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Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

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Post by maccard »

askew wrote: post #683
maccard wrote: post #552

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I'd pay more than £40 for it; right now I pay £12/month for a TV licence (basically a BBC subscription fee), £20/month to sky, and £7.50/month to Netflix. I've also paid £7.99/month for Amazon for a few months to try out prime video, but never found it worthwhile. That's just for TV/movie content. I don't want to manage 4/5/6 subscriptions.

Doesn't that pretty much become Sky Movies?

Not quite. In an ideal world, I want Spotify for movies (every mainstream movie in the last 40 years pretty much on demand in HQ and reliable access) and I'm willing to pay for it, like I do with Spotify. (I'd be willing to pay Spotify lots more but they don't have a bonus plan to pay more).

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Post by exikyut »

jerf wrote: post #624
4ad wrote: post #594

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> I want as much content as possible in 4K/HDR Not just 4K/HDR, but high bitrate as well. It's pretty ridiculous that an 1080p BluRay looks better than ANY 4k stream today (NetFlix, youtube, etc) because it's much less compressed. BluRay's are about 40-50Mbps. I want the same quality for 1080p, and higher for 4k!

Dirty secret of video: The resolution matters a lot less than people tend to claim. Pixels are not created equal. I can easily give you a "24K" video stream with the same bitrate as your current 720p stream. It may choke your video card dealing with it and you may have nothing that can display it, but I can give it to you, easily. It just won't look any better than the 720p stream and will probably look worse (due to…

Interesting info, thanks very much.

I want to know what sort of cameras can consistently capture the kinds of photos I see online where everything is just refreshingly sharp and properly lit. I know user skill is a big part of that but for a while I've wondered what sort of hardware to optimize for to get shots that are not amazing but just properly well-focused.

I also want to do a similar thing to your "JPEG irreducible complexity" test: I want to, given a series of photos, find the one with the least artifacts. This is mostly for JPG as well, but for photos that can rank stuff that's gone through the Twitter/etc can opener (and been decoded and reencoded umpteen times in the process), so it's possible that doing purely codec-level analysis may or may not rank accurately.

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Post by theshrike79 »

remarkEon wrote: post #503
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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…

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.

The "Radio" channels that have been curated by an actual human are nice.

Also the recommended playlists (built from my likes and listen counts) seem somehow better on Apple Music than on Spotify.

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Post by spinlock »

calesce wrote: post #212
spinlock wrote: post #194

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I have an Apple TV and I have to switch from it to the TV to get Amazon because Apple and Amazon won't play nice together.

You soon won't have to do that any longer: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/5/15732608/amazon-prime-vide...

You just made my day :)

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Post by renish »

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Post by renish »

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Post by renish »

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Post by vincnetas »

Joeri wrote: post #645
sgift wrote: post #548

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> it's still harmful to others and therefore wrong. If everything that was harmful to others would be seen as wrong we would live in a completely different world. Interestingly, people only make this connection for very few topics.

Sounds like a better world to me. Anyway, it seems I hit a nerve. I used to be one of those piracy is not stealing people, back when I pirated content. Now that I pay for content I can look back at that person and understand that cognitive dissonance between my notion of myself as a good person and the fact that I was pirating content led me to consider piracy a good thing, or at the least not a bad thing. Because re…

I'm not saying that pirating is good. I'm just saying that pirating does not mean "taking things without permission" aka stealing. It's copying things without permission.

P.S. when i was young and poor i used to wear an eye patch, these days i'm paying for stuff.

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