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Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

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Post by jm547ster »

mrmondo wrote: post #511
remarkEon wrote: post #503

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Curious. Why do you prefer Apple Music? Has something changed recently? I had both for a while but found the UI, playlist building capacity, the generated playlists, and the ability to share music on Spotify to be superior so I dropped Apple.

Howdy, I have been running both macOS and iOS betas on my personal devices and both iTunes and Music have had a significant UX overhaul on macOS 10.13 and iOS 11, they’re not perfect - but it’s a good step forward. A bit high level but here’s my list of pros: - I’ve found a lot less missing tracks / albums, especially for more underground / lesser known artists I had real problems with this on Spotify. - Significantl…

Sorry, your lists are impossible to read on mobile for those in anyway impatient, requiring lots of horizontal scrolling

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Post by rypskar »

ballenf wrote: post #437
cickpass_broken wrote: post #220

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http://www.cravetv.ca/ has a bunch of HBO.

Never seen a pay/subscription site with an anti-adblocker. It wouldn't load until I let it connect to facebook, twitter, scorecardresearch and load a 1st party tracking script included in two tracker lists (Fanboy's and another). It was so tenacious it piqued my curiosity. Really hard to fathom the thinking behind that. At first I thought it must be a pirate site that depended on ad revenue, but nope it's $8 / month.

MotorTrend on demand have the same, but is only a white overlay over the whole page. So it is enough to set the overlay to display none to get the site to work without allowing a bunch of tracking scripts

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Post by dimillian »

mrmondo wrote: post #513
Buge wrote: post #510

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>limited to highly compressed 1080p. It's worse than that. Netflix is limited to 720p in Chrome and Firefox.

That can’t be right, I’m fairly certain I tried 4K streams on my work / home iMacs (5K) and on my MBP (3.5K)

I don't want to advance anything (don't have time to find the source), but I think Apple have something special built in Safari/Webkit for Netflix. That relate to decoding, quality and battery combustion while streaming.

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Post by mrmondo »

jm547ster wrote: post #521
mrmondo wrote: post #511

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Howdy, I have been running both macOS and iOS betas on my personal devices and both iTunes and Music have had a significant UX overhaul on macOS 10.13 and iOS 11, they’re not perfect - but it’s a good step forward. A bit high level but here’s my list of pros: - I’ve found a lot less missing tracks / albums, especially for more underground / lesser known artists I had real problems with this on Spotify. - Significantl…

Sorry, your lists are impossible to read on mobile for those in anyway impatient, requiring lots of horizontal scrolling

Sorry - HN doesn’t support standard markdown (un)ordered list style syntax, I’ve reformatted them for you without the pre block

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Post by beobab »

boyce wrote: post #516
nitemice wrote: post #309

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You'd happily give away those dollars to the content owners, if they'd just let you stream it legally.

It also needs to be easier to buy it than steal it and not have unskippable adverts or lectures on piracy for a lot of things, stealing is both easier and better

Careful of this mindset.

So the thought process is: "I want this" "I am not allowed this" "I should be allowed this" "I will take it anyway"

This is seductive, easy, and the wrong way to go for most things.

I understand the frustration. I have felt the same way many, many times. I suspect that if people who illegally downloaded movies posted money to the studios who created the content directly, then this problem would disappear pretty much overnight.

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Post by vincnetas »

boyce wrote: post #516
nitemice wrote: post #309

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You'd happily give away those dollars to the content owners, if they'd just let you stream it legally.

It also needs to be easier to buy it than steal it and not have unskippable adverts or lectures on piracy for a lot of things, stealing is both easier and better

Pirating != stealing.

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Post by VeejayRampay »

RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #93

People forget that Disney owns a lot of must-see content: For example, here is the list of top grossing movies of 2016 http://www.imdb.com/list/ls074920894/ Disney had the following films 1. Captain America: Civil War 2. Rogue One 3. Finding Dory 4. Zootopia 5. The Jungle Book 11. Doctor Strange 12. Moana 19. Alice Through the Looking Glass For 2017 so far ( http://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/domestic/all-…

So they're extremely good at providing low-quality blockbusters and rehashed kid movies. Great.

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Post by fabian2k »

Buge wrote: post #510
mrmondo wrote: post #497

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This and I want as much content as possible in 4K/HDR, I’m really sick of the second tier streaming services being limited to highly compressed 1080p. If a service came along that truly had the TV and films I wanted with a preference for 4K content, I’d happily pay $40-$60AUD a month for it. Right now I subscribe to: - Netflix - Stan - Apple Music - Usenet related services - Audible - Plex Premium - Getflix content u…

>limited to highly compressed 1080p. It's worse than that. Netflix is limited to 720p in Chrome and Firefox.

The only way I found to actually get 1080p for all content on Netflix on a PC was to use the Windows 10 Netflix app. In any browser, some of the content would be 720p or 480p otherwise. Edge gave 1080p sometimes, but Firefox and Chrome maxed out at 720p in all cases where I looked at it (Ctrl+alt+shift+D to see the actual resolution).

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Post by a_imho »

ianai wrote: post #62
atourgates wrote: post #18

Someone more clever than me could graph out the intersection of cost, convenience and the average consumer's willingness to pirate content for digital media. I expect moving all Disney's non-live-sports content off the world's most popular streaming platform and on to an exclusive platform with its own monthly fee is going to push a lot of consumers over that line.

We're looking at a future where you have to purchase access to content and delivery of that content piecewise. Prices will definitely increase largely for the same content and convenience. And at some point society's probably going to crack down on piracy as though it were a logical extension of hacking.

I'm not sure, I see there are a lot of people who would pick the file sharing side over copyright enforcement according to their moral compass. The piracy is theft argument does not really fly (like the adblocking is theft) despite suits can threaten people over it.

From the producers pov fencing off is inherently harmful to their garden's brand/reach/discoverability battling for consumer attention.

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