I am over being disappointed by streaming sites.

“I wanna watch X, let’s see if Netflix has it…”

*Opens webpage*

“Hmm… Netflix usually sucks, they probably wont have it. I’m just gonna say I’ll watch Y off my hard drive instead. But let’s still confirm that Netflix doesn’t have X…”

Next thing you know, I’m watching Y off my hard drive.

Streaming services suck so much nowdays that I already resolve myself to watching something else before I even finish checking. Gotta shield myself from disappointment. Why would you pay for each channel on a TV? Just get the hard copy at that point…

  • Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Yeah, I pay for Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime and yet, I am still downloading shows that are on those services because their shitty DRM schemes limit me to 720p. It’s insanity.

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Lol I respect it, definitely not my style though. I purposefully seek out the 720p files to save HD space. Quality dif is unnoticeable to my eyes. Growing up poor is helpful sometimes… yay!

    • golli@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I got a similar story:

      I wanted to rewatch the first avatar before the second came out. At the time I had Disney plus, so no problem right? Turns out that here in Germany that only included the German dubbed version, not the ov.

      Guess who doesn’t have a streaming subscription nowadays…

    • 7u5k3n@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Recently I had a server failure… I was in the middle of Sg-1.

      So went to prime video to watch it…

      It was 4:3 dark and the audio was horrible… Oh and ads. It has ads.

      Gross :/