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Robo Reagan
Feb 12, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

AugmentedVision posted:

hello fellow entertainment industry illuminati, it seems that people prefer paying $10 a month for Netflix instead of paying $60 a month for having the privilege of watching commercials in the middle of our broadcasts. Let's collude to pull all the good poo poo off Netflix and introduce our own service where you once again pay to watch commercials, and now we can actually make it more difficult to skip those commercials. People will pay for this because they are retards,

how about you kill youreself so i dont have oot read your posts

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Tujague
May 8, 2007

by LadyAmbien
lol I stream whatever I want for free on these croatian-registered TV show sites and there aren't any commercials

y'all are dumb

big downside: every six months they update their viruses and email porno ads to everyone on my contact list

boo hoo lol

havax
Oct 2, 2002

by Pragmatica
I really miss aereo.com.

that poo poo was legit. 12 bucks a month, all local over-the-air hd channels live, with cloud dvr recording capabilities.

gently caress you supreme court and major networks!

extra stout
Feb 24, 2005

ISILDUR's ERR

ded posted:

hulu used to be cool


now its more ads than regular tv


gently caress off hulu

i remember hulus first year it had all the shows for free and they added like a single 20 second ad at the halfway point

looks like everything is poo poo now, even netflix is missing literally half the content it had when i paid for it and people just pretend it's not gone like a dead relative everyone is too weak to mourn yet

LadyAmbien
Oct 22, 2015
I pay for Hulu without the commercials. Where does that leave me?

Tujague
May 8, 2007

by LadyAmbien

LadyAmbien posted:

I pay for Hulu without the commercials. Where does that leave me?

Just ban someone every day and it should work out fine

ChrisHansen
Oct 28, 2014

Suck my damn balls.
Lipstick Apathy
I have commercials hulu and an antenna. Suck my dick, op

Ben Murphy
Sep 9, 2001

I like him in spite of the fact that he's not me.
yiss lets pay for the privilege of watching big bong theory on any device i own, a good idea

AugmentedVision
Feb 17, 2011

by exmarx
how come its ok to make fun of nerds but not black people? hosed up

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

only people who enjoy my posting can replace this avatar
Hulu can go to hell for being the first to start "cracking down" on VPN users. I'm a US citizen but can't watch the stuff I'm paying for just because I happen to currently be in a different country. Netflix has started doing the same thing and now I'm stuck with only lovely amazon prime.

Ren and Stimpire
Oct 28, 2013

Fun Shoe
Hulu.JP has no commercials.

Troposphere
Jul 11, 2005


psycho killer
qu'est-ce que c'est?
just watch everything for free on streaming sites what is this the Stone Age

AugmentedVision
Feb 17, 2011

by exmarx
reporting everyone who suggest pirating rn

H.H
Oct 24, 2006

August is the Cruelest Month
if you report anyone for anything at all (other than maybe child porn and the like) you are worse than that poster. hth

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



H.H posted:

if you report anyone for anything at all (other than maybe child porn and the like) you are worse than that poster. hth

my recent timeout was because i made fun of a dude who pretended he was black in d&d until he got doxxed :smith:

Troposphere
Jul 11, 2005


psycho killer
qu'est-ce que c'est?
if your rap sheet is clean you're not living imo

H.H
Oct 24, 2006

August is the Cruelest Month

Business Gorillas posted:

my recent timeout was because i made fun of a dude who pretended he was black in d&d until he got doxxed :smith:

sounds hilarious, link?

btw, it's partly your fault for posting in d&d to begin with.

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



im not posting links to SS but if you google sedanchair goon you'll figure it out

also feel free to google islam while you're at it to start the path to a more enlightened life

edit: turned out he owned himself by posting his chubby white hand in a gun pic on TFR

AugmentedVision
Feb 17, 2011

by exmarx
The report button should just ban anyone who clicks it tbh

H.H
Oct 24, 2006

August is the Cruelest Month

AugmentedVision posted:

The report button should just ban anyone who clicks it tbh

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

BirryJoru
Mar 21, 2012

GRAMAGEDDON ISN'T OVER YET. SORRY.-RA TEHUTI :smuggo::smug::smugdon::grin::parrot:
I still buy Blurays and stuff I can't physically get in HD on DVD. You can find some really great deals on BRDs and DVDs that have been out for a while. $5/movie I can watch whenever even if the internet is down. And if it's prime time my physical stream doesn't get cut down to SD quality. Commentaries, subtitles, alternate endings, deleted scenes and bloopers, trailers, mini-documentaries, interviews... the list goes on.
No commercials though. Unless they're bonus features.
You get a bunch of bang for the buck if you're patient.

I won't pay for commercials and I won't pay more to not see commercials.

