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…

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…

    • Screak42 ( Screak42@lemmy.ml ) 
      15·
      3 years 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·
        3 years 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·
          3 years 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 ) English
            3·
            3 years 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.

          • Variants of Concern ( variants_of_concern@lemmy.one ) 
            1·
            3 years ago

            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·
              3 years 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?

              • Variants of Concern ( variants_of_concern@lemmy.one ) 
                2·
                3 years ago

                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

  • roboTRASH ( robotrash@lemmy.one ) 
    17·
    3 years 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·
      3 years 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·
    3 years 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·
      3 years 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·
        3 years 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.

  • dolle ( dolle@feddit.dk ) 
    6·
    3 years 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.

  • tias ( tias@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
    5·
    3 years 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.

    • conciselyverbose ( conciselyverbose@kbin.social ) 
      1·
      3 years 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·
    3 years 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.

  • rm_dash_r_star ( rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee ) 
    3·
    3 years 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.