Current Events > Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads in 2024. no ads will cost more.

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/entertainment/prime-video-update-announces-limited-ads

lol

We will also offer a new ad-free option for an additional $2.99 per month* for U.S. Prime members and will share pricing for other countries at a later date.We will email Prime members several weeks before ads are introduced into Prime Video with information on how to sign up for the ad-free option if they would like.

Counteroffer = suck my balls

Prime is a very compelling value.

No it fucking isn't.

Browser + ad blocker

Will_VIII posted...

Browser + ad blocker

doesn't do anything for people who use something like Roku, etc. Prime is beyond a joke at this point.

All these services get worse over time.

I get Amazon Prime for the shipping, only use the video service for TNF and it already has commercials.

Gotta finish up Jack Ryan and Vox Machina and I can avoid the prime video garbage.

Thursday Night Football on Prime is full of commercials already.

Giant_Aspirin posted...

doesn't do anything for people who use something like Roku, etc. Prime is beyond a joke at this point.

Yeah, you need to have a PC or something hooked up but then you're blocking ads on everything. Could cast a laptop, maybe even a phone to achieve it.

It a good thing I'm not into TV as much anymore

Yeah, I heard. Sucks.

Will_VIII posted...

Yeah, you need to have a PC or something hooked up but then you're blocking ads on everything. Could cast a laptop, maybe even a phone to achieve it.

There's always workarounds like setting up proxies on the tv's wifi connections but that's hardly a guarantee it'll work 100%.

Jagr_68 posted...

There's always workarounds like setting up proxies on the tv's wifi connections but that's hardly a guarantee it'll work 100%.

Old ultra small form factor PCs can be found on eBay for under $70 and after a couple months would pay for itself if you just go through the ad tier route

Wow so they're making the already worst steaming service even more terrible.

Ads make streaming services more money than the subs from ad f ree versions. Expect all them to follow suit

A few years from now ad free will be 10x more than ad version

I have Prime for the free two day shipping, so Prime Video is the only streaming service I have now. Ive been buying stuff to rip for my NAS and using Jellyfin mostly though.

Will_VIII posted...

Old ultra small form factor PCs can be found on eBay for under $70 and after a couple months would pay for itself if you just go through ad tier route

Honestly I'd rather just not have it period but Amazon cleverly has everyone buy the balls attaching random shit on the free 2 day shipping benefits so nobody is compelled to leave the ecosystem.

I'd respect this more if they just announced a price increase to be honest rather then introducing ads.

But sure, the world's biggest company needs to make more money somehow...

In the future, internet will be rarely used beyond things like texting and sending files because it will be nothing but ads. We're allowing corporations to destroy it.

Trelve posted...

I'd respect this more if they just announced a price increase to be honest rather then introducing ads.

But sure, the world's biggest company needs to make more money somehow...

That's what happens when a publicly-traded company is beholden to it's shareholders who demand growth every year.

PraetorXyn posted...

NAS

I've been looking at these for a while. I just need to get one to use now and cancel all streaming services.
Those plug right into a router and you can access them anywhere on your network, right?

mercurydude posted...

In the future, internet will be rarely used beyond things like texting and sending files because it will be nothing but ads. We're allowing corporations to destroy it.

It's high time we started legislating Internet advertising restrictions.

Things like content, video, mechanisms, cross site tracking, and other things.

Jagr_68 posted...

Honestly I'd rather just not have it period but Amazon cleverly has everyone buy the balls attaching random shit on the free 2 day shipping benefits so nobody is compelled to leave the ecosystem.

I don't understand the appeal of 2 day shipping. I've never needed anything that quickly. Plus most stuff comes in 2-4 days with the free shipping for me

mercurydude posted...

In the future, internet will be rarely used beyond things like texting and sending files because it will be nothing but ads. We're allowing corporations to destroy it.

Futurama predicted that shit forever ago.

Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

I don't understand the appeal of 2 day shipping. I've never needed anything that quickly. Plus most stuff comes in 2-4 days with the free shipping for me

It's consistent and I don't pay extra for it. I have reasonable confidence that if I need something for the weekend if I order it by Friday I'll have it. I can usually go out and get it myself but sometimes that's a hassle.

Tyranthraxus posted...

It's consistent and I don't pay extra for it. I have reasonable confidence that if I need something for the weekend if I order it by Friday I'll have it. I can usually go out and get it myself but sometimes that's a hassle.

You don't have to pay for prime?

Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

You don't have to pay for prime?

I don't have to pay extra for the shipping.

The two day shipping is available to everyone, you just have to pay every time.

Another reason I like it is that it guarantees the order comes in through UPS or Amazon's 1st party delivery. When you go free shipping it gets subcon to USPS a lot of the time.

Tyranthraxus posted...

It's high time we started legislating Internet advertising restrictions.

Things like content, video, mechanisms, cross site tracking, and other things.

Back in the day, this was it... just one ad at the top of the page... maybe an extra one for the main page. Not this bombardment that so many sites have now.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/4/4/AAC89BAAE3Sk.png

Is this that capitalist innovation I keep hearing about?

mercurydude posted...

Back in the day, this was it

Oh no it wasn't. That was like a thing for maybe 1 or 2 years.

Shortly after that came the advents of pop ups and later pop unders and then those fucking piece of shit asshole mother fucking dick sucking turd gorging nutsack faced FUCKING SCUM came out with those pop up ads that would dodge your mouse when you tried to close them.

Stuff is slightly better now than it used to be.

PraetorXyn posted...

I have Prime for the free two day shipping, so Prime Video is the only streaming service I have now. Ive been buying stuff to rip for my NAS and using Jellyfin mostly though.

Interesting. Didn't know about either of these.

Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

I've been looking at these for a while. I just need to get one to use now and cancel all streaming services.
Those plug right into a router and you can access them anywhere on your network, right?

They plug into the router (or more likely, into a switch that plugs into the router), and are accessible network wide. I have a Synology one, and Synology is kind of the Apple of NAS vendors, so I feel like their UI gets in my way a lot. Synology also has the weakest hardware. Asustor has the best hardware for their main units, stock 2.5 Gbps (this is why you'd want to plug into a 2.5 Gbps switch, then plug the switch into the router, as most routers won't have 2.5 Gbps).

You can also build your own and use UnRAID or TrueNAS Scale, but the latter requires a lot of drives for ZFS, and both require more technical know how, but you can build a more powerful machine for a few hundred bucks than a $700 NAS.

I just use Docker Compose to host everything, and I use linuxserver.io (LSIO) containers whenever I can. If you ever get a NAS and want to get started with Docker, PM me or @ me and I can share my docker compose file as a starting point.

But I host LSIO containers for jellyfin, emby, and plex to use as a comparison. I'm a lifetime Plex Pass subscriber, and I'll probably get Emby Premier when it goes on sale $20 off around Black Friday. But I mostly use Jellyfin. Plex is the market leader, but most people aren't happy with the direction it's been going. They just leave bugs hanging there, while most of their efforts have been on Plex TV, where they're basically trying to build out a streaming service within Plex. Emby is a premium competitor that used to be FOSS (Free and Open Source Software), and most of the people I've seen who used both say it's just a better service. Jellyfin was forked from Emby when it went closed source, and is FOSS. Emby has some features that Jellyfin doesn't, but as far as just watching your media, Jellyfin is fine.

Clients are an important factor though. Plex has "the Doom appeal," where any device, no matter what it is, is going to have an official Plex client for it. Emby has the next most clients. Jellyfin has the least. If you have a Roku, Fire TV, Nvidia Shield Pro (Android TV), Apple TV, etc., there are Jellyfin clients for all of them (for Apple TV, use Swiftfin or Infuse, as Jellyfin is a web app wrapper). But for just a smart TV, there might be a Jellyfin app and there might not.

Plex relies on "phoning home" to even work, so by default, if the internet is out, you can't watch your own media. You can disable authentication on your LAN to make it work in that scenario, but then anyone on your network has admin access to the server, so...

Both Emby and Jellyfin will work fine without internet access.

As far as UI during playback, I like Plex the least. It hides a bunch of playback options behind nested menus, so I find it tedious to use compared to Jellyfin. I have not used Emby for playback much, because I'm not subscribed to Emby premier.

Media wise, what you'll want to do is rip using MakeMKV to get a full quality MKV, then put it on your NAS. You will want to rename stuff like this:
Movie (Year)/Movie (Year).mkv
Show (Year)/Season 01/Show - S01E01.mkv

For the shows, after you've named them like that, you can use FileBot or similar tools to rename them in bulk to put the episode titles and such in there for you.

Now, if you don't want full quality rips because they take up a lot of space, you can encode them in Handbrake to get a 99% quality file at a way smaller size. AV1 is the best for anything with grain in it, which is most things, except maybe animation, where you may still want to use H265. But encoding is too much to list here.

What Prime really needs is a "just mail me my shit" tier, without the streaming fluff.

Questionmarktarius posted...

What Prime really needs is a "just mail me my shit" tier, without the streaming fluff.

They won't because 98% of members will just switch to that lol.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Oh no it wasn't. That was like a thing for maybe 1 or 2 years.

Shortly after that came the advents of pop ups and later pop unders and then those fucking piece of shit asshole mother fucking dick sucking turd gorging nutsack faced FUCKING SCUM came out with those pop up ads that would dodge your mouse when you tried to close them.

Stuff is slightly better now than it used to be.

That should've been considered harassment and any sites that used it fined into oblivion.

Time is a circle, streaming services circle back to be as shitty as cable services. Time to go back to cable.

ProfessorKukui posted...

Time is a circle, streaming services circle back to be as shitty as cable services. Time to go back to cable.

The ad free version of 4 different streaming services is still much less than cable so no

Axiom posted...

The ad free version of 4 different streaming services is still much less than cable so no

Give it time

ProfessorKukui posted...

Give it time

In time the ad free will increase and the ads version will stay relatively cheap making the ads version a still better deal than cable

Cable is dead. Get over it

ProfessorKukui posted...

Time is a circle, streaming services circle back to be as shitty as cable services. Time to go back to cable.

protip:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/4/5/AAEhCpAADjNV.jpg

Why don't they sell Prime Video alone?

Will_VIII posted...

Browser + ad blocker

who the fuck is watching amazon prime on a desktop browser who doesnt know about fmovies or something

you ppl are the biggest fucking boomers

DaxNovalis posted...

All these services get worse over time.

All these streaming services are just turning into cable all over again.

Is this for movies/ TV that you purchased on Prime as well? If so that is horse****...

Amazon Prime is gets more useless every single year while also costing more every single year.

What stream watchers actually want: a decent selection of content, at a decent price
What streaming providers think we want: exclusive content, that costs a shitton of money to make

I wouldnt mind this if they hadnt already increases the price of prime

I stopped my Prime membership all the way back in 2017 and haven't bought anything on the platform ever since. Now it's completely impossible to not use Amazon services (most web platforms use Amazon servers) but I'm trying my best not to support the biggest piece of shit corporation in the world.

Lord_Ephraim posted...

I stopped my Prime membership all the way back in 2017 and haven't bought anything on the platform ever since. Now it's completely impossible to not use Amazon services (most web platforms use Amazon servers) but I'm trying my best not to support the biggest piece of shit corporation in the world.

I can think of like 3 companies off the top of my head that are like 10x as shit as Amazon.