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I don’t understand why they would do this, or what the benefits are. Personally it gives me a strong reason to ditch Netflix now, which is a bummer.
by givinguflac 7y ago
I don’t understand why they would do this, or what the benefits are. Personally it gives me a strong reason to ditch Netflix now, which is a bummer.
- arkades 7y agoWhat’s a good alternative? Their Netflix Originals are owned by them; non-original library sucks to begin with.
- jcoffland 7y ago> What’s a good alternative? Go outside. Read a book. Spend quality time with your family.
- rvp-x 7y agomy family loves watching movies.
- scarface74 7y agoSo now instead of supporting the MPAA you are supporting the book publishing industry that has the same goals...
- schwede 7y agoYou could go to the library for a book.
- scarface74 7y agoYou can go to the library for a DVD....
- cannonedhamster 7y agoThere are tons of good books that are in the public domain. Lots of self published good content. You could also listen to music which has tons of free sources like Jamendo. You could also create your own amusement by learning a skill or crafting.
- geofft 7y agoThe book publishing industry goes about their goals rather differently. Comparing the book industry and the movie industry makes as much sense as not buying wine because you're upset about the tobacco lobby (or saying that you can't criticize the tobacco industry if you're willing to buy wine).
- scarface74 7y agoHow are they different? They both support long copywriters, support DRM of digital media, etc.
- geofft 7y agoTwo important ways: first, they're happy to publish physical, analog books, which the movie industry no longer does. That allows institutions like libraries and used-book stores to exist. Second, they've never put a rootkit in their DRM.
- scarface74 7y agoRealistically analog books are harder to copy and distribute than digital books. Some authors won’t publish to kindle for that reason. (https://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-Cracking-the-Coding-Interview-available-on-the-Kindle https://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-Cracking-the-Coding-Interview...) The movie industry also creates physical disks that you can trade but they have had copy protection since the analog era.
- AndrewUnmuted 7y agoThey really don't, especially not anymore. For-profit book publishing has turned decidedly Hollywood. I've worked in both book publishing and in Hollywood, and people often forget that they are really one in the same now. CBS owns Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins is owned by News Corp, and Penguin Random House is owned by Bertelsmann, one of the world's largest media conglomerates.
- austinpray 7y agoImagine thinking this is a clever thing to post
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- arkades 7y agoI do those things. Also, I watch movies, which is obviously what the question addressed. I don’t think your answer added anything substantive or meaningful to the conversation at all, and was at best a condescending distractor.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoI don't know, I think it's a good contrast to the sort of shrill voices that crop up on this topic. Like when people complain how expensive it is once they task themselves to subscribe to every streaming TV service, as if it wasn't self-inflicted or as if the point of life is to maximize TV consumption. We take our culture of hyper-consumption for granted so much that people scoff when you suggest "well, why not consume less? What's the big deal?" It's not like we need more posts of people vocalizing how begrudgingly they subscribe to Netflix in every Netflix thread. As if unsubscribing is never an option. It's a bit exhausting to scroll through.
- floatboth 7y agoOr watch YouTube and play videogames :D (preferably indie ones, the "AAA" game industry is about as bad as hollywood)
- givinguflac 7y agoYo-ho, yo-ho....
- wolco 7y agoPlex streaming feels like the next step. Netflix is great but so much is missing and being able to get older series or one place for all content seems like where I want to endup.
- cgriswald 7y agoI recently set up a Plex server. It's serviceable and I like it a lot, but I'd only give it three stars at this point. There are things that don't work right: I have constant buffering on a couple of my devices, even at (say) 720p just serving up files with no transcoding, when Netflix et al have no problem serving me 4K to the same device without buffering. (My guess is its a problem with the client app, but I haven't really looked into it.) There are things that are weird: If you have more than one version of the same movie or show, it lets you select between them not by (say) file name or runtime, but by video quality. So, for instance, I recently ripped a TV series and several of the episodes have extended editions. There's no way to tell which version is which until I start playing one of them. There are things missing: Hardware acceleration on my i9 is the big one right now for me. There seem to be regular updates, but they're often things that don't affect me as well. So it feels like updates are slow. (Like a fix for DVR service, which I don't use; or say an update to an XBox client.) All that said... I'm not saying this to discourage anyone. Like I said, it's serviceable. I think about the library I could have in ten years spending the money on Blu-Ray discs (on sale of course) instead of shelling out money to Comcast/Netflix/Amazon/HBO/Hulu/etc every month. And the best part is, I know it'll still be there when I'm ready to watch it or rewatch it.
- dvtrn 7y agoNetflix et al have no problem serving me 4K to the same device without buffering Apples and geo-redundant and highly-available by design oranges, isn't it? Netflix has invested millions in their infrastructure, seems only logical they'd have the edge in content delivery especially to remote devices. Plex on the other hand, if it's just you on your residential copper line connection, well...there you have it.
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- zupzupper 7y agoI would point out that their DVD and Blu-ray selection is still excellent.
- arkades 7y agoIf I had any devices that still accepted discs, ... but I don’t. I can’t honestly remember the last time I had a DVD player. Maybe a decade ago?
- jhall1468 7y agoIf that's a strong reason to cancel Netflix, I take it you don't watch any movies?