Jack Ryan S3 E3

  • BudgieMania@kbin.social
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    The tradeoff kinda made sense at the dawn of streaming, when the transaction was basically trading quality for better pricing and convenience.

    Nowadays? Yeaaaaah I don’t know about that chief

    Crazy to think that we lost all the advantages that streaming offered, kept all the disadvantages, piled on a few more disadvantages on top of that, and people went “sure that makes sense 24 bucks a month worth it bro”

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      9 months ago

      All these companies play the frogs in a pot game. Slowly make things shittier and shittier in tiny increments and everyone’s sitting there in boiling water eventually like “this is fine.” I mean there’s still people with cable TV in 2024. And Netflix has done nothing but get worse for the last 3-4 years and their subscriber count just had a decent boost last year so they were like “lol sweet, we’re canceling basic ad free tier in 2024, eat shit”

      It’s felt pretty damn nice to finally give all these companies the boot. They got too greedy. But there’ll still be hordes of people just happily paying an ever rising price for this stuff I guess.

    • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      Most people would not be able to discern the difference between the top 2 images. Chroma subsampling? Aliasing? Bitrate? These are words that we understand but your average TV watcher has never heard uttered.

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        9 months ago

        Even understanding all this, a 2 hour movie in a 2.5gb hevc file is still a very tempting thing. Every movie I could ever want, at acceptable quality, all in under 8tb of space is really amazing.

      • AWildMimicAppears@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 months ago

        I hate that i have to agree with you.

        Last time my wife was watching a movie. It was a local file, and when i walked by, i saw that it was at max 720p and a bit choppy. I remarked that she should tell me which movie it was so i can replace it.

        She asked “why would you?” - and i know that her eyes are in perfect shape. She simply does not recognize it when a video plays at crap quality, and she would have to search hard in the above pictures, while i saw the difference in an instant.

        She hates ads just like me tho, so a pirates life it is for her :-)

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      9 months ago

      At this point even paying money to pirate stuff makes sense. Like setting up a VPS with all the Servarr components and building your own private streaming service.