I have two antennas but since I moved into a valley I get nearly zero signal. I miss it because OTA broadcast is uncompressed and you can get a true 1080p image. Paying for cable will get you 1,000 channels of crap with maybe 10 channels you actually watch at most at 1080i due to compression. Stations air more commercials today. If you're lucky enough to catch an old Simpsons rerun on air today you won't be seeing the same episode that originally aired like you would, uncut, on the dvd.

I switched from Netflix to Prime a couple years ago because, although you pay up front with the latter, you end up paying less for streaming, you can rent and you get a bunch of perks. Free 2day shipping. When you buy a CD you can download the album at the quality of your choice. Two days later your physical backup arrives with the hidden track.
I was also tired of sifting through garbage on Netflix for 20 minutes at a time.

I also go on stints where I back up my physical copies to digital so I can take my movies and music on the go. Sure, it's not as fancy as the cloud but I don't need to pay yet another $10/month and can still enjoy my media when I get stranded in the middle of nowhere with no cell signal or internet.


I haven't torrented movies or music in years but I still pirate Linux.

max4me
Jun 15, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
i tired hulu in like 07 and i remember it was weird they had scrub tier shows like the last buffy rip off of earth final conflict.

ScrubLeague
Feb 11, 2007

Nap Ghost

ded posted:

hulu used to be cool


now its more ads than regular tv


gently caress off hulu

That's just not true. I think there are too many ads on Hulu, but you're still only looking at a max of 4 minutes of commercials per half hour show. Even so, $8 a month to watch the four shows I watch is better than $50 a month for the same thing but with 100 extra channels of bullshit.

BirryJoru
Mar 21, 2012

GRAMAGEDDON ISN'T OVER YET. SORRY.-RA TEHUTI :smuggo::smug::smugdon::grin::parrot:

AugmentedVision posted:

The report button should just ban anyone who clicks it tbh

counter

The report button should be an "auto-probate me" button so the clicker can think about what they've just reported and wasted the mod's precious time with. After review the probation period should be expanded depending on idiocy .

Happy Bear Suit
Jul 21, 2004

agreed OP

death to all TV except jeopardy

The Dennis System
Aug 4, 2014

Nothing in Jurassic World is natural, we have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals. And if the genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different. But you didn't ask for reality, you asked for more teeth.
Hulu has a commercial free option. And even the option with commercials is far cheaper and has far fewer commercials than cable. And, unlike Netlfix, it has current shows, not year old poo poo.

King of Bees
Dec 28, 2012
Gravy Boat 2k
The only show I need to watch is this lamprey stuck on my chest.

reallivedinosaur
Jun 13, 2012

Ogdober subrise! XDDD
lol paying to watch tv

a lot of interesting show about decorating cupcakes out there

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

When I bought my Kindle they were all "you can save $15 if you're willing to have ads on your Kindle and you can pay to opt out later" and I didn't even give it a chance, just paid the extra up front. That's my story

Dial-a-Dog
May 22, 2001

Happy Bear Suit posted:

death to all TV except jeopardy

Ehud
Sep 19, 2003

football.

I used to be TV-free and then I stopped being poor and got DirectTV and now I just DVR stuff and skip the commercials

reallivedinosaur
Jun 13, 2012

Ogdober subrise! XDDD

Ehud posted:

I used to be TV-free and then I stopped being poor and got DirectTV and now I just DVR stuff and skip the commercials

stuff like what?

reallivedinosaur
Jun 13, 2012

Ogdober subrise! XDDD
rich man with a tv set itt

Ehud
Sep 19, 2003

football.

reallivedinosaur posted:

stuff like what?

better call saul, fargo, jeopardy, colbert, mr. robot, etc.

Ehud
Sep 19, 2003

football.

also I still DVR the walking dead even though it's maybe the worst show currently on TV

reallivedinosaur
Jun 13, 2012

Ogdober subrise! XDDD
sounds like really good value if you are the type of person who likes watching tv

flick my Mr. Bean
Nov 18, 2014

ScrotoTurboSperg posted:

lol if you arent stealing all your entertainment from the pirate bay or the dressing room at tj maxx

Seems like a lot of effort when everything I want to watch is on Hulu or Netflix and half the things I watch I didn't know about before I watched them.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
i accidentally forgot to cancel my hulu free trial and when they charged me $11.99 i was so furious i called and gave them a piece of my mind so they removed the charge and extended my trial by another month :shrug: not that i used it because hulu is really bad i cant remember what i wanted to watch that prompted me to sign up in the first place... shows how utterly forgettable their content suite is that i cant even remember one thing i watched

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nigga crab pollock
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax

thathonkey posted:

i accidentally forgot to cancel my hulu free trial and when they charged me $11.99 i was so furious i called and gave them a piece of my mind so they removed the charge and extended my trial by another month :shrug: not that i used it because hulu is really bad i cant remember what i wanted to watch that prompted me to sign up in the first place... shows how utterly forgettable their content suite is that i cant even remember one thing i watched

family guy

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