Honestly I don't know why they would go to the effort, especially when trying to sell the company. Surely the amount of $ saved is de minimus
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#32Maybe if their app wasn't complete garbage they'd have more subscribers.
I don’t have any complaints about their app on Apple TV. What platform(s) does it suck on?
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#33[dupe]
Lots of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40807032
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
People are going to think you’re just salty about the general state of TV software but I’ll back you up that Paramount’s software is uniquely bad - the worst of any of the major streaming services.
Curious - what specifically about it bothers you?
1. Long startup time
2. It has a splash screen but continues loading long after the splash screen ends.
3. The UI thread and data fetch thread are the same thread.
4. If you want to jump to an old season in a show with 20+ seasons, you have to scroll season-by-season to get there. Every season loads up every episode before you can move on, taking 2-4 seconds. Thus, it takes 30+ seconds to get from where you start to the season you want to be on.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
The bigger secret is just to self host. Super easy and Plex/Unraid is the way for everyone upset at the changing content landscape Personally, with family who earns living from entertainment industry, I try to subscribe to some services… but I also download it and just stream locally. People get paid, but in 20 years I still have taken care of my needs.
So you download movies via torrent then save them to a hard drive for the rest of your life? I honestly don't understand, do you generally just add media to a larger and larger hard drive and then transfer it every couple years to a new one?
Some people even have many hard drives work together for capacity and reliability reasons! Storing many documents, not just entertainment!
It can be made into a pipeline where it's exactly like subscribing to a conventional service.. you just 'pay' with maintenance/curation.
No A/B testing, price hikes, or platform strong-arming. Well worth it in my opinion. Avoids all kinds of whims from publishers/co.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
The bigger secret is just to self host. Super easy and Plex/Unraid is the way for everyone upset at the changing content landscape Personally, with family who earns living from entertainment industry, I try to subscribe to some services… but I also download it and just stream locally. People get paid, but in 20 years I still have taken care of my needs.
So you download movies via torrent then save them to a hard drive for the rest of your life? I honestly don't understand, do you generally just add media to a larger and larger hard drive and then transfer it every couple years to a new one?
I built a home server and can just add drives as needed. Right now I have something like 90TB available, with 30 of that free. Every year I probably add another drive. Soon I’ll have to get a disk shelf for further expansion, but that’s part of the hobby!
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
The bigger secret is just to self host. Super easy and Plex/Unraid is the way for everyone upset at the changing content landscape Personally, with family who earns living from entertainment industry, I try to subscribe to some services… but I also download it and just stream locally. People get paid, but in 20 years I still have taken care of my needs.
It isn't as easy as it appears, partly because media formats evolve. As device output quality increases, there's a desire to get the source up as well. That means old libraries start to contain a jumble of formats and encodings. The maintenance of this can be a pain. I noticed this first with Apple TV+ where some films were getting provided in HD or HD/3D. If you have to chose between their perfect audio and video or…
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#38> Paramount's three co-CEOs I can’t imagine why this company has any organizational or management problems right now. Absolutely no idea as to why they’re burning cash and turning to random websites to shake $500m out of the company.
The three CEO situation was supposed to be temporary to get them to a buyout. The buyouts fell through and Paramount is now in a pretty terrible position.