Amazon Prime Video drops Dolby Vision and Atmos unless you pay extra::Amazon Prime Video has removed Dolby Vision HDR, and Atmos surround sound, unless you pay an extra $2.99 a month for its new ad-free option. The company has confirmed the move.
Yo ho yo ho…
Ya salty dog!
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This is how you get blocked
Hopefully banned
Precisely.
With all the streaming options out there it’s wild to me that these services continue to be able to jack up their prices. I’m less interested than ever with tolerating their bullshit.
They jacked up their prices and laid off their long time employees… Like me.
Fuck the company I’m in is going hog wild with that right now. I think I’m insulated because I’ve never negotiated pay even when hired so I’m probably relatively cheap for them to keep on. I hope you land well
Thanks, it seems like all the tech giants are losing money and laying off a ton of tech workers to please their shareholders.
I’m sorry for your lost employment. Hopefully you at least acquired skills to land an even better job!
Thanks, there is one upside: it finally allowed me to move out of NYC after 5 years. I’m living down in Miami now, still unemployed but I’m living off the money they gave me haha
Well they are a big evil corporation so it’s expected, but shame on you for doing that to your employees.
The real kicker is they gave me my 5 year pin a month before and we’re giving me a yearly monetary incentive to stay with them.
Well now it’s personal
Fuck em
Except they’re all pulling the same skeezy shit. Notice that Prime is legit one of the last ones to raise prices, they were waiting for the majority of the market before following suit since literally no one gets Prime just for Prime Video.
I might drop prime and I don’t even watch anything on there, I find them at sea. You don’t get to do ads and charge.
Oh no, I can’t believe I won’t be able to watch the two shows that use Dolby Vision anymore.
I got an LG C8 in 2017 because I thought Dolby Vision was gonna be awesome compared to HDR10, pretty much every Dolby Vision thing I’ve watched is too dark and anything white has that stupid yellowish tint to it.
I have an LG C2 and I find Dolby Vision content pretty good, but only since they added the IQ setting, which boosts the brightness a little bit.
Also, I’ve got used to the warm picture settings. So much so that everything else looks too blue to me now.
I can’t stand it, white is supposed to be white not yellow!
Have you tried it for a few days? Once your eyes have adjusted to it, it looks better.
I’ve watched multiple shows and movies with it, I’m one of those people that loves vivid colors, so even when the TV is calibrated (using an online guide) it still didn’t look good to me 🤷♂️
Actually I can’t believe it will be business as usual (yo ho ho)
My plex server doesn’t 😉
I just setup the arrs with qbittorrent using Docker on my NAS with overseer. I already had a Plex server setup on an N100 pointed at my NAS but now it is more automated. I was fine with the occasional manual adding of stuff but with how awful all of the services are now I just created my own that works for me.
Wow. I understood most of this.
took me a while to realize you meant sonarr and radarr by “arrs”
I have those too, though I am running on unraid.
previously I wrote my own program for converting, renaming and categorizing movies and tv shows, but now I just use Sonarr and Radarr.
I will need to setup TDarr soon to start saving on space.
Is there a word for this? Yanking features from a services so they can be sold to you as an add-on?
Enshittification
First, they make a service good for the customer even at a loss so customers don’t want to go other places. ✅
Second, they use the information gathered from you to sell to companies to make money off you. In Amazon’s case they are now so big they don’t need to sell your info but they do it anyways. ✅
Third, they screw the companies and the users to make the money all for themselves. In Amazon’s case they fuck sellers by making Amazon branded copies of best selling items to cut their third party stores out of business by putting their copies first in the search results.✅
Read Cory Doctorow’s books about enshittification.(also read his fiction, Little Brother, for a great fast paced dystopian terrorist novel.
“pray we don’t alter the deal further?”
I don’t know about this specific case, but the word going around is enshitification.
Good word.
Yooo hooo
all hands
hoist the colors high
Yooo hooo
Are you making a suggestive cat call? Or do you just like the chocolate beverage 😊
First they inject ads unless you pay more, now they reduce quality unless you, again, pay more. Wild that more and more people have reverted to sailing the seas once more, who’d of thought?
The headline isn’t clear, it’s actually one fee; the ad tier doesn’t have Dolby and the ad-free tier does.
Oh thanks! That explains why my audio was so horrible that I had to turn on subtitles. Good riddance
damn bro, welcome to the club with the rest of us
Aaaand it’s gone. That‘ll save me so much money by removing the temptation to order stuff 👍
To this day I am still impressed that people pay for prime.
Prime video? Did anyone actually pay for prime shipping to get the video subscription?
It was momentum for me, just couldn’t be bothered to take care of it until recently. Glad I did and regret it wasn’t sooner
Who pays for prime video? Literally the worst selection there is
Had Prime for a decade, never even opened Prime Video
So I’m not the only one…is that a Jolly Roger I think I see there in your ship?
Arr
Also ads.
At least in Canada, it was better than Netflix
No catalogue is worth the prices here though
Radarrrrrrrrrr / Sonarrrrrrrr has 4k and rureoubd tracks…
Usenet really is great for piracy, I’m so happy that I found out about it like a decade ago. So much better than torrents.
Shhhhhhhhh. Rule one of Usenet
But why? I’ve been using torrents with ease for a very long time.
Once you set it up, it’s automatic. The *arr tools were built with usenet in mind, Jackett and the like are just wrappers, also Usenet is a lot faster and flies under the “piracy radar” unlike torrents.
Yeah but I don’t use the arr tools, I use the other ones which do the same deal but for torrents.
Private trackers tend to fly under the radar to a degree too. I’m not sure how Usenet does since it’s still a popular method and seems just like a private tracker without sharing your IP with your peers but you pay for it
I belong to a few private trackers as well, they’re not exactly easy to get into. I feel that Usenet is “more clean” because you don’t have to seed the file for X days.
Yo HO-h-h-h!
I already canceled my prime back when they announced they would put ads on prime video. I don’t even use prime video, it’s the principle.
Less and less . Full digital realy work as I expected .
Yarrr!
