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Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again (www.engadget.com)
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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 111 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Like clockwork I continue to not be subscribed to peacock, or any other streaming, for this very reason.

Pay X amount per month, for a selection of content you don't control, have no ownership of, cannot retain a copy of (longterm), and whose price is subject to change at any time.

Ooooorrrrrrr........I could buy physical media, and rip my own permanent copy, which never expires, andwhose cost is a one time purchase.

Why the fuck is physical media dying??? Oh, right. I live in the same country that willingly voted for trump, and are now shocked to learn he's a shitty person.

In other words, I'm surrounded by morons.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don’t mind paying for a solid rotation of content to watch, I don’t have to own everything. People were mostly happy with blockbuster’s business model.

The streaming industry is a heaping pile of shit right now though, and everyone is trying to dial us back to the worst of cable again.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People only liked Blockbusters business model because there were no other options. Redbox came on the scene and decimated the company and they were even sued to get the distribution model changed so that they had to wait a month before they could rent new movies out. Now both companies are relics of the past since streaming became mainstream.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I guess that’s fair, and I had forgot going to a friends to watch their rentals together.

At least I definitely did not rip rented dvds to my hard drive.

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 13 points 1 week ago

🏴‍☠️

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ooooorrrrrrr…I could buy physical media, and rip my own permanent copy, which never expires, andwhose cost is a one time purchase.

How do you know what to buy? There are all kinds of shows I watch (before knowing anything about them) that aren't worth buying.

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I get my media from the local library and buy the ones I enjoy.

[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Mate, there are so many free streaming sites out there. Just make sure to have a really good ad blocker turned on. That said, you may have to find a good few that work with your browser, and to find the shows you want.

We've cancelled every single subscription service that we had. We've been pirating content for over a year now, and get to watch every show, from every streaming service, in HD, the day after they are released. Never turning back. Next eventual step will be to sail the high seas. :)

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ngl buying movies and TV shows is way worse than paying to stream them. If you buy them you're left with a library of movies and shows youve already seen.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The key words here being "left with a library". Your media, now and forever, at no additional cost, available whenever you want. I could not go back to netflix etc.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There's just so few things that people actually watch multiple times. The things that people actually watch multiple times tend to be the same handful of movies and shows that rotates over the years. To do that you only need a very small library. Having a large media library is mostly just waste of space, even if it's digital is wasted because you're unlikely to watch 90% of it after the first time.

But, for me at least, not only having media when I'm at home is the real benefit. Not everyone wants to manage their own media server with remote access and the eventual debugging that follows with it.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I agree that a lot of shows and movies, especially the more recent ones, have little rewatchability. You could always replace those with an armful of whatever is current and on your watchlist after you are done though.

And personally i have a couple of evergreens and classics i enjoy watching again now and then, and it is nice to know i always have something to watch even if i cant afford the subscription any more / the stuff i like gets region locked / fucking licensing pulls the rug. It also feels a little empowering to have my own stuff that really is just mine and nobody can revoke my viewing permissions, in the face of endless enshittification.

As for the media server, i am not tech savvy enough myself to run one so i just bought a large ass external drive. When i am away from home i just bring that thing and can watch my stuff on any computer and generally also tv i plug it into.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 week ago

I think if you're someone who really enjoys watching movies and likes watching multiple times then buying media is absolutely the way to go. But most people turn their brain off and just zone out to whatever.

For music I'd there is way more of a case for buying media to be the dominant way to consume music since your always listening to music over and over.

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[–] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 74 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Remember the good ol days where Netflix had everything you could watch for a cheap subscription price.

[–] trk@aussie.zone 50 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I didn't pirate for years when Netflix was the bomb. Then it all started going to poop but I kept the subscription running while I sailed the seven seas with the thought that it was just a little bit of a reduced library, it's still good. It's just a heap of shows cancelled after one season and even more content missing, it's still good. But after a few years I had to accept that like a pig soaring over a dam, it was gone. So now no one gets my money.

Except my ISP, private indexers, a VPN company, and various hard drive manufacturers I guess.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have a jellyfin server. I haven’t bothered setting up the *arrs because there’s not much worth watching anymore and the few things I want I can get manually. It’s not even worth automating the piracy anymore.

