Warner Bros. Discovery is on the eve of launching Max, its new streaming service that combines the already-existing platforms of HBO Max and Discovery+. But don’t expect Aubrey Plaza to be am…
- Scrubbles ( @scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ) 73•1 year ago
We’re at the stage where owning media is a news-worthy concept. (and no, iTunes is not owning your media either, it’s licensed, but how crazy would the headlines be if she bought physical media)
- Freeman ( @freeman@lemmy.pub ) English24•1 year ago
The thing is…a lot of media will never hit physical copies.
Has anything from Apple TV+ been released on DVD?
A bunch of things from Apple TV+ actually did get put on Blu-Ray, but they’re British/European discs
- Screak42 ( @Screak42@lemmy.ml ) 15•1 year ago
„they” could have “solved” the necessity for owning a pirate hat. but they fucked up too many times.
even if you’re ok with just streaming and owning nothing for your money… you need like 6 subscriptions to listen and watch the stuff you want. I’m not willing nor able to spend hundreds for nothing. I used that money to purchase a large hard drive and some cool tshirts from my favorite bands.
greed is an ugly removed and I am wearing yet again my trusty old pirate hat.
- GeekFTW ( @GeekFTW@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
Gave up on Netflix a good 10 years ago when they first started quiet rumours about stopping people from accessing other countries catalogues. Immediately spun up an install of Plex and today am sitting on 30+TB of everything-I-ever-wanna-have and won’t be going back. Only access to any paid streaming service I have is D+ via a friends account, and I’ve used it 4x in 2 years lol.
- Skiptrace ( @Skiptrace@lemmy.one ) 4•1 year ago
What level of quality do you store your content at? 1080p? 4K?
I want to build my own catalog of Movies also, but I’m afraid of not getting enough Storage for 4K because it costs so much. I mean, sure, I can get 4TB HDDs for 59.99, but how much 4K Content is that?
- Saik0 ( @Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com ) English3•1 year ago
I’d guesstimate something like 100 movies. 4k Movies can be massive depending on the bitrate, HDR, etc…
My smaller 4k files are ~20GB and my biggest ones are 87GB(3 hour movie, high bitrate)…
Seems that “typical” is closer to 40… so 100 movies is probably about right.
- Skiptrace ( @Skiptrace@lemmy.one ) English1•1 year ago
100 movies per 4TB? If that’s true, that’s pretty reasonable! Id probably get 4 drives and do 3+1 Parity
- Saik0 ( @Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com ) English1•1 year ago
That’s my guess… I have majority 1080p content, with a sprinkling of 4k stuff. I’m at 27TB for 6062 movies. 160 of which are 4k at varying bitrates.
I store almost everything but my few favorite movies in 1080p. but I also let friends request content and I have automatic lists setup to add new stuff as it comes out so I try not to keep 4k, plus watching 4k outside of the house can be stressful on the server so 1080p is good for me, I have about 60tb of 1080p shows movies and youtube series
- Skiptrace ( @Skiptrace@lemmy.one ) 2•1 year ago
Do you see a major quality difference watching 1080p on a 4K display? And have you tried looking at Streamed 4K vs Local 1080p to see if the difference in quality is there?
for me 1080p is fine, I dont have that big of a tv, my concern is just storage space and my laziness. If I cared a bit more I would probably setup a second instance of Radarr to do 4k for my personal viewing, or if I didnt share my library with my family and friends. With 4k comes other issues you normally dont see when streaming since streaming services transcode down the move the bit rate is a lot lower and you dont see any issues, but when streaming locally the bit rate can go well over 100mbit and most tv’s dont have over 100mbit connection, so you need something like an nvidia shield or xbox to not have stuttering, but it does look really nice seeing clear blacks instead of the blocks you get when watching something from like prime video. its comparable to playing the bluray if you have the right setup and file.
