Comment on Roku launches Howdy, a $2.99 ad-free streaming service
MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 3 days ago
$2.99, then $4.99, then $6.99, then $9.99, then $9.99 with commercials and $14.99 without.
Howdy ho!
What I find funny about this is that often the quality of the shit on the service decreases as the price continues to rise.
To see the end state, just check out trying to stream all of the NFL games of an out of market team. It’s like $1000 a year to watch mostly beer and truck ads broken up by thirty minutes of “football”.
This is my default mindset now. Anytime I see a relevant “new subscription with great value!”, I just…don’t. Because I already know it won’t last, it’ll get sold or bought out, and everything good about it stripped out and scrapped.
Yarrr
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Lol. Wanted to comment exactly that. Netflix drove me to piracy again after I went legit after 25yrs of piracy. Won’t fall for this streaming-bullshit again. Go fuck yourself. And Netflix was even more worse for everyone outside the US. For the same price of course.
Nah, piracy never been easier: enter name of movie/series, wait a minute, watch. On all devices, rooted or not, mainstream or not.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I actually probably spend more on hardware and labour pirating content than I would on multiple streaming services, but at least I don’t pad the profits of enshittified platforms, and can watch what I want when I want.
triptrapper@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ha, I was doing a similar calculation recently. I think the only subscription I ever paid for was Netflix, and for the others I used family and friends’ accounts. Only replacing Netflix, I haven’t broken even, but considering I pirate content from 5-6 different services, it’s absolutely cheaper.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Yeah sure, for the price of my servers i could probably get all streaming-services together for some years :-) But they’re not just for that. Jellyfin is just one of the services that runs on them. But yes, even if not. Better paying 5x for something like that than netflix et al.
themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Me too. They actually made stop being lazy and make a full automated server specifically for this.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
*arr suite for the win.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s a vastly superior experience.
I don’t have to deal with annoying authentication, no ads, works on everything, all content is available in a single app/user interface.
Cheap. I split the $40/mo seedbox charge with 3 siblings, we all save on streaming.
I even have audiobookshelf because I like listening to audiobooks.
No music yet, I don’t have a good (private tracker) source
systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I learned my lesson with Netflix, I’ll never stop doing things the better way again.
I still will never forgive Netflix for pulling a show without warning when I was actively watching it. A problem I never get doing it my way.