And ads. Lots of ads.
Did they say ads?
it’s implied
Is it? If they’re going to make this available for a free/ad priced tier I could see showing ads. But not for the ad free tier.
it was mostly a joke but I wouldn’t be too suprised if they actually start showing ads too
I’m old enough to remember the promise that cable TV was paid so you wouldn’t have commercials…it lasted what, 6 months? The channels without commercials cost extra…le sigh
Yep. It was pretty clear streaming services were always going to end up the same way from the start. Even YouTube has, although that was harder to predict when it was mostly 30s cat videos.
The predictable backstop of subscription plus the nearly limitless potential upside of ad sales is just too tempting in the long run for media companies. They get to have their cake and eat it too. Spotify, Amazon, Netflix and have all eventually given in, despite insisting they never would. Shareholder owned media companies will always gravitate to this model. It’s the only way to maximize quarterly revenue growth.
Pretty wild to want to add channel when:
- their interface is garbage
- their content is pretty lacking
If they play any “pay for that channel”, it’s insta unsub
I’m already thinking about it. I can’t watch new content outside the service, so if I’m torrenting for long term storage regardless, why am I paying in the first place?
The ads are coming! the ads are coming! -Modern Paul Revere
The most frustrating thing about their interface is that if you’ve already watched an episode of something, then try to watch it again, it’ll immediately minimize it to start the “next episode” countdown.
It’s been ongoing.
And Disney+ is so crowded with garbage now that they’ve integrated Hulu’s content into it.
only reason I still have disney+ is because my cousin used to borrow it from me. then I stopped paying for it and he was too lazy to make his own account to he just started paying mine. I’ve had free disney+ for year and a half now
Wow that kinda took an unexpected turn. Doing something nice does come back around sometimes huh?
for real. it still baffles me that he just didn’t make his own :D but sometimes nice things do happen
Same thing happened w my mom and Netflix. Except I still don’t use it
I always have trouble watching Disney streams. Bad quality, buffering, slow loading. I usually just pirate the show and switch to Plex because apparently I can run a better streaming service than Disney.
I like to sail through the 7 seas: No ads, no monthly payments, all content in only one website. Best deal! Aye aye!🏴☠️
I’ve dropped all streaming services, well save for my YouTube Music/Premium subscription I got grandfathered into when Google Play Music was brutally murdered.
At this point, I’ll just find alternatives.
its so tiresome to have all these services constantly made worse. these days it feels whenever a new thing comes out, it has about two or three years before it’s run into the ground in pursuit of the almighty dollar.
and this kind of thing is also happening to movies/tv shows/video game franchises. it feels like no matter how good it starts, you only get (at most) 2 or 3 sequels before the executives get their hands on it and run it into the ground. sure there are exceptions to this, but they are few and far between. and its becoming even more common for shows/video games to simply disappear if the parent company decides to remove them from online stores/streaming platforms.
all around, it just feels like things are becoming less and less permanent
You’re describing capitalism. That’s literally what happens to everything when capitalism is unchecked.
“Hey, we’re getting pretty good at producing food. Let’s put corn syrup in everything and make cheap food addictive.”
“Hey, we just noticed that frightened people buy more guns. Let’s make sure criminals can always buy guns so that we are arming everyone!”
“Land is the one thing they aren’t making more of. Let’s drive prices up while interest rates are low so that people have to spend all of their income on rent or die in the streets!”
When profits are the only motivation, then products and services will only get so good before the investor class starts looking for ways to take advantage of leverage instead of innovation. Unregulated markets create opportunities for unbalanced relationships between producers and consumers, and it is always built on the lie that you can influence the markets by “voting with your dollars,” as though enshittification is what we want, what we deserve.
man, piracy, i mean owning physical media, seems like a better and better method of enjoying media.
It’s a good thing every show ever has been released on physical media. Right? Right?
If pirating it and saving to a thumb drive counts as physical media, then yeah, I guess.
you can buy blank blurays, and probably burn them.
You didn’t hear it from me, but uh.
they hyped up X-Men 97 for months and then didn’t bring it to my region. i don’t even know how there would be copyright issues since it’s an original. they just want me to stop paying and start sailing.
gotta love when they just don’t release something regionally, because copyright moment.
but it’s THEIR SHOW i don’t get what copyright problems they would have… i understand when they have licensed shows from other companies, syndication etc but why not release original shows everywhere? Netflix does it.
well you see printing physical media requires that you like, do more than license media to consumers, and companies don’t like doing that.
Let me guess: which channels you have access to depend on your subscription level? Fuck these jerks.
And they make sure that you have to buy the full package to get what you want.
New movie releases only costs $10 per streaming on the platinum-full-extended-live-ultra-package.
Honestly this is a nice feature for some kinds of shows. Sometimes I don’t want to watch a show from the beginning in order for certain kinds of shows. The only problem is this feature is coming as streaming services are fracturing and becoming less and less usable.
Right, give me Seinfeld shows on random. TNG. Fucking early seasons of Family Guy. Community to an extent. So many sitcoms that you can really watch a random episode and be good to go. Sometimes it’s midnight and you’re too drunk to go to bed and don’t want to think about what you’re going to watch.
