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- movies@piefed.social
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Yah literally everyone with more than two brain cells saw this coming…start out cheap to suck you in to kill competition and then raise prices every quarter…
Yup, while attacking the older generation from educating the young about the good things in the past, can’t let those pleb kids have physical bank notes.
The seven seas streaming service, however, is keeping its prices frozen for another year making it now the longest streak ever of a service without raising prices.
Hard drive space is the cost going up whilst on the seas.
I just spun up some old old 12 tb I had from my last bump so I wouldn’t need to prune data.
I will use this to justify my continued hoarding of obsolete gear for far long than it makes sense.
Even at current prices, where a 10 TB hard drive is ~$410, that’s only ~35 cents for a DVD’s worth of content (8.5 GB).
I gotta be honest, my initial reply was a knee jerk response, I did not take any time to do the math behind the storage. Thank you
I’m not a hoarder, so I watch and delete after a while.
Yet VPN use keeps gaining more friction. I can’t log into my bank without shutting it off, for example.
Are you kidding? Jellyfin just tripled their prices
Don’t tell me you didn’t get the definitive ultra mega sppporter infinite plus edition when they launched it? It had a lifetime sub so you didn’t need to pay a monthly fee anymore.
Excuse me while I grab my fainting salts, I am so SHOCKED to find exactly what I expected has occurred!
They took away my headphone jack and now they’re taking away my PlayStation disc reader so they can force me to stream movies and video games.
Don’t forget that data center’s are making hardware incredibly pricey, including hard drives. Almost tripled in a year where I live. This makes even local storage of media so much harder.
Hans Island will seek revenge against data centres.
I initially misunderstood so I just had the silliest picture in my head of an underground smugling tunnel on Hans Island
We got a plan to cave in our data centres from the rebel hole on the island.
Oopsies, I dropped something…
Shocking /s
Dumb headline:
- premium ad free didnae exist in cable
- Greedy bastards in Hollywood got greedier: The method of delivery is not the reason, just the excuse.
- The fact that some of us let all these media companies create their own service and demand the streaming infra pricetags is part of the problem. If Americans refused to jump ship for Friends and Marvel and whatever else, we might actually just have Hulu and Netflix and the infra costs would be be lower. Instead people flocked to greedy Dickney et al and got screwed in the process. This is not an attempt to claim Netflix or Hulu wouldnae have triez to raise rates, just to point out that their argument to do so would have been harder.
Streaming is just cable but you can choose what to watch rn, heck you even get ads on lower tier subscriptions
The big promise of streaming was that you were supposed to only need to subscribe to individual channels of content. It turns out the major streamers are still providing some bundling.
