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[Streaming Services] All Your Favorite Shows, No Longer Available!
TexiKen
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This is the Streaming Thread, to talk about all things streaming, wherever you can find it.
Long ago, there was just One Piece of streaming you needed, that had all you wanted. But it has long since disappeared, though many try to find it and many powerful people claim they will retrieve it! And so we traveled through this Grand Line of streaming services, on the waves of investor money, watching as these people attempted to outbid and outspend each other on shows your eyes won't even look at since you're texting on your phone.
But shock!
We have now hit the Red Line of budgets and subscriber revenue, resulting in chaos in the streaming world! Who will survive, who will be consolidated, will the rebels in the WGA be able to make a difference now?
Onwards, into the New World, where the only thing that can truly stop you is not your hatred of the source material, but the size of your green screen!
If you're wondering what's available where, Flixable is a good place to check for the US
Another place to see what's available is JustWatch, based by country/region
Long ago, there was just One Piece of streaming you needed, that had all you wanted. But it has long since disappeared, though many try to find it and many powerful people claim they will retrieve it! And so we traveled through this Grand Line of streaming services, on the waves of investor money, watching as these people attempted to outbid and outspend each other on shows your eyes won't even look at since you're texting on your phone.
But shock!
We have now hit the Red Line of budgets and subscriber revenue, resulting in chaos in the streaming world! Who will survive, who will be consolidated, will the rebels in the WGA be able to make a difference now?
Onwards, into the New World, where the only thing that can truly stop you is not your hatred of the source material, but the size of your green screen!
If you're wondering what's available where, Flixable is a good place to check for the US
Another place to see what's available is JustWatch, based by country/region
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I started "In from the cold" today. Starts as a mix between your normal spy show (which I have watched a ton of over the past few months) and "The Long Kiss Goodnight". But takes quite a left turn at the end of the first episode. Anyone seen this on Netflix?
I'm sure research exists somewhere that people are more likely to actually buy whatever an ad is selling if the experience of watching it is less painful than the experience currently is.
But you'd think similar research would prevent me having 75% or more of my screen covered in ads when I click on a news article or recipe link and here we are, so you're probably right.
Yeah, but that's for the marketing people at ACME to figure out. Here in StreamCo we tell them they had 10 Billion minutes of ad time and bill them accordingly.
Seriously though Steven Strait is pretty awesome.
If you're talking Linear like FAST channels, one of the reasons this happens is that the ad sales agent that your FAST platform uses ran out of advertisers who want to buy space, so they do ad-reruns to avoid having dead air (because those commercial airtime slots still exist for scheduling purposes, whether or not they have ads to fill them). This is happening more often now as we enter a recession and companies pull back on their marketing spend.
I assume something similar can happen on the VOD side but most VOD based distributors I've dealt with have managed to figure out how to put commercial breaks at the right time in a show. It's in their best interests to make sure the commercials line up with the show's natural commercial breaks, so I don't know why they wouldn't be doing that.
And the nuHBO app which you have to download made everything bigger than it really should, encumbering scrolling. Goodfellas is still up though, yet you get hit immediately with the push of "max" additions of informative murder porn shit and stupid reality stuff, I don't care about Mark Rober beyond glitterbomb videos every year, you're definitely not gonna make me watch his new loser show.
That'd be giving free advertising to those advertisers. The ones that get looped usually make no money. So they might be like ads for other shows made by the same company that runs the fast channel you're watching, or some other kind of cross promotion. If you're just getting the same 5 ads from actual companies advertising something then it's actually very possible that they only got a handful of companies willing to run ads for that show, at that time, in that location. Like I mentioned, advertising spend is drying up right now as major advertisers look to curb their marketing budget in anticipation of a recession.
Online ads have always done that shit for some reason. It's the same ad every time, over and over time. At least TV would have a bit of variety.
I will give them credit that once it was actually available to download the new app kept the login information so we didn't have to do anything to actually get back to watching something.
This tremendously reminds me of how both Netflix and Prime have made their interfaces intentionally worse over the years to obscure how many films they don't have and try to funnel people towards originals and exclusives. Gee, look at that, a bunch of shitty reality shows I could not give less of a fuck about, right at the top.
And yeah the whole new, last chance, and content hubs were the most useful parts of the original UI so they got removed.
Now it's just TV / Movies so you need to actually know what you're looking for before searching around.
To quote Roy Kent... "fuuucking hell"
Also "Shouting is Roy Kents love language" made me giggle.
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@emnmnme I think you misunderstand the comic, Gabe is saying the show was under-funded when it was on SyFy, and is hoping Amazon will give the budget a boost. Which I think it did?
But also I can't remember a single moment of the entire show where I felt like they were cutting corners on sets or props. I don't recall anything in the show feeling like it was produced by CW or something. The show holds itself up really well quality-wise.
I still love and have rewatched the first season a few times, but some of the sets definitely look a bit on the cheap side in that season. But the first season also had a lot of different sets for the first season of a sci-fi show, so it's pretty impressive what they were able to accomplish.
It's only shared between me and my mom. Well, was, at this point.
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With some shows never being offered for sale on DVD, and the potential for them to just abruptly disappear never to be seen again, it seems like a thing people would be more incentivized than ever to do.
Most companies require some level of DRM protections in the content being streamed.
Fun fact: American companies think Canada is the land of piracy (it kinda sorta is), so whenever American companies license content to us up in Canada, they insist on really onerous DRM protections. I'm sure there are work-arounds that real tech-savvy people could use to get around this, but I guess those people aren't a big enough threat.
They don't. If you check the pirate sites they tend to have all the exclusive shows from all the streaming services
Yeah, the reason there's not so much awareness of piracy these days is not because they somehow managed to magically stop it but because there's been so much less incentive to find and 'advertise' it since streaming services became actually good for a few years. Fair prices, broad range of interesting and regularly updated content, not too much pointless walled gardening, decent quality app which works reliably etc. Good content at good price, lots of sales, not much piracy.
However, as we seem to be returning to an era of ridiculous streaming service prices, on top of internet prices which are also ridiculous, I expect Pirate bay and its ilk to loom straight back into view. Get ready to log into some random Muldovan list of download packages or whatever.
In the world of ad supported streaming, I expect they will go the crunchyroll approach. Make the adds SO bad, SO obnoxious repetitive and annoying that you buy the full price subscription just to avoid them. I would happily have watched 2 minutes of commercials during a 30 minute show, but, crunchyroll was too smart for that. So its the SAME commercial every time, and it takes ages to start playing, and the volume is wrong, and then the show often just quits, and you have to watch the commercials again!
That is exactly what will happen. Could VPN into your home network to stream, but again, another stupid hurdle
Yeah. I'm not necessarily opposed to them trying to solve password sharing. The issue is that the methodology affects genuine paying customers and that sucks.
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This will also happen to people who watch Netflix on their phones, or people who routinely use it on travel on one device. So like, if you only watch Netflix on your iPad on travel, and at home you watch it on the TV, then get ready for a message like this in the future...
"Your 10 day login period has expired. Please return to your home network and log it"
Hell, this is the modern world. What about people who have netflix accounts and just use their phones unlimited data plan to stream?
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