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[โ€“] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 16 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I didn't see through to the end because Rossman was making the same point over and over and over and over. But what he didn't talk about is that Netflix specifically does not provide the highest tier of quality to PCs. That's to prevent piracy of super high quality streams. The blockage is very much intentional and not without cause. Similarly, Netflix often does not play well with a whole host of Android streaming devices over which they have no control of the stream for exactly the same reason.

I agree with him otherwise, I just wish he'd have gone into those reasons. Your super fast gaming rig being 'not compatible' has nothing to do with its impressive hardware specs.

Rossman was making the same point over and over and over and over

You gotta pad out your content if you want to churn multiple episodes a week that are hours long.

[โ€“] bright_side_@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Hm, I did not see the video, but I think if I'd pay for a product and get a weaker quality than 1. I paid for and 2. possible on my machine - I would be hesitant to accept a reasoning that has nothing to do with my usage of the service. Is the potential piracy (that happens anyway) outweighing the bad customer experience? What I mean to say is, if I pay for my product, and have capable hardware - I think from the customer perspective I am in a position to complain if I don't get the quality I paid for.

[โ€“] ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Okey dokey ๐Ÿ‘Œ

[โ€“] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It clearly says it's on the paid tier only?

Not that I care much one way or the other. I'm still frustrated with HBO Max selling me "ad free" and then putting a skippable ad at the start of every video. It's not ad free if there's a "skippable" ad! I paid extra specifically so I wouldn't have to see that.

[โ€“] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use the Brave browser, so the ads don't work thankfully, but yes, pirate all the things regardless.

Yeah ad blockers are great for that. I know from experience Peacock with ads will all be blocked if you have an ad blocker. But that only works on my computer not my Roku.

[โ€“] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a reason to emphasize "skippable" here?

[โ€“] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 16 points 23 hours ago

Because the app seems to think "ad free" can include ads as long as they carry a "skip" button. Which are still ads.

[โ€“] doodledup@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Why do pirates even care about what Netflix does? They are not even using Netflix...

[โ€“] moody@lemmings.world 24 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Netflix made a huge dent in piracy in their early streaming days. It was a convenient, and cheap, service with a ton of good content. Then everyone else started pulling their content from Netflix and built their own streaming services, and all of a sudden watching TV and movies got expensive again.

Then Netflix started enshittifying its service by limiting streaming resolution, cracking down on account sharing, putting ads in.

A lot of pirates wouldn't be pirates if Netflix was as good as it used to be.

[โ€“] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 13 hours ago

netflix like other streams got GREEDIER as they needed more money to operate thier expensive services.

[โ€“] mdd@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] doodledup@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

So why posts like that? Why circlejerk about hating big-tech all the time?

So you'll never forget that you're wasting your money

[โ€“] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 9 points 22 hours ago

How much money are they making on adverts for low tier customers is what I'm wondering... Like if it's 10$ for the lower tier and they make 5$ in advert money and I'm paying 16$ for the ad free tier, they're making more from me than the others...

[โ€“] twinnie@feddit.uk 5 points 21 hours ago

I like how they say that viewers pay as much attention to the adverts as they do to the content.

[โ€“] Contentedness@lemmy.nz 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe someone can help me out then, I don't have Netflix but get most things through Qbittorrent's search function, a buddy recommended me a Netflix show called Chicken Nugget, it's a Korean show about someone who wakes up one day and they've been transformed into a chicken nugget?

Anyway I tried downloading it last night and it's there but no seeders.

Same thing for a Apple TV show called Criminal Record, no episode #2.

[โ€“] dumblederp@aussie.zone 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Hit up some torrent sites cuz. See the community megathread for suggestions.

[โ€“] Contentedness@lemmy.nz 4 points 20 hours ago

Ah yep, just checking the megathread now! Looks like just the thing I need. Cheers mate ๐Ÿดโ€โ˜ ๏ธ

[โ€“] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -4 points 23 hours ago

Good thing that this won't bother the normie!