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HBO Max Shrinkflation: Removing features from my plan, with no reduction in price

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Candybar121@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

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  • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yarr harr fiddle dee dee

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    • anewbeginning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve definitely made a return to dark waters.

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      • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Can’t say I ever left.

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      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Now there’s a show that needs a revival.

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  • Tinnitus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I canceled my subscription right after I got that email. I don’t use it enough anyway. I’ll just sail the high seas if a new show that I want to watch ends up there.

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    • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s what happened to me too. I got that email and was like “oh shit, I’m paying $16 for HBO and I can’t even get 4k?” Cancelled.

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      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Right? Who’d want to pay 16USD a month for DVD quality video? You’d get more value digging out of the Blu-ray Bargain Bin once a week.

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      • peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh shit I didn’t know that last part.

        That wad an easy cancel.

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  • AnonTwo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What a weird way to thank someone

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    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s more like “thanks and goodbye“ and maybe a little bit of “don’t you dare show your face around these parts if you know what’s good for you” speckled in for good measure.

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  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I really don’t want to have to go back to torrenting, but it seems that’s the only option if they keep pushing like this. I’m a camera operator, I work in the industry, my livelihood depends on movies being made. But racketeering the viewers is not how you’ll sustain an industry. Sure it’ll raise your quarterly report but it will damage your business deeply.

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    • kamen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The film industry NEEDS TO CHANGE

      Agree, and I’d add that it’s not just the film industry. It’s mostly the same shit all throughout entertainment industry as a whole. Take video games for example - each year there are assumingly AAA titles coming out half cooked at release and yet they cost more than they ever have. Thank you very much, I’d much rather just wait a year for you to fix all those bugs and I’ll buy the game at 80% off if it’s any good.

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      • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I blame it on investors quarterly reports. Movies and games take years to make. For a movie is usually 1-2years pre production 2-4 months filming 1-3 years post production. So you will see a net loss for all this time. Same with games. It’s years in the making but they want quarterly returns not possible.

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    • thesilverpig@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I also work in the industry, light tech, and I went back to torrenting like a year ago. Feel pretty good about it. I actually had a paramount plus subscription that I cancelled after working on a paramount show. Fuck those guys.

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  • Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “New Features” ah yes. Actually it’s an upgrade to a new features plan. They are doing you a favor. The new plan is completely free and you even gain streams from other platforms, also free. Yarr!!!

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  • Weslee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I solved it by cancelling and getting a raspberry pi, installing Plex media server, and just pirating the movies and shows I wanna watch

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    • pfaca@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I did the same thing but went with LibreELEC+Kodi. It even works with the TV remote.

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      • ericisshort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Abby’s you choose that over the pi+plex?

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    • spader312@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just curious is a raspberry pi powerful enough for streaming on multiple devices in 4k? Thinking of doing a setup and sharing with my family and friends. I anyway have a pi available

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      • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’ll only work if you can direct play everything and depending on your ISP upload speed, you may need to transcode any remote streams in which case a Pi will probably burst into flames. A comparable option would be a micro form factor office PC like an Optiplex with a recent gen Intel processor. The iGPU in these works great for transcoding.

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      • holycrapwtfatheism@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I host anywhere from 1-6 streams at a time on a custom built server.. I'd doubt you're going to get what you're asking without a much bigger build. It doesn't take a crazy build for plex but if you ever need transcoding the pi can't do it. My most recent iteration was ~$1300 but the price was mostly storage.

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      • threegnomes@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        From my understanding pi doesn’t have the greatest hardware for streaming so I wouldn’t trust it for multiple devices at 4k.

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      • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes, but only via direct play, it’s not going to be doing any transcoding at all watchable level.

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  • restingboredface@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This totally sucks, though I have to say I am impressed that they spelled it out so clearly. I can’t believe they showed it to you like that instead of burying it in some legalese/fine print, across multiple emails or something

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  • nakura@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So glad I built a PLEX server.

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    • BitsOfBeard@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Have a look at Jellyfin, if you haven’t. I moved from Plex because of restrictions in HW decoding.

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      • PurpleTentacle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Do you mean hardware encoding, because that’s what’s paywalled in Plex.

