I watch them the other way. Even then there’s barely anything to watch
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I went back to sailing 6 months ago and dropped Netflix and Prime. I can get free shipping most anywhere now, but it’s usually slow to get here. When I tried to watch a show on Prime and got ads as frequently as basic cable I was done.
My original reason to get Prime was that I was building a PC and the no-fuss returns policy seemed like good insurance against faulty parts. Some sellers blame problems on the customer or otherwise drag their feet on returns. TBH I hardly watch Prime anymore, but the ads really are annoying. It’s like “Oh sorry, the pitted olives will have pits from now on.”
Enshittification will continue until Chapter 7 bankruptcy improves.
I was able to watch all of those movies and shows on the Usenet tier of Netflix.
🏴☠️⛵🏴☠️
It really was nice while streaming lasted. Shame these companies continually allow greed to drive me back into the arms of piracy.
Never stopped pirating, feeling vindicated rn 💪🏴☠️
The open, loving arms of the 7 seas.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ piracy is better anyway, I want full bitrate digital copies not compressed garbage.
Such a shame high bitrate full quality movies/TV shows will semi fade away as these asshole companies only stream their movies at 7 gigs an hour and never release physical media.
40GB Pirates of the Caribbean just hits differently. The black pearl coming out of an actual mist and not layers of gray that slowly recede because of compression is very awesome. FullHD with proper bitrate is enough for my 2m projector image, too.
100% It boggles my mind that very apparent compression artifacts don’t bother the average consumer.
I guess if you don’t know what it is, you can’t realize it is a flaw.
If you stream torrented films from your computer to your TV you can get a much nicer bitrate
I remember when an older netflix ceo talked about never having ads on the platform, there was some high and mighty principle about it… But then money!
Arrrrrrrr
Yar har fiddle de dee, a pirate life for me.
The answer is piracy.
The ads are really what get me. I’m fucking paying you and you still show me ads?!
I grew up with ads on cable, but I think it was back in the digg days someone said cable started that way too. You paid for cable for shows. Then the ads came. Streaming is almost exactly like cable now, except with the on demand part and how it’s over IP.
Yes
Ads were part of over the air but if you bought cable then you had none
Exactly right, it is the greediest model possible people will accept, ads+sub like cable TV and many popular streaming services became are the same garbage following the same enshittification path because art doesn’t exist in most TV and movies anymore, it’s just a commodity/product in a store.
I’m so tired of ads everywhere. I ad block at so many avenues. How do we crack an iPad to get rid of app ads? Is that possible?
If you set up a pihole, most of those in-game banner and popup ads won’t show up on iOS with the default blocklists. You won’t even be able to play ads for rewards anymore without disabling or swapping to a different network. Anything from the prime mobile store will still have ads unless you block the full Amazon domain, but those are the only ones I’ve encountered that are that persistent, and those are easy enough to avoid. Just don’t download anything from Amazon.
As a bonus, the pihole will also block ads across the rest of your network, and you can choose to be really aggressive with what gets blocked if you want, so you don’t need the piecemeal per-device solutions.
If you do opt to set a pihole up, make sure to port forward 53 to the pihole, so android users get the same Adblock perk (android will default to google dns via 53 to serve up ads without that port forward)
If you then set up a home VPN through your router, you can connect back to it when you are out and about and get the same level of ad protection wherever you go.
It is also possible to block ads using some VPNs. But in general, if you want the freedom to modify things, you should not be using Apple products.
I typically don’t but I have an iPad from being in aviation and gave it to my little one. The app ForeFlight isn’t available on Android. They have a Garmin one but it just isn’t the same.
I use this on iOS and iPadOS. It isn’t perfect and needs tinkering and tweaking. But it does block ads systemwide in most apps (banner ads, not those pesky in game ads usually). And you can customise it by seeing what ad servers were called, and add them to the block list.
Pi-hole network is probably the easiest approcah
Wouldn’t an ad-blocking DNS work just as well?
That’s literally what a pi-hole is.
No, they mean setting your DNS to an already existing ad blocking DNS. You do not need a oi hole to do that. See option 2 here https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
I do this on my router and phone. It doesn’t block everything, sure, but it blocks more than you’d think. And I didn’t have to fiddle with a raspberry Pi.
So far, BitTorrent hasn’t blocked anything for me.
DVDs, people! DVDs and Blu-Rays!
I want a digital format that i can store locally. I think i’m forced to buy blu-rays and a blu-ray drive.
Buy the disc, then use Handbrake to digitize.
E: autocorrect
Did you guys know that your local public Library has DVDs?
Sadly, though, this may not be helpful for much longer.
Some films are beginning to completely forego physical release in favor of digital only, and we’re veering back towards “You need a dedicated set-top box for movies” territory with computers and game consoles trying to do away with disc drives.
Yeah I know. 😓
There’s also tons of movies and TV shows on the Internet Archive because there’s absolutely no content moderation there.
It will take you a lot of browsing because their search function sucks, but you will find a lot of things to watch.
Just do it soon because that’s going to come back to bite them in the ass.
They probably have a streaming service too.
Mine does.
You can digitally “lend” a movie for a week and stream it once during that time. It’s free, but more cumbersome than the high seas.
Don’t you mean “borrow”?
Yes.
They do.
Audiobooks as well. My wife only ever listens to audiobooks she can stream from the library and she has yet to run out of things to listen to after years of doing so.
Libraries are less likely to do movie streaming because the service costs them a lot more, but it’s definitely worth checking.
That’s right! Some do have that service.
Dvd is SD. They may have BD’s, though.
Yeah they have both. Depends on what people donate.
I just read LG has stopped manufacturing blueray players. Meaning, soon, the dvds/bluerays at your local library will be defunct :(
There are many other vendors that still make players.
How small has that list become at this point?
Fair enough. Its not a great sign that this is likely to continue.
Thinking about it, i wonder how many vendors rely on big players like LG for parts.
You know, like in the phone market and car market for example. Vendors use parts and designs from other vendors all the time. Googles folding screen comes from samsung. In fact, samsung make parts for a ton of other manufacturers.
Vendors use parts and designs from other vendors all the time.
As another example, Apple still uses displays made by Samsung and cameras made by Sony for the iPhone.
Is there a reason why people won’t buy blu rays?
You mean the technology Sony just discontinued?
Because a single movie costs like 3 months of ad-tier Netflix.
They’re not on ad-tier because they’re flushed with cash…
Brand new, maybe. But second hand markets exist for this reason.
So does piracy, and it gives just as much money to the corporations who made the movie, if that’s something you’re worried about. And piracy don’t cost you shit.
Piracy is an option if they don’t care about the laws in their country, but some people care for one reason or another. The conversation was initially about about the cost of disc vs the cost of ad-supported streaming, so I offered a used option.
IF it exists in their country. It also requires enough people to buy the new ones first for it to be available for the second hand market.
True. But there are also libraries with some content that can be lent, and also the option that _cryptagion offered up.
Players can be expensive, but the most significant reason is probably having to get up and switch discs to watch something else. The vast majority of consumers have no idea how to rip a disc, nor the know-how required to set up a media server.
