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Movies look like garbage in >30fps. That's why moviemakers beg audiences not to do frame interpolation.
Interpolation and frame rate are two different things. Care to give an argument more than ‘looks garbage’? I think people reported that the hobbit looked weird, but that’s likely because were used to 30fps in a subconscious level.
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Not with music though.
Unless you want to non-English artists. Korean music for example used to be a nightmare on all streaming platforms when I last tried them.
Half the stuff I recommend to people is not on Spotify or Youtube. Thank goodness I had the "entitlement" to build a giant mp3 collection because I have no idea where I'd find it otherwise.
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And shoplifting is also easier than waiting in line at checkout.
That's true as a quip, but what's also true is that piracy flourishes if and only if there are no comfortable means of obtaining content legally. Music piracy was a big thing until it basically dropped dead from one day to the other when music streaming services like Spotify packed all music into one easy subscription. I would also say that movie piracy also dropped significantly when Netflix subscriptions became mai…
more like redefining what people think is "all music"
Also sharing mp3s was sharing our full fucking musical culture with each other. We had WHAT.CD. You could make mixtapes. Copyright vultures destroyed ALL of this and put shit like Spotify in the middle of it, making it the arbiter of what is and is not part of this shared culture. Controlling HOW it is shared, what you can do with it and preventing it from being shared with people not in the paying Spotify club.
The things they did to our shared culture, in the name of "stopping privacy" has cost us SO fucking much.
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If they removed the DRM, they'd get a lot of resistance licensing shows. As long as content-producers insist on DRM, Netflix has to use DRM. I believe their licence terms are also the reason you can download some Netflix videos to your phone/Windows 10 machine, but not others.
There are also some that can only be downloaded limited number of times (a year). Example - Gotham, at least in my country.
I mean if you download it once, you have it.
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On a related note, if you watch Netflix in Chrome or Firefox then you're only getting a resolution of 720p. Google Chrome Up to 720p on Windows, Mac, and Linux Up to 1080p on Chrome OS Internet Explorer up to 1080p Microsoft Edge up to 4K* Mozilla Firefox up to 720p Opera up to 720p Safari up to 1080p on Mac OS X 10.10.3 or later *Streaming in 4K requires an HDCP 2.2 compliant connection to a 4K capable display, Inte…
Wow, they should really make that clearer, especially since IIRC they charge for 4K streaming... This is probably how they get away with providing 4K without destroying their network: by making people think they are getting 4K when most are really are just watching 720p
They have only been lying about this since the beginning and never stopped. So has Spotify.
Were you also paying for gold-plated HDMI with built-in virus scanner?
I thought people were voluntarily buying in to this bullshit, because they feel the obligation to financially support the content industry. I mean that's what everybody who thinks this is important is going on about all the time. None of them are seriously arguing you actually get a good deal out of it.
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Wow, they should really make that clearer, especially since IIRC they charge for 4K streaming... This is probably how they get away with providing 4K without destroying their network: by making people think they are getting 4K when most are really are just watching 720p
Most people don't watch it on computer monitors, so most people actually are getting 4k. None of this applies to streaming boxes or smart TVs.
(I'm just saying, because apparently there were people unaware they are paying to get screwed from all sides at once)
Paying isn't enough to get what you paid for, so... https://github.com/SickChill/SickChill - automatically download TV episodes (about Linux) https://github.com/CouchPotato/CouchPotatoServer - automatically download Movies (about Linux) https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent - torrent client for downloading your Linux tv/movies...
What makes you (not you specifically, you in the general sense) think you're entitled to viewing content without paying for it? I mean if you want to make a point just cancel your subscription.
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I'm not a lawyer, but this sounds like valid grounds for a class-action lawsuit. Their advertising touts their 4K streaming and HDR quality, but then in practice they silently downgrade most non-television devices to HD resolutions and SDR. There's a footnote in some tech support article if you know where to look, that's it. Under Australian consumer protection law, for example, this kind of deceptive or false advert…
There's a pandemic overwhelming the world right now. You're going to sue Netflix for maybe $1 in damages per user?
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I think it's times like this where the government should just sigh and once this is over, come back to have a very stern conversation with ISPs. Unfortunately internet is critical infrastructure, and kicking and screaming "this is bull" doesn't help alleviate traffic. I'm in Europe, I'm kind of "wtf?" about this, but I get it. I'd rather have lower quality netflix than a broken internet where I can't work from home a…
This position is flawed IMO. We postpone the hard conversation to get through the crisis. Then after the crisis the hard conversation never happens.
It'd just add to the cognitive load and noise.
But you're right, people also forget to come back and be like "let's talk" - at the same time - given how relatively embarrassing this is for a government (and how economy-critical it is) I'm definite this conversation will be had.
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Unless you want to non-English artists. Korean music for example used to be a nightmare on all streaming platforms when I last tried them.
When people say everything is on Spotify, they really mean that everything they know which is Spotify, is on Spotify. Half the stuff I recommend to people is not on Spotify or Youtube. Thank goodness I had the "entitlement" to build a giant mp3 collection because I have no idea where I'd find it otherwise.