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Getting out of hand? They’ve been out of hand for a while.
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Submitted 6 months ago by Dragxito@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 6 months ago
shortwavesurfer@monero.town 6 months ago
Came here to say this.
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
You also do not have to get every one, but yes they have been getting greedy
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yeah, but they still were below what the market would bear price wise. Until the very last price increases, if you counted up all of the biggest service fees, it was still lower than the average cable bill like almost a decade before.
Cap@kbin.social 6 months ago
I have nothing to contribute to this conversation. Just wanted to say that was a horribly written article.
Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It’s llm regurgitated garbage. Welcome to the new and worse internet.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
All that I see being “new” with LLM regurgitated garbage is that they call the system doing it an AI and not just a spam bot. Even back in the day, randomly entering words and adding “.com” to the end would result in either: a legitimate website, a porn site, a 404 error, or a page filled with random text like an AI generated article that wasn’t hard to determine was made by a computer and not a real human either there to popup when searching literally any words and trying to generate traffic for ads, or as a placeholder for the domain name.
Holzkohlen@feddit.de 6 months ago
Time to go back to just reading books (those written pre llms)
unphazed@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You’re not kidding. 2nd paragraph in I stopped. 3rd graders can write better than this.
kakes@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I switched away from piracy to streaming because they offered a legitimately good value proposition that benefited both the consumer and the producer.
Currently switching back to piracy because these greedy fucks just don’t know when to stop.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s cable with extra steps.
evulhotdog@lemmy.world 6 months ago
To be fair, everything is on-demand now, but it doesn’t change their greediness.
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 6 months ago
My NAS and the *arr apps aren’t getting out of hand.
LarryTheMatador@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
[deleted]admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 6 months ago
Not sure if the writer had a stronk, or just written by an LLM. It gets rather repetitive later on as well.
Pinecone@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This article could not have been written by a human. It’s like nobody ever reads past the title.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think he meant that all the streaming subscriptions add up.
Alto@kbin.social 6 months ago
I'm assuming it's unnecessary and out of place sarcasm
commander55@feddit.de 6 months ago
This article very much reminds me of this video: used this youtube video youtu.be/ObL2xm5NrCk?si=p6_aVvIYaFrVpDML
crapwittyname@lemm.ee 6 months ago
You’ve found the source. This is outright plagiarism.
guyrocket@kbin.social 6 months ago
I am curious his much it would be if you got top tier of ALL the streaming services. Probably more than most would guess.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Only just now? Really?
catculation@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
The quality also went downhill. In my region Disney+ removed HDR support from all titlez and dropped the bitrate. Video quality is shit now. Even with subscription I’m watching PSA encodes.
puck@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Are PSA encodes terrible? The file size is always appealing but I guess there’s a reason they’re small
catculation@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
PSA encodes are one of the best for popular shows and movies. Just give it a try. Generally their encodes is to be consumed as it is and 4k versions might not work with some devices since they only give HDR10 and Dolby Vision encodes. If you intend to watch it with media server with transcoding better go with QxR
OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
“Now” Not when the license rights to shows get chopped 15 different ways and you need 15 different streaming services to finish a series? Or when it costs $100 CDN to have 5 streaming services…
fox2263@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is getting out of hand, now there are
twosixteen of them!callouscomic@lemm.ee 6 months ago
JUST LET US TURN OFF THE LOUD AND OBNOXIOUS BOOTUP SOUNDS IN EVERY APP!!!
garretble@lemmy.world 6 months ago
For me it’s: remember the last user on this device!
If I open Hulu and I have ONE account, why are you making me select the ONE account? I have to select it every time. They should know.
if(accounts.length === 1) { setAccount(accounts[0]; }
There. I fixed it. Give me a job.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Triple equals? I’m no expert programmer but I’ve never seen that before.
PlantJam@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Peacock disabled auto play previews for a while and it was great. But that was only because the whole screen would go black for a couple seconds as it tried to load the preview. They fixed that issue and now the previews are back. Mute button is doing a lot of great work these days.
sasquash@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
fuck them. I built my own streaming service on my NAS and pirate everything. If there is a consumer friendly service where I can watch everything, I am willing to pay for content again.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
You can do this without piracy. Just buy blurays
kinther@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I can’t afford all these streaming services. I’m basically back to one at a time, churning through them until I run out of things to watch.
kakes@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I absolutely can afford them, but I’m canceling them purely on principle at this point.
My final straw was watching Fallout, when Amazon said “this program is ad-free thanks to this sponsor” and then not only showed an ad, but didn’t even acknowledge that it was me paying them for the service, like I should be grateful to some stupid company for shoving their advertising in my face when I’m the one giving them my hard-earned money.
