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Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs

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Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs

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Post by Alupis »

jeffbee wrote: post #131
Alupis wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you actually watched Reacher? There is no politics in it at all. It's reminiscent of poorly written 80's action flicks, disguised as a noir mystery. Again, sometimes bad television is simply bad television. Not everything needs political coloring.

"Ex-military strongman solves our problems through murder" is an inherently political framework for a story. It is as politically tainted as the old show "24", where any and all ethical frameworks were shredded on the altar of the ticking bomb scenario.

Please explain the politics of "Ex-military strongman solves our problems through murder". Specifically, what is the political message being pushed?

Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs

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Post by lnxg33k1 »

4death4 wrote: post #59
lnxg33k1 wrote: post #57

I salute with happiness everything that is disliked by people, multimedia is a waste of time, free shipping is shallow consumerism, well done amazon!

What do you spend your time doing?

Defending myself from American culture

Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs

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Post by jeffbee »

Alupis wrote: post #141
jeffbee wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Ex-military strongman solves our problems through murder" is an inherently political framework for a story. It is as politically tainted as the old show "24", where any and all ethical frameworks were shredded on the altar of the ticking bomb scenario.

Please explain the politics of "Ex-military strongman solves our problems through murder". Specifically, what is the political message being pushed?

That the maintenance of the rule of law requires One True Man to stand outside the law and protect us through extrajudicial killing and torture. It is a statement on the core concept of law and justice.

Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs

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Post by recursive »

woobar wrote: post #135
recursive wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Soundbar marketing has a lot of snake oil about bouncing soundwaves around a room to simulate 13 discrete speakers or something. I've got no science, but I do have some serious doubt whether the bouncing stuff works at all. In my imagination, soundbars are basically stereo, or maybe 2.1

I was skeptical for a while. But I have a friend who is used to a 5.1 setup and moved to a much smaller apartment. He has switched to a soundbar with Atmos and says it is on par. The fact that he "downloads" Dolby Atmos versions of movies even when they are available for streaming added some weight to his opinion. I still did not compare myself so would not go to fight over this.

I don't know your friend, but people are not good at listening. There's a whole industry catering to audiophiles with products that can't pass a blind test. Cynically, I might suspect that your friend is trying to justify their purchase to themselves. Or maybe I'm wrong. But the anecdote doesn't convince me either way.

Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs

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Post by crazygringo »

TheJoeMan wrote: post #136
crazygringo wrote: post #92

Having less features on a cheaper tier is entirely normal. Should Amazon have been more up-front about it? I guess. But most people don't even care. If you have the money and space for a full Atmos-enabled surround-sound setup at home and/or true mega-bright HDR screen and regularly watch Prime Video, you're probably already paying the extra $3/mo. for no ads anyways. It's not like any of those features matter if you…

Prime Subscription is annual, not monthly. So they’ve substantially changed the product in the middle of a contract term.

That's not true, there are both monthly and annual options.

And judging from lots of comments online, even if you have annual, they'll refund your remaining time if you cancel in the middle. Sometimes automatically, sometimes you need to request it.

So that part doesn't seem to be a problem.

Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs

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Post by TylerE »

jrnichols wrote: post #137
mikestew wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it’s because the audio quality used to be good, before they tried to see how many channels they could ram in there. Must have been going on 20 years now since we first got XM. When Sirius and XM merged,that’s about the time I recall the quality going way down. And good luck to OP in cancelling that trial. We bought a new car, too, and I didn’t even bother to activate satellite radio.

it seems like they gave a bunch of satellite bandwidth to the stupid Howard Stern channels and cut back on the music ones. at least some of them.

That happened in 2008. Relatively ancient history. Getting Howard was the entire reason they bought out Sirius

Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs

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Post by webworker »

sys32768 wrote: post #69

I cancelled due to ads a few weeks ago after 10+ years of Prime. I was also sick of yelling at Alexa who pretends not to understand me. Streaming has lost its appeal to me compared to owning the discs. eBay is especially affordable now with so many Goodwill sellers offering used blu-rays.

I still have prime, but only to keep shipping costs down. I don't use any of the other junk.

I second the used media. That's a great way to very affordably build your collection.

Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs

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Post by 4death4 »

lnxg33k1 wrote: post #142
4death4 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you spend your time doing?

Defending myself from American culture

Doesn’t really sound anymore fulfilling than multimedia or shallow consumerism. In many ways, it seems substantially worse.

Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs

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Post by evanelias »

dualboot wrote: post #14
jeffbee wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the real problem with Prime Video. The first party content is terrible .

This is not even remotely true. Patriot is amazing.

Another vote for Patriot here. I think it flew under the radar due to the poor choice of title, but it's just so ridiculously good. Darkly hilarious writing and a really solid cast.

It's funny how Michael Chernus keeps playing brother roles ("Cool Rick" on Patriot, Cal on Orange is the New Black) or brother-in-law (Ricken on Severance). Dude just has a real brotherly vibe, perfect choice for this show.

And then separately it's kind of weird to think that Patriot's showrunner's real-life brother is an actor in the show (playing Dennis), considering some of the scenes that character is in...

Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs

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Post by Alupis »

jeffbee wrote: post #143
Alupis wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please explain the politics of "Ex-military strongman solves our problems through murder". Specifically, what is the political message being pushed?

That the maintenance of the rule of law requires One True Man to stand outside the law and protect us through extrajudicial killing and torture. It is a statement on the core concept of law and justice.

Ok, and what are the politics of that statement, if any?
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