• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    Jesus Christ, at this point people that pay to stream are like the renters that pay to rent a couch for years rather than just buy one. You’re paying far more than if you just bought outright. Not even accounting for natasha yar har har

  • thingAmaBob@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 month ago

    I dumped streaming services years ago when all the networks started to make their own services. I ditched cable for a reason.

    • alekwithak@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 month ago

      100% this. I started pirating when I cut cable in the late 00’s, and I stopped when you could find literally everything on Netflix for $7 a month. Then I started back up again when they started multiplying, raising their prices, and making content inaccessible. Like video game companies pivoting towards courting* whales rather than the majority of gamers, they know the solution to piracy, but they’d still rather charge less people more than build a system that mitigates piracy.

  • Gerudo@lemm.ee
    4·
    2 months ago

    I actually use the Paramount app. I still have to pirate episodes because the app keeps hanging on ads and gets into a loop where it won’t play the episode. It’s such trash.

  • teft@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    If you’re gonna be a pirate be a cool blue Orion and not one of those lame normal green Orion.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I wish someone would just start an all Star Trek and Star Trek related streaming service … it would probably be the only thing I would watch

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        I remember reading a long time ago in the 90s how Roddenberry had hoped to develop their own network or entire studio just dedicated to developing the Star Trek universe with endless series, shows and movies. There’s so much content there and so much more possible through actual productions and even fan content, books and writing that they could develop something like it.

        I’m pretty sure I’ll just spend the rest of my life watching Trek over and over again. I’ve watched several series now and it’s been years since I saw some that when I go to watch them again, it’s like seeing them again for the first time. By the time I get Alzheimers or some degenerative brain disease, it will all be completely new to me anyway.

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
        0·
        2 months ago

        Maybe for the US but up here in Canada it’s hit and miss … they’ll have a lot of Star Trek shows but then skip some (including Prodigy)

        All this complication just makes it all feel like the early 2000s all over again … everyone is just going to drift towards pirating because it won’t be worth it for everyone to buy this service, that service and managed four or five services to watch their favourite shows. It’s much easier to just pay for a VPN and torrent all the stuff you want for one price.

        I’m going to guess that in about five years, streaming companies will collapse into a few providers selling majority of content for a more manageable price … either that or they’ll find ways to severely lock down the internet for everyone.

        Or it will be like the DS9 alternate timeline of 2025 and we’ll need to have an internet pass in order to get online to do anything.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        0·
        2 months ago

        They apparently have Showtime and Nickelodeon’s catalog, along with CBS and MTV. Their originals aren’t anything I’ve seen before. Some are spinoffs of popular shows.

      • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
        0·
        2 months ago

        I think it has a lot of stuff that airs on CBS. So like Survivor or Amazing Race. Maybe Colbert?

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      the streaming services are just losing alot of money, or the stream is too expensive to sustain. guessing why they dumped nutrek as well, which is are not good series anyways.

      • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 months ago

        I hate Paramount with every fiber of my being. I bought a year for the Daily Show, and every effing morning it fails over and over again to play episodes. Their rating is like 1-2 stars, with almost every review mentioning issues like that. They just don’t give a shit, and I can’t watch the Daily Show anywhere else without buying an expensive cable package.