App availabilty will be the replacement for carriage fights we see for sat/cable. Soon you will need multiple devices to have all services.
Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue
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Do you mean HDR? High definition video playback works fine on Linux. Very performant even with low end hardware.
What is meant is that services explicitly short change Linux users by restricting resolution based on client in a fashion that isn't trivially circumvented by fudging the user agent. For instance a given content may be available in glorious 4K only via an app on a TV, 1080p via a windows or mac machine, and dogshit 720p that actually manages to look worse than old SD on Linux. This is basically true of every service…
Is Youtube TV different from regular Youtube? I've never heard of that in France, but I'm admittedly not big on TV / streaming / movies.
For my needs (random videos I search on an ad-hoc basis) I can get 4K with no issue on Firefox on Linux.
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#133Point #1: This bait-and-switch tactic shouldn't be allowed by consumer regulations (Not in the US, but here in Brazil it would be a no-no) as in the end Amazon is tricking it's use base into paying for the Fire TV as a great deal, when in the end they will pay more for streaming as those costs that Amazon is putting on the streaming services will be paid by them in the end. #2 Wouldn't this movement be (potentially)…
PSA: VLC is available for Fire devices and is fantastic.
You can stream right off SMB shares.
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I'm in the Google ecosystem but I agree with the sentiment. Apple has no financial incentive to collect my data. Since they've begun differentiating themselves through their emphasis on privacy I think they have a financial incentive to protect my privacy.
Apple has tried and failed several times to launch advertising services based on user data. Their current lack of motivation is due to those failures, not to the lack of a desire to make more money from exploiting user data.
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#135Low cost computer, free software updates, backend infrastructure, several years of functional life, for $40 in sales (is there any profit there?). Exactly how is it surprising that they need to make some sort of additional revenue via kickback?
You are right, it is entirely unsurprising that the monopolist expects to see a positive ROI on their dumping scheme.
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#136Low cost computer, free software updates, backend infrastructure, several years of functional life, for $40 in sales (is there any profit there?). Exactly how is it surprising that they need to make some sort of additional revenue via kickback?
> free software updates
It's not like amazon is paying for the maintenance of the entire software stack. And the part they're doing they mostly have to do anyway to support new devices.
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#137At what point does a streaming service build an installer that walks you through turning on ADB and push the app over network ADB and just distribute outside Amazon (and Google)? (Sure, this is a lot of effort, but someone might go for the ol' sideload gag.)
Don't give DJI any ideas about starting a streaming service.
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Umm no need to pay for many or any streaming service then that consumer problem is solved just watch the free outlets like YouTube. Hollywood's biggest competitor is content creators on Youtube, Tiktok, etc ... my bet is they will need to compete and many paid offerings will consolidate and become free / less expensive to compete with all the free content creators on YouTube, Tiktok and etc. If you look at where the…
It might be channel specific on YouTube but on one particular channel I think I've had as many as 3 ad breaks for a 10-15 minute video.
I think the worst I've been is 4 breaks in 15 minutes plus a nearly 2 minute sponsor segment. It's a plague.
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#140So all this only works if the consumers can not switch back en mass to piracy. Its sort of implicit. Either free computing dies or these companies.