        I personally migrated from a Jellyfin ecosystem to a Plex with Lifetime Pass one when building my current server - while both are highly capable media servers, Plex has, by far, the better clients.

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      • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I moved over to Jellyfin because to pay for Plex Premium just to be able to stream my own videos was too much.

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      • beeb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Jellyfin never worked great for me on my older tablet and chromecast. Always struggled with either unsupported features of just buffering to hell. My plex server is also on somewhat limited hardware and jellyfin could never transcode fast enough, where plex has no issue.

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    • tedd_deireadh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same. It’s been a much more satisfying investment and has made streaming the content I actually want infinitely easier.

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    • holycrapwtfatheism@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Been managing one since about 2014 and increasing/updating... it's immensely refreshing never dealing with these companies' garbage "updates."

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  • seaQueue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    🏴‍☠️

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  • Granixo@feddit.cl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The En-shittification saga continues. 💩

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  • Historical_General@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What innovation! Digital shrinkflation! Otherwise known as a scam.

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    • 9715698@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hey now, that extra bandwidth for downloading 4k content is really expensive for OP – HBO is really doing them a favour here by restricting them from it!

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      • FunkFactory@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        imagine if any tech company sold a service at a price that’s at least the cost to provide it, that would be outrageous

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  • IjonTichy@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They alerted the deal. Pay that they don't alter it any further

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    • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      alerted

      “you’re too good of a deal, change or else”

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      • IjonTichy@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The ability to spell a word is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

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  • kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Way to go to fight against piracy 🤡

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  • Usernameblankface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Time to pick up a DVD player and look around for some movies for sale.

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  • knotthatone@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Interesting customer retention move for a service that hasn’t been able to make much new content for the past six months and is about to see its new releases dry up.

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  • sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yarrrr, sail the seven seas with the rest of us!

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  • Fogle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Total bullshit

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  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Thank you for being loyal, here’s how we are going to fuck you over”

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  • spaduf@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t forget the whole point of the rebrand was to sell off the actual HBO content and fill Max with shitty reality TV. It’s the exact same thing only they don’t send you an email about it.

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    • cjsolx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Shit. I saw a few shows that were on HBO Max elsewhere (Netflix?) recently and was like ??? but yeah, that makes sense. When Westworld left, I took it as a one-off but I guess not.

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  • Hildegarde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is not shrinkflation. This is fleecing.

    Shrinkflation is a scheme that takes subtlety to pull off. There’s some level of artistry involved in increasing prices in a way that is unnoticed by the customer.

    This is so unsubtle it doesn’t even deserve to be called shrinkflation.

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  • ExcursionInversion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I left when they added all the discovery+ stuff. So much trash/clutter was included with that.

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  • modifier@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Canceled today after I got this email. Let em burn

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  • brihuang95@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Guess I’ll just be streaming shit online or coughing up a few dollars for rentals

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  • shimura@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I geg mine free through ATT. Got the same email today.

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    • Candybar121@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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      • shimura@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        My understanding is that it is built into the price of the tier. I wonder if it could be argued that they are in breach of contract since it is included in the agreement when signing up.

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  • italien@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What’s that? Are those sea shanties I hear being sung over the horizon?

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  • pat277@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “New Features”

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  • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When they dumped all of that discovery network garbage on there I knew my days with the service were numbered. When they canceled winning time (the one show they had left worth watching imo) and ended it with the Lakers losing, I knew it was time to leave.

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    • Kerpadge@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ever consider not dropping a spoiler for a show you particularly like in a random comment like this? I haven’t been able to finish the season yet.

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      • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A spoiler? Dude, it’s covering things that actually happened.

        They just stopped making it abruptly because they’re assholes and I wouldn’t recommend wasting your time unless you like watching unfinished stories.

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  • Gerula@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just out of curiosity: whathave they removed from your plan?

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    • Candybar121@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      4k streaming, dolby support, and reduced from 3 streaming devices to 2.

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      • Gerula@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ma’bad didn’t see the obvious. :)

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    • Corgana@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s in the screenshot

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      • Gerula@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is one in the series: “When you see it, you’ll shit bricks”. Kind of obvious… thx

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