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Makes it hard to get friends to watch the show From when I have to tell them it's on a random rear end service called mgm+.
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Episode 3 of The Last of Us was extremely well done. I fully welcome them deviating from the game plot to craft these touching and impactful side stories. gently caress the game plot, just keep doing more of this. Nick Offerman was incredible.
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I’d honestly rather they increase prices than move stuff to bullshit “FAST” channels (“free ad-supported television”) like what they’re splintering HBO Max into. Those are dead to me, absolutely will not watch under any circumstances
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Chris James 2 posted:https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1620698418149752834?s=20&t=LXmGrOCqjXjE7jeC6YS8ag They better not cut me off before I get my Birdgertons 
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david_a posted:I’d honestly rather they increase prices than move stuff to bullshit “FAST” channels (“free ad-supported television”) like what they’re splintering HBO Max into. Those are dead to me, absolutely will not watch under any circumstances Leave tubi alone 
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I like Tubi but at the same time it is clear that we’re gonna get less stuff on the premium channels and fewer options to see things without ads.
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david_a posted:I’d honestly rather they increase prices than move stuff to bullshit “FAST” channels (“free ad-supported television”) like what they’re splintering HBO Max into. Those are dead to me, absolutely will not watch under any circumstances Yeah, it's the same with Prime. "Watch for free/cheap with ads" just means "never watch" for me. I've suffered through ads for too long to ever be going back to them voluntarily. That's just daring people to go back to 
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I just bought some used Blu-rays of stuff that moved to FAST services so I never have to deal with that bullshit. I pay for 4 streaming services and rent a good number of movies through YouTube. I will never watch an ad and if you require me to in order to access your content, I will pirate your thing instead or immediately forget it exists. Sad to see so many newer releases not having a physical release either. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Feb 2, 2023 |
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I'm on a free trial of Peacock and it's the ad supported tier and it's pretty miserable for watching stuff. SNL has a lot of ad breaks to set up the next bit/musical act/etc and Peacock puts a minute long break in each time. (Not to mention SNL putting ads right into the drat show like bringing up Spirit airlines and Arby's every episode now, but that's another gripe) If the free trial is supposed to entice me to sub to the service it is doing a terrible job. The ad supported version I'm using feels like it should be free. I had a similar poo poo experience with Paramount a while back which had The Burbs on there but it had ads inserted throughout even on a paid subscription tier. It's pretty bad. edit: On the flip side, Tubi had You're Next with ads but they were cool about it and just played a couple of ads before the movie and a couple after the credits. I'm fine with that!
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Jolo posted:I'm on a free trial of Peacock and it's the ad supported tier and it's pretty miserable for watching stuff. SNL has a lot of ad breaks to set up the next bit/musical act/etc and Peacock puts a minute long break in each time. (Not to mention SNL putting ads right into the drat show like bringing up Spirit airlines and Arby's every episode now, but that's another gripe) If the free trial is supposed to entice me to sub to the service it is doing a terrible job. The ad supported version I'm using feels like it should be free. I had a similar poo poo experience with Paramount a while back which had The Burbs on there but it had ads inserted throughout even on a paid subscription tier. It's pretty bad. Hulu and Peacock are completely unwatchable with the ads. I have access to passwords for both and i'm still using
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The Peacock app is also sluggish and glitchy. And if I put a show on pause to go to the bathroom, if I'm gone too long, it freaks out and forgets where I left off, and will consider the episode unwatched. But then if I intentionally stop them when the credits start rolling, when I go to play the new episode the next week, it'll start with the final 30 seconds of the credits that I did not watch. It's an infuriating app. Other times, I'll finish a show, and if I don't return to the menu quickly enough, it'll start auto playing similar shows that I don't actually want to watch, and forever whenever I log back in, it wants me to continue watching that show. Thankfully I'm using a friend's account who pays for the ad free experience.
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The nice thing about peacock is ad blockers work on their ads.
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Baron von Eevl posted:The nice thing about peacock is ad blockers work on their ads. Yeah but then you have to watch on a small screen. They don't have ad blockers for TVs right?
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watching the I'm Totally Fine movie on hulu this morning and its giving the UP NEXT message with a 4000 second countdown
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Baron von Eevl posted:The nice thing about peacock is ad blockers work on their ads. Yeah, the convenience of using Chromecast on the living room TV gets in the way of this. I'm not fully anti-ad, but on a paid service like Peacock it's dumb, and on a free service like Youtube it'd be ok if they weren't cranking up the frequency to the point of absurdity.
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a pihole DNS ad-blocker can block Peacock ads since they are served from a separate server than the normal content. bit of a technological challenge so memaw and pepaw probably can't get one working, but it's not particularly hard to do if you are moderately proficient with self-configuration. https://pi-hole.net/ e. to be clear, that's literally anything connected to the internet in your house Famethrowa fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Feb 2, 2023 |
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Also Peacock detected when I VPN'd in and locked me out. They're mean.
