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Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again (www.engadget.com)
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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 112 points 1 month ago

Like clockwork I continue to not be subscribed to peacock, or any other streaming, for this very reason.

Pay X amount per month, for a selection of content you don't control, have no ownership of, cannot retain a copy of (longterm), and whose price is subject to change at any time.

Ooooorrrrrrr........I could buy physical media, and rip my own permanent copy, which never expires, andwhose cost is a one time purchase.

Why the fuck is physical media dying??? Oh, right. I live in the same country that willingly voted for trump, and are now shocked to learn he's a shitty person.

In other words, I'm surrounded by morons.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 month ago

I don’t mind paying for a solid rotation of content to watch, I don’t have to own everything. People were mostly happy with blockbuster’s business model.

The streaming industry is a heaping pile of shit right now though, and everyone is trying to dial us back to the worst of cable again.

[-] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

People only liked Blockbusters business model because there were no other options. Redbox came on the scene and decimated the company and they were even sued to get the distribution model changed so that they had to wait a month before they could rent new movies out. Now both companies are relics of the past since streaming became mainstream.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I guess that’s fair, and I had forgot going to a friends to watch their rentals together.

At least I definitely did not rip rented dvds to my hard drive.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Ooooorrrrrrr…I could buy physical media, and rip my own permanent copy, which never expires, andwhose cost is a one time purchase.

How do you know what to buy? There are all kinds of shows I watch (before knowing anything about them) that aren't worth buying.

[-] Peffse@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I get my media from the local library and buy the ones I enjoy.

[-] ComradeRachel 74 points 1 month ago

Remember the good ol days where Netflix had everything you could watch for a cheap subscription price.

[-] trk@aussie.zone 46 points 1 month ago

I didn't pirate for years when Netflix was the bomb. Then it all started going to poop but I kept the subscription running while I sailed the seven seas with the thought that it was just a little bit of a reduced library, it's still good. It's just a heap of shows cancelled after one season and even more content missing, it's still good. But after a few years I had to accept that like a pig soaring over a dam, it was gone. So now no one gets my money.

Except my ISP, private indexers, a VPN company, and various hard drive manufacturers I guess.

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I have a jellyfin server. I haven’t bothered setting up the *arrs because there’s not much worth watching anymore and the few things I want I can get manually. It’s not even worth automating the piracy anymore.

[-] trk@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

There's plenty of good content out there, it just isn't necessarily the popular content.

Would definitely recommend installing the *arrs, and letting it roll on an automated list like an Imdb watchlist full of stuff you've never heard of.

[-] Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 47 points 1 month ago

Am I understanding correctly that the most expensive "premium plus" plan still has advertisements?

[-] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 14 points 1 month ago

I saw that too. It's crazy what people put up with

[-] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

I used to point this out about Hulu probably close to a decade ago on reddit and would get endless comments about how "it's just a few shows," "i never see any ads," and "it's not their fault." I wonder if those same people exist here.

There's literally nothing compelling these shitty companies to advertise these plans as ad free when they do in fact contain ads. Just like cellular ISPs have no legitimate reason to call their data plans "unlimited" when they cap you after using a predefined amount of data.

[-] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 1 points 1 month ago

Funny... My ad tier sub for $50/year has none

[-] jhoward@lemmy.sdf.org 45 points 1 month ago

And yet the cost of BitTorrent and the *arr suite has stayed the same.

[-] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

HDD prices are up over the last several years even with greater density drives coming on the scene, but it still pales in comparison to the price increases of these streaming services.

[-] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

Can't wait to keep not paying for Peacock

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

I signed up for one of their trials because I'm a huge EPL fan and then found out most of the games weren't even on peacock or the tier they told me def had the games. I needed a cable subscription and USA channel. Fuck em.

[-] oppy1984@lemdro.id 4 points 1 month ago

Yep, I saw they had The Monday Night Wars and every episode was listed as free to stream. When I finished episode 4 a message came up that I could subscribe to continue watching. I checked online and it was all, from episode 5 on, behind the paywall after saying beforehand that it wasn't. I deleted the app from my Roku and phone, then deleted my account. Fuck peacock.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Peacock = pisspenis

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

but now you'll be not paying even more money! capitalism is great

[-] Prox@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

In no way is Peacock worth $17/month.

[-] TheCleric@lemmy.org 4 points 1 month ago

That tiered system is fucking absurd. Ad supported, ad supported plus, “premium” and “premium plus”—WHICH STILL HAS ADS.

What in the fuck. Who in their right mind is paying for that?

[-] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Arrrr mateys, see ye on the high seas...

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

At this point, I don’t think there is a single streaming service worth the subscription price. What’s more distressing is that, rather than learning their lessons, these companies will collude to scare people into subscribing with repeats of the copyright crackdowns and corporate empowerment of the late 90s and early 2000s.

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I hear good things about nebula.

[-] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

I recently subscribed. It's only $3/mo so it's really inexpensive, but also it feels like it's just a heavily curated YouTube.

There's nothing I've found on nebula that's not also on YouTube. The only real benefit (to me, not the creators) is that there's no sponsorship in the video.

That being said, the app isn't as polished and I feel like I'm just remembering which creators I follow on both and when I see a new video from one of them in YouTube, I flip to nebula to watch it, then go back to YouTube for my other subscriptions.

[-] Stormdancer@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

And like clockwork, I am continuing to not subscribe.

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 9 points 1 month ago

Arrrrrrr

[-] zewm@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the reminder to unsub 👌

I hate peacock in general because they purposely deny the ability to use the service on Linux. So I’m forced to use it on my Apple TV instead of my computer browser.

I only stayed with the cheapest plan in order to watch the WWE PLEs. I will figure out another way to watch. Fuck NBC and Peacock.

[-] jeanofthedead@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Thank glob for services like Stremio, Real-Debrid, Omni, Fusion, Vidi, Kodi, etc.

[-] EarthshipTechIntern01@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

We're canceling the most watched late night show on all platforms! Pay more now! For less!

Gotta love that great management. Hail capitalism!

[-] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

streamio plus Real debrid for the win

[-] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Fuck those bait-and-switch dastardly. On Vlack Friday, they has their basic premium (🤮) for $50/year and had a monthly option to get the premium plus and remove ads. Then 6 months later, they got rid of that option. And removed the option for monthly at that plus level.

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