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LightDelaBlue ,
@LightDelaBlue@lemmy.world avatar

Less and less . Full digital realy work as I expected .

spittingimage ,
@spittingimage@lemmy.world avatar

Is there a word for this? Yanking features from a services so they can be sold to you as an add-on?

Piemanding ,

I don't know about this specific case, but the word going around is enshitification.

spittingimage ,
@spittingimage@lemmy.world avatar

Good word.

Mycatiskai ,

Enshittification

First, they make a service good for the customer even at a loss so customers don't want to go other places. ✅

Second, they use the information gathered from you to sell to companies to make money off you. In Amazon's case they are now so big they don't need to sell your info but they do it anyways. ✅

Third, they screw the companies and the users to make the money all for themselves. In Amazon's case they fuck sellers by making Amazon branded copies of best selling items to cut their third party stores out of business by putting their copies first in the search results.✅

Read Cory Doctorow's books about enshittification.(also read his fiction, Little Brother, for a great fast paced dystopian terrorist novel.

phx ,

"pray we don't alter the deal further?"

kameecoding ,

My plex server doesn't 😉

Kbobabob ,

I just setup the arrs with qbittorrent using Docker on my NAS with overseer. I already had a Plex server setup on an N100 pointed at my NAS but now it is more automated. I was fine with the occasional manual adding of stuff but with how awful all of the services are now I just created my own that works for me.

kameecoding ,

took me a while to realize you meant sonarr and radarr by "arrs"

I have those too, though I am running on unraid.

previously I wrote my own program for converting, renaming and categorizing movies and tv shows, but now I just use Sonarr and Radarr.

I will need to setup TDarr soon to start saving on space.

redfox ,
@redfox@infosec.pub avatar

Shhh,
Guys, Sony is listening... 😉

Or they'll throw all their lawers at your instance admin. That actually worries me some.

Fungah ,

Wow. I understood most of this.

KyuubiNoKitsune ,

Hmm, does it even support Dolby vision?

Kbobabob ,

Yep!

KyuubiNoKitsune ,

Interesting. What kind of rips am I looking for then? I guess it's the 20-40gb ones?

xuniL ,

Remux or straight Bluray. But Remuxes are always your best choice, if you don't need any of the extra content.

KyuubiNoKitsune ,

Awesome, thank you!

Blackmist ,

Even webrips will often contain it.

ours ,

It just passes HDR and audio metadata to your TV/receiver. Works great.

FlavoredButtHair ,
@FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world avatar

Yea. I get Dolby Vision on my firetv cube 3rd gen. But there's different Dolby Vision profiles.

badaboomxx ,

To this day I am still impressed that people pay for prime.

Kbobabob ,

Prime video? Did anyone actually pay for prime shipping to get the video subscription?

CobblerScholar ,

It was momentum for me, just couldn't be bothered to take care of it until recently. Glad I did and regret it wasn't sooner

Blackmist ,

At one point it wasn't a bad package. Next day delivery, video, music, and even unlimited photo storage backup.

All of it is now enshittified, nothing more than a gateway to get you to spend more with them.

Blackmist ,

My decision to ditch Prime completely is looking more justified every day. So glad they announced all this cancer before my subscription rolled over.

Fuck off Amazon.

KevonLooney ,

Same. They definitely were on the bubble and about to be cancelled. They had a few good years where video made up for the declining shipping service. Now there's no reason to pay.

What are you paying for? Shipping is the same without prime, and the video and music products suck. Replaced it with looking elsewhere for cheaper products, which I was already doing.

Btw, if you want a free trial of Shipt your Visa CC may have one. Search for "Shipt Visa trial" or something.

Kbobabob ,

I've had this conversation recently about why we even have prime. Their shipping has gotten worse, their video has gotten worse, their support has gotten worse(literally just closed the chat conversation so I'd have to start all over), half of their products are Chinese fakes.

Fuck Amazon

Fungah ,

I was once transferred 14 times but Amazon customer service. I refused to log off the chat, and insisted each new person read the entire chat history this far while being pleasant and polite "wow 14 times, is this a new world record? I bet we do it kurpreet, let's go!"

I was trying to arrange for pi kuo of a vacuum cleaner that was foa. Wouldn't take no for an answer. Politely.

Eventually they just said keep the vacuum cleaner it's on us.

