neilka
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Post by neilka on Apr 30, 2022 18:22:23 GMT
UHD streaming seems to have been broken for at least a day now without Amazon noticing. As has been noted, the discrepancy between how much they spend on content and how little of a shit they seem to give about the way it's delivered is pretty amazing.
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jono62
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Post by jono62 on May 6, 2022 20:46:59 GMT
Anyone seen Bosch: Legacy yet? If it's about the daughter, I'm oot
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Post by Reviewer on May 6, 2022 20:49:15 GMT
Only seen a review which said it’s effectively just a new season of Bosch but a little more screen time for the daughter and for Honey Chandler.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 8, 2022 3:10:57 GMT
Bit off topic, but I have questions for anyone who has a newish Fire Stick and kids: I heard the new ones have different profiles for kids? I have an old one, so there's just one PIN to enable pretty much everything. (a) Can you set time limits for kids? I have a newer Fire Tablet and on that you can give each kid their own account, and set time limits. (b) Can you set different age limits for different kids? (c) Does all this work *without* signing up to the Kids+ service? I'm pretty sure it would, as it does on the tablet. The kids+ service just enables more free content for kids
(d) Can you differentiate between apps?
I'd rather give them unlimited iPlayer access, but time-limited Youtube access. Ok, I got a newer Fire Stick, so, to answer my own questions in case anyone is interested. (a) You can set daily time limits for kids, and they're shared with other devices like fire tablets. (b) You can set different age limits (or at least guidelines) for different kids. (c) It works without paying for the Kids+ service, but if you pay for that then you get lots of age-appropriate videos. (d) Unfortunately you can't differentiate between apps or types of apps. So you can give them a 1hr time limit for 'video', but that only applies to amazon content. You can also give them a 2hr time limit for 'apps', but that will include iPlayer, Youtube, educational apps, everything. Which is kinda annoying, because they have a few study apps on the tablet, but those use up the same time as watching junk on youtube. Overall, it's ok, and its better than nothing, but it'd be really sweet if you could assign different apps to different categories, and then set individual time limits for those categories. ---- side note: Setting up a new stick with 3 profiles, each with about 4 apps, means needing to authorize everything 3 times. So that's about 12 times signing in to all the apps and entering sign-in codes or email addresses and passwords.  |
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on May 15, 2022 12:48:37 GMT
Im really enjoying Bosch leg. It's more Bosch which is always good.
Maddy gets more time and character development and it also deals with the aftermath for honey. It's very good with some cameos from characters past.
What isn't good is this whole freeveee thing it seems to have been farmed out to. Massive fucking freevee banner in the bottom corner, no 4k, no HDR and fucking adverts. ADVERTS!
Seriously doing this show a disservice
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Post by BeetrootBertie on May 15, 2022 13:20:07 GMT
I've been enjoying Bosch: Legacy.
I've only ever had one short ad in each episode and it's been the same one everytime - for Amazon's something ark game. Yeah, I paid loads of attention to it. It has new Glavier class, that's all I can recall.
If I was being served several ads everytime it'd be annoying, but seems ok at the mo (for free).
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 16, 2022 23:51:26 GMT
FreeVeee(imdbTV) seems to be quite in flux at the moment. At first I got basically no ads. Then there was suddenly ad overload. Then it went down to a reasonable level.
I've lost access to it entirely at the moment, so I have no idea the current state. Up til that point, I hadn't encountered any banners.
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Post by MysteryLamb on May 17, 2022 15:45:19 GMT
Kids in the Hall are back and on Prime.
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jono62
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Post by jono62 on May 17, 2022 16:45:58 GMT
Compared to All 4, Freevee adverts are nothing in comparison.
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Post by Dougs on May 17, 2022 16:57:57 GMT
Pi-hole all the way to block those pesky ads!
