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Weird, jellyfin always seems to have it.
Though they seem to keep making it harder and harder to buy egitimate harder copies of the content I want.
“Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem” - Gabe Newell
This quote is relevant far too often
Kind of. But when Amazon has the option to rent a movie for $3, and all I have to do is click that button and it will stream instantly, I still NEVER click that button. It’s not really a service issue, because it’s available instantly at just the click of a button.
It’s more of a principal issue. Like why the fuck am I paying all this money for all these streaming services and you still want to charge me even more? Makes piracy an easy choice.
I still see it as a service issue. I can only watch it once or for a very short time. That’s not the service I’m looking for.
I don’t even need hard copies, just give me the ability to buy a DRMless file I can run on any of my devices for a fair price. I don’t even necessarily need to be able to download it again in the future if that makes it cheaper. I can back my shit up myself.
Que sera, as I like to say.
My experience exactly. It’s only in English though, but I’m okay with that
This is why i miss video rental stores.
Noy only was there none of this bullshit.
You got to walk up and down the aisles and discover things you’d never see otherwise.
All while eating a enormous tub of popcorn that you got to buy for only 99 cents.
I miss the friday evening ritual of going to the rental shop and picking up two movies and a game for the weekend so goddamn much.
Tub of popcorn for 99c? How old are you? I mean shit you can still do this. Dollar store microwave popcorn, c it better yet. An air popper and a huge jar of popping corn. Not only that but hell I get to sit at home browse through all my streaming services and if I need to rent something I can rent something if not typically I don’t even have to rent, it’s just available.
That being said the original meme on here did actually affect me last night. I really wanted to watch Quentin Tarantino’s grindhouse and apparently it’s unavailable on all streaming services but I could rent it for $3.99. really didn’t want to so I chose not to and watch something else instead.
Consumers: “I’m tired of all these commercials and strict viewing schedule, I’m switching to streaming and getting rid of cable.”
Capitalism: “Panic!”
Consumers: “Wow, this is so much better. I get to watch what I want when I want and don’t have to sit through annoying ads.”
Capitalism: “Let’s release 100 different streaming services, add commercials, and follow a viewing schedule.”
Consumers: “Wait what, this just seems like cable with extra steps, fuck this I’m just going to start sailing the seas.”
Capitalism: Surprised Pikachu
As soon as Hulu started packing ads into their service, I knew that we were slowly reinventing cable TV, perhaps worse. That was roughly 15-ish years ago. Honestly, it’s been slower than expected.
The real funny thing, if anyone remembers the original HBO/cable from the early 80s, their whole thing was “no commercials”, and that’s the first thing that happened to cable.
Remember when Hulu was free? You only had to pay if you wanted access to mobile streaming. Mobile phones weren’t nearly as capable as they are today, so watching on my laptop or pc was actually preferable.
Remember when Hulu was free?
Boy do I ever. I got to watch Stargate:Universe in all its disappointing glory. Good times.
Mobile phones weren’t nearly as capable as they are today, so watching on my laptop or pc was actually preferable.
Real talk though: under what circumstances would a phone be in any way preferable to using a laptop, desktop, or media PC on a big screen? Personally, I find everything about my phone clumsy, clunky, tedious, and head/kneck/arm/hand/eye strain inducing. It’s an RSI nightmare.
I watched most of Vinland saga on my phone while taking a train from LA to Seattle. It was fine, would’ve preferred to use my laptop but mobile hotspot is apparently counted separately fromy unlimited mobile data so fuck me I guess.
That was the exact moment I gave up on streaming services, as well.
I blame Disney. They are the ones that broke the dam after they saw the popularity of their Marvel ip.
The dam broke the instant Netflix insisted they would only accept worldwide exclusivity for original commissions. This completely upended the extant funding model and led the studios to develop their own platforms out of necessity.
A lot of people are suggesting piracy, but I’m going to throw in the hat of checking out the library first! You can borrow movies from them and usually online too, so you might be able to find it there!
Rip library’s copy and seed, got it
Highly agree, my Library had a videogame collection with solid releases too
Why do that when I can save $5 in gas and just pirate from home?
Libraries have online methods to loan movies, audiobooks, books, and games nowadays.