Gruntyfish ,

Yooo hooo

all hands

hoist the colors high

diffcalculus ,

Yooo hooo

Are you making a suggestive cat call? Or do you just like the chocolate beverage 😊

uninvitedguest ,
@uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca avatar

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/c0b2a4e6-e9ea-440a-8684-5979c9371af1.webm

quafeinum ,

Oh thanks! That explains why my audio was so horrible that I had to turn on subtitles. Good riddance

morrowind ,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

damn bro, welcome to the club with the rest of us

quafeinum ,

Aaaand it’s gone. That‘ll save me so much money by removing the temptation to order stuff 👍

PatFussy ,

Who pays for prime video? Literally the worst selection there is

kandoh ,

Disagree, prime has a lot of the more niche and interesting shows and movies. Tons of Indy films you can't find elsewhere like Coherence, a great movie I would never have seen if not for Prime suggesting it.

Telodzrum ,

Prime has the best depth of random stuff you'd never see otherwise in Sci-Fi and Horror. Aside from that I think AppleTV is the best service out there, right now. Netflix has become such absolute trash over the last several years.

PatFussy ,

I have only ever used prime as a last resort. I don't watch much TV but what's available through prime is usually pretty bad IMHO. I would go as far as to say if someone goes to prime to watch things like rings of power then they probably have bad taste.

_number8_ ,

it has the worst UX in the world where you search for a film, see they have it, then see you have to subscribe to some other shitty service to watch

kandoh ,

Yeah but the pause screen shows you who the actors on screen are.

kandoh ,

Invincible, The Boys, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Good Omens, The Expanse, The Wilds, and Fleabag

All good stuff. Your comment is like me saying HBOmax sucks because Saints of Newark is on it.

PatFussy , (edited )

I lmao be honest I only recognized the boys from your list and I thought that show was boring

kandoh ,

Highly recommend Fleabag if you want a good comedy that's also sad and horny. You're also on Lemmy so you should love the expanse.

poppy ,
@poppy@lemm.ee avatar

Prime is how I watched Women Talking and The Lighthouse. I was even going to crack and finally pay to rent The Lighthouse then I saw it was finally free on Prime. They definitely have some niche films.

Hootz ,

I bet you could find em on a torrent site or putlocker.

If it's truely indie I bet you could find a way to send em the whole 5 cents they made off your prime view, shit make it a $1

cyberpunk007 ,

Also ads.

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

Had Prime for a decade, never even opened Prime Video

Chakravanti ,

So I'm not the only one....is that a Jolly Roger I think I see there in your ship?

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

Arr

ILikeBoobies ,

At least in Canada, it was better than Netflix

No catalogue is worth the prices here though

littlebluespark ,
@littlebluespark@lemmy.world avatar

Yo HO-h-h-h!

JCreazy ,

I already canceled my prime back when they announced they would put ads on prime video. I don't even use prime video, it's the principle.

DoucheBagMcSwag ,

Mark my words...Amazon is going to experiment with tiering off Prime programs like cable. Want "The Boys?" or "Invincible?" That's the extra tier.

littlebluespark ,
@littlebluespark@lemmy.world avatar

Meanwhile, I'm over here, keeping my money and watching whatever TF I want in higher def and no ads — for free. Fuck you, Amazon.

Perhapsjustsniffit ,

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    littlebluespark ,
    @littlebluespark@lemmy.world avatar

    Ah, the good ol' days of newsgroup shares. 🥰✨

    Perhapsjustsniffit ,

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    littlebluespark ,
    @littlebluespark@lemmy.world avatar

    Back when video games were printed in the back of your favorite magazine and you had to hand type them into the terminal with only yourself to blame for "bugs"? I feel ya, neighbor. My first screen was green, too. 🤌🏼🤓

    NanoooK ,

    Who still want Invincible? The wait for season2 was so long and we only got few crappy episodes. What a letdown.

    MimicJar ,

    Season 2 has been excellent so far.

    I do agree waiting 2 years for 4 episodes, then 5 months for 4 more episodes is a huge let down.

    HobbitFoot ,

    Probably. The industry is still trying to figure out pricing, and the cost of making content isn't matching the cost consumers are willing to pay for it.

