a) I said “seem” designed
b) think it’s possible that there might have been some tweaks to the format in the past 100 years in order to allow more frequent and longer breaks in play
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b) think it’s possible that there might have been some tweaks to the format in the past 100 years in order to allow more frequent and longer breaks in play
Yeah, that kinda sucks that Hulu is losing that portion. Hulu is the closest thing for me to a "one stop shop" for all of my SS needs. However, as I've been jumping around many of them over the past year, I've gotten used to it. There isn't really anything I really need to see ASAP or "on a dime" that I couldn't just mentally queue it up to watch it later in the year, if not next year. Plenty of other content to keep my occupied on the SS I currently have subbed to
As for sub fees, can you rotate services? It's harder to do with groups (e.g. roommates, whole families), but if you only sub to 1 to 3 at a time, that should still be cheaper than cable TV. Even if it were on par, I'd prefer a suite of SS as cancelling is much less hassle, you don't need to deal with "regulatory fees", renting equipment, nor prices getting jacked up without telling you (and even then, with SS, competition's more fierce so there's a limit to that for that arena).
This wouldn't normally bother me, as I usually quit when we get to end credits of a show or movie. However, those shows and films that have post-credit scenes and blurbs... THAT's murder!
Yeah, movies that have a run time of say, 2h22, but when viewed on TV will take a 3h time slot. On top of that, they still cut out portions of the movie, so you really only saw 1h50 of the actual movie!
FWIW, while YouTube puts ads in the middle of sentences or action sequences, at least they don't show them again, there, for awhile. One thing that infuriated me about Hulu was after watching an ad, if you rewind past the commercial break, you STILL need to watch that ad again!
”Hadn’t.” Past tense. Up to that point.
You inserted yourself with points which were irrelevant to the position I was stating and to which I responded “that’s fine.”
Wow, really? I do remember having something from Sony that had a button with a timer on it. It worked for a few years, and then stopped for some reason. The advertisers want you to have to watch their commercials. Funny that one of the things that contributing to the wealth of commercials and other junk was brought to you by the nations realtors. They blocked legislation that would have limited commercials. Ironic, and sad.
It will start at 4 minutes per hour but it will slowly creep up to 10-15 minutes per hour.
Companies get more and more greedy and it just pushes consumers away. Then they have to raise prices which pushes more customers away and it just snowballs from there which leads to the death of the company.
Yeah, 4 minutes this year. Then in 6 months to year they bump it up to 6 and then to 12 plus they'll jack the price up to $40 or $50 a month and viola we're calling our local cable company begging to let us come back. In response they'll just laugh at us and tell us sorry Charlie they're making more money off of us now then ever before!
Wait, that’s a bit cynical?
I genuinely enjoy the content Disney offer on Disney+. Therefore, I pay Disney for this. It’s my choice.
I’m not sure why everything has to be so negative. I just thought that if there are other people who would also like to watch the content but can’t afford the current plans, then new options that might allow them to (subsidised by advertising) are a good alternative to have.
That is simply not true. I can watch 4k content on Disney+/Netflix via Safari on a Mac just fine.
Less ads the better. But not good if price of standard ad-free plan increases after launch of ad supported tier. Looks like Disney might increase it to $10.
This is why I love my non-Apple devices, I don't have to ever look at a single Youtube commercial/ad.
Let's assume the free tier is half-price (I doubt it'll go that low).
So if I watch 20 hours a month, I'm still getting 80 minutes of ads. My time is worth way more than $4 an hour (rounding down in case it's not actually 4 minutes) and I don't really want to be interrupted.
I'd either rather binge every third or fourth month for the no ad tier for $8, or it'd need to be down to $1.99 for the version with ads. My time is still worth more than that, but now I'm saving $6 a month and I don't ever have to wait to watch anything.
We'll have to see...
So if I watch 20 hours a month, I'm still getting 80 minutes of ads. My time is worth way more than $4 an hour (rounding down in case it's not actually 4 minutes) and I don't really want to be interrupted.
I'd either rather binge every third or fourth month for the no ad tier for $8, or it'd need to be down to $1.99 for the version with ads. My time is still worth more than that, but now I'm saving $6 a month and I don't ever have to wait to watch anything.
We'll have to see...
That would be amazing for us, the consumer, but not at all a good idea for the advertisers, and therefore would never happen. Unfortunately this needs to work for them as well in order for this to work at all. There's a reason Hulu hasn't done it that way in many many years, it just doesn't work.
Is that how it works?
Sorry, I just read headlines and guess at whatever the article says. Reading takes too long. I’m thankful your comment is short and I can type a response without wasting my time too much explaining obvious things.
I guess 4 minutes isn't the end of the world. Just need to perfect my '4 minute snack/bathroom break' routine.
When Apple’s VR goggles have you hooked, you’ll still be watching the ads on your toilet break! And they’ll be monitoring where your eyeballs are looking, just so you don’t get any ideas of being a free agent.
This is not correct, Netflix and the iTunes store send 4K/UHD content to Macs (well, newer Macs, you need a T2 or M1 chip and an HDCP 2.2 compliant display), at least via streaming.
Granted, the developer documentation for the DRM is virtually unusably bad, and I suspect that unless Apple's own developers talk you through it you'd ever be able to make it work, but the APIs certainly exist.