Cost isn't even the problem. Give me a good service and I'll gladly pay for it. But the shit streaming services they've made now........ I'm giving no money for that. I'll pay that money towards a quality VPN.
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Absolutely this. Today's streaming is now worse than cable and at least as expensive. Add to that how the major services are shoving ads back in even on "ad-free" tiers, and it's time to set sail.
I love how these past years is the “eventually” that we started with Netflix when it began. That streaming would eventually turn into cable tv and we’re back to pirating again.
I may have spent a number of years on the high seas. You know what? It was a pain in the ass. Finding the stuff you want, managing the downloads, the storage, a media server, hosting, etc. When Netflix got big, I took down the flag and was happy to pay a few bucks for the service. Same for Prime Video. Between the two, I had no need to go a-sailing and I was content.
However, its so bad now. Ads all over the place. So many different services, content scattered all over the place, weird rules about how ans when you can access them (if you're traveling, good luck).
Now keeping multiple subscription services is the greater burden, so back to the high seas. Very happy with my Jellyfin.
Anything older than about a year should be on every single service.
It was The Princess Bride that got me back to piracy, and all the new things like Jellyfin which are better than any commercial service.
Wasn't on any streaming service I had, and I was on three. No thank you, I would not like to rent it for £7.99.
The Princess Bride
Me with my VHS copy, my DVD copy, my pirated 1080p avi copy, and the book:
For those who, for whatever reason, can’t risk piracy, library services are another option.
On top of rented DVDs, many offer streaming services that are ad-free and tend to have some good options.
Good idea! Then you can rip copies.
Good direction.
They do it for money. If people had standards, they'd behave better. Imagine if every time they announced they were doing more ads, every user cancelled. There is power in solidarity.
Unfortunately, most people are some mix of tired lazy stupid short-sighted
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Quality's another.
As an example, the Amazon web player (on a brand new Android TV oled with a good ARM SoC, and/or a beefy desktop hooked up to it) skips frames and stutters. It has clear blocking from randomly changing the quality on gigabit symmetric internet, and precisely zero way to troubleshoot it.
Plex?
Perfect fluidity. No quality drops. And I can see that objectively with exposed stats, too.
So, yeah. I get it; Amazon can't afford an optimized player, being such a fledgling startup and all. A 7800 X3D is simply below its system requirements. Apparently.
Hence I can't afford Amazon either.
Yarrr
A second one is not to watch. And i believe that is worse for them in the long run.
Torrent for movies and series, satellite tv for sports and movies is so cheap.