Like clockwork I continue to not be subscribed to peacock, or any other streaming, for this very reason.
Pay X amount per month, for a selection of content you don’t control, have no ownership of, cannot retain a copy of (longterm), and whose price is subject to change at any time.
Ooooorrrrrrr…I could buy physical media, and rip my own permanent copy, which never expires, andwhose cost is a one time purchase.
Why the fuck is physical media dying??? Oh, right. I live in the same country that willingly voted for trump, and are now shocked to learn he’s a shitty person.
In other words, I’m surrounded by morons.
I don’t mind paying for a solid rotation of content to watch, I don’t have to own everything. People were mostly happy with blockbuster’s business model.
The streaming industry is a heaping pile of shit right now though, and everyone is trying to dial us back to the worst of cable again.
People only liked Blockbusters business model because there were no other options. Redbox came on the scene and decimated the company and they were even sued to get the distribution model changed so that they had to wait a month before they could rent new movies out. Now both companies are relics of the past since streaming became mainstream.
I guess that’s fair, and I had forgot going to a friends to watch their rentals together.
At least I definitely did not rip rented dvds to my hard drive.
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Ngl buying movies and TV shows is way worse than paying to stream them. If you buy them you’re left with a library of movies and shows youve already seen.
The key words here being “left with a library”. Your media, now and forever, at no additional cost, available whenever you want. I could not go back to netflix etc.
There’s just so few things that people actually watch multiple times. The things that people actually watch multiple times tend to be the same handful of movies and shows that rotates over the years. To do that you only need a very small library. Having a large media library is mostly just waste of space, even if it’s digital is wasted because you’re unlikely to watch 90% of it after the first time.
But, for me at least, not only having media when I’m at home is the real benefit. Not everyone wants to manage their own media server with remote access and the eventual debugging that follows with it.
I agree that a lot of shows and movies, especially the more recent ones, have little rewatchability. You could always replace those with an armful of whatever is current and on your watchlist after you are done though.
And personally i have a couple of evergreens and classics i enjoy watching again now and then, and it is nice to know i always have something to watch even if i cant afford the subscription any more / the stuff i like gets region locked / fucking licensing pulls the rug. It also feels a little empowering to have my own stuff that really is just mine and nobody can revoke my viewing permissions, in the face of endless enshittification.
As for the media server, i am not tech savvy enough myself to run one so i just bought a large ass external drive. When i am away from home i just bring that thing and can watch my stuff on any computer and generally also tv i plug it into.
Then sell it on ebay. Used dvd box sets still go for ~80% of new.
I think if you’re someone who really enjoys watching movies and likes watching multiple times then buying media is absolutely the way to go. But most people turn their brain off and just zone out to whatever.
For music I’d there is way more of a case for buying media to be the dominant way to consume music since your always listening to music over and over.
Ooooorrrrrrr…I could buy physical media, and rip my own permanent copy, which never expires, andwhose cost is a one time purchase.
How do you know what to buy? There are all kinds of shows I watch (before knowing anything about them) that aren’t worth buying.
I get my media from the local library and buy the ones I enjoy.
Mate, there are so many free streaming sites out there. Just make sure to have a really good ad blocker turned on. That said, you may have to find a good few that work with your browser, and to find the shows you want.
We’ve cancelled every single subscription service that we had. We’ve been pirating content for over a year now, and get to watch every show, from every streaming service, in HD, the day after they are released. Never turning back. Next eventual step will be to sail the high seas. :)
At this point, I don’t think there is a single streaming service worth the subscription price. What’s more distressing is that, rather than learning their lessons, these companies will collude to scare people into subscribing with repeats of the copyright crackdowns and corporate empowerment of the late 90s and early 2000s.
I hear good things about nebula.
I recently subscribed. It’s only $3/mo so it’s really inexpensive, but also it feels like it’s just a heavily curated YouTube.
There’s nothing I’ve found on nebula that’s not also on YouTube. The only real benefit (to me, not the creators) is that there’s no sponsorship in the video.
That being said, the app isn’t as polished and I feel like I’m just remembering which creators I follow on both and when I see a new video from one of them in YouTube, I flip to nebula to watch it, then go back to YouTube for my other subscriptions.
Arrrrrrr
And like clockwork, I am continuing to not subscribe.
In no way is Peacock worth $17/month.
That tiered system is fucking absurd. Ad supported, ad supported plus, “premium” and “premium plus”—WHICH STILL HAS ADS.
What in the fuck. Who in their right mind is paying for that?