    _number8_ ,

    no one wants streaming exclusive content, it inherently feels lower quality, plus making it harder to generate a buzz and make the series feel worthwhile or pressing to watch

    johannesvanderwhales ,

    I would prefer this if they made the core shipping product (the only part I actually care about) cheaper. I've never liked their bundled approach. But it looks like they're just going to increase the cost of everything else instead.

    mjhelto ,

    Samesies. Didn't give two shits when they bundled Amazon prime with video and such. Easy decision of my digital existence was dropping prime soon as they announced the ads and tiered payments.

    overzeetop ,
    @overzeetop@lemmy.world avatar

    I would prefer they brought back the actual shipping part. Not this $169/yr for “best effort 3-10 days depending on our mood” they want me to pay for.

    golli ,

    Not sure if that counts, but they bought MGM and they've made an MGM+ channel that you can subscribe to for 5€/month, but only if you are a Prime subscriber aswell

    DoucheBagMcSwag ,

    I don't think so...I was not talking about Prime originals

    gotrandom ,

    First they inject ads unless you pay more, now they reduce quality unless you, again, pay more. Wild that more and more people have reverted to sailing the seas once more, who’d of thought?

    ryper ,

    The headline isn't clear, it's actually one fee; the ad tier doesn't have Dolby and the ad-free tier does.

    Imgonnatrythis ,

    With all the streaming options out there it's wild to me that these services continue to be able to jack up their prices. I'm less interested than ever with tolerating their bullshit.

    bassomitron ,

    Except they're all pulling the same skeezy shit. Notice that Prime is legit one of the last ones to raise prices, they were waiting for the majority of the market before following suit since literally no one gets Prime just for Prime Video.

    catculation ,
    @catculation@lemmy.zip avatar

    They are already spliting prime videos and amazon prime subscription.

    pete_the_cat ,

    They jacked up their prices and laid off their long time employees... Like me.

    ArmoredThirteen ,

    Fuck the company I'm in is going hog wild with that right now. I think I'm insulated because I've never negotiated pay even when hired so I'm probably relatively cheap for them to keep on. I hope you land well

    pete_the_cat ,

    Thanks, it seems like all the tech giants are losing money and laying off a ton of tech workers to please their shareholders.

    Imgonnatrythis ,

    Well they are a big evil corporation so it's expected, but shame on you for doing that to your employees.

    pete_the_cat ,

    The real kicker is they gave me my 5 year pin a month before and we're giving me a yearly monetary incentive to stay with them.

    mjhelto ,

    I'm sorry for your lost employment. Hopefully you at least acquired skills to land an even better job!

    pete_the_cat ,

    Thanks, there is one upside: it finally allowed me to move out of NYC after 5 years. I'm living down in Miami now, still unemployed but I'm living off the money they gave me haha

    ILikeBoobies ,

    Well now it’s personal

    Fuck em

    BassTurd ,

    I might drop prime and I don't even watch anything on there, I find them at sea. You don't get to do ads and charge.

    snekerpimp ,

    Yarrr!

    LazaroFilm ,
    @LazaroFilm@lemmy.world avatar

    Radarrrrrrrrrr / Sonarrrrrrrr has 4k and rureoubd tracks…

    pete_the_cat ,

    Usenet really is great for piracy, I'm so happy that I found out about it like a decade ago. So much better than torrents.

    teamevil ,

    Shhhhhhhhh. Rule one of Usenet

    cyberpunk007 ,

    But why? I've been using torrents with ease for a very long time.

    CalicoJack ,

    Usenet is a lot faster than torrents, you don't need a VPN, and it's more reliable than anything but great private trackers.

    cyberpunk007 ,

    I don't need a VPN. I only use a single private tracker. All my shits automated and I pay nothing.

    Also I only have 500Mbps which downloads pretty well anything I watch in a few minutes so speed isn't really noticeable to me.

    pete_the_cat ,

    Once you set it up, it's automatic. The *arr tools were built with usenet in mind, Jackett and the like are just wrappers, also Usenet is a lot faster and flies under the "piracy radar" unlike torrents.

    cyberpunk007 ,

    Yeah but I don't use the arr tools, I use the other ones which do the same deal but for torrents.

    Private trackers tend to fly under the radar to a degree too. I'm not sure how Usenet does since it's still a popular method and seems just like a private tracker without sharing your IP with your peers but you pay for it

    pete_the_cat ,

    I belong to a few private trackers as well, they're not exactly easy to get into. I feel that Usenet is "more clean" because you don't have to seed the file for X days.

    DoucheBagMcSwag ,

    Don't you have to pay for that I think?

    pete_the_cat ,

    Yeah, but it's worth it. $8/month for automated downloading of pretty much every TV show and most movies, usually within a few days of the official release (if you want release quality). Also it maxes out your downstream bandwidth instantly, unlike torrents. I have a gig pipe and the most I've ever seen on a well seeded torrent was about 50-60% of my downstream bandwidth.

    Sprokes ,

    Didn't they improve their DRM some weeks ago and many are having hard time ripping 1080p content?

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