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It strikes me that auto-stripping ads after DVRing the shows should be a pretty simple AI problem these days.
Given how ads tend to be louder than the content, you could probably detect it based on the average audio level without any fancy AI
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.
Gives me a good reason to cancel Prime. Haven't been getting so much value out of free delivery as I'm not buying much physical media any more. Between Prime Video and the occasional delivery, it seemed worth keeping it. But I won't watch a streaming service with ads. Its value to me would be reduced right down to zero.
Yeah, I'm currently paying monthly for Amazon Prime, and every time I think of canceling, I decide that I'm still using Prime Video as my only streaming service. I experimentally tried the Prime Video "free with ads" content, and there's no way I'm going to tolerate that, much less pay for it. Oh, besides Amazon's "free with ads" ruining the content experience, and also being a little creepy and making me feel dumber…
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…
AKA, not a monopoly.
Monopoly is such a funny buzzword to me because it's both wildly misused and completely misunderstood to be an inherently bad thing.
In reality, there is rarely a true monopoly and the only bad thing about them is that they enable anti-competitive behavior and that's the thing that's illegal and bad.
Amazon "quasi-monopoly" comes from having the best service. Great service is good for consumers.
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…
In the last year, their big budget bombs:
- Wheel of Time barely watchable CW quality TV
- Lord of the Rings oh my gosh level bad
- Citadel unwatchable it's so bad
I will admit they do have some OK recent content. The Peripheral was entertaining, for example.
But man, who gets fired for those billion dollar bombs?
So we all cut the cord to get away from restrictive, over-priced packages riddled with ads so we can end up with restrictive, over-priced packages riddled with ads. Say hello to the new boss, I guess
My public library has thousands of DVD. More than I could watch in a lifetime, I think. There's even a bit of streaming. And, outside of the Disney stuff, none of it has ads I can't skip. All free. I mention this and someone always complains that that Game of Mad Men is Breaking the New Black isn't at the library. Which gets me thinking that the real boss might be our own consumerism.
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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.
It’s funny how blatantly every streaming service waits for Netflix to do anything bold before doing same thing. It’s like what happens when Apple does something like removing headphone socket. Backlash from the loud minority “I’ll never buy another iPhone again”. then every competitor quietly follows. (In Australia, Binge app – the main local streamer with HBO shows etc – also started ads a few months ago, with a hig…
I adamantly refuse to buy a USB c headset because I'm sure in 2 years there will be a new standard.