Streaming services are seriously getting desperate at this point. Nobody wants to pay for a million different fragmented services just for a couple shows, so now you have completely unrelated companies willing to work together. Or, here's an idea, just put it on every service? buttholes.
i like severance on apple and nothing else, but what is even on paramount?
At this point, about a million different spinoffs of Yellowstone, which my mother would like to see but she's not paying for a streaming service just for that.
The South Park specials they somehow had the presence of mind not to let go of.
I used the free trial to watch severance and didn’t feel like watching anything else on their catalogue after I finished it
As far as "new" shows/movies go...
>that awful Halo series
>Frasier reboot with nonwhites and no Niles
>shitty nu-Star Trek shows
>South Park which hasn't been good for a very long time
>that awful Twilight Zone reboot
>Dexter: New Blood which still has an awful ending
>shitty Scream sequels with no Wes Craven
>that shitty Jackass sequel with no Bam
>AAAAHHHH a black person now I can't enjoy the show!!!
Shut the frick up.
>a black person
make your own shows
yep. and we call em Black folk round these parts
Yes, I do not like the massive over representation of black people in media because of the medias bias/agenda. Why do you?
>shut up
You first homosexualron
They tend to be symptoms of deeper problems plaguing a production. They're typically there to be a lightning rod for criticism so producers can deflect poor reviews as online racist brigading.
It’s unbelievable to me how they saw the reception to Dexter’s original ending, went, “heh yeah that sure wasn’t popular…” then somehow came up with one even worse and more hated!
there used to be the occasional lumberjack meme about Dexter, now what has there been since new blood ended? absolutely nothing. So much for showtime having a franchise.
and someone greenlit this!
Halo
Twin Peaks, all the A24 stuff, a lot of great classics (especially westerns)
I enjoyed Black Bird on Apple. Just a limited series though.
>paramount
paramount has a lot of old shit i grew up with that i'd rather watch than anything new
Dude, Frasier. Your dog is a bawd.
I'm assuming the deal is because Paramount is dogshit and going to fail and Apple would like to buy up their streaming rights so the "merge" is likely more aptly described as "consumption by predator".
In the end, it will probably be Amazon, Apple and Disney in a partnership with some other party (Netflix?).
WBD simply does not have the cashflow to continue this streaming warz shit much longer.
Disney needs to drop streaming entirely and go back to movies and also push into the video game industry a lot more. The absence of tie in games and licensed ones from Disney is bizarre given they used to be extremely common.
Were any of those old Disney tie in games actually any good? I'd be interested in playing an old game. But it's true that Star Wars had way more games before Disney owned it.
british football
If you mean premiere league, it's on peawiener
I think a better question at this point is how can such services offer a better experience than you can get by pirating, assuming that's possible?
Convenience, especially when they include stuff like special features but I’ve only seen Disney, Criterion and Arrow do that and they don’t always do it.
Granted it’s not difficult to pirate something then dump it into jellyfin or plex but it’s 1 extra step most people would pay $10 to avoid
I think the only solution for them is to make everything freely available online and these entertainment/media companies charge the ISPs a fee that will get passed on to their customers. It's an absolute horrible thing (from our perspective) to happen but it's the only sure-fire way they can stop piracy. Hit people right at the root of their connection to the net. This combined with Digital IDs (for porn, to protect the kids) will be the future I'll bet.
That's a losing proposition. That wouldn't stop most piracy that exists even now.
The reason I phrased my question the way I did is that I don't believe for a second that there's any solution short of providing a better experience than what people can get by pirating.
And call me a optimist, but I believe there very well may be a way to do that, even though I don't know specifically what it would be.
In the end, people are willing to pay if it's convenient. That's why Steam is popular, you can get pretty much everything in one place. This thing where they split a bunch of things across a bunch of services? That's not convenient, and that's why it's failing. That's literally the only thing these companies have to figure out if they want this to work.
I don't pay a single $Dollar for media
I am never paying for cable nor streaming services ever again. I bought an antennae and I'll pirate shit or buy a Blu-ray. Cable always sucked, and streaming was only good when Netflix had everything.
The age of technological freedom is over. I'd say we're about 15-20 years and one catastrophic global crisis away from a global technocratic corpo hellscape.
Nah, we're going to regress as a society after that crisis.
I'm willing to bet it's going to be a huge solar flare that will decimate most of our satellites and small to most electronics.
We're all going to go back to literal cables in the ground after that to prevent future solar flares from fricking up exposed electronics, so back to cable TV, wired telephone, etc.
>Watching modern tv
They tried to splinter and sell their shit off individually. Now they see that was a mistake. Nobody wants to pay 15 bucks a month for maybe one good show/movie every 6 months
Their greed has exposed how little they have to actually offer
Step 1. Get an old PC/laptop or purchase a cheap mini PC/raspberry pi
Step 2. Get an HDMI cable
Step 3. Keep your chosen device connected to your TV at all times with the HDMI cable
Step 4. Get a wireless keyboard with trackpad
Step 5. Turn on your TV at the same time you hit any buttons on your wireless keyboard to wake up your PC from sleep
Step 6. Open up watch series or your preferred free streaming website in a tab, always keep that tab open so every time you turn on your TV and wake up your device your instantly brought to your streaming service
Step 7. Install plex or your preferred software to watch your pirates media on and keep it open at all times for easy availability
You now have quick, convenient access to a streaming site with no lag, buffering, and bigger library than every streaming service combined. My question to paypigs is, why do you pay for an objectively worse service? What is wrong with you?
what is the best streaming service for watching older movies?
Disney
The retired engineers in their 60s crowd I know all swear by Criterion.
Probably Criterion or MAX
Tubi and Pluto have a bunch of old stuff and are free.
fmovies. Also I just realized you can watch the "free with ads" movies on YouTube with no ads so I've been doing that
YouTube's free movies can be good for some stuff, but sometimes they provide the movies in 360p and that's it, and it looks awful.
Back when I used to pirate the video quality and buffering on streaming sites was abysmal, but the one you mentioned actually has great quality so that's not an issue anymore.
saw a Paramount+ ad on YouTube and they didn't even feature Star Trek. They have totally shit up everything.
I just got three free months of both. Apple has literally nothing. I don't understand how it exists.
I have in-laws who pay for it for the same reason they pay for all of their apple products: it says apple.
Tubi. You need nothing else
People are even getting tired of old classics at this point, these services can't produce anything good that's new and are just going to die out.
If I pay get paramount via prime do I also get appol?