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Post by gamingdave on Feb 16, 2024 16:37:38 GMT
Aye, I've always been a bit of a dirty warez monkey, but Spotify and the like put a stop to that for music. Consoles by their nature and the convenience of Steam put a stop to it for games. If there was a single consolidated platform for most of the stuff I want to watch at a decent cost, I'd probably be kissing goodbye to my NAS or at least downsizing it drastically for personal backups. Fragmentation and fuckery like this is just pushing me away from them. I've never been arsed with setting up a NAS etc, usually just went down the streaming route. I did like faffing with Kodi etc but can't be bothered finding a decent download and then explain to my wife and kids how to watch it etc. It's all just too much hassle. Streaming services took all that pain away. That's where Plex has been a godsend. It's super stable and I'm not tempted to fiddle like I did with Kodi. It's just another app on the TV my partner or kids can fire up and browse. |
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Post by robthehermit on Feb 16, 2024 17:40:00 GMT
When did Amazon decide you couldn't buy xbox/ps credit using a gift card? How fucking stupid is that.
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Post by Chopsen on Feb 16, 2024 18:08:19 GMT
Jellyfin is client/server thing as well, but you don't need an account with a third party and manage your own authentication. I'd suggest using the official client if you try it out. You *can* just use any old web browser, but I've very rarely ran in to transcoding issues on that that didn't seem to affect the official client.
The client app is fairly broadly available (android/linux/windows/firesticks and whatnot) but not quite as ubiquitous as plex.
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Post by baihu1983 on Feb 16, 2024 18:17:43 GMT
When did Amazon decide you couldn't buy xbox/ps credit using a gift card? How fucking stupid is that. I think most shops have stopped it now as well? |
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Post by Whizzo on Feb 16, 2024 18:46:02 GMT
It's pretty much universal now, it's an anti-money laundering measure.
I got a gift card for Argos a couple of months ago for doing an ONS survey and was quite surprised it did work to buy PSN credit.
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Post by Dougs on Feb 17, 2024 7:47:59 GMT
We get thank you vouchers from work, getting a gift card for Currys and then PSN credit works. Hoping to get one more this month to cover PS Extra.
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Post by baihu1983 on Mar 7, 2024 14:19:12 GMT
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Post by magicpanda on Mar 7, 2024 14:47:52 GMT
Shit! That actually looks promising. |
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Post by Whizzo on Mar 7, 2024 15:02:06 GMT
All episodes on day one is unusual for Amazon.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Mar 7, 2024 16:48:28 GMT
I think it looks visually good. Seems to have some humour too, though hard to tell if the tone is exactly what I want from that.
I'll give it a watch certainly.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Mar 14, 2024 11:14:23 GMT
Invincible is back! (for the second half of S2)
First (well, fifth) episode is quite good.
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Post by Whizzo on Mar 18, 2024 17:13:55 GMT
Starting the new Invincible episode with a short Apex Legends ad then a very brief announcement that Invincible was brought advert free because of Apex was a nice surprise.
The episode itself was very good, fucking hell...
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Post by Warrender on Mar 19, 2024 11:17:00 GMT
Yeah no. I'll pay the whatever a month to go ad-free. Then turn it off when I decide there's nothing worth watching on Prime.
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Apr 10, 2024 11:03:18 GMT
Hello Dear Reader,
I noticed on my Lloyds Bank Cashback offers 40% on prime membership.
I completely forget about my banks cashback system but looks like good one of you're with Lloyds. Unfortunately I think it expires shortly.
Till next time
XOXO
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Post by muddyfunster on Apr 10, 2024 19:25:00 GMT
Thanks for the tip but isn't it just Prime Video Channels (i.e. the add on ones) rather than base Prime Video? At least, that's the case on my account.
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Post by robthehermit on Apr 11, 2024 16:44:48 GMT
Prime members can grab Fallout 76 for pc or xbox from prime gaming also Fallout 3 and New Vegas are both playable via Luna.
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Post by baihu1983 on May 26, 2024 17:53:32 GMT
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jun 26, 2024 22:27:49 GMT
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jul 4, 2024 11:30:21 GMT
So I'm watching the latest episode of The Boys with the new ad-supported Prime.
And the ad stuff... isn't actually that bad? It could absolutely get worse, but I watched a full hour, and there was a single 30-second ad in the middle of it. And that felt fine to me.
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Post by baihu1983 on Jul 4, 2024 11:37:10 GMT
Lucky you. I get 2 ads at the start then 2 ad breaks during each episode.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jul 4, 2024 11:40:15 GMT
Hmm, that's a bit weird. It's assumed everyone would be getting the same amount of ads.
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Post by nazo on Jul 4, 2024 14:43:31 GMT
I’ve been lucky so far, I got the app update a couple of months ago but no ads so far. It takes ages for the app to start now though so I suspect it’s not working right with our oldish TV.
The first few times I assumed it was dead because the screen just goes black and nothing happens. It was only once I’d given up trying to restart it that I found it does eventually load.
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Post by ForkHandles on Jul 4, 2024 17:46:41 GMT
Hmm, that's a bit weird. It's assumed everyone would be getting the same amount of ads. For us they seem to have ramped it up over the last few months - started with a 15 second ad at the start of the shows, now there's 45 seconds at the start and at least 2 sets of 45 seconds in an hour.
It's going to get worse I'm sure.
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Post by baihu1983 on Jul 4, 2024 17:50:05 GMT
Yeah, 15 second ad at the start and sitting through a 45sec set now after less than 20 minutes so will no doubt have another around the 40 minute mark.
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Post by nazo on Jul 4, 2024 21:37:23 GMT
I was reading a thing the other day that said Amazon is under-cutting other streaming services in terms of what they charge for ad-slots and driving prices down across the board. Likely result is that it will get worse for everyone as other sites will have to increase the number of ads to keep the same revenue.
Cunts.
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Post by dfunked on Jul 4, 2024 21:54:50 GMT
That's just classic Amazon behaviour... I really should put my money where my mouth is and stop using the fuckers.
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Post by nazo on Jul 5, 2024 16:56:33 GMT
Well shit, I knew I was tempting fate by letting on that our app wasn't getting any ads, it looks like it's completely dead now as it won't start up at all. Looks like Prime will we getting cancelled here.
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Post by baihu1983 on Jul 11, 2024 15:56:18 GMT
Oddly enough only the 1 ad break during the latest episode of The Boys.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jul 23, 2024 21:21:33 GMT
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Post by baihu1983 on Jul 27, 2024 6:02:32 GMT
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