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Blurry Gray Thing posted:It's true. If I had a business that was really starting to struggle because more and more people keep going to my competitors, my big move would be to start lifting up my remaining customers and shaking them until more money fell out. When you have less of something than before, you really gotta squeeze it harder. Get all that juice out. This was unironically Comcast’s message to shareholders in 2018. They posted their first no growth quarter ever in Q1.
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MrQwerty posted:I cancelled netflix when they first did the sharing thing because I wasn't watching it anyway, the only thing I wanna see is I Think You Should Leave S3
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Code Jockey posted:ultimately this licensing poo poo is going to continue to churn and rights will change owners and services will die and start up  Between Youtube and my DVD collection, there's too much good stuff for me to bother with any of these services. Yeah, I'll occasionally miss out on a banger like I Think You Should Leave, but I can pass the savings onto streamers that I like in the form of dumb superchat messages. olives black fucked around with this message at 15:49 on May 26, 2023 |
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Code Jockey posted:ultimately this licensing poo poo is going to continue to churn and rights will change owners and services will die and start up Plus you got bonuses sometimes. How else are you going to experience the original broadcast episodes of S2 of Arrested Development, with the cool little 'Premier' logo in the corner?
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May 26, 2023 15:51
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Netflix was pretty cool before their catalog was 90% netflix originals. These days the unironic best catalog for actual good movie streaming is Youtube's "Free with Ads" videos which conveniently display no ads if you run an adblocker
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The only TV worth paying for are live events you want to see in real time, like sporting events or concerts because there are so many ways to get shows and movies for free to watch on demand. I honestly don't think that there's any way for providers to fight that gravity--although I'm sure that they'll try all sorts of consumer-unfriendly practices.
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May 26, 2023 16:49
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Jestery posted:If anyone here had a business like Netflix it would have crashed and burner since it has literally never been profitable, nor can it be the internet iself is a giant unprofitable money pit and eventually we're going to fall rear end first back into the 1980s but all the infrastructure for legacy media has been destroyed so it will be even worse
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May 26, 2023 18:22
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If you care at all about the writers strike you probably shouldn’t be stealing their content.
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Haptical Sales Slut posted:If you care at all about the writers strike you probably shouldn’t be stealing their content. it's ok i'm not stealing the content of the writers who are striking today, i'm stealing the content of writers who would have been striking somewhere between 10 and 40 years ago
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May 26, 2023 18:41
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Haptical Sales Slut posted:If you care at all about the writers strike you probably shouldn’t be stealing their content. Oh no pirating is killing the writers! Yeah, yeah sure thing.
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Brother Tadger posted:Lmao Netflix trying to scold people for sharing accounts; so two people who live apart from another sharing an account is less bandwidth-intense than 3 people who live in the same house, or are you just trying to price-gouge without having to raise prices?
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This Is the Zodiac posted:Right? Hey Netflix, want to put up an onscreen notification that explains to my six-year-old why when she goes from Mommy's house to Daddy's house, her watched content, favorites, and recommendations aren't the same anymore? I hasn’t even thought of that, I don’t envy either parent.
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May 26, 2023 19:30
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Haptical Sales Slut posted:If you care at all about the writers strike you probably shouldn’t be stealing their content. well it looks like i dont really care lol
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Haptical Sales Slut posted:If you care at all about the writers strike you probably shouldn’t be stealing their content. Aren't they striking because they're already not getting paid from streaming services? So, stealing that content is actually an act of solidarity.
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May 26, 2023 20:04
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Remember Popcorn Time? That ruled when you could tell your parents "just download popcorn time" and they had a free netflix where everything was available and worked. The Comcast nastygrams were just toilet paper anyways.
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ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD posted:well it looks like i dont really care lol Yeah, the last thing I care about while watching Stop or My Mom Will Shoot is the poor writer who put that slop together. Thanks to Netflix and this thread I’ve got a nice Plex server going that has allowed me to cancel every streaming service.
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piracy also means my Beavis and Butthead rips have the original music intact and I love that some of it is just dogshit VHS rips, because that's the best they could find for that ep, lol my loving kingdom for a rip of classic SNL with the music included. my copy is from peacock I think and it's missing 99% of the music 
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Code Jockey posted:piracy also means my Beavis and Butthead rips have the original music intact They changed the piano jingle from "Ride the Snake" skit, I noticed that when I saw it on YouTube
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im a weirdo that still has a disc drive in my computer, so i actually realized I like borrowing stuff from the library, ripping it to my hard drive and just watching it when I feel like it. fun to just browse what they're receiving and putting stuff that sounds interesting in their websites wishlist
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Yeah, amusingly enough I've probably bought more DVDs since seriously committing to building out my plex than before Those DVDs being WKRP in Cincinatti and Wrestling Society X because I couldn't find good sources for them lol
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Phantasium posted:im a weirdo that still has a disc drive in my computer, so i actually realized I like borrowing stuff from the library, ripping it to my hard drive and just watching it when I feel like it. fun to just browse what they're receiving and putting stuff that sounds interesting in their websites wishlist  I will never not have a BD-RE driveNow that I have Linux I've turned my desktop into a LAN media server though I'm using Jellyfin instead of Plex to be a contrarian
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Zero VGS posted:They changed the piano jingle from "Ride the Snake" skit, I noticed that when I saw it on YouTube That episode is one of the best that ever aired.
