Number of devices you can stream from simultaneously is decreasing, too.
  • Hairyblue@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    I don’t think there should be a 4k tier. They should be tiered on ads and number of users. Why should quality be a tier?

    • Goronmon@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      Why should quality be a tier?

      Because it costs more to stream 4k content than lower quality content?

      Not agreeing with it, but the justification is easy to make.

    • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      Why should quality be a tier?

      The cost of storing and serving 4k content is much, much higher than 1080p.

      • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
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        11 months ago

        Not really. I mean there is, but both bandwidth and storage get cheaper by the day. Delivering 4k content today is probably an order of magnitude cheaper per bit than delivering HD content was a decade ago.

      • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        11 months ago

        The cost of storing and serving 1080p is much, much higher than not storing or serving any content yet they still do that. It’s what we’re paying them for. Furthermore ‘streaming 4k’ is pretty compressed already and comes nowhere near the level of bitrate of a 4k bluray.

  • SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    “This deal keeps getting worse all the time.”

    I’ve been quitting streaming providers left and right. I lost count of how many services I had, but it was probably up to $150 per month or more. Because I like the ability to just watch whatever I want, I’d sign up for a service to get a particular show or movie, then just not cancel. I’d forget I had a service, then find some movie in a search, and suddenly remember I had showtime or shudder.

    Once they started banning family sharing of accounts and increasing prices, I was done. I could have gone on for years like that - I love movies and I binge television shows, but one of my main uses is watching in remote sessions with isolated family members.

  • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    We get Max free through our cell phone plan; I don’t think the merger changed that (we still get it for free), but I’m honestly not sure how this will affect it, if at all. If it ever stops being free, there will be a few shows I’ll miss having instant access to, but nothing that cleaning the sails for a voyage on the high seas can’t fix.

  • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    “One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue,” explained Newell during his time on stage at the Washington Technology Industry Association’s (WTIA) Tech NW conference. “The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.”

    I’m done with streaming for reasons like the one in the article but damn, the arr suite, a Synology NAS, and Plex on my Apple TV are a fantastic combo. Any show, movie, book, or music I want, at the highest quality, and no getting fucked around by greedy media corporations.

    I still spend money on media but now I try and make sure as much as possible goes straight into the pockets of the people who make it.