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Predicted this over a decade ago. I hate that I was right.
I wouldn't know.
yarrrrrrr
And what additional value are consumers getting in return for these ludicrous price rises?
Nothing but shit and slop.
Even though I'm not spending any money on this and pirating everything it's still bad
Avast me hearty
The seven seas streaming service, however, is keeping its prices frozen for another year making it now the longest streak ever of a service without raising prices.
Are you kidding? Jellyfin just tripled their prices
Maybe don’t use it?
P2P doesn’t require jellyfin lol.
Yeah, but P2P just quadrupled their prices
I’m honestly not sure if you’re joking or just completely missing the topic at hand.
You can delete items after watching or simply stream shit…
Edit: https://fmhy.net/video
The joke is that X * 0 is still 0
Jellyfin is entirely free.
Was thinking plex for some reason
/woooooosh
Don't tell me you didn't get the definitive ultra mega sppporter infinite plus edition when they launched it? It had a lifetime sub so you didn't need to pay a monthly fee anymore.
Hard drive space is the cost going up whilst on the seas.
Even at current prices, where a 10 TB hard drive is ~$410, that's only ~35 cents for a DVD's worth of content (8.5 GB).
Purge, don’t hoard.
Keep only the stuff you’ll legitimately watch again. Purge the one and done.
If everyone had that attitude, things will get lost forever. Someone's gotta keep seeding.
Why shouldn't I keep it?! My... Precious
I just spun up some old old 12 tb I had from my last bump so I wouldn't need to prune data.
I will use this to justify my continued hoarding of obsolete gear for far long than it makes sense.
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Yet VPN use keeps gaining more friction. I can’t log into my bank without shutting it off, for example.
Another common jellyfin W
Yah literally everyone with more than two brain cells saw this coming…start out cheap to suck you in to kill competition and then raise prices every quarter…
I got a bone to pick with this kind of statement. Before they started raising prices exorbitantly, the techbros (mainly) all over social media would bite my head off for even suggesting their beloved tech companies would dare do so such things. It was a minority of voices who said they would inevitably follow the cable model. Did that ever chap some asses.
I was right.
Quite frankly the period roughly spanning the 2010s was wild with how enamored everyone was with tech companies.
Hahahaha oh my god, i remember those conversations and I also remember taking the same stance you did and told everyone that would listen it was only a matter if time before the honeymoon phase ends and the extortion begins…hell wasn’t there a meme going around back in the 2000’s that showed this exact thing happening
Yup, while attacking the older generation from educating the young about the good things in the past, can’t let those pleb kids have physical bank notes.
I just pay for internet. Everything else is free.
Dumb headline:
- premium ad free didnae exist in cable
- Greedy bastards in Hollywood got greedier: The method of delivery is not the reason, just the excuse.
- The fact that some of us let all these media companies create their own service and demand the streaming infra pricetags is part of the problem. If Americans refused to jump ship for Friends and Marvel and whatever else, we might actually just have Hulu and Netflix and the infra costs would be be lower. Instead people flocked to greedy Dickney et al and got screwed in the process. This is not an attempt to claim Netflix or Hulu wouldnae have triez to raise rates, just to point out that their argument to do so would have been harder.
They can get away with that simply because there are enough lazy people who don't care about the price hikes. I swear we have reached a form of late-stage capitalism where corpos have indoctrinated people in such a way, that they don't even consider the thought of simply not consuming something.
Excuse me while I grab my fainting salts, I am so SHOCKED to find exactly what I expected has occurred!
They took away my headphone jack and now they’re taking away my PlayStation disc reader so they can force me to stream movies and video games.
Don't forget that data center's are making hardware incredibly pricey, including hard drives. Almost tripled in a year where I live. This makes even local storage of media so much harder.
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Streaming is just cable but you can choose what to watch rn, heck you even get ads on lower tier subscriptions
The big promise of streaming was that you were supposed to only need to subscribe to individual channels of content. It turns out the major streamers are still providing some bundling.
Still, cable was like $75 - $100 a month for me, iirc. Streaming services I pay for one at a time until I run out of things to watch, then switch services for a while.
And had contracts to keep you locked in
Cable also had difficult connection and disconnection processes. You had to call the company, schedule an installer (maybe take time off work). When you canceled, your bill didn't stop until you drove the cable box to the cable company. Oh, you had to pay monthly to rent the cable box and even rent the remote too!
Streaming, for all its faults, is still a superior experience.
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25 years ago, i had cable with all the 'premiums', and internet.. for less than what that same company gets just for the slowest 'available' internet (only) today. despite the cost to deliver bits to the home being lower now. yes. it's faster today but the speed i had before was enough to watch a stream in realtime. it'd still be enough to watch an hd stream today (and then by extension, 'fast enough' for anything else i care to do at home). i never asked for faster, i wanted to keep the 'cheaper' but that's not an option. they want their 90 percent pure profit. the shareholders demand it.
I had just spectrum Internet for years and the price and speed just kept going up. I agree I don't need 300mbps.
I switched to 5g mint mobile for a third of the cost and half the speed.
When I quit spectrum they said I should just call them whenever the price was too high and they'd give me some promotional price for 12 months or so. That just pissed me off more.
If buying streaming services ain't owning, piracy ain't stealing.
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