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Tape drives > blu-ray drives. Maybe one day I'll do it but the drives are so expensive even for the older tech.
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May 26, 2023 22:11
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Code Jockey posted:piracy also means my Beavis and Butthead rips have the original music intact I had been searching for these two skits, one was where RDJ is an inappropriate wedding DJ, and another where Jimmy Fallon hosts a web college show from the dorms, and Hugh Jackman played a nerd. The only way to view them was to obtain all of SNL as YouTube was not helpful But I do not have the time to watch 30 seasons of SNL lol. Haptical Sales Slut posted:That episode is one of the best that ever aired. AvesPKS fucked around with this message at 22:15 on May 26, 2023 |
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Woolie Wool posted:I once looked up LTO drives on eBay and Yeah but I can only do so much with 5 bay! I have an ebay tracker for a 3u supermicro but I don't think I want to deal with such a large/loud thing. I could buy more 18tbs but the 8tbs are still fine and I already did that for two of them. My desire to hoard is strong.
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Duck and Cover posted:Tape drives > blu-ray drives. Maybe one day I'll do it but the drives are so expensive even for the older tech. I interviewed for a job out of college for an IBM group that sold software for archival data storage on big collections of tape drives that got moved around like records in a juke box to the tape readers We're talking petabytes of crummy old data nobody wanted. Apparently financially it was cheaper than alternatives for some companies.
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I'm more sad that streaming services never have audio commentary. They're often trash, yeah, but Futurama and The Simpsons have audio commentary that is good enough to just listen to as a podcast. I'm pissed you can't get that on streaming services.
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syntaxfunction posted:I'm more sad that streaming services never have audio commentary. They're often trash, yeah, but Futurama and The Simpsons have audio commentary that is good enough to just listen to as a podcast. I'm pissed you can't get that on streaming services. The Simpsons commentary is like rewatching an episode for the first time, and yeah, I would kill for that on Disney+. Is disc rot still a concern or have we as a cursed species conquered that? Perhaps physical media does have a place because wow this sucks!
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Duck and Cover posted:Yeah but I can only do so much with 5 bay! I have an ebay tracker for a 3u supermicro but I don't think I want to deal with such a large/loud thing. I could buy more 18tbs but the 8tbs are still fine and I already did that for two of them. My desire to hoard is strong. Just buy a Fractal Design R5, you get 2 external 5.25" bays and 8 hard drive bays with a tasteful design. I put Noctua fans in mine and it's whisper quiet even with 3 HDDs and a fairly high-end CPU and GPU installed 
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y'know, I have netflix but it's been probably 6 months since I watched something from it. If my SO didn't watch it, I'd cancel it. There is so much content on there but none of it is worth watching, at least by my eyes. Has anyone here subscribed to magellan? or is it Curiosity Stream? Which is the one all the good sciency youtubers are going to?
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My cable bill is $300 and I don't even pay for Netflix. However I get charged $10 for a Netflix access fee. Also the TV set is logged into Netflix. So I'm wondering if now is the time to flick some nets?
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Woolie Wool posted:Just buy a Fractal Design R5, you get 2 external 5.25" bays and 8 hard drive bays with a tasteful design. I put Noctua fans in mine and it's whisper quiet even with 3 HDDs and a fairly high-end CPU and GPU installed I'm not sure 8 is enough. I like my Synology well enough, it works, and changing my setup means fiddling with different poo poo.
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Woolie Wool posted:Just buy a Fractal Design R5, you get 2 external 5.25" bays and 8 hard drive bays with a tasteful design. I put Noctua fans in mine and it's whisper quiet even with 3 HDDs and a fairly high-end CPU and GPU installed I just bought a Fractal Define 7 XL, which can fit 16 hard drives, or 20 if you attach more to the fan mounts! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAy9N1vX76o
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teen witch posted:Is disc rot still a concern or have we as a cursed species conquered that? Perhaps physical media does have a place because wow this sucks! Cassettes can last a pretty long time when properly cared for. These 50+ year old ones were unwrapped prior to the video and they still sound really good! https://youtu.be/G9GvgvQNp70 Smugworth posted:Stranger Things was all downhill after season 1 Yeah, I quit after season 2. olives black fucked around with this message at 13:12 on May 27, 2023 |
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Disc rot can happen with DVD’s but if you take care of them and put them in areas that are temp controlled it won’t be an issue for a long, long time. If you live in an area where it goes from hot/humid to dry/cold or just very dry it can mess them up if you don’t have A/C or something to try counteract. Blu-Ray though, is a lot more scratch resistant and harder to rot because of the coating it used. So while it used to be a major concern, it’s not really a thing. I’ve still got DVD’s that I bought 20 years ago that play just fine.
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