Netflix took Chappelle's side over the trannies and cancelled a bunch of woke projects.
If you stay hard against people even after they respond positively to your pressure, they'll just decide that you're an intractable enemy and stay against you forever.
I don't know how to feel about Netflix now. I dropped my subscription a year ago or so. They cancelled many of their "woke" shows. And, in comparison to other streamer/studios, who is better? Amazon? Disney+? Apple?
Putting aside content, I prefer Netflix's interface and lack of ads. Here's a direct comparison with Paramount+:
Netflix had Deep Space Nine until this year, and it happened to flip to Paramount while I was in the middle of rewatching it. I have logins for both, so I figured "no problem, I'll just continue watching it on Paramount".
The Paramount app is slow to load, has lag when you use the remote to navigate, has a crappy fast forward/rewind implementation, and Paramount sticks ads in several spots that don't always land where the original commercial breaks were. The ads were interrupting people mid sentence.
In addition to this, the app would sometimes freeze and even after restarting everything, it wouldn't resume where I left off and I would have to restart the episode and fast forward to where it broke.
Going through all that just days after watching the same show effortlessly on Netflix made me hate Paramount for removing Star Trek from Netflix.
Hah, that's exactly the same reason I dropped Netflix--no more star trek!
I haaaate the Paramount+ app. What's even stupider is that they just lost the Trek movies. I don't think they're currently available on streaming anywhere. How bizarre.
I do both. I run a 4tb FreeNAS server. Now that I'm older and have a reasonable amount of spending cashmoney, I do try to support GOOD media, and for me that includes old Star Trek.
I also subscribe to handful of substacks just because I can.
I went looking for them after you posted this. I found them "available with HBO Max add-on" in Hulu. So I guess HBO has them now.
I could swear I had seen them on both Netflix and Paramount+ in the past. Which is another infuriating thing about all these different streaming services- you can't count on a finding a studio's own content in their streaming service, because of all the various licensing agreements out there.
I think many/most of the streaming apps do that. From the ones I have personal experience with:
Netflix: no ads
Disney+: no ads
Amazon Prime: both shows with ads and shows without- they tell you in the menu which it is
Paramount+: ads
Hulu: ads
I think the services with ads allow you to remove them if you pay more, and apparently Netflix is going to do something similar in the near future.
When it was just Netflix, and they had a large library of everybody's stuff, streaming was a viable replacement for cable TV. Now that every studio has their own streaming service and they all want a ton of money to remove the ads, it's basically becoming cable TV again except you have to pay a la carte for everything like you used to for Showtime and HBO (which both have their own streaming apps of course).
I don't think they have gone after password sharing yet outside of some South American markets.
I read an article yesterday that they're going to roll it out in the US next year. The article said they're going to use IP addresses, which is going to cause them trouble with people who are logging into their Netflix accounts away from home.
Anecdotal, but almost all of the comments in the article said that they wouldn't pay if they were borrowing someone else's password or that they would consider canceling if they were an account holder. Apparently, Netflix is only worth it to a lot of these people if they can share with their friends and family.
To many, watching TV is a communal activity. You discuss what happens in the shows, it provides a safe and known conversation topic at get-togethers. Of course people find value in being able to make sure everyone is on the same page.
To me, that just seems obvious. That is a quality, a value-adding element, to the subscription. And removing it means they'll move to one of a billion other streaming services.
Sorry to hear it
Netflix took Chappelle's side over the trannies and cancelled a bunch of woke projects.
If you stay hard against people even after they respond positively to your pressure, they'll just decide that you're an intractable enemy and stay against you forever.
Edgerunners probably played a sizeable part of this. It's all over reddit and the normie-tier anime sphere.
I don't know how to feel about Netflix now. I dropped my subscription a year ago or so. They cancelled many of their "woke" shows. And, in comparison to other streamer/studios, who is better? Amazon? Disney+? Apple?
Severance on AppleTV was great by the way.
