 

[Obliviax]

Is there a release date yet for Masters of the Air/The Mighty Eighth?

I believe the project got delayed due to COVID...but that is all I've heard.

I am very interested as the guy that hired me out of college was the lead navigator for the "Bloody 100th" when the war ended. He was from Jenette PA, a state champ tennis player in his youth, named Norm Graham. He was known as "the kid". According to him:

• was transferred incorrectly and did a sorte or two as a waist gunner when he was supposed to be shipped to navigator school
• after nav, he rose to become lead nav
• was one of the first to see a jet when his squad was used as bait to lure up three ME 262s
• believes he was the only Nav to shoot down an enemy aircraft
• had to bail out, only once, but when the pilot shot off a flare gun in the cockpit
• Could spend two hours describing how to organize a bombing raid of over 100 aircraft

 

[Cletus11]

HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, NBC (goodbye Office), Hulu, Amazon, Netflix, Disney Plus, Apple Plus, Brit Box (for all the BBC programming - old and new). And get ready...Warner Media is about to do the same - do you know how many movies will disappear from other streaming services if/when this happens?

There are over 300 streaming services in the US and it’s only going to get worse. It’s going to get to the point where people will have to constantly subscribe and unsubscribe to numerous streaming services all year long unless they want or pay upwards of several hundred dollars per month. And that doesn’t include the live streaming provider people will have to subscribe to if they want to see live sports.

Ironically, this proliferation of streaming services, the intention of which was to provide more options more cheaply and conveniently, appears to be driving people back to pirating content.

It’s a cluster that’s only going to get worse. There’s a great Vice article about this and about how the proliferation of streaming services appears to be leading to more piracy - people saying I’m not subscribing to yet another service for content that used to be on Netflix or for content one could reasonably expect would have wound up on Netflix, etc.

I have an idea, what if I form a company that negotiates with all these independent content provides and bundles them up and the sells that bundle of stations...oh wait, that is what I have now in Comcast Xfinity.

But yeah, with Peackock (NBC Universal) going streaming this week and few more like it to come by end of this year or early next year, I think by end of 2021 cable TV is going to be about useless as everything will be only on the particular content providers private streaming channel. Only answer I can think of is to go on a rotation of streaming channels for a 3-6 month period and then cancel and goto another couple of channels such that you loop back around to the original set of channels every 18-24 months or so at which point you catch up on whatever new content they put on. And of course then the content providers will have pricing such that one year subscription is $120 dollars and monthly it is $20 to discourage that from happening.

 

[NedFromYork]

I have a question for anyone who knows. (mild spoiler alert). When they were receiving taunting communications from the U-boats, how was that happening? Hydrophone? or regular surface radio transmission?

An antenna cable with a float at the top that could be deployed from modest depth?