Hi Carole,
My feelings about streaming are currently evolving. I love my DVDs! Love them!! I have enough of them that I’m embarrassed to give you a number.
But Hey! That’s why it’s called a collection, right? I also have several DVD players so you could say that I’m prepared for the end of the era of the DVD, which as Jackie reminds us is inevitable.
I currently have a yearly subscription to Pilates.ology. This is worth every penny and more. The classes feel like just that, real classes and I’ve benefited immensely during the two years that I’ve subscribed. I already plan on extending my membership.
I canceled my Bellicon home subscription even though it’s very inexpensive. The WOs just aren’t what I’m looking for. I prefer my rebounding dvds or just doing my own thing.
I recently bought Travis Eliot’s Yin Yoga set. I get the ability to stream that for as long as his site is there and also was able to download the set. I purchased a streaming/download set from Karin Gurtner as well. IMO, if DVDs go extinct, this would be the best of all worlds. I already know I’ll purchase more from both of these folks in order to support them.
I also purchased Leah Sarago’s downloads prior to her changing over to streaming only. I so wish she still sold downloads or maybe offered a lower quality download for each month you streamed with her.
One of the biggest reasons for the change in my attitude toward streaming is that I’m finally able to stream with relative ease. That’s a game changer but I’m still not willing to do more than one yearly and possibly one short term streaming membership at a time.
I agree with what horsemom said about streaming when you already own a lot of the content available. That’s why I don’t stream Essentrics. I have everything available up to and including a few of the new offerings. I much prefer the older stuff so at this point streaming would be throwing away money. Maybe someday streaming will evolve allow us to pay to stream only a certain number of workouts for a certain amount of money rather than all or nothing.
I don’t think that it’s just the consumer who needs to evolve to make streaming a fit. I think streaming needs to evolve to fit our needs. Otherwise we’ll be here talking about the end of streaming sooner than anyone could predict.