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Re: 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite

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Post by smcin »

mattmaroon wrote: post #260
smcin wrote: post #210

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It's not true, the article itself said it wasn't true. I posted a partial list above of entire shows/seasons that cannot be viewed on Paramount Plus.

Verb tenses are not hard. I said all their content is going to be there, not that it is already. They are betting the company on people paying for paramount plus, it would make no sense for them to have free content anywhere else. They’re moving it all now.

> Verb tenses are not hard.

Don't be obnoxious. Paramount Plus already culled content in 2023 per the link I gave, they have given no expectation they will make all their back catalog available. Likely they will make more of it available, but not all like you are predicting.

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Post by neckro23 »

lapcat wrote: post #243
dotancohen wrote: post #220

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> lot of my favorite music albums are still on cassette tapes and never digitized online by their creators. Or worse. Rust In Peace was completely rerecorded by studio musicians and that's what you get if you look for it on Spotify or even buy a new CD today! To actually hear the album as recorded originally, you need to find a thirty-year old disc and just deal with the scratches.

> Rust In Peace was completely rerecorded by studio musicians Are you talking about the 1990 Megadeth album? In 2004 it was remastered, as a lot of albums are, but it was not rerecorded by studio musicians.

GP is not quite correct. It wasn't completely re-recorded, but Dave Mustaine re-recorded many of the guitar solos on the album, and the whole album was remixed.

At any rate, it's not the same (classic, imo) album that was released in 1990.

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Post by vel0city »

another2another wrote: post #270
michaelt wrote: post #242

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> Netflix paid for the rights to everything and gave access to everybody for a reasonable monthly fee. Then the studios got greedy and thought "why should we let a middleman take a slice of our profits?" To be fair to the studios, sticking with Netflix would have been suicide. Put yourself at the mercy of someone else's distribution monopoly and you end up a powerless, penniless sharecropper - like people who develop…

A good strategy might have been to pool their resources and create a new global channel that they all part-owned and distribute their content there. Like a big new Global TV Channel.

While not global, that was essentially what Hulu was originally for the US. A single streaming platform co-owned by many of the big networks. You could watch FOX, NBC, ABC, and other shows all on a single streaming platform.

Notably absent at the time though were many of the big cable networks and movie studios.

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Post by dotancohen »

neckro23 wrote: post #272
lapcat wrote: post #243

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Rust In Peace was completely rerecorded by studio musicians Are you talking about the 1990 Megadeth album? In 2004 it was remastered, as a lot of albums are, but it was not rerecorded by studio musicians.

GP is not quite correct. It wasn't completely re-recorded, but Dave Mustaine re-recorded many of the guitar solos on the album, and the whole album was remixed. At any rate, it's not the same (classic, imo) album that was released in 1990.

Many of the vocals were rerecorded as well.

Re: 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite

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Post by bdavisx »

robertlagrant wrote: post #251
whoknowsidont wrote: post #182

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> This is complete incompetence from their leadership who show no value to their own content Have you not seen the U.S.? It doesn't matter. The system is orchestrated to existing money-people making money simply for having it in the first place. Even "bankruptcy" doesn't mean anything anymore. Your interest or legitimate use cases do. not matter. At all. Ever. For entertainment or technology.

The US has the most millionaires, and creates them the fastest[0]. [0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/10/22/the-co...

Should that be the goal of the economy?

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Post by acuozzo »

throwinway wrote: post #215
acuozzo wrote: post #76

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A hard drive sitting on a shelf is a big question mark. Will it spin-up? Who knows?! So you deal with this by having a backup. Now you have 2x the cost. But, unfortunately, you could have two hard drives not spin up. You consider an additional backup, but at this point you're at 3x the cost, so you start to reconsider letting hard drives sit on shelves. Now you're in RAID country. RAID is not a backup, but by shiftin…

I hate comments like this. This is Hacker News, we are highly tech educated and wealthy on average. I specced a 71 TB usable array that can survive losing 3 of 8 drives. $2000. (shucked drives, but this includes the server and ECC) If the data is invaluable, throw down a couple of these at homes of friends and family.

I have 10 x 20 TiB volumes, software RAID6, across multiple storage arrays. I wrote my comment from experience.

I still don't consider it "cheap" even though I make a good chunk of change like many on this website, but I think this is because I think in terms of what my friends & family could afford.

Re: 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite

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Post by xen2xen1 »

vel0city wrote: post #273
another2another wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A good strategy might have been to pool their resources and create a new global channel that they all part-owned and distribute their content there. Like a big new Global TV Channel.

While not global, that was essentially what Hulu was originally for the US. A single streaming platform co-owned by many of the big networks. You could watch FOX, NBC, ABC, and other shows all on a single streaming platform. Notably absent at the time though were many of the big cable networks and movie studios.

Which got bought by Disney.

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Post by IanKerr »

We're going to lose so much more cultural history to corporate greed in the next century. Preservation of music, media, games are all being attacked in the name of profits. Future generations will not be able to enjoy the vast wealth we're creating because folks would rather destroy it than make it available for distribution, even for a fee.
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