I prefer to do 1080p mainly because I share my library with friends and family and let them request whatever they want, their requests are automatically approved and pulled so my storage space is important, for example someone requested the office, thats like 560gb right there, but I really liked the show chernobyl so I pulled that at 4k and its only 5 episodes and thats already 140gb
- whofearsthenight ( @whofearsthenight@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
Got tired of trying to figure out what service to watch a show on this week. Back to sailing the 7 seas…
- excel ( @excel@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
That’s what justwatch.com is for
If you download it and crack the DRM you own that file, at least
- aksdb ( @aksdb@feddit.de ) 4•1 year ago
Which in some jurisdictions is also illegal. So I might as well skip the “payment” part then.
- interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Are there good DRM removal tools for iTunes? Googling for it gives the expected result, ie. pages and pages of scammy bullshit that I really don’t have the energy to sort through
- Zetta ( @Zetta@mander.xyz ) 2•1 year ago
A good DRM removal tool would be to purchase the media wherever you like to feel morally good. After that you torrent the media so you can actually own a copy.
- interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Oh yeah that’s what I generally do, I just have a few movies that I can’t find as eg torrents (although I haven’t exactly done all that much looking beyond a couple public trackers)
iTunes is literally the same as streaming though.
You rent access to the content for as long as the platform wants.
DVD/Bluray are the solution to this… except not everything is released like that…
In the end, piracy wins… again… like it always has…
- interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 14•1 year ago
In the end, piracy wins… again… like it always has…
Ain’t that the truth. And honestly I don’t want to pirate media. I’d rather pay so I could support content creators, but I don’t want to support this “you don’t own anything, you’re only licensing it out temporarily from corporations and they can fuck you over any time they feel like it” bullshit either.
- variants_of_concern ( @variants_of_concern@lemmy.one ) 13•1 year ago
I really wish there was a way to just buy a digital file of a movie I want so I can have it on my plex
- interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Right? That doesn’t sound like it’s a lot to ask
- borlax ( @borlax@lemmy.borlax.com ) 1•1 year ago
It makes sharing the media easier and the more media is shared, the less people have to buy it or pay to stream it. It’s just an attempt to throw a wrench into a situation that is gonna happen anyway.
- interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Oh I get the rationale, but like you said it just slightly delays the inevitable
- aard ( @aard@kyu.de ) 1•1 year ago
Counterpoint: I have never shared any DRM free media I got for a fair price with anyone else, because I respect them for that.
Anything I bought and got annoyed by DRM, or stuff I obtained in other ways is free for all.
- James W ( @jamesw@beehaw.org ) 8•1 year ago
You rent access to the content for as long as the platform wants
Yeah I’ve had movies I “bought” on Apple disappear and they just offer a free rental when you finally notice and complain. They expect you to download everything you buy when you buy it and sync it between devices if you want to keep it.
- RedMarsRepublic ( @RedMarsRepublic@vlemmy.net ) 50•1 year ago
I can’t believe someone considers this news
- roboTRASH ( @robotrash@lemmy.one ) 17•1 year ago
When you’re a millionaire+ it’s certainly a lot easier to say “eh, guess I’ll just buy everything I ever want to watch outright.” This hardly seems like news imo.
- HobbitFoot ( @HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ) 1•1 year ago
A first run show is $3.99 an episode for HD. That puts a show a week at around $16, which is about the cost of one streaming service.
If you would only sign up to a streaming service for one show, it looks like it would be worth it to buy the show rather than stream.
- conciselyverbose ( @conciselyverbose@kbin.social ) 15•1 year ago
I just want to say, fuck the shift to Max. Ignoring that making me download a new app for no reason for the same thing with basically the same UI is bullshit, especially for the worst rebrand of all time, the new version of the app doesn’t work and crashes constantly.
All to add a bunch of absolute dogshit content a five year old should be embarrassed to host on their personal YouTube channel. HBO was my single constant for multiple years, and I cancelled. On the plus side they put me in a survey on the switch I got to comment a lot on.
