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Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue

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Post by vman81 »

afavour wrote: post #10
giancarlostoro wrote: post #9

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I'll just opt for the Kodi / Plext TV sticks and call it a day. Or hook it up to a HTPC and call it a day.

Sure but pirating all your VOD content is never a mass-market viable solution.

You can keep a copy of every track of music on spotify on a single 4U server, 20 drives or so. That's ~100TB, assuming 5MB per track. Every movie or tv show episode is another couple of PB in 720p or so.

Extrapolate the last 20 years of HDD capacity growth (around 300x), and assume that will continue, every single piece of media will fit on a single drive.

I know those assumptions aren't a given, but it sure feels like we're heading towards a world where you can just have a local copy of everything always.

Re: Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue

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Post by speedgoose »

michaelmrose wrote: post #119
speedgoose wrote: post #58

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I also enjoy spending time on shady websites with scams ads and virus. That will teach Netflix and Apple.

It takes 10 seconds to find high quality content without crawling the underbelly of the internet. Hell if you are so included your torrent client can find it for you without actually opening your browser and drop in in your jellyfin media directory where its indexed by the time it finishes downloading. I literally end up doing this for things I'm actually paying for when I want to watch the high quality version on a…

Please share because a source of high quality content isn’t easily found. Unless you are into blockbusters I guess.

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Post by nazcan »

dakial1 wrote: post #34

Point #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)…

Bait and switch for who(m)? The companies offering services on these providers?

Their is a simple fix - get a contract and don't assume current terms will continue without it.

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Post by speedgoose »

thefurdrake wrote: post #84
speedgoose wrote: post #58

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I also enjoy spending time on shady websites with scams ads and virus. That will teach Netflix and Apple.

I don't spend any time on shady websites with scams, ads, and viruses, and I surf the high seas for video content with regularity. It's very easy to do safely, and in this day and age, it beggars belief that this comment was made in good faith. Stop spreading misinformation.

Please share the websites because I never found them.

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Post by notatoad »

Liquix wrote: post #54
dakial1 wrote: post #34

Point #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)…

Plex Inc. is not a good company. They are eager to collect and sell your data to advertisers. Jellyfin is a great alternative. Plex may share Collected Information as expressly set forth in this Privacy Policy, including the following limited situations: [...] With third parties to improve and deliver advertising to you on our behalf. Plex may also use third-party advertising companies to serve ads, which may, direct…

where "my data" means a record of the shows i watch.

i'm okay with that. the shows i watch don't need to be a secret. i want advertisers to know what i watch, so more of that sort of TV gets made. If Plex can make money off this information, and give me a good service in exchange for that, it seems like an arrangement that benefits us both. what's the problem?

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Post by skulk »

sithadmin wrote: post #64
Liquix wrote: post #54

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Plex Inc. is not a good company. They are eager to collect and sell your data to advertisers. Jellyfin is a great alternative. Plex may share Collected Information as expressly set forth in this Privacy Policy, including the following limited situations: [...] With third parties to improve and deliver advertising to you on our behalf. Plex may also use third-party advertising companies to serve ads, which may, direct…

As lousy as Plex (both the company and the product) have become, there really aren't alternatives with feature-parity available. Jellyfin is starting to get there in terms of basic media center functionality, but still faces stability and platform compatibility issues that have been long-solved by Plex. Jellyfin also lags behind in ecosystem support/integration for those of us operating media servers with heavy amoun…

Here's my data point: I use Jellyfin and I am satisfied with it.

My use case: movies and TV shows, streaming from mobile, PC, or smart TV with auto-downloaded subtitles and varying stream quality. Heavy use of the "watch together" feature. (Plex watch together is horrible compared to Jellyfin.)

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Post by katbyte »

Larrikin wrote: post #118
noja wrote: post #83

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Infuse https://firecore.com/infuse

Don't all Jelly Fin solutions still lack proper intro skip. There are some hacky plugins but nothing like Plex or Netflix on the TV.

Emby has intro skip now

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Post by Cu3PO42 »

bentcorner wrote: post #117
itg wrote: post #96

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At this rate, why not having the mining companies charge 30% of revenue for using their metals.

All of the above would if they could, its just that alternatives and competition that prevents it.

I don't believe there's currently any alternatives to ASML's machines for EUV lithography. Unless you're fine using an older process node with lower efficiency. Of course these nodes are fine for a lot of applications still, but I have trouble believing there's any alternatives for cutting edge CPUs, GPUs, etc.
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