P1nkman@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I rally enjoyed Fallout! I didn’t see any ads. Might be because I won’t give my money directly to Amazon.
coffinwood@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
When you say that it sounds like a bad thing. I’m hopping from service to service too.
I don’t get why people think they can have 15 streaming services for the price of one, and get served the $100 million movie of the day.
And the icing on the cake is that many use this as an excuse to pirate that stuff as if they were entitled to being entertained.
mynachmadarch@kbin.social 6 months ago
Most say it because they remember when Netflix had everything. It was a nice easy one stop shop and they want that again. Maybe it would need to be more extensive, sure, but every company stopped agreeing to license to Netflix because they wanted a larger peace of the pie. Sure they have the right, but people also have the right to not like it.
AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m still waiting for this shit to come full circle back to how it was with Cable, where someone links the various streaming services together in one convenient app and they tell you you can switch and save!
UckyBon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Paying is for people who don’t know how to download.
Most content on those services isn’t even worth your time.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Just buy blurays
kratoz29@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Stremio/Kodi + a debrid service or your HDDs carefully crafted with content though Arr services and with Plex/Jellyfin, or both.
That setup will be infinitely better than any streaming service.
Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I’m trying to get stremio working, but it just gives me an error on startup and their support won’t get back to me about it.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 6 months ago
What is your setup? It works perfectly fine for me with Android mobile, Android TV (Shield TV Pro) and macOS.
snownyte@kbin.social 6 months ago
This guy is only talking about ANNUAL prices. Yeah of course they'd be freaking expensive, dude. But, really, if one were to pay monthly with ads and know how to block them (seriously, you're only shooting yourself if you go along with ads), the numbers isn't too bad.
jpablo68@infosec.pub 6 months ago
I only pay for Netflix because It pumps out enouth content for me to enjoy.
valid@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Streaming went to shit when everyone made their own. It was good and worth the money when it was one portal with everything available.
Now i am back navigating the stormy high seas, to avoid the treacherous shores of bankruptcy
kakes@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
And the funny thing is, rather than competition driving down prices, they only seem to be competing for who can charge the most while showing more ads.
Amir@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
They’re not truly competing because they make every show they can exclusive to their platform
Flatfire@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Streaming infrastructure is expensive, and all these smaller networks that decided to spin up their own didn’t seem to realise that. Prices go up, ad tiers get added because none of them are actually making any money. It’s just quarter after quarter of loss even with substantial revenue due to the fact that producing content, hosting and then scaling globally to make it available to a wide variety of geographic locations just isn’t cost effective. Even Amazon, the lord of cloud compute itself, hasn’t been able to maintain this.
So in this case, competition limits the only way they make money: people subscribing. Greedy bastards.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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reddig33@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Studios shouldn’t be allowed to own the channels. It’s a problem similar to when studios owned the movie theaters.
bradbeattie@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
If only …wikipedia.org/…/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictu…. was expanded to streaming services instead of repealed.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, this definitely was not a case of “competition makes everything better.” More a case of every greedy motherfucker wanting to have their own private walled fiefdom making everything worse. Who’s going to be the first to bring up the GabeN quote?
I’m with you, I am proud to say I subscribe to precisely zero streaming services. There’s very little on any of them I actually want anyway, and anything I might actually want to see is readily available… elsewhere.
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 6 months ago
Yep, and everyone having their own exclusives. I'm neither paying hundreds of bucks for a gazillion streaming services per month, nor am I juggling subscriptions between them like some sort of puzzle game.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Not only that, but all of their interfaces are trash. These services should model there UI off of Plex.
nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 6 months ago
Hold on. The fact that it became worse doesn’t mean that the monopoly was a good thing. Remember that those companies start new businesses usually at loss amd giving a lot to the users, just to grow their market share, but then will slowly take everything back, and more, with time.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Well, yeah, that’s why we’re here. Streaming went to shit
While I agree that the monopoly netflix once had doesn’t belong in private hands, a public funded central media archive where all studios release their content would be preferable.
But still, for the user those were golden times. Whatever you wanted to watch, chances were Netflix had it in good quality and any language you wanted on any device with internet.
Badeendje@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And all the different interfaces that lack basic functionality… and proper filters.
PlainSimpleGarak@lemm.ee 6 months ago
2015 - 2018 was great. I barely pirated anything. Netlifx, Hulu, HBO. Those three covered virtually all my viewing desires.
hogmomma@lemmy.world 6 months ago
When was it ever just one portal with everything available?
Imprudent3449@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Early Netflix was pretty close.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Bluray!