I watch streaming stuff on my CRT TV from back in the 90s. Fire stick + HDMI to RCA. I’m not really sure why you bring up old smart TVs. You can do most anything with a Fire stick, or similar.
Crass_Spektakel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
2015: Share your Netflix between four people, everyone pays $4 per month, have access to 80% of all online content. The interface is shit but you keep up with it because it is cheap.
2023: You pay $20 for Netflix, pay $15 for Disney, pay $15 for Hulu, pay $10 for Amazon Prime, $15 for Discovery, $15 for Paramount, $15 for Youtube, have access to 50% of all online content. The interface is still shit and you wonder why you pay for that shit.
Joe Average: 🏴☠️😎🏴☠️😎🏴☠️😎🏴☠️😎🏴☠️😎🏴☠️ and the interface is easier than ever.
My 2013 Highest-End Smart-TV barely works with Youtube and no longer with anything else. But Burning Series still works marvellous. Another thing: “Consuming” pirated content is not “illegal” in Germany. It is a violation of private property which the rights owner can sue in a civil court. But as long as you don’t use P2P services where you also upload - which would indeed be a fellony - he can not detect what you do and can not take any action against you - so One-Click-Hosters and Warez-Streaming is totally safe. And if the rights owner could find out about you he could at most send you a cease-and-desist-order with a one-time-fee of at max $100 because it is a minor incident. As far as I know there was never a user of Warez-Streaming who paid anything.
The only bad thing: DNS is nowadays filtered at the big Telcos and Providers which means I have to change the DNS inside my Routers to Cloudflare and Google. Which are a lot faster anyway.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Blackrook7@lemmy.world 8 months ago
True, but it’s annoying my old smart TV isn’t smart anymore. It’s just a regular TV with a chromecast now.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve never wanted a smart TV to begin with. I basically stopped having a choice in the matter if I wanted an HDTV though.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
It’s not that they didn’t try. Way back when Napster was still a thing, some power users with shelves full of downloaded music got mail with outrageous fines upwards of 25,000€. The music studios just lost these cases in front of court because they couldn’t proof that it’s an appropriate request.
At least that’s what I think how it went down. Quite a while ago, so memory’s foggy.
tobbue@feddit.de 8 months ago
I was always wondering why so few people don’t complain about the interface. It’s abysmal. An absolute minimum of functionality in an unintuitive layout that’s always changing. What the absolute fuck. And all streaming services adopted it.