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You couldn’t pay me to watch movies in 480p.
Worse, 480i. The resolution would be something I could accept with for old content, but I am not going to deal with fucking interlacing ever again.
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Now? Xbox Media Centre nailed it like 15 years ago. When the user is in control you can't push anti-features like e.g. Chromecast or Samsung TVs are full of.
XBMC is a player, the UX of piracy is everything up to getting the video to play.
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XBMC is a player, the UX of piracy is everything up to getting the video to play.
XBMC (now Kodi) has plugins - I think I've seen Kodi with a BitTorrent plugin working nicely at a friend's place.
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I also don't mind paying for content but i want the content as it was originally broadcast. With streaming if you "buy" something they might eventually replace the background music or cut scenes that are deemed insensitive or clash with the director's new vision. Or they decide you need to view 4:3 content with the top and bottom cut off in 16:9. Or in some cases you might lose access to the content entirely because…
I also don't mind paying for content in theory but besides your concerns I also want to be able to play that content on whatever devices using whatever software I want, without needing a constant internet connection. The Music industry has survived the switch to DRM-free content, the Movie and TV industry can too.
The other thing is that the original version of an album is replaced by a remastered version. Usually the new version has additional songs but the remastering and songs change the experience.
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You can't just look away from your TV for 5-10 seconds?
Do you use an ad blocker?
the funny thing is most of the time I use firefox on linux with pretty much default settings, I let them give me all the cookies they want and a few sites still think I'm running an ad blocker. hehe whatever, the modern web is getting to be pretty trash anyways.
Whatever your thoughts about piracy ethically it's hard to argue it's going to soon be the only viewing experience where you actually own the media. Torrenting has for some media become the only way of acquiring it at all.
At the end of the day its the pirates who are maintaining the library of Alexandria of our times. The pirates we insist on vilifying and speaking little of in technical forums even. What does that make those people who stand against those who seek to spread information? No different than the book burners, in my eyes. A shame so many engineers spend their precious time and efforts fighting on what future generations w…
You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but it is factually incorrect to state that willful destruction is the same as hindering someone from making another copy of a work.
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I see this gripe throughout but the streaming subscription service is more like HBO in the old cable days. They had a licensed set of content that rotates every month. You don’t get to own any of it because their whole illusion of catalog depth is based on the rotation semantic. This is less about streaming and more about royalties and licensing. Although still imperfect as an ownership mechanism the analogy to DVDs…
Didn't most people subscribe to HBO for its original series? In the 2000s they had Entourage, Sopranos and Six Feet Under and probably many more I can't remember.
Original programming more or less started much later after they were well established and seeking marginal growth.