Most people have no idea how addicted they are to TV or any of its replacements. Just don't watch any TV or related content (YouTube, Torrents stuff, DVDs...) for a week.
The 90s called. It wants it's lame argument back.
Tivo made that a trivial affair in the 90s. Especially true if you upgraded your Tivo with an aftermarket upgrade.
People just can't appreciate how much money is spent on cable relative to the cost of content. Most people just aren't numerate enough to fully grok the numbers involved.
> Are disney going to have good mobile apps, plus a web viewer, plus apps for smart TVs, plus console apps? Unlikely.
Netflix manages it. So does HBO.
So it is clearly a solvable/solved problem. There may even be tools that the streaming services can buy to make life simpler for them (like the game industry).
Most traffic accidents occur between non-professional drivers in personal vehicles. The bulk of that "world war" death toll is likely from roads clogged with commuters and other situations where people are avoiding public transit for some reason.
It likely has very little to do with professional delivery drivers.
Nukes as negotiating leverage? Are you seriously deranged? That kind of threat is likely to get your country turned into a slag heap and all of your people killed.
Civil litigation also protects consumers from illegal acts. ANY standing to bring suit does. As much as they are maligned, masses of bottom feeding lawyers are much better at keeping companies in line then government regulation.
Government regulation often times is so meagre as to be no deterrent to a company at all.
Civil litigation is much more painful. One also must show actual damages. Despite propaganda to the contrary, jury awards represent real harm done to people.
You have to piss off a jury that's been conditioned to view lawsuits as scams. If you did that, chances are you are guilty of something and need punished.
New content is actually not a problem. You can BUY what you want from Amazon or iTunes and you will have a better interface than any cable box or DVR.
Multiple rooms is not a big deal either. If anything this is an advantage for the streamers. Streaming apps work the same on any platform and your viewing history follows you.
If everything was available for streaming and the price was MORE, it would still make sense to ditch cable.
Cable companies are abusive monopolies and technological sandbaggers. Their crap is what drives people to other options even to the point of building their own solutions.
They're pretty much the ultimate tuner. They're easy and robust and cross platform. There's no nonsense with controlling cable boxes or dealing with encryption.
HELL. You could just point MythTV at that NAS and use it. It's really all down to how well the app in question handles re-scanning all of your media and dealing with the metadata.
Also not sure about the whole "ease of use thing" there.
Rube users tend to be good with what they are used to whatever that is. Doesn't matter what it is. Change even the theme and they go ape shit.
> You realise that Slashdot makes use of plenty of analytics that phone home whenever you visit the site, right?
That's an assinine comparison. This is more like Google or Mozila spying on everything you do. Even that's a stretch because Plex is not a network application at all.
It doesn't work by connecting to the cloud and serving content like Netflix or Amazon Prime.
It's really more like Ubuntu or Microsoft spying on everything you do and phoning home to the mother ship.
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Most people have no idea how addicted they are to TV or any of its replacements. Just don't watch any TV or related content (YouTube, Torrents stuff, DVDs ...) for a week.
The 90s called. It wants it's lame argument back.
Tivo made that a trivial affair in the 90s. Especially true if you upgraded your Tivo with an aftermarket upgrade.
> ... you could, you know, just go outside and have a life away from screens.
Some people are capable of doing both. My time "away from the screen" is probably far more interesting than yours.
HBO has been a separate paid premium option since the dawn of time. So nothing has really changed there at all.
Disney doing this is a far more meaningful development.
$12,000 pays for a lot of DVDs, BDs, and Amazon season passes.
Buy a season pass from Apple or Amazon.
Problem solved. You still paid less money.
People just can't appreciate how much money is spent on cable relative to the cost of content. Most people just aren't numerate enough to fully grok the numbers involved.
Cable is expensive. Content is cheap.
> Are disney going to have good mobile apps, plus a web viewer, plus apps for smart TVs, plus console apps? Unlikely.
Netflix manages it. So does HBO.
So it is clearly a solvable/solved problem. There may even be tools that the streaming services can buy to make life simpler for them (like the game industry).
> One guy makes a point that you might not save a lot of money by cord cutting and buying into several streaming services.
