The anti-piracy measures drive me to piracy, personally. There’s no technical reason I shouldn’t be able to stream 4K in Firefox, but Netflix won’t let me. I have to jump through hoops just to get 1080p, even. Same with most other services. I pirate shit I’m *already paying for".
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Love how it doesn’t mention the fact that services are getting objectively worse content as they stretch thin, are increasing their prices across the board, and cracking down on password sharing which was previously touted as a benefit.
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Have done this several times for content on Disney+. I have an ultrawide, HDR1000 display. The movie I’m trying to watch is in 21:9 and available in HDR. Why in God’s name are you delivering it in SDR and in a letterboxed 16:9 which is in turn pillarboxed on my display?!
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
This so much. I’m lucky enough to be able to afford enough streaming services to cover the majority of what I want to watch (although that’s changing for the worse over time). I just want to pipe them all through Kodi or some other software into a unified interface that is media source agnostic, that can also stream the content in the best quality available for my screen.
At that point the content is already paid for, I don’t need to use your own individual reinvention of the interface that inevitably focuses on pushing uninteresting content instead of making it as easy as possible to continue what I’ve already started watching or to find what I want.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Yeah, honestly same. There isn’t much I’m not already paying for, but being able to watch it all in one app (Stremio) is so much nicer.
The push for more money, and no more password sharing, is just making me think more about cutting those services, but that wouldn’t stop me watching.
bpalmerau@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Enshittification. Every human who uses computers on a daily basis needs to understand this word.
jonne@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Yep, the only thing I still pay for is Spotify, and as soon as they start carving up music into different exclusivity contracts I’ll go back to piracy for that as well. I’m willing to pay $10-$20/month for one streaming service, but they want you to spend like $200 on services you don’t even end up watching.
It’s just greed, the way the streaming executives talked during the writers strike showed that. You could easily find an equilibrium that works for content creators and consumers, but the middlemen just want too much.
7u5k3n@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or vanish.
Google play music merged into YouTube music.
I already had a Plex server so I just rolled.my.own music server.
And then with the emergence of plexamp… I don’t need a streaming music service now.
kungen@feddit.nu 1 year ago
Have they gotten better? I’ve not had great experience with PMS handling music, even when using PlexAmp, but I last tried maybe about a year ago.
7u5k3n@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh absolutely. Especially with Plex pass. Plexamp is a quality product.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 year ago
This fear is why I’m careful to maintain my old man MP3 and CD collection because I can’t fully trust a business.
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think streaming music will be good for awhile at least, somehow, the fucking music industry got it right with streaming (At least on the consumer side, the artist side has been in trouble for some time now (esp with Spotify)). Most big services have most things and a handful of niche services to handle the gaps for the most part.
Xbox Game Pass otoh for Games is a wildcard, who knows where that shits going to end up lmfao people should get in on it now while it’s still good lol
jonne@infosec.pub 1 year ago
I mean, they’re already doing exclusivity contracts for podcasts (eg. Joe Rogan on Spotify only), it’s going to be a small leap to go to artists being exclusively on one service, and before you know the labels will all start their own streaming service, so you have to have different apps for Sony BMG artists, another app for indie artists, etc.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That plus actively removing older shows
7u5k3n@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No new ones…
Star Trek prodigy
Jessvj93@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People aren’t also willing to spend as much on Oreo’s due to inflation so it’s also probably that if theres a game or movie everyone’s playing, sailing the seven seas is tried and true…and free.
flames5123@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Exactly. That’s when I went back to the seas. My family across 2 states uses Netflix and I already paid for the $20/month high tier. When they told my sister that it wasn’t about to be more expensive, I put my foot down and said I’m gonna setup a plex/overseer box on my on PC. It’s been working mostly alright.
synceDD@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Weird thing to love but you do you
Boozilla@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Exactly. There’s too many platforms, not enough quality content on any one of them, and weaponized greed. Worse, these streaming services have “inspired” every asshole executive out there to make everything under the sun a subscription model.