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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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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
Peacock = pisspenis
but now you’ll be not paying even more money! capitalism is great
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.
Funny… My ad tier sub for $50/year has none
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In no way is Peacock worth $17/month.
Arrrr mateys, see ye on 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.
And like clockwork, I am continuing to not subscribe.
Thank glob for services like Stremio, Real-Debrid, Omni, Fusion, Vidi, Kodi, etc.
Arrrrrrr
streamio plus Real debrid for the win
In my case, Streamio and… Wait, no, just Streamio 😝
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?
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
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.
