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What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription

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Re: What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription

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Post by gabrielgio »

mft_ wrote: post #16
silisili wrote: post #11

It's weird. When Netflix came about, I was excited to dump all the bespoke pirating stuff that it replaced. I didn't mind paying for content, in fact, I was glad to. Fast forward a while, and now Netflix seems to be an undiscoverable mess of old and foreign content while charging twice as much. Each IP owner felt it necessary to make their own way worse clone, and still, after paying more than a hundred a month, ther…

> I'll never really understand how they ruined the opportunity presented Greed, “growth”, “shareholder value” —> enshittification?

And in this case, the enshittification of the whole streaming industry. In the same fashion as USA's "publisher can't own a venue", publisher shouldn't be allowed to own a stream service as well.

Re: What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription

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Post by whstl »

Semaphor wrote: post #12
cyrusradfar wrote: post #4

A few months ago we'd had Disney+, Paramount+, Hulu, HBO Max but we've cut back to Netflix and YouTube premium. Switched to purchasing and renting when there's something we want to watch that isn't available and we're finding it to force us to be more conscious of what we're watching. We're considering ditching Spotify and music streaming to return to buying albums so our children can start to be more thoughtful list…

For underground artists, spotify is piracy with extra steps, often literally only paying in exposure .

Thanks to special backroom deals with the three majors, Spotify only really pays to a small majority in the Top N.

It doesn't matter if you only listen to one artist the whole month, your money is still going to Taylor Swift.

There is no point in paying for streaming. Just pirate it and give your money to your favourite artists by buying merchandise or vinyl.

Re: What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription

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Post by cons0le »

jraby3 wrote: post #6
cyrusradfar wrote: post #4

A few months ago we'd had Disney+, Paramount+, Hulu, HBO Max but we've cut back to Netflix and YouTube premium. Switched to purchasing and renting when there's something we want to watch that isn't available and we're finding it to force us to be more conscious of what we're watching. We're considering ditching Spotify and music streaming to return to buying albums so our children can start to be more thoughtful list…

YouTube music is really good. I prefer it more than Spotify and if you already pay for YouTube it's free for you.

They could also consider making manual youtube playlists and setting up a media computer with something like TubeArchivist. Selfhosting youtube is the only actually useful thing in my "homelab".

I'm only mentioning this because for years I've been making music playlists and archiving them. When you come back to them on youtube a few years later a few songs are always gone/ unavailable. Some of my favorite songs don't exist on yt anymore

Re: What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription

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Post by littlecranky67 »

mft_ wrote: post #19
littlecranky67 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used languagereactor.com for learning spanish for a while (a browser extensions that supplements netflix for language learning). It allows a second subtitle track, shows word translations on hover over the subtitle, and bookmark words to your vocab database with a single click. I exported the vocab after a few days into Anki to learn them. It is a bit finicky to setup and learn the tool, but overall good motivator…

Forgive the basic questions, but you were using Spanish original videos, with first-order Spanish subtitles already available, then adding second (English?) subtitles via language reactor? I ask because I went down this path a little to help my German learning, but struggled to find the right combination of videos at the right level with the right subtitles available. (I was trying to use free apps/services though).

You can have any subtitle track be "blurry" in language reactor and only show it on keypress or mouse hover. Depending on your learning level, listening comprehension etc. you might not need a first or second subtitle, or configure the subtitle to be "blurry" by default.

Having 2 subtitles is only helpful in the beginning, where you do not understand entire sentences or sentence constructs sometimes, but you want to understand that entire sentence to continue to follow the storyline (and continue to be engaged). Very quickly I switched to having only the spanish subtitle and lookup individual words.

IIRC, Languagereactor also enables all the subtitles (netflix somehow filters the list of available subtitles based on the country you are in). But I should add that I am actually living in spain, so all the content has spanish subtitles available (and english, which I used as a reference instead of german).

Re: What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription

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Post by bambax »

chii wrote: post #17
silisili wrote: post #11

It's weird. When Netflix came about, I was excited to dump all the bespoke pirating stuff that it replaced. I didn't mind paying for content, in fact, I was glad to. Fast forward a while, and now Netflix seems to be an undiscoverable mess of old and foreign content while charging twice as much. Each IP owner felt it necessary to make their own way worse clone, and still, after paying more than a hundred a month, ther…

> how they ruined the opportunity presented netflix didn't really ruin it themselves (at least, not completely) - the owner of the licensed content did, by wanting a bigger cut of the pie. Disney, for example, didn't feel they're paid enough, and so stopped licensing the content out to netflix and instead created a competing service. I think this is a regulatory issue, because each piece of content is an effective is…

Yes there should be something like a "mechanical license". Content owners would set their own price but it would be the same for everyone and they shouldn't have the power to pick their licensees.

Re: What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription

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Post by bambax »

sieve wrote: post #25

The issues with subscriptions to streaming services are manifold (if you ignore the gargantuan waste of time that mindless TV-watching is): - the UI is deliberately crap - the library is deliberately incomplete - accessing content is deliberately complicated I had an experience recently where my phone provider bundles 20+ OTT services in a single plan within a single app that runs on your TV/phone/browser. The kicker…

Jellyfin is quite good.

Re: What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription

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Post by Onewildgamer »

cyrusradfar wrote: post #4

A few months ago we'd had Disney+, Paramount+, Hulu, HBO Max but we've cut back to Netflix and YouTube premium. Switched to purchasing and renting when there's something we want to watch that isn't available and we're finding it to force us to be more conscious of what we're watching. We're considering ditching Spotify and music streaming to return to buying albums so our children can start to be more thoughtful list…

We're going back full circle. From renting/buying DVDs, Bluray to Online streaming to renting content again.

Re: What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription

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Post by plufz »

jraby3 wrote: post #6
cyrusradfar wrote: post #4

A few months ago we'd had Disney+, Paramount+, Hulu, HBO Max but we've cut back to Netflix and YouTube premium. Switched to purchasing and renting when there's something we want to watch that isn't available and we're finding it to force us to be more conscious of what we're watching. We're considering ditching Spotify and music streaming to return to buying albums so our children can start to be more thoughtful list…

YouTube music is really good. I prefer it more than Spotify and if you already pay for YouTube it's free for you.

Interesting! In which ways is it better than spotify?

Re: What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription

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Post by bambax »

user34283 wrote: post #14

In the past I used to pay for Netflix, Spotify, and even YT Premium. However, they keep raising prices every year. In the past Netflix 4K cost like $22 and with family sharing it was about $5 - totally acceptable. Now they cracked down on family sharing in different households and charge $37. No way. Spotify: they increased prices again last month to $20 USD for the individual subscription. I bought a 12 month Colomb…

I unsubscribed from Spotify six months ago and didn't look back. Navidrome works extremely well.
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