from the pay-more-for-less! dept
Buy 👏Physical 👏Media 👏
To be fair, physical media far out costs streaming services if you only ever watch it once.
You have to understand that streaming itself was NEVER going to make a profit.
In all likelihood, Netflix spent more dough on producing their own series (not even movies lmao) than it ever brought in.
This was the expected end game. “Invest upfront money” get your pick of the market, and then you can raise prices.
For people coming from 100-200 usd cable invoices, when Netflix launched, 10 USD a month for a big catalog, that was great! 10 years later the catalog is not that big, and the prices are raising
I think paramount and HBO are the only ones with actual revenue, because they already owned their content, they don’t need to make anything new. They are pretty mid tho, not like Netflix or Disney
Well congrats to them I guess. The industry coordinated to recreate cable and its reviving the piracy that affordable streaming cut way down on back in the day.
To that end, Netflix reported $10.2 billion in revenue, operating income of $2.3 billion, and a margin of 22.2 percent.
They are still in debt but they are making money.
Paramount also owns Pluto TV which is completely free and I love them for that.
Well they need to I’m sure because they must be about to give their employees raises. Right?
Yeah, but the Rogers is trully jolly .
Deny the parasite profit!
I dropped them almost a year ago and have been buying blu-rays with the money instead. No regrets
If anyone knows of a player I can vertically mount to the wall let me know and I’ll buy it today. I see that kind of thing for CDs. It’s still just a spinning disc!
If you’re handy and not scared of raw electronics, I’ve done things like take apart cases, lift out the PCB, and just put screws right though the back of the case, and then reassembled it on the wall, making sure the screw heads don’t touch anything that will go boom. May be harder if the case screws are all on the bottom, might have to flip it around.
As someone nostalgic for DVD extras I might start doing that.
I found an audio track on an… acquired copy of Star Trek: TMP with the Okudas and it got me to watch the whole thing twice in a row.
The sad reality is that the quality of modern BluRay releases has significantly declined. Sure the picture looks great, but they barely come with special features anymore. Also, the QA is atrocious. I buy a lot of UHD BluRays and ~30% of them come corrupted/damaged out of the box.
I really want physical media to become popular again so companies start actually putting in effort.
EDIT: I still love physical media. It’s pretty much the only way to own a copy of media anymore. I just wish it was as beloved as the DVD days.
Just read few posts above that Blue ray is done with Sony shutting down last factory for drives. I guess it’s time to stock drives 🤷♂️
Sony is done. Other companies still make them.
For now. But the trend is depressing and eventually it won’t be profitable for anybody and one day there will be no more disc drives to buy.
cut one layer of the parasitic middlemen out of the loop. 👍
the corporate noose is tightening on everyone; the rope will either fray and snap on drop or simply break our necks. I am sickened by the short-term likely outcome, because so few people are pulling out the knives and cutting at their tethers.
cut one layer of the parasitic middlemen out of the loop. 👍
Amen!
Users annoyed; do nothing.
Netflix users that subscribe year-round at this point either have lots of extra income, or very little going on upstairs.
Netflix has stopped being a product I am interested in a long time ago.
When they started out, they had a lot of stuff. These days, you’ll have to subscribe to 5 or 6 services to watch a lot. And every service makes their own shitty shows to attract more customers. And 99% of them suck, with the occasional succes.
Right now, Netflix is too expensive for what they offer. But clearly they think they can get away with raising proces, so I guess most people think it is worth it or simply don’t care.
Avast, ye mateys!
Netflix selection is crap anyway!
This is the only real tenable choice.
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As long as they’re paying, they’re not annoyed enough. 🕳
Can’t raise the subscription from 0.
I refuse to pay money for this, as the service continues to get worse, but the prices continue getting higher. They can blame it on data and hardware being more expensive, but that’s not problem to solve
Download, me hardies yo ho!!!