A bogus argument on both sides.
Multiple streaming services are still cheaper.
You don't have to replicate your old cable bundle.
Most traffic accidents occur between non-professional drivers in personal vehicles. The bulk of that "world war" death toll is likely from roads clogged with commuters and other situations where people are avoiding public transit for some reason.
It likely has very little to do with professional delivery drivers.
It almost looked like he was just trying to game the rules and encourage MacGreggor to disqualify himself.
"completely schooled" and 10 round TKO are an inherent contradiction.
So not doing squat for longer than most matches last is supposed to make him something great?
That's messed up and why this match was put on in the first place.
Except it's $8 versus $100.
Plus DirectTV craps out in bad weather.
D*mn. That's an insane price for even the snootiest of beers.
If it's only beer, I can walk to the nearest grocery store and back in only half an hour and pay reasonable prices.
I don't even live in a "walkable" city.
Of course I am not holding out high hopes for their selection. That seems to be their weak point with anything in this area.
Both Israeli and American senior military staff have already admitted that there's no easy way to destroy Iran's nuclear program with air power alone.
Otherwise Israel would likely have taken care of business on their own by now.
Nukes as negotiating leverage? Are you seriously deranged? That kind of threat is likely to get your country turned into a slag heap and all of your people killed.
Directly or through proxies?
Civil litigation also protects consumers from illegal acts. ANY standing to bring suit does. As much as they are maligned, masses of bottom feeding lawyers are much better at keeping companies in line then government regulation.
Government regulation often times is so meagre as to be no deterrent to a company at all.
Civil litigation is much more painful. One also must show actual damages. Despite propaganda to the contrary, jury awards represent real harm done to people.
You have to piss off a jury that's been conditioned to view lawsuits as scams. If you did that, chances are you are guilty of something and need punished.
New content is actually not a problem. You can BUY what you want from Amazon or iTunes and you will have a better interface than any cable box or DVR.
Multiple rooms is not a big deal either. If anything this is an advantage for the streamers. Streaming apps work the same on any platform and your viewing history follows you.
If everything was available for streaming and the price was MORE, it would still make sense to ditch cable.
Cable companies are abusive monopolies and technological sandbaggers. Their crap is what drives people to other options even to the point of building their own solutions.
When my geezer in-laws saw a Roku for the first time they were "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US ABOUT THIS".
The only thing keeping them on cable is obscure speciality content they can't get from a streaming service.
The UI on streamers are no worse than any cable box.
Some of the new smart TVs are positively insane when it comes to the UI. It's like Apple designers took some acid.
Guide data for a year costs all of $20.
The 40 channels of garbage on broadcast isn't much worse than more of the same thing on cable.
Cable is mostly the same kind of crap with even worse crap that's even more esoteric and worthless.
Never used SiliconDust software.
I've used HDR's for years though.
They're pretty much the ultimate tuner. They're easy and robust and cross platform. There's no nonsense with controlling cable boxes or dealing with encryption.
A software PVR doesn't get any easier.
Lowe's sold products for free. They sold them for free by mistake but they still sold them for free.
It wasn't shoplifting. An agent of the company was involved.
Your bad analogy (like all bad analogies) if anything is an argument in favor of the perps.
HELL. You could just point MythTV at that NAS and use it. It's really all down to how well the app in question handles re-scanning all of your media and dealing with the metadata.
Also not sure about the whole "ease of use thing" there.
Rube users tend to be good with what they are used to whatever that is. Doesn't matter what it is. Change even the theme and they go ape shit.
That feature hasn't been relevant for years. Modern mobile devices are quite capable of playing content on their own.
The whole on-the-go "cloud" thing sound nice but suffers from horrible network issues. This buggers the actual streaming services too.
> You realise that Slashdot makes use of plenty of analytics that phone home whenever you visit the site, right?
That's an assinine comparison. This is more like Google or Mozila spying on everything you do. Even that's a stretch because Plex is not a network application at all.
It doesn't work by connecting to the cloud and serving content like Netflix or Amazon Prime.
It's really more like Ubuntu or Microsoft spying on everything you do and phoning home to the mother ship.