Yeah OpenLibrary has a phone app too
There are people outside of the US who can just ride the bike or use public transport.
I’m happy for them.
Only seasons 1,2 and 5 of your favorite show are available on Streaming Service 1. Only seasons 3 and 4 are available on Streaming Service 2. Why is this happening?
Both streaming services are owned by the same corporation and this setup lets them double-dip you on subscription fees.
Oh and episode 23 is on nothing, matter of fact there is no episode 23
Too controversial!!!
Anti consumer
Pro-capitalist
Same picture jpeg
Yup they are :(
And we’re right back to cable TV.
A half dozen “packages” as streaming services, nothing good on, prices keep going up, and anything you do want to see costs more (pay-per-view).
I talked about this happening years ago. I hate that it became true.
My partner and I cycle. We have 1 or 2 services at a time, burn them out, and move on.
I learned it from watching you, Elon!
Yarr
🏴☠️
Right?!
I’ve looked up MULTIPLE random movies from the 2000-2010 range… not no-names, not block busters… Nothing, not available, Always not available on Prime/Netflix/Disney.
Made me seriously look at starting to dust off the plex server again…
WTF am I paying for all these services, and they can’t even host the basics…
I can’t understand why rights holders wouldn’t want even a paltry amount rather than 0. What is the point of having the IP if you’re not to making money from it?
🎶"yo ho, all hands, hoist the colors high"🎶
I wanted to watch the 1939 movie the wizard of oz and in my country is not available on any of the streaming subscriptions. Can be only rented for 24 hours like it’s some fresh movie out of the theater
Fmhy dot net got you covered
Why does anyone bother with streaming services when you can buy DVDs cheaper and own the media forever and the collection only accumulates over time? Kodi is awesome.
I don’t want to re-watch things much. It’s plastic waste the instant I watch it.
Have you looked into what you can get through your local library? You can usually get several at once, and interlibrary loans are a thing
Yeah, while I agree with many points people make about physical media I rarely re-watch movies/shows and re-play games. I do everything I can to lessen the environmental impact I have, and a plastic disc with some other stuff from who knows where transported to me for mostly one time use goes very much against that. And yes, companies are the biggest criminals when it comes to humanity’s destruction of the climate but they couldn’t do that if no one was giving them money. So I do and tell others to stop doing that, to make intelligent and researched choices in everything they do.
The price of one dvd is more than a month of streaming. So I guess this works if you only watch one movie a month, or one season of a series every six months.
$0.99 is more than a month of streaming?
The bargain bin usually doesn’t have anything interesting. How much is an actual recent movie?
Disagree. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118214/
Also, depending on how you define a “recent” movie. You can get them for as little as $0.25 or as much as $300. Heck the most expensive movie that my husband bought was old not new.
The movie you shared is 13$ on Walmart’s website. Regardless, you’re talking about reducing the choice by a lot to stay under a fixed budget, not really the same as having access to a whole database and recent movies/series. All that goes out the window for series anyways, those are usually stupid expensive.
More power to you though. Personally, I would rip the CDs and put them on a hardrive with jellyfin just out of convenience.
The other aspect of this, for me, is that streaming is high definition and I have functional eyeballs.
Even the most highly compressed HD content that’s been served up to me is orders of magnitude better looking than low-def DVD potato quality video. So at a minimum, if it were going to be a remotely accurate comparison between paid physical versus paid streaming, DVD shouldn’t even be in the discussion for many/most of us.
It’s obvious though that bacon_pdp is not a serious person nor trying to have an honest discussion with you, but hopefully you already recognize that.
I don’t rewatch much. A collection of discs just takes up space and collects dust.
I mean one requires a few clicks, the other requires effort, time and more steps.
I also don’t rewatch stuff frequently, there’s no point in keeping it after other than taking up space or data.
This person is complaining while also paying like ten bucks a month for that blue check.
Well he’s subscribed to 13 streaming services
Hence they’re Tweeting instead of watching movies.
Can you pirate a blue check?
Gotchu, fam…
You can steal someone’s account, which is apparently pretty common given how often I get security warnings for my old unused account.
Stremio + Torrentio + Real-Debrid
Usenet + torrents + Jellyfin.
Arr me hearties.