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Post by simple on May 17, 2022 17:28:32 GMT
Compared to All 4, Freevee adverts are nothing in comparison. Yeah I’ll take Derren Brown taking 20 seconds to tell me about a podcast over All4 and ITVHub putting in full length ad breaks all day |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2022 17:59:40 GMT
Pi-hole all the way to block those pesky ads! What's pi-hole and how do I get it? |
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Post by Dougs on May 17, 2022 18:07:14 GMT
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Post by MysteryLamb on May 17, 2022 21:48:53 GMT
Marvelous Mrs Maisel is just brilliant. I've cained the first season in a day (pretty much). I'm not going to burn out and will start to pace but I couldn't help starting ep1 of season 2.
Just can't help rooting for the lead character.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 18, 2022 0:19:59 GMT
It's one of those shows like Buffy that a lot of people wrote off on the name alone.
I've recommended it to lots of people, and they tend to quirk an eyebrow at the name and then never actually try it.
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Post by Dougs on May 18, 2022 6:04:03 GMT
Yeah, I feigned indifference when my wife wanted to watch it. She watched one, said I'd love it but I still shrugged. It was only when I happened to be in the room when she was watching it that my ears pricked up and started paying attention to it. One of the best new things to emerge in years.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2022 20:57:57 GMT
This is a question rather than a recommendation.
Has anyone seen Hyperdrive? Sci-fi show with Nick Frost. I've been watching Babylon 5 and Star Trek Deep Space Nine lately, and I'm looking for something lighter to balance them out, if it's good that is.
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Post by Dougs on May 19, 2022 21:11:05 GMT
I've never heard of it. Thought for a second you meant the Amazon original that he was in (watched 2, binned it).
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on May 19, 2022 21:14:06 GMT
I think I remember watching the first episode and vowing to never watch any more of it.
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Post by simple on May 19, 2022 21:15:52 GMT
The BBC show from a few years ago?
It was fine but completely suffered from being compared to the BBC’s previous sci-fi sitcom.
If you have access I’d say The Orville in D+ is a good light hearted take on Trek. Although they have made the bold decision to front load the worst episodes at the start of each season. So you might need to stick it out for parts of the first couple.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2022 21:18:18 GMT
Yeah, that's the one. I've seen a bit of The Orville here and there, and I've not decided whether I like it or not. It has a weird balance where it's 75% TNG, 25% Family Guy.
Maybe I should give an entire season a chance though.
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Post by brokenkey on May 19, 2022 21:21:19 GMT
Yeah, I feigned indifference when my wife wanted to watch it. She watched one, said I'd love it but I still shrugged. It was only when I happened to be in the room when she was watching it that my ears pricked up and started paying attention to it. One of the best new things to emerge in years. It's basically Entourage. |
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Post by askew on May 19, 2022 22:38:50 GMT
Looks like the Bond films are off in a few weeks.
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Post by Dougs on May 20, 2022 5:33:40 GMT
What? That's shit Amazon.
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Post by Dougs on May 20, 2022 5:34:21 GMT
Yeah, I feigned indifference when my wife wanted to watch it. She watched one, said I'd love it but I still shrugged. It was only when I happened to be in the room when she was watching it that my ears pricked up and started paying attention to it. One of the best new things to emerge in years. It's basically Entourage. In as much that there's a central character that everything revolves around, yes. But not much else imo. |
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2022 13:38:27 GMT
What? That's shit Amazon. Yeah, didn't they buy the Bond catalog not long ago? If anything, I was waiting for them to put No Time to Die on there. |
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Post by robthehermit on May 20, 2022 13:42:26 GMT
What? That's shit Amazon. Yeah, didn't they buy the Bond catalog not long ago? If anything, I was waiting for them to put No Time to Die on there. It's on there, I watched it a couple of weeks ago. |
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2022 13:44:32 GMT
Not in the US. Rent or Buy are the only options.
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Post by Dougs on May 20, 2022 13:45:17 GMT
Spooky isn't UK based, maybe different rights stateside.
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Post by Reviewer on May 20, 2022 13:54:58 GMT
It’s possible they’ll move them to freevee? Still, why they haven’t kept them there and publicised it more I have no idea, but then they can’t even be arsed to show them as a proper list.
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