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…
Commercial streaming sites are so bad. The “pirate” streaming sites have so much content from so many different countries, providers, and in so many different languages, it blows my mind how short-sighted commercial streaming websites are. They could be making so much more money by having one single video hosting service where all the production companies put their products on. Basically, a video streaming warehouse.
Imagine, no matter which country you’re in, which currency you pay in, which OS or browser you use, all you have to do is go to one single website where you pay a tenner every month and you’ve got any and all TV shows, movies, maybe even merch for the media you watch, etc. . Imagine you could even give money to keep a show alive. Tip a few extra coins here, a few extra there, or blow a few hunnies on merch of your favorite show.
Instead, they have 100 different silos. Fuck that.
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The quality is often terrible too. I’ve literally been watching Netflix and the pixellation/stuttering has been so bad that I’ve shut off the film, spent 2 minutes downloading it, then just carried on watching the downloaded version from where I left off.
So I’m not the only one! Can’t remember when this was since Netflix was cancelled a while ago, but back then it wasn’t even possible to select the quality or get the true quality. 1080p was actually streaming 720p. IMO, that should be worthy of a fine, but ain’t nobody got the time. Much quicker to just find it elsewhere.
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Streaming services are all so backwards when it comes to quality. They think resolution is the only thing that matters, to the point it is actually degrading the quality of the product they are offering, and is also wasting bandwidth and resources.
Or even something akin to how music works where Apple Music / Spotify / YT Music generally has the same stuff across different services