Putting aside content, I prefer Netflix's interface and lack of ads. Here's a direct comparison with Paramount+:
Netflix had Deep Space Nine until this year, and it happened to flip to Paramount while I was in the middle of rewatching it. I have logins for both, so I figured "no problem, I'll just continue watching it on Paramount".
The Paramount app is slow to load, has lag when you use the remote to navigate, has a crappy fast forward/rewind implementation, and Paramount sticks ads in several spots that don't always land where the original commercial breaks were. The ads were interrupting people mid sentence.
In addition to this, the app would sometimes freeze and even after restarting everything, it wouldn't resume where I left off and I would have to restart the episode and fast forward to where it broke.
Going through all that just days after watching the same show effortlessly on Netflix made me hate Paramount for removing Star Trek from Netflix.
Hah, that's exactly the same reason I dropped Netflix--no more star trek!
I haaaate the Paramount+ app. What's even stupider is that they just lost the Trek movies. I don't think they're currently available on streaming anywhere. How bizarre.
Learn to torrent and use emby or Plex.
Its not rocket science.
I do both. I run a 4tb FreeNAS server. Now that I'm older and have a reasonable amount of spending cashmoney, I do try to support GOOD media, and for me that includes old Star Trek.
I also subscribe to handful of substacks just because I can.
Supporting Star Trek today, is only giving money to the new crowd to produce more stillbirths like STD.
Those you want to support have long left the building. But hey, its your depreciating asset to spend.
STD and Picard are abhorrent.
SNW seems maybe ok, but I got bored after a couple of episodes. I'll binge it at some point.
I actually like a lot of Lower Decks, though it can be hit or miss.
Prodigy not my cup of tea, but it's not terrible.
I went looking for them after you posted this. I found them "available with HBO Max add-on" in Hulu. So I guess HBO has them now.
I could swear I had seen them on both Netflix and Paramount+ in the past. Which is another infuriating thing about all these different streaming services- you can't count on a finding a studio's own content in their streaming service, because of all the various licensing agreements out there.
Wait, what? A paid service sticks in ads that interrupt what you're watching? Why would anyone put up with that?
I think many/most of the streaming apps do that. From the ones I have personal experience with:
Netflix: no ads
Disney+: no ads
Amazon Prime: both shows with ads and shows without- they tell you in the menu which it is
Paramount+: ads
Hulu: ads
I think the services with ads allow you to remove them if you pay more, and apparently Netflix is going to do something similar in the near future.
When it was just Netflix, and they had a large library of everybody's stuff, streaming was a viable replacement for cable TV. Now that every studio has their own streaming service and they all want a ton of money to remove the ads, it's basically becoming cable TV again except you have to pay a la carte for everything like you used to for Showtime and HBO (which both have their own streaming apps of course).
Because the service has exclusive access to the content. Cable TV was originally advertised as advertising-free too.
I wouldn't put up with it because I have a sense of dignity and self-worth, but that's the reason.
If you 'watch shows', you might as well just sign up again and forget about ever being a legitimate human being.
None of them. Stop giving money to people who hate you
This is also why WWE is so huge in India. They get all the shows on free TV, not cable.
They also pay a lot less, IF THAT, for the WWE Network streaming service.
I don't think they have gone after password sharing yet outside of some South American markets.
I read an article yesterday that they're going to roll it out in the US next year. The article said they're going to use IP addresses, which is going to cause them trouble with people who are logging into their Netflix accounts away from home.
Anecdotal, but almost all of the comments in the article said that they wouldn't pay if they were borrowing someone else's password or that they would consider canceling if they were an account holder. Apparently, Netflix is only worth it to a lot of these people if they can share with their friends and family.
To many, watching TV is a communal activity. You discuss what happens in the shows, it provides a safe and known conversation topic at get-togethers. Of course people find value in being able to make sure everyone is on the same page.
To me, that just seems obvious. That is a quality, a value-adding element, to the subscription. And removing it means they'll move to one of a billion other streaming services.