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mcmagic posted:Yeah but then you have to watch on a small screen. They don't have ad blockers for TVs right? No but your laptop likely has an hdmi out. Also I get it for "free" so I'm not really upset about ads, but I agree that paid services shouldn't have ads.
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The subscriber bases on these publicly traded companies have reached maximum saturation, so between streaming services still releasing content on a weekly cadence, ads for paid services, pullbacks on content libraries, and a large decline in prestige TV in favor of lowest common denominator stuff, it's going to become less and less apparent what the advantage over cable was supposed to be.
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I got the cheapest Peacock with ads purely to watch Sunday Night Football. My wife also uses it to watch the Office for background noise on the days she works from home, so the ads don't bother her. I tried watching Nope and gave up and ended up just paying to rent it on Prime.
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Yeah I went to Hulu without ads a long time ago because the ad breaks were always in weird places. Like watching the classic Outer Limits when they had it (another show that's now loving nowhere for some reason), the show has clear act breaks where commercials would go but because we have more ad breaks these days they never actually used those and would sometimes just stop in the middle of a scene, no rhyme or reason whatsoever.
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My mom is a traveling nurse, so they can no longer use Netflix?
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Harminoff posted:My mom is a traveling nurse, so they can no longer use Netflix? Maybe she can bring a router with her when she travels? There are travel routers designed to go between hotel Wi-Fi and your computer. What a dumb thing to have to do. People are just going sign up for Plex shares shares, which predictably offer an even better use experience over the mainstream apps. Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Feb 2, 2023 |
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Tiny Timbs posted:Maybe she can bring a router with her when she travels? There are travel routers designed to go between hotel Wi-Fi and your computer. What a dumb thing to have to do. People are just going sign up for Plex shares shares, which predictably offer an even better use experience over the mainstream apps. That really won't matter, the "home network" is going to be the key which is likely going to be your external IP address. Which means when Comcast swaps your external IP as they can do, you'll lose access even in your own house. I have to hope someone is thinking about how they want to handle things like that.
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Medullah posted:That really won't matter, the "home network" is going to be the key which is likely going to be your external IP address. Which means when Comcast swaps your external IP as they can do, you'll lose access even in your own house. Yeah I was wondering if they did something else because all the articles talked about a “home Wi-Fi” requirement. Getting static IPs is an opt-in process even if it’s free, which I don’t think it is for ISPs like Comcast.
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Medullah posted:That really won't matter, the "home network" is going to be the key which is likely going to be your external IP address. Which means when Comcast swaps your external IP as they can do, you'll lose access even in your own house. They're probably really only concerned with the case where there are still devices watching video from the home IP and also devices from other ips that haven't connected from the home IP in 30 days. My guess is that this will be complicated enough that it still will be a thing where they specifically have to flag you as possibly abusing it rather than having to enter your home IP or something stupid like that.
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Just buy a whole rear end computer for your tv
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veni veni veni posted:Cunk on Earth is really funny I was just watching this, a great documentary series in the spirit of Look Around You.
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I heard picard was bad. should I watch it anyway?
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No, i recommend watching something good. Unless you have a YouTube channel or a podcast about bad TV series or something.
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A MIRACLE posted:I heard picard was bad. should I watch it anyway? It's egregiously bad. Easily the worst of the new Star Treks, both seasons. I've said this in this thread before. Star Trek Discovery had a thrilling first two seasons, but seasons 3 and 4 it lost all the edge, and became a show about how the crew is family, and each episode ends in a musical montage where they all come together to hug. I'm not joking. Both season plotlines are about how there is some threat that is going to destroy the galaxy, and it's boring. As someone who prefers serialized storyline, I actually welcome the episodic nature of Strange New Worlds.
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A MIRACLE posted:I heard picard was bad. should I watch it anyway? It's NOTHING like a star trek show and the story is stupid and non sensical but you get to see old versions of your next gen and STV faves.
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It’s the first movie again n
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I would recommend the first season of Star Trek Picard over A Quiet Place Part 2
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I didn't mind Picard season 1, it wasn't great but it was kinda nice seeing the gang back together. Season 2 should be tried for war crimes against humanity
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A MIRACLE posted:ok what about quiet place 2 It's loving terrible much like the first one, but if it's up to watch for free it's an entertaining enough way to waste 2 hours. Some of the most overrated movies ever though. They really suck.
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I only saw bits and pieces of part 2 but it looked bad. It isn't scary when the CG video game monster just throws people offscreen to kill them. I guess it's more about humans adapting and being lovely and tribalistic. It lifts imagery from The Road and The Last Of Us games, which frankly, their new show is probably what you're looking for anyway.
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