“Wabe esengithatha ngalingisa kwifilimu yakhe esihloko esithi Isikhwele. Kusukela lapho angiphindanga ngayeka ukuthanda ukulingisa nokungenze ngagcina sengingasawunaki nomsebenzi wami.” 4. Omunye walaba abane wathatha inkemba wayinika izindlovu, amakamela nezimbongolo, ngubani For all its convenience, Netflix can’t provide the satisfaction of an impulse. The movies come to you in a steady stream of titles you picked out at some point when you had a few minutes to mull it over and then forget about it. How can you know what kind of mood you’ll be in when the movie finally shows up two days later? Of course it’s lovely that there are no late fees, but that means DVDs arrive and sit around collecting dust when you don’t have the time or inclination to watch them and send them back. Meanwhile, you continue to pay the monthly fee. And if you change your mind at the last minute and decide you’d rather watch something else on your queue, or some other film entirely, you have to wait for the one you don’t want anymore to show up before you can send it back in exchange for the one you do want which won’t show up for another two days, by which time you may not want it anymore either. It was so much easier to just walk into a store and pick up whatever caught your eye at that moment, and take it home to watch right then. The digital world’s answer to this is the instant view function, which allows you to watch select titles on your computer or via a box that connects your television to one provider or another. Aside from the questionable video quality, limited list of options, and necessity for even more tech gadgets; scrolling through titles on a screen just isn’t as satisfying or as informative as picking up a little plastic box with poster art on it and turning it over to look at pictures, review quotes, plot summary, and all the other miscellaneous details.