A new
martial artist agrees to escort a mysterious box for a huge sum of money and along
the trail gets involved with rivals seeking to steal the box from him.
Recommended with caution
Sunday, January 27, 2019
On the lighter side-Movies-Bastard Swordsman (1983-HK)
A bullied boy in a martial arts school comes to the
defense of it when bad guys want to eliminate it. Weird martial arts with some
special effects and magic thrown in. Recommended with caution
On the lighter side-Movies-The Shadow whip (1971-HK)
Bad guys are looking for a shipment of gold stolen
by a thief and it leads to lots of fighting with a master whip man. Just enjoy
the fights and not get into too much detail about the story. Recommended with
caution
Sunday, January 20, 2019
The forced Advertisements
As many
of you watch YouTube®, I have started to notice any annoying thing that of ads
which you are forced to watch and can’t skip. Usually some of the ads which
seem to be few and far and are longer have a skip ad options which I sure believe
many of people use it to watch their videos but for ads that are less than 10
seconds, you are forced to watch it and there is no skip button. I can understand
that websites have to make money but even for a song or some little videos, it
is excruciating to watch ads before you go on to watch your videos. Sometimes even
for a news item video, one has to go through sometimes 30 seconds of video ads
just to watch a two minute clip. And in news videos, you don’t have the option
to skip ads.
I know
that it may become a future staple where if you want to watch a free video, you
would have to sit through the ads to enjoy it. It is just an annoying nuisance
and there seems to be no way around it unless you want the ad-free version of
the websites, where you would have to pay in order to enjoy it. It is all part
of the effort by the media companies to generate revenues whichever way they
can in order to offset the costs of streaming and to make up for the lost
revenues due to lower subscription to the paper publication and also to
increase revenues in order to pay for the increasing expense of proprietary and
exclusive content that is now the buzz word for every streaming media. The more
exclusive your content is the more you can charge your subscribers and
advertisers. I hate it but have to deal with the necessary evil.
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