Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy

Re:Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To ... by scarface74 on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @05:58PM (#21010707)

I used Napster when it first came out, I was already 26. But as soon as the iTunes music store came out for Windows, I stopped using Napster and Kazaa. They were no longer worth the hassle. I didn’t buy an iPod until around 2005. I just made CDs.

It’s the same with video now. If I plan ahead, I will still pick up movies that fall off the back of a truck and put them on my Plex server, but often, we don’t even bother. We just rent from Amazon Prime or iTunes.

That’s even considering that I can just go to http://remote.vuze.com from anywhere on my phone and start a download on my home server.

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Re:Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To ... by cptskippy on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @07:26PM (#21011594)

I have actually started buying movie codes off those dodgy looking sites Disney hates. You can usually own a movie for the cost of a rental from Amazon, Google or iTunes.

I have never had a failure but I once had an issue with a purchase porting to Movies Anywhere from Google Play. Google was beyond useless in helping me out, I actually spoke with someone on the phone and it was as if they had never even seen the Play Store before. I emailed the seller about it and got an immediate email response with a couple suggestions to try before refund, the first suggestion worked.

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