[–] trk@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

There's plenty of good content out there, it just isn't necessarily the popular content.

Would definitely recommend installing the *arrs, and letting it roll on an automated list like an Imdb watchlist full of stuff you've never heard of.

[–] Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 47 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Am I understanding correctly that the most expensive "premium plus" plan still has advertisements?

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 14 points 1 week ago

I saw that too. It's crazy what people put up with

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

I used to point this out about Hulu probably close to a decade ago on reddit and would get endless comments about how "it's just a few shows," "i never see any ads," and "it's not their fault." I wonder if those same people exist here.

There's literally nothing compelling these shitty companies to advertise these plans as ad free when they do in fact contain ads. Just like cellular ISPs have no legitimate reason to call their data plans "unlimited" when they cap you after using a predefined amount of data.

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[–] jhoward@lemmy.sdf.org 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And yet the cost of BitTorrent and the *arr suite has stayed the same.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

HDD prices are up over the last several years even with greater density drives coming on the scene, but it still pales in comparison to the price increases of these streaming services.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Two years ago, I paid $100 for a 4TB internal. Last week, I paid $89 for each 8TB enterprise-grade internal, granted, refurbished

...You be the judge.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

And a 24TB drive goes for 350, I don't see prices going up either

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[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Can't wait to keep not paying for Peacock

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Arrr, my friend

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I do like how all of piracy is nautical themed.

Radarr, Sonarr, Torrent, FunkWhale, subsonic, Jellyfin, etc.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

Plex...

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

I signed up for one of their trials because I'm a huge EPL fan and then found out most of the games weren't even on peacock or the tier they told me def had the games. I needed a cable subscription and USA channel. Fuck em.

[–] oppy1984@lemdro.id 4 points 1 week ago

Yep, I saw they had The Monday Night Wars and every episode was listed as free to stream. When I finished episode 4 a message came up that I could subscribe to continue watching. I checked online and it was all, from episode 5 on, behind the paywall after saying beforehand that it wasn't. I deleted the app from my Roku and phone, then deleted my account. Fuck peacock.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Peacock = pisspenis

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[–] Prox@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In no way is Peacock worth $17/month.

[–] TheCleric@lemmy.org 4 points 1 week ago

That tiered system is fucking absurd. Ad supported, ad supported plus, “premium” and “premium plus”—WHICH STILL HAS ADS.

What in the fuck. Who in their right mind is paying for that?

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Arrrr mateys, see ye on the high seas...

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

At this point, I don’t think there is a single streaming service worth the subscription price. What’s more distressing is that, rather than learning their lessons, these companies will collude to scare people into subscribing with repeats of the copyright crackdowns and corporate empowerment of the late 90s and early 2000s.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hear good things about nebula.

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[–] Stormdancer@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

And like clockwork, I am continuing to not subscribe.

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 9 points 1 week ago

Arrrrrrr

[–] jeanofthedead@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

Thank glob for services like Stremio, Real-Debrid, Omni, Fusion, Vidi, Kodi, etc.

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for the reminder to unsub 👌

I hate peacock in general because they purposely deny the ability to use the service on Linux. So I’m forced to use it on my Apple TV instead of my computer browser.

I only stayed with the cheapest plan in order to watch the WWE PLEs. I will figure out another way to watch. Fuck NBC and Peacock.

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Fuck those bait-and-switch dastardly. On Vlack Friday, they has their basic premium (🤮) for $50/year and had a monthly option to get the premium plus and remove ads. Then 6 months later, they got rid of that option. And removed the option for monthly at that plus level.

[–] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

streamio plus Real debrid for the win

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[–] EarthshipTechIntern01@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We're canceling the most watched late night show on all platforms! Pay more now! For less!

Gotta love that great management. Hail capitalism!

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Peacock is NBC / Comcast. Colbert was on CBS / Paramount.

[–] EarthshipTechIntern01@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

My mistake. So many names for so many shitty corporations, can't keep track of them.

Guess it makes sense: CBS cowed, pay us more for the non-propaganda!

When can we throw em all in the tar pit?

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