Can’t wait to keep not paying for Peacock
Arrr, my friend
I do like how all of piracy is nautical themed.
Radarr, Sonarr, Torrent, FunkWhale, subsonic, Jellyfin, etc.
Plex…
Yep, I saw they had The Monday Night Wars and every episode was listed as free to stream. When I finished episode 4 a message came up that I could subscribe to continue watching. I checked online and it was all, from episode 5 on, behind the paywall after saying beforehand that it wasn’t. I deleted the app from my Roku and phone, then deleted my account. Fuck peacock.
but now you’ll be not paying even more money! capitalism is great
Peacock = pisspenis
I signed up for one of their trials because I’m a huge EPL fan and then found out most of the games weren’t even on peacock or the tier they told me def had the games. I needed a cable subscription and USA channel. Fuck em.
And yet the cost of BitTorrent and the *arr suite has stayed the same.
HDD prices are up over the last several years even with greater density drives coming on the scene, but it still pales in comparison to the price increases of these streaming services.
Two years ago, I paid $100 for a 4TB internal. Last week, I paid $89 for each 8TB enterprise-grade internal, granted, refurbished
…You be the judge.
Which ones…? I’m in the market for exactly that
https://www.ebay.com/itm/365635828603 Gone now, but another deal might come along.
Thanks!
And a 24TB drive goes for 350, I don’t see prices going up either
It seems to be going the othwr way again? There was a thread the other day about new 38tb drives and how they are pretty cost efficient on a per gb level
Nah still pricey. I believe the article stated they were $800 which puts them at $20+/TB. 5 years ago I could get new drives at $12/TB but now I can only find these types of deals on used server drives or no-name brands.
These new 30+TB drives should be driving down the cost of the small to midrange drives but that doesn’t appear to be the case currently.
Arrrr mateys, see ye on the high seas…
Am I understanding correctly that the most expensive “premium plus” plan still has advertisements?
I saw that too. It’s crazy what people put up with
Funny… My ad tier sub for $50/year has none
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I used to point this out about Hulu probably close to a decade ago on reddit and would get endless comments about how “it’s just a few shows,” “i never see any ads,” and “it’s not their fault.” I wonder if those same people exist here.
There’s literally nothing compelling these shitty companies to advertise these plans as ad free when they do in fact contain ads. Just like cellular ISPs have no legitimate reason to call their data plans “unlimited” when they cap you after using a predefined amount of data.
Remember the good ol days where Netflix had everything you could watch for a cheap subscription price.
I didn’t pirate for years when Netflix was the bomb. Then it all started going to poop but I kept the subscription running while I sailed the seven seas with the thought that it was just a little bit of a reduced library, it’s still good. It’s just a heap of shows cancelled after one season and even more content missing, it’s still good. But after a few years I had to accept that like a pig soaring over a dam, it was gone. So now no one gets my money.
Except my ISP, private indexers, a VPN company, and various hard drive manufacturers I guess.
I have a jellyfin server. I haven’t bothered setting up the *arrs because there’s not much worth watching anymore and the few things I want I can get manually. It’s not even worth automating the piracy anymore.
There’s plenty of good content out there, it just isn’t necessarily the popular content.
Would definitely recommend installing the *arrs, and letting it roll on an automated list like an Imdb watchlist full of stuff you’ve never heard of.
Thank glob for services like Stremio, Real-Debrid, Omni, Fusion, Vidi, Kodi, etc.
Thanks for the reminder to unsub 👌
I hate peacock in general because they purposely deny the ability to use the service on Linux. So I’m forced to use it on my Apple TV instead of my computer browser.
I only stayed with the cheapest plan in order to watch the WWE PLEs. I will figure out another way to watch. Fuck NBC and Peacock.
Yo ho
We’re canceling the most watched late night show on all platforms! Pay more now! For less!
Gotta love that great management. Hail capitalism!
Peacock is NBC / Comcast. Colbert was on CBS / Paramount.
My mistake. So many names for so many shitty corporations, can’t keep track of them.
Guess it makes sense: CBS cowed, pay us more for the non-propaganda!
When can we throw em all in the tar pit?
Fuck those bait-and-switch dastardly. On Vlack Friday, they has their basic premium (🤮) for $50/year and had a monthly option to get the premium plus and remove ads. Then 6 months later, they got rid of that option. And removed the option for monthly at that plus level.
streamio plus Real debrid for the win
In my case, Streamio and… Wait, no, just Streamio 😝
