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https://www.theverge.com/24071417/amazon-prime-video-no-dolby-vision-atmos
Amazon Prime Video drops Dolby Vision and Atmos unless you pay extra::Amazon Prime Video has removed Dolby Vision HDR, and Atmos surround sound, unless you pay an extra $2.99 a month for its new ad-free option. The company has confirmed the move.
Mark my words…Amazon is going to start tiering off programs like cable. Want “The Boys?” or “Invincible?” That’s the extra tier.
Meanwhile, I’m over here, keeping my money and watching whatever TF I want in higher def and no ads — for free. Fuck you, Amazon.
I would prefer this if they made the core shipping product (the only part I actually care about) cheaper. I’ve never liked their bundled approach. But it looks like they’re just going to increase the cost of everything else instead.
Samesies. Didn’t give two shits when they bundled Amazon prime with video and such. Easy decision of my digital existence was dropping prime soon as they announced the ads and tiered payments.
I would prefer they brought back the actual shipping part. Not this $169/yr for “best effort 3-10 days depending on our mood” they want me to pay for.
Probably. The industry is still trying to figure out pricing, and the cost of making content isn’t matching the cost consumers are willing to pay for it.
no one wants exclusive content, it’s inherently harder to generate a buzz and make the series feel worthwhile or pressing to watch
Who still want Invincible? The wait for season2 was so long and we only got few crappy episodes. What a letdown.
Season 2 has been excellent so far.
I do agree waiting 2 years for 4 episodes, then 5 months for 4 more episodes is a huge let down.
Not sure if that counts, but they bought MGM and they’ve made an MGM+ channel that you can subscribe to for 5€/month, but only if you are a Prime subscriber aswell
I don’t think so…I was not talking about Prime originals
With all the streaming options out there it’s wild to me that these services continue to be able to jack up their prices. I’m less interested than ever with tolerating their bullshit.
They jacked up their prices and paid off their long time employees… Like me.
Fuck the company I’m in is going hog wild with that right now. I think I’m insulated because I’ve never negotiated pay even when hired so I’m probably relatively cheap for them to keep on. I hope you land well
Well they are a big evil corporation so it’s expected, but shame on you for doing that to your employees.
I’m sorry for your loss work. Hopefully you at least acquired skills to land an even better job!
Well now it’s personal
Fuck em
Except they’re all pulling the same skeezy shit. Notice that Prime is legit one of the last ones to raise prices, they were waiting for the majority of the market before following suit since literally no one gets Prime just for Prime Video.
They are already spliting prime videos and amazon prime subscription.
I might drop prime and I don’t even watch anything on there, I find them at sea. You don’t get to do ads and charge.
Oh no, I can’t believe I won’t be able to watch the two shows that use Dolby Vision anymore.
I got an LG C8 in 2017 because I thought Dolby Vision was gonna be awesome compared to HDR10, pretty much every Dolby Vision thing I’ve watched is too dark and anything white has that stupid yellowish tint to it.
I have an LG C2 and I find Dolby Vision content pretty good, but only since they added the IQ setting, which boosts the brightness a little bit.
Also, I’ve got used to the warm picture settings. So much so that everything else looks too blue to me now.
Actually I can’t believe it will be business as usual
My decision to ditch Prime completely is looking more justified every day. So glad they announced all this cancer before my subscription rolled over.
Fuck off Amazon.
I’ve had this conversation recently about why we even have prime. Their shipping has gotten worse, their video has gotten worse, their support has gotten worse(literally just closed the chat conversation so I’d have to start all over), half of their products are Chinese fakes.
Fuck Amazon
I was once transferred 14 times but Amazon customer service. I refused to log off the chat, and insisted each new person read the entire chat history this far while being pleasant and polite “wow 14 times, is this a new world record? I bet we do it kurpreet, let’s go!”
I was trying to arrange for pi kuo of a vacuum cleaner that was foa. Wouldn’t take no for an answer. Politely.
Eventually they just said keep the vacuum cleaner it’s on us.
Same. They definitely were on the bubble and about to be cancelled. They had a few good years where video made up for the declining shipping service. Now there’s no reason to pay.
What are you paying for? Shipping is the same without prime, and the video and music products suck. Replaced it with looking elsewhere for cheaper products, which I was already doing.
Btw, if you want a free trial of Shipt your Visa CC may have one. Search for “Shipt Visa trial” or something.
My plex server doesn’t 😉
Hmm, does it even support Dolby vision?
It just passes HDR and audio metadata to your TV/receiver. Works great.
Yea. I get Dolby Vision on my firetv cube 3rd gen. But there’s different Dolby Vision profiles.
