All I know is that with the fracturing of the streaming landscape, where everything requires a separate $8.99/$11.99/$15.99 (or whatever) monthly fee, downloading Linux ISOs starts to look more and more attractive.
Apple TV is $6.99 a month. Netflix looks to be $9.99 (ignoring the ad-subsidized offering which isn’t really comparable). It is kind of hard to share an Apple TV login (at least I wasn’t able to figure out how to share it without also sharing my whole Apple account), so I guess that extra $3 must be the price of all the sharing going on.
Although, Apple TV seems to have much better in-house shows, so who knows?
It doesn’t even get you 1080p (for that you need the $15.49 “standard” plan, and 4k comes on the $20 a month plan)
Maybe a bit off topic, but I'm wondering if anyone else actively avoids 4k? I hate watching content in ultra high resolution. It looks strange and unreal to me (Yes: I've turned off "soap opera mode")
I'm really glad netflix makes it easy to avoid higher resolution versions of their shows =/
Yes there is. For one, 90% of non-native 4K is absolute crap. Upscales tend to bludgeon detail even compared to 480p/i sources, and DNR is rather crap, especially on the intense settings companies typically use.
Native 4k can be better, but there’s still so many mastering options that it still causes problems. See Star Wars, LotR, Terminator 2 as all rather controversial 4K releases.
Low resolution video doesn't bother me at all. I can happily watch 480p. But the weird compression artifacts following moving objects absolutely frustrate and distract me.
Maybe streaming services aren't encoding their higher resolution streams with a sufficient bitrate? Or maybe the higher resolution makes the artifacts more noticeable? Either way, the low resolution experience seems consistently superior.
> "There's really no reason to watch 1080p instead of 4K. Your eyes aren't somehow low resolution with 1080p closer to that realism."
This is definitely not the case and one of the big reasons is lossy compression. Precision without accuracy can be very noticeable, in terms of artifacting.
Yeah, I fell into the "do the right thing, it will be better" trap.
The modern solution is to sign up for a service, binge watch everything on it, and then cancel. But I don't really binge watch, and we have enough people in the house with different tastes it doesn't really work that well.
What really killed me is I pay for PBS Passport. But there are some shows with different licenses (I guess) that are only available on other services.
You do it by setting up family sharing. But yeah it's super integrated, you'll be sharing a lot more than just Apple TV+ if you just set it naively.
If the goal is to just share TV+, then maybe a solution could be to create a separate Apple ID just for that, but actually using it will be difficult for Apple users.
My guess is this is Apples probably very successful way of disincentivising "account sharing" (as in, swapping access for your friends Hulu, Netfilx, etc, while enabling actual account sharing within a family)
Is that a veiled reference to piracy? If so, why not just say piracy?
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