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Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year

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Re: Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year

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Post by duffyjp »

thiht wrote: post #170

They've already killed Prime Video in the last year. I cancelled my Amazon Prime subscription yesterday because: - 1-day delivery is not a thing anymore - Prime Video used to be my favorite streaming service, now it sucks. Every time I want to watch something, I have to pay an additional subscription, and it's way too hard to find what's actually included - it's too expensive for the value it provides (70€). Actually…

The thing keeping me on Prime has been their unlimited photo backup service. The desktop app either doesn't work anymore or I have too much content for it to handle. It spins and spins but nothing happens. I can manually backup via the web client but it's a huge pain and there's no automatic sync of new content. I never really know if I'm 100% backed up either.

I was excited to see Apple announce new iCloud tiers above their old 2TB limit, but the prices go up linearly with storage and as an amateur photography enthusiast I'm not sure even the 6TB $30/mo plan would cover me. The only other choice is an eye-watering $60/mo plan for 12TB.

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Post by sneak »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #120
pavlov wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

USB-C is legally mandated in the EU, and Apple finally switched over their entire lineup. It doesn't seem like it's going anywhere any time soon.

This isn’t exactly true. An industry consensus is demanded in the EU, that just happens to be USB-C ATM. The rules are flexible enough to allow for technology advance, as long as everyone does it all at once.

Where everyone is defined by everyone big enough to send delegations to implementer forums and dictate top down standards to everyone else.

Remember HDCP?

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Post by parineum »

isoprophlex wrote: post #61
rendall wrote: post #48

I flat out do not watch ads. If a platform has ads, I do not watch it full stop. I pay YouTube for no ads. If I lost that option, I would not watch YouTube. Same with all of the other streaming services. Netflix pushed it last year with preview rolls. It was barely acceptable/tolerable. But I will eagerly jettison any service that makes me pay for ads. Heck, I even look askance at people who willingly pay money to un…

It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

Presumably, the poor here asking for money is beggars literally just asking for money while advertisements are telling you about things you could get with money. It's a nice quip but it doesn't represent reality at all.

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Post by throwaway2203 »

usefulcat wrote: post #35
flanked-evergl wrote: post #8

I can barely find something to watch on Prime which is why I only subscribe like 1 month a year, and for that month I spend maybe 8 total hours watching. Maybe if Amazon made better content, then they could get more revenue.

The Expanse was excellent, IMO. Apart from that I mostly agree. I've tried Jack Ryan and Wheel of Time, which were good but not amazing.

I found Wheel of Time to be terrible. Great spectacle, but trash acting (outside of the MC) and worse writing.

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Post by dgudkov »

NickC25 wrote: post #69

Imagine a world where a guy worth over 150 billion dollars who owns a company worth over a trillion dollars and has a quasi-monopoly over the internet is in such desperate need of more money to the point where he's going to put advertising on his video platform, even though people already pay for the platform. Instead of raising prices moderately, or putting better content on the platform, they decide to instead put…

Amazon is a publicly traded company. Shareholders want to increase their stock value by increasing profits. Blaming only Bezos for greediness is not fair. He may be greedy but so are all the shareholders.

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Post by parineum »

rendall wrote: post #85
mumblemumble wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's signaling. Wearing prominent logos sends yourself and others a message that you have the disposable income to pay twice as much for a version of the thing that has a special picture on it.

Yes, agreed. It still does not explain the practice in a way that makes sense to me. There are so many and much better ways to signal disposable wealth. To me it immediately signals "more money than sense".

> To me it immediately signals "more money than sense".

There is an amount of money one could have that no amount of sense could make up for.

In reality flagrant wealth is often tied to poor financial decisions that have lead to a lack of actual wealth.

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Post by blairbeckwith »

rendall wrote: post #133
idopmstuff wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if this were the case (it's not), there's still a time cost - I have to find the brand without the logo that's the same quality. I buy athletic shorts maybe once every 2-3 years almost always on Black Friday. I know Nike shorts will be high quality, and I know they'll fit. Wading through the many non-logo brands, trying them on, returning the ones that are bad, etc. might take me several hours to save tens of do…

Learn to recognize quality by sight, particularly by stitching and materials, not logo. Logos are not emblematic of quality, but of good marketing (shoes aside - Nike makes good sneakers).

Do you ever buy anything online? You are taking this really self-righteous, “explain yourself” attitude while seemingly not understanding that you are the one who is odd.

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Post by ctvo »

rendall wrote: post #48

I flat out do not watch ads. If a platform has ads, I do not watch it full stop. I pay YouTube for no ads. If I lost that option, I would not watch YouTube. Same with all of the other streaming services. Netflix pushed it last year with preview rolls. It was barely acceptable/tolerable. But I will eagerly jettison any service that makes me pay for ads. Heck, I even look askance at people who willingly pay money to un…

> I flat out do not watch ads. If a platform has ads, I do not watch it full stop. I pay YouTube for no ads.

Great. Now you can pay 3 dollars for no ads on Prime Video if you want it too.

Did this simple take have to be embedded in so much judgement and moral grandstanding?

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Post by readthenotes1 »

rerx wrote: post #132
physicsguy wrote: post #54

Freevee was an obvious step towards this.

Freevee disgusts me. I don't think there's any paid option to watch Bosch: Legacy without ads.

It's free (doesn't require amazon). Is Bosch so bad that it's not worth renumerating the publisher/actors/etc?
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