I just setup the arrs with qbittorrent using Docker on my NAS with overseer. I already had a Plex server setup on an N100 pointed at my NAS but now it is more automated. I was fine with the occasional manual adding of stuff but with how awful all of the services are now I just created my own that works for me.
Wow. I understood most of this.
took me a while to realize you meant sonarr and radarr by “arrs”
I have those too, though I am running on unraid.
Is there a word for this? Yanking features from a services so they can be sold to you as an add-on?
Enshittification
First, they make a service good for the customer even at a loss so customers don’t want to go other places. ✅
Second, they use the information gathered from you to sell to companies to make money off you. In Amazon’s case they are now so big they don’t need to sell your info but they do it anyways. ✅
Third, they screw the companies and the users to make the money all for themselves. In Amazon’s case they fuck sellers by making Amazon branded copies of best selling items to cut their third party stores out of business by putting their copies first in the search results.✅
Read Cory Doctorow’s books about enshittification.(also read his fiction, Little Brother, for a great fast paced dystopian terrorist novel.
“pray we don’t alter the deal further?”
I don’t know about this specific case, but the word going around is enshitification.
Good word.
First they inject ads unless you pay more, now they reduce quality unless you, again, pay more. Wild that more and more people have reverted to sailing the seas once more, who’d of thought?
The headline isn’t clear, it’s actually one fee; the ad tier doesn’t have Dolby and the ad-free tier does.
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Fuuuuck Amazon
Oh thanks! That explains why my audio was so horrible that I had to turn on subtitles. Good riddance
damn bro, welcome to the club with the rest of us
Aaaand it’s gone. That‘ll save me so much money by removing the temptation to order stuff 👍
To this day I am still impressed that people pay for prime.
Prime video? Did anyone actually pay for prime shipping to get the video subscription?
At one point it wasn’t a bad package. Next day delivery, video, music, and even unlimited photo storage backup.
All of it is now enshittified, nothing more than a gateway to get you to spend more with them.
Who pays for prime video? Literally the worst selection there is
Disagree, prime has a lot of the more niche and interesting shows and movies. Tons of Indy films you can’t find elsewhere like Coherence, a great movie I would never have seen if not for Prime suggesting it.
Prime has the best depth of random stuff you’d never see otherwise in Sci-Fi and Horror. Aside from that I think AppleTV is the best service out there, right now. Netflix has become such absolute trash over the last several years.
Prime is how I watched Women Talking and The Lighthouse. I was even going to crack and finally pay to rent The Lighthouse then I saw it was finally free on Prime. They definitely have some niche films.
I bet you could find em on a torrent site or putlocker.
If it’s truely indie I bet you could find a way to send em the whole 5 cents they made off your prime view, shit make it a $1
I have only ever used prime as a last resort. I don’t watch much TV but what’s available through prime is usually pretty bad IMHO. I would go as far as to say if someone goes to prime to watch things like rings of power then they probably have bad taste.
Had Prime for a decade, never even opened Prime Video
So I’m not the only one…is that a Jolly Roger I think I see there in your ship?
At least in Canada, it was better than Netflix
No catalogue is worth the prices here though
Also ads.
Radarrrrrrrrrr / Sonarrrrrrrr has 4k and rureoubd tracks…
Usenet really is great for piracy, I’m so happy that I found out about it like a decade ago. So much better than torrents.
Shhhhhhhhh. Rule one of Usenet
But why? I’ve been using torrents with ease for a very long time.
Don’t you have to pay for that I think?
Didn’t they improve their DRM some weeks ago and many are having hard time ripping 1080p content?
I already canceled my prime back when they announced they would put ads on prime video. I don’t even use prime video, it’s the principle.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Amazon has confirmed it’s not a mistake — your Amazon Prime Video subscription no longer includes Dolby Vision HDR or Dolby Atmos surround sound.
That’s on top of the ads that Amazon injected into the service on January 29th.
That’s the word from 4KFilme, which discovered that their smart TVs from Sony, LG, and Samsung were now displaying content in HDR10 with Dolby Digital 5.1 as opposed to the higher fidelity options they’d enjoyed previously.
Amazon spokesperson Katie Barker confirms to The Verge that it’s a deliberate move: “Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos capabilities are only available on the ad free option, on relevant titles.”
While price hikes are no longer remotely unusual in the streaming video space, where Netflix now charges $22.99 a month for its 4K tier, it’s a bit harder to compare Amazon’s prices to Netflix.
Prime Video is also available as an $8.99-per-month standalone subscription; if you subscribe that way and add $2.99 per month, it’s more like a 28 percent price hike.
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Less and less . Full digital realy work as I expected .
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ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 2 months ago
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Precisely.
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