from the pay-more-for-less! dept
They keep raising the prices but what arr you gonna do?
Alt: Winnie the Pooh in a treasure chest full of his favorite pirate booty
Oh, I might post a snarky comment. I dropped Netflix a while ago.
Not pay for their service. Pretty simple. If only there was a way to watch their shows without doing so.
There arr ways you can sea them.
Stick it to the man.
Or stick it in the man, that’d work too.
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Eheheh, sneaky.
I dropped them almost a year ago and have been buying blu-rays with the money instead. No regrets
Just read few posts above that Blue ray is done with Sony shutting down last factory for drives. I guess it’s time to stock drives 🤷♂️
Sony is done. Other companies still make them.
For now. But the trend is depressing and eventually it won’t be profitable for anybody and one day there will be no more disc drives to buy.
As someone nostalgic for DVD extras I might start doing that.
I found an audio track on an… acquired copy of Star Trek: TMP with the Okudas and it got me to watch the whole thing twice in a row.
The sad reality is that the quality of modern BluRay releases has significantly declined. Sure the picture looks great, but they barely come with special features anymore. Also, the QA is atrocious. I buy a lot of UHD BluRays and ~30% of them come corrupted/damaged out of the box.
I really want physical media to become popular again so companies start actually putting in effort.
EDIT: I still love physical media. It’s pretty much the only way to own a copy of media anymore. I just wish it was as beloved as the DVD days.
cut one layer of the parasitic middlemen out of the loop. 👍
the corporate noose is tightening on everyone; the rope will either fray and snap on drop or simply break our necks. I am sickened by the short-term likely outcome, because so few people are pulling out the knives and cutting at their tethers.
cut one layer of the parasitic middlemen out of the loop. 👍
Amen!
If anyone knows of a player I can vertically mount to the wall let me know and I’ll buy it today. I see that kind of thing for CDs. It’s still just a spinning disc!
If you’re handy and not scared of raw electronics, I’ve done things like take apart cases, lift out the PCB, and just put screws right though the back of the case, and then reassembled it on the wall, making sure the screw heads don’t touch anything that will go boom. May be harder if the case screws are all on the bottom, might have to flip it around.
Deny the parasite profit!
Users annoyed; do nothing.
Netflix users that subscribe year-round at this point either have lots of extra income, or very little going on upstairs.
As long as they’re paying, they’re not annoyed enough. 🕳
Can’t raise the subscription from 0.
I refuse to pay money for this, as the service continues to get worse, but the prices continue getting higher. They can blame it on data and hardware being more expensive, but that’s not problem to solve
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Download, me hardies yo ho!!!
Netflix has stopped being a product I am interested in a long time ago.
When they started out, they had a lot of stuff. These days, you’ll have to subscribe to 5 or 6 services to watch a lot. And every service makes their own shitty shows to attract more customers. And 99% of them suck, with the occasional succes.
Right now, Netflix is too expensive for what they offer. But clearly they think they can get away with raising proces, so I guess most people think it is worth it or simply don’t care.
Seems like the air smells quite… nautical.
I honestly don’t understand the visceral anger aimed at any business with a non-essential product offering.
It’s as if the individual complaining should be diagnosed with a variant of consumerism.
If you don’t like the pricing of a non-essential product, don’t buy it. But if you still desire said product to such an extreme that you pirate it, recognize your shortcomings.
This discussion would be wholly different if we were discussing healthcare, food, or any other necessity.
So, if you’re having an emotional reaction to a Netflix price increase, maybe you should get outside and touch some grass?
Yeah I really don’t know what a fair price for streaming is. They can charge what they want and I’ll pay if I think it’s worth it.
My current pattern is to keep one or two streaming services at a time and when I run out of shows I drop one and add a different one.
People are disappointed though that the service used to be a much better value. It’s like most things that start out good and become “enshittified” as the service provider tries to extract more and more profit.
TLDR: To make a long story short, Netflix used to be the crown jewel that had everything. Now they arguably have a much worse catalog, for a higher price, on a platform you can’t have your family members share because they live in another household.
I definitely see your point but I can also sympathize with the other point. The way I see it, the market is saturated with streaming services that all get, I assume, licenses to show different shows/movies.
Because of this, consumers are spreading their spending between platforms to potentially watch only specific shows. I would guess that most people really only have a few movies/shows they actually want to watch. The rest being filler.
As an example, maybe people bought paramount+ for Yellowstone. Sure maybe SpongeBob or others that they have, but compared to their entire offering, that’s only a few. Maybe that 10-15 dollars a month makes it worth it but when you keep raising it and offer worse items or cancel actually good shows while keeping alive shitty ones because they’re trending (subjective, I know) then that’s where the anger can stem from I think.
I’d pirate meds if I needed them and had to deal with American pricing
I’m keeping space available for the day I can download a car
Does life really have to get ever shittier, just because a few people need more money?
Sure, everyone can live without Netflix. But some entertainment is good, not just individually, but also socially. Lots of public entertainment has died down during the pandemic. Now entertainment is getting more expensive while people already have too little money because everything else got too expensive.
Where does this end? When everyone can barely afford rent & food, and nothing else? After all, nothing else is essential, right?
Avast, ye mateys!
Netflix selection is crap anyway!
This is the only real tenable choice.
I replaced netflix with Stremio + torrentio + realdebrid and couldn’t be happier. 90% stuff on netflix is crap anyways
RealDebrid is going to shut down their API, FYI. I’d check out TorBox.
I’s a great way to download Linux ISOs.
Can you share souce on RD shutting down? Cant seem to find anything beyond the hubub a couple of months ago but workarounds have since been available and haven’t heard anything from official RD sources since.
Netflix did also recently remove pro palestine documentaries so one more reason to let them go
