This last round was the line for me. Canceled the whole Hulu/D+ mess and haven’t looked back. My Jolly Roger is a little tattered these days, but I still know how to fly it.
I started seeing ads when playing (some) Amazon/paramount videos, plus the Netflix and Disney+ password crackdowns, and the price increases, I’m so over this crap.
I’m feeling the same way. I was getting pissed off that my kids couldn’t watch Netflix when they were at grandmas house first. Now they got mid-roll ads and I’m so over it.
Remember when they’d grandfather accounts in so you keep the old rate and features as a token of appreciation for your loyalty as a customer?
Yeah that’s an ancient relic these days. Your loyalty as a customer means dick.
I don’t even pay for Netflix or Disney. They are covered by my phone (TMobile) and credit card (Amex BCP) respectively.
Still, GabeNs Law has proven accurate once again. Ahoy.
Mmm it’s really sad but some of the nonstandard acquisition sites (even free ones) are better for content discovery than any service has ever been.
Because they don’t fucking recommend each other do they? No.
But the alternative market knows no boundaries. They don’t give a fuck who put what out. “Hey fyi since you like this, you might like this handful of similar things that we make nothing directly off telling you about , but indirectly benefit because you come back”
The Reddit megathread is one of the only things on that site I still reference. Not great, but better than the alternatives (until I get automation set up then it’s all over).
I was already on the fence about cancelling Disney, and honestly this is a great excuse.
Those Disney shows are kinda awful. Outside of The Mandalorian, the marvel shows and other side stories are extremely hit and miss.
The last season of the Mandolorian wasn’t even good. It spent most of it’s time setting up other crap I am not interested in. There really isn’t anything they can do that will make the premise for the sequels not a lazy regressive pile of garbage and it’s dragging this show down with it. I didn’t even bother with Ashoka since that looked like it was going to be even more of that.
Ahsoka could have been good if it was longer bit they just spent the whole series building up and left it hanging at the end and the actor for the most interesting character died so that part of it can’t go anywhere
I wasn’t even planning on cancelling Disney+. I wanted to downsize from the Hulu combo package because I found i never watched Hulu, but it wouldn’t let me switch directly. I had to let the combo membership run out before I could start a new D+ membership.
And, well, I just have gotten around to that yet…
I love this image, usually when I talk well about Stremio they think I’m shitting on Kodi, and that couldn’t be more far from the truth!
I like this duo beating up companies and I use both!
I remember using Kodi around 2012 and it was a bit of a hassle to get it set up initially (install different repos etc.) since out of the box it was very vanilla. Is it still the same process or has it gotten better where users can hit the ground running after install?
I started using it on Linux, then a Mi Box and finally and since then a Nvidia Shield TV Pro, I think it maybe has the same “difficult” steps to set it up (meaning navigating through many menus and using the keyboard several times, something not ideal on a device with a remote), if you go with the default skin (which I despise) then you can save a lot of time thinkering (I kinda don’t mind this).
Anyway, when you have your setup working as you want it then it requires low maintenance, add-ons can auto update themselves and I haven’t found they broke horribly or feel the need to disable auto update and check changelogs for every version before updating lol.
It definitely isn’t as plug and play as with, let’s say Stremio, but once you set it up you have a lot more flexibility, filters, customization, you name it.
But then you have to host all of it yourself right? Why would people want to go through that hassle when Stremio + debrid is cheap as hell?
Would put Plex in there as well if it wasn’t for their recent opt-out streaming history visibility update.
No need to use Plex
I use Jellyfin and plex still has it’s uses, much easier to share content remotely for example
Comics like this assume that the service in question has anything worth pirating. We’re talking about Disney here, though.
Disney owns 30 percent of media. Just because you don’t care about what they have doesn’t mean it’s not worth to someone.
I’m saying this as someone who is in a similar boat where I don’t really care for anything they make beyond the occasional marvel movie but not all and also I’ll just pirate what I like anyways.
They inherited tons of good stuff people seem to ignore. I think that’s partly because big chunks of that library are still available on other services, but if they decide to make everything they own exclusive, it’ll be much more of a pain in the ass.
What’d they do this time? I don’t subscribe to them
What? Kids are getting free streaming while at college? These millionaire college students have gotten enough of a free ride!
It will be interesting to see how effective it is, I got around Netflix by just using browser versions. They did a shit job and haven’t bothered to fix it.
Dunno, I’m not subscribed either. Can’t imagine it’s anything good though (if it is, I’ll delete my post and phone Disney to apologise).
Can you imagine if a streaming service did something good? “We’re updating the terms of service. Now each profile under your account can have their own usernames and passwords to access the service, the profile limit has been doubled, and the number of concurrent logins per profile tripled!”
Honestly keeping it kinda fuzzy and not cracking down is the best option for them.
Some people just aren’t willing to pay full price for Disney+. But if they can share their account with someone else, they can pay half price. Most of the cost is in producing the content so having two people paying half price instead of zero people paying full price is a win for them.
But not explicitly allowing this means there’s a lot of people that won’t share their account. I got sticklers in my family like that… meanwhile my Netflix password is on a note on my parent’s fridge. Anyway the sticklers pay full price, the people that don’t want to pay full price are still paying something, this maximizes the revenue.
But they’re being stupid and think cracking down will convert two people sharing an account into two accounts paying the full price. But it’s more likely to convert two people sharing one paid account into zero paid accounts.
“I have altered the contract. Pray I don’t alter it further”
–Disney
You can get going with Jellyfin if you want a alternative
First setup Jellyfin on a old computer. (Preferabllly Intel with hardware acceleration) https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/quick-start/
For content follow the following:
Buy the bluray -> rip with MakeMKV -> transcode with Handbreak -> copy into Jellyfin -> update metadata
me over here using my old bulldozer cpu with a 1060…
transcodes just fine though.
Look at you with your bulldozer and your GTX 1060. What a bloody luxury. I am here with a pile driver and a GTX 970.
Rocking 970 aswell. Hell, my RPI could do it with some tweaking at 1080p.
About how long would you say
rip with MakeMKV -> transcode with Handbreak -> copy into Jellyfin -> update metadata
takes? I have a lot of movies.
For my wife’s 1300 DVDs, it took me 3 years (it’s not an automated process, so obviously this wasn’t 3 years of 100% uptime).
The hardest part for me has been dealing with DRM. Some movies will have their scenes scrambled 1000 ways, and then the DRM is just knowing which playlist is the right one. MakeMKV usually handles this, but sometimes it gets it wrong. so I have some scrambled movies that Ive never gone back to re-rip. It’s VERY frustrating when it doesn’t work, but very simple when it does.
Overall, still worth it for independence to me though. When The Office/Friends/etc got yanked from Netflix, but I still had physical copies and jellyfin, I felt REAL vindicated.
The step that takes the longest is the “transcode with Handbrake” one. On my fairly slow mobile Ryzen 7, it takes about an an hour and a half.
The thing is, you can tweak settings in Handbrake to be faster at the expense of video quality and/or file size.
What I do is to set up a bunch of files and let Handbrake run overnight. In the morning, everything’s done and I can work on the next batch. It helps that I work from home.
Ripping from disc takes about 20 minutes. Copying is as fast as your network. Updating metadata can be done whenever.
