Streaming became popular because it was easier than piracy and better than TV (watch anywhere, on demand, pickup where you left off etc). Streaming is no longer easier than piracy, why pay for 8 different services and have to waste your time figuring out whats on what when you can just have one service for free, even if its illegal, and have it all under one roof. The services have taken the piss and now they'll get…
What is the best way to pirate tv shows these days? Asking for a friend, of course.
Streaming became popular because it was easier than piracy and better than TV (watch anywhere, on demand, pickup where you left off etc). Streaming is no longer easier than piracy, why pay for 8 different services and have to waste your time figuring out whats on what when you can just have one service for free, even if its illegal, and have it all under one roof. The services have taken the piss and now they'll get…
Yeah, also pirated content has: - 4K HDR video, not whatever the heck the buggy client delivers. - Atmos/TrueHD audio track that actually works, not whatever the broken app delivers (I'm looking at you Sky and rest of the ilk that still deliver HBO content with stereo). - Subtitles for ALL the languages, not just one or two. And those languages don't disappear when I go on a vacation, leaving me stuck with german aud…
Apart from terrible support for subtitles even when they're available (very limited or noexisting choice of font sizes, colors, outlines, etc), the biggest problem for me is no surround channels at all when watching from a browser. You can find surround sound samples on youtube so it's not something browsers can't play. Is it some kind of anti-piracy measure? If it is it doesn't work, since it's all available on pirate sites. So I download content I already have on services I'm paying for and very rarely used them directly. They're for the rest of my family that doesn't care about surround.
Streaming became popular because it was easier than piracy and better than TV (watch anywhere, on demand, pickup where you left off etc). Streaming is no longer easier than piracy, why pay for 8 different services and have to waste your time figuring out whats on what when you can just have one service for free, even if its illegal, and have it all under one roof. The services have taken the piss and now they'll get…
What is the best way to pirate tv shows these days? Asking for a friend, of course.
Yeah, also pirated content has: - 4K HDR video, not whatever the heck the buggy client delivers. - Atmos/TrueHD audio track that actually works, not whatever the broken app delivers (I'm looking at you Sky and rest of the ilk that still deliver HBO content with stereo). - Subtitles for ALL the languages, not just one or two. And those languages don't disappear when I go on a vacation, leaving me stuck with german aud…
I personally find that Spotifys offline content has worked reliably over the years. You just gotta remember that when you get a new device you have to go to library and click download and then leave Spotify open for a few hours. Spotify is also a great example of how to beat piracy. I haven't downloaded an mp3 file since I got a Spotify Premium account in 2007. OK that's probably a slight overstatement, but it's near…
>Spotify is also a great example of how to beat piracy
By being able to compete with it on the price they pay artists. It's a uniquely powerful negotiating position for the publishers that a) won't last b) won't extend to TV/video
Streaming became popular because it was easier than piracy and better than TV (watch anywhere, on demand, pickup where you left off etc). Streaming is no longer easier than piracy, why pay for 8 different services and have to waste your time figuring out whats on what when you can just have one service for free, even if its illegal, and have it all under one roof. The services have taken the piss and now they'll get…
> The services have taken the piss and now they'll get the repercussions of it. Whose fault is it really that all content is not available on a single service? It's nobody's fault, it was inevitable given how things work. How could you "fix" it? You'd need legislation saying that all content must be made available for licensing at the same price for every service. But that's not enough, because why would HBO sell the…
The way you fix it is through piracy. The media companies then either solve the licensing issue among themselves or go out of business.
Yeah, also pirated content has: - 4K HDR video, not whatever the heck the buggy client delivers. - Atmos/TrueHD audio track that actually works, not whatever the broken app delivers (I'm looking at you Sky and rest of the ilk that still deliver HBO content with stereo). - Subtitles for ALL the languages, not just one or two. And those languages don't disappear when I go on a vacation, leaving me stuck with german aud…
They cannot help themselves. Just like buying and watching a DVD/bluray was much worse than a pirated copy, as the DVD/bluray made you sit through an increasing amount of unskippable content. From "do not steal this" to "not for kids" or, worst of all, "did you see this other content?". Btw. Ads in front of streaming content I just selected, to tell me about other streaming content on the same service I did NOT selec…
Your second paragraph is why BBC radio is unlistenable to me. The source of the advertising is only a minor piece of the irritation - it's still painful to listen to the same ads and jingles multiple times in an hour.
What do you mean by 2k? Because people should not call 2560x1440 2k, and I've never seen a download that size either.
Why do you single out 2k? The term "4k" is just as wrong and purely marketing driven as well. The resolution that's usually behind 2k, which is 1440p as you've correctly pointed out, is usually available as torrents too.
Rounding 1920 to 2k and 3840 to 4k is not too bad. And yes it's marketing to switch from height to width, but whatever. Rounding 2560 to 2k is massively confusing. Don't do it. 2.5k or don't use "k" at all. And when I go look at a couple torrent sites and scroll through movies and tv shows, I'm not seeing a single 1440p in the first couple pages. Some searches show barely anything at all.
I have a proposal for you: Take back the k from the marketers. Define: k = multiple of 1920x1080 pixel count 1920x1080 ~= 2M pixels = 1k 2560x1440 ~= 4M pixels = 2k 3840x2160 ~= 8M pixels = 4k So now 1440p = 2k, and k becomes meaningful. Problem solved! It also gives a solution for ultrawides like 7680 x 2160p, which are 8k. More interestingly, “8K” TVs now become 16k TVs, which marketers should like. We’ve come full…
And now you also have to fight with the cinema/projector standard, where 4k is 4096x???.
Not to mention that 3840x2160 already has a (mostly) separate term : UHD-1.
There's also UHD-2 which is 4 times bigger, but I expect it to be renamed to something else soon enough.
Streaming became popular because it was easier than piracy and better than TV (watch anywhere, on demand, pickup where you left off etc). Streaming is no longer easier than piracy, why pay for 8 different services and have to waste your time figuring out whats on what when you can just have one service for free, even if its illegal, and have it all under one roof. The services have taken the piss and now they'll get…
Yeah, also pirated content has: - 4K HDR video, not whatever the heck the buggy client delivers. - Atmos/TrueHD audio track that actually works, not whatever the broken app delivers (I'm looking at you Sky and rest of the ilk that still deliver HBO content with stereo). - Subtitles for ALL the languages, not just one or two. And those languages don't disappear when I go on a vacation, leaving me stuck with german aud…
The traveling and losing access to shows you were watching is annoying. But, to be fair, this is a rights holder issue and not a Netflix issue. I think all Netflix owned shows are available everywhere.
Your point still stands that it presents a service problem. Given the connectedness of the world now, regions should have been abolished a long time ago.
So Chrome on MacOS is more secure than Edge or Firefox on the same OS and gets 1080p while the other two don't. But it is not as secure as Chrome on Linux? I don't get it. What is Chrome on MacOS doing differently from Chrome on Linux? What is possible on Linux that wouldn't also be possible on MacOS?
It looks like 1.5 years ago desktop Chrome got a new CDM designed to support L1 DRM on platforms (I'm not sure why Opera wouldn't have it though and a couple years ago chrome was 720p too). There doesn't seem to be much information about it, but it may not support general hardware on Linux yet. With all sorts of hardware and driver configurations it can be hard to support especially since the desktop Linux community…
Thank you for explaining! I guess that is plausible (and much less maddening than the matter-of-fact FAQ page).