- BrainisfineIthink ( @BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one ) 9•1 year ago
What’s really REALLY annoying is that the new version of the app has ALL The same bugs HBO max had when it launched. The audio desync when skipping intros, the timeouts on resuming paused content, the out of sync subtitles, the glitchy UI. It’s like they just reskinned the 1.0 launch of the old app from four years ago and called it a day.
- conciselyverbose ( @conciselyverbose@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
I have it giving me some generic “please try again” error almost every time it does autoplay. The audio will keep going all night on my HomePod with the error up, too. I’m just done. I’m not wading through the trash content and just as bad software for them to take away the good HBO shows.
- HawkMan ( @HawkMan@kbin.social ) 11•1 year ago
Oh no!.. In other news…
- 00 ( @00@kbin.social ) 11•1 year ago
She should get a VPN and a pirate hat
- dolle ( @dolle@feddit.dk ) 6•1 year ago
It was a bit unclear for me, but does this article say that HBO Max will become merged with Discovery+? I really hope that’s not true. I have HBO because of the relatively high quality, and I would be willing to pay more just to keep the braindead shit from Discovery from polluting the catalog.
- the w ( @itmightbethew@beehaw.org ) 7•1 year ago
Remember when Discovery was an oasis of informative content in a desert of reality TV? I wonder how long before curiosity stream goes the same way
- hamburglar26 ( @hamburglar26@wilbo.tech ) 3•1 year ago
And History Channel being about history. I miss Doscovery Wings the most though.
- Framecode ( @DeathWearsANecktie@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 6•1 year ago
I buy my films and TV shows from… wait no I don’t
Raw files and/or physical copies > anything else
I like to buy stuff from iTunes and remove the DRM if I can’t get a physical copy
- Deceptichum ( @Deceptichum@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
Wow this is some great and exciting technology on display!
- tias ( @tias@discuss.tchncs.de ) 5•1 year ago
iTunes isn’t much different from any of the “streamers”. They still license media to you while reserving the right to withdraw it from you at any time, and stream it to you on-demand. The only thing that’s different is the pricing model.
To be fair, it’s the only platform that lets you download the media AFAIK, and you can use ViWizard to remove DRM from the files once you’ve downloaded them.
- joebobdobbs ( @joebobdobbs@compuverse.uk ) English4•1 year ago
The article mentions that Plaza doesn’t like streaming services because she can’t figure them out. It has nothing to do with ideology.
- Skiptrace ( @Skiptrace@lemmy.one ) English1•1 year ago
How tf do you not understand how to navigate a Streaming Service?
- conciselyverbose ( @conciselyverbose@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
You also know where the content is.
It’s not just the cost of the 20 subscriptions you need to watch the top 20 shows or whatever. It’s also the “which platform actually has it?” Digital purchases, for the most part, are generally not platform exclusive. You don’t have to say “I need HBO (I mean Max) to watch this show and CBS (I mean paramount?) to watch this one”, with 10 different watch lists and each app being fundamentally broken in a slightly different way. It’s not self hosting, but the difference in convenience between buying digital content (even with DRM) and streaming libraries is huge.
- fruitywelsh ( @fruitywelsh@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 year ago
I remember asking years ago “how can I watch movies ethically, both supporting FOSS formats, owning my copy of the content, and paying the creators for their work?” I think the answer has gotten even more elusive now than ever.
- M. Orange ( @miracleorange@beehaw.org ) 4•1 year ago
k.
- rm_dash_r_star ( @rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee ) 3•1 year ago
The article itself is clickbaity, but actually does bring up the point of how ridiculously fractured these streaming services have made access to TV and film media. Combining a couple to form Max is a step in the right direction.
We went from a small number of sources for everything to an unmanageably large number. I mean really, do they expect a consumer to maintain upwards of twenty subscriptions to get full access to TV and film media. It’s insanity.
At this point I don’t have any at all except for Amazon Prime which I mainly carry for online shopping, but I still use the streaming on occasion. My apt comes with free cable TV so I use that with a DVR for some stuff. Otherwise there’s a lot of stuff I just don’t have legit access to.
- Diana ( @Diana@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•1 year ago
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