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.
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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.
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. :)
I get my media from the local library and buy the ones I enjoy.
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.
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.
Then sell it on ebay. Used dvd box sets still go for ~80% of new.
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.
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
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.
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Funny… My ad tier sub for $50/year has none
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.
Arrrr mateys, see ye on the high seas…
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?
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
Thank glob for services like Stremio, Real-Debrid, Omni, Fusion, Vidi, Kodi, etc.
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And like clockwork, I am continuing to not subscribe.
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.
Can’t wait to keep not paying for Peacock
streamio plus Real debrid for the win
In my case, Streamio and… Wait, no, just Streamio 😝
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.
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.
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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.