Right, give me Seinfeld shows on random
There used to be a website that was exactly that.
Yeah one thing streaming has never been able to replicate is a shuffle mode. Pirating, I can just load everything into a VLC playlist and mix it
yeah a ten minute script for your local media playershould be able to manage this.
edit: or ‘shuffle’ I’m a fucking idiot. I’m literally using that for music right now.
DizqueTV
ya it seems like a no brainer for streaming services. not sure why it’s being poked fun at. if you dont like the feature you dont have to use it
🏴☠️🏴☠️ argh, matey
They’re really gonna make people start pirating out of spite lol
Started a while ago, matey.
YES! FINALLY! I FUCKING LOVE LINEAR TV PROGRAMMING!
Not being funny, I actually do love linear programming. I miss the days when I’d just turn on the TV and there’s be a random episode of the Simpsons or King of the Hill, or something with stupidly many episode like one of the thousand Law & Orders.
Picking something to watch from the beginning is a chore, and now I feel invested if I don’t end up being in the mood. Stuff that’s just “already playing” is something I dreamed of recreating when I started (not)pirating everything. "It started 5 minute ago but this is a good episode " was how I grew up watching TV (and even movies).
You can do this with Plex, which I find occasionally nice
but the enshittification…
I know, I know, I’m just relating to a comment. It’s also a feature on other sites
Personally I’d like a “live” TV with 1-episode DVR. As in, I can tune in to a random whatever and if I find it actually interesting I can hop back to the start of the episode and enjoy without having to completely miss the before bits.
I occasionally go to pirate sites that do this. You just go and tune in to a channel with a chat of other people who are just watching whatever plays.
I enjoy watching cartoon network and discovery when I stay at a hotel, reminds me of my youth.
I think my favorite part is the fact that everybody (with the exception of telecasts) is seeing the same thing at the same time, so it was more of a social event like sports. It was so great back then.
Ideal would be a playlist you build and hit randomize. You pay for it. No commercials. I don’t think there’s a service that does this…
And companies wonder why film piracy is on the rise… 🤔
I’ve kinda wished services would do something a bit like this for a while:
One channel for new stuff, based on your recommendations—just gives you a load of random tastes of shows without you actively picking through things
One for stuff you rewatch. For example, if you’ve watched always sunny or peep show through a couple of times, put random episodes on this channel for when you just want something in the background
Gonna need some machine learning for this. How much AI in your streaming service are you comfortable with?
As someone very hesitant about AI I’m comfortable with it. It’s a streaming service, not my email inbox.
One step further: ai “enhanced” TV shows and movies
We still good, or you ready to start pitching a fit?
AI and ML based recommendation engines in streaming services have been a thing for as long as there have been steaming services
Ok, how about ai enhanced TV shows and movies. Still comfortable?
This sounds like a bit of a slippery slope fallacy, if you’re implying that a steaming service using a recommendation algorithm obviously concludes with sinister personalised AI brainwashing injected into my watching, I think you maybe should watch less black mirror.
If you didn’t mean that, we’ve been using AI in film and TV for ages now, the latest batch of Star wars films made extensive use of it. Hell, the huge battles in lord of the rings used a rudimentary AI system for governing all the entities in it.
I’m just working my way to asking if you’d watch personalized AI TV bruh, not purposely attempting a fallacy. I’d give it a look, maybe once or twice. Just to see 😂
For the rewatch, on Plex you can build playlists and shuffle them. I do this for my kids, one wants Bluey and the other wants Peppa pig. I let the random gods decide what comes on next.
Lol all this time these media companies have had to change their models to align with market forces, we’ve watched them hem and haw, drag their feet, etc. this step shows they never wanted things to change at all, and they have the power and the money to keep change from happening. finally we see them at their end game, harnessing the Internets power for something so tiny. To them, the only benefit to this technology is cutting out the middleman and b bringing able packages to you without negotiations with a cable service.
Their minds are so small, but this and worse is their greatest dream. It’s a terrible, venal world that small minds lead us to isn’t it?
And with channels and continuous running shows comes more potential for commercials which will always be the end goal…
“They’re paying us for the service and advertising is paying us! It’s a win-lose! My favorite kind!”
The only good thing about streaming services is theoretically they aren’t region tied.
They usually are though. Most content (excluding their own) is not available in all regions due to licensing issues.
Most content (excluding their own) is not available in all regions due to licensing issues.
Actually, even including their own for some dumb reason. For instance, Paramount holds the rights to Star Trek, but there’s no way for me to stream some of the shows legally, because Paramount+ isn’t available where I live.
Which to me makes no sense. It’s just a freaking website, globally accessible, hosting content they own…
Expanding to other countries can probably be a bit complicated and maybe they don’t feel like it’s worth it.
Personally I barely care about copyright laws, and in cases like these I don’t give a single fuck. I won’t call the piracy justified like the deranged people in r/piracy (and especially it’s Lemmy equivalent) would. It’s not like I deserve to watch the content or anything, I just don’t care
VPN, random port, docker, and jellyfin.
The golden age of streaming has passed.
