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archangel2
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Amazon has now removed some popular shows and now you have to pay to watch them. Not a fan of what they are doing. The commercials may grow on me but making more or less the freevee crap the only stuff you are getting? That just sucks
John Price
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I got one while trying to watch Fast Five today, it was like 5 seconds
Shit pisses me off man. I don't want to watch every thing on my PC and completely avoid my 65 inch tv or 45 inch 5.1 surround system because of ads
Shit pisses me off man. I don't want to watch every thing on my PC and completely avoid my 65 inch tv or 45 inch 5.1 surround system because of ads
Unholy Diver
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Supermassive
HISS, HISS
Unholy Diver
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Yeah and I feel like that has always happened, I generally just watch episodes of Rifftrax or MST3K on there and an episode that is free today might not be a few months from now
Supermassive
HISS, HISS
Right, I get you - so in addition to hiding content due to "licensing agreements", they're now hiding content behind a paywall.
If I was paying what Americans pay for Amazon Prime, I'd be livid. The Canadian rate is still $80-85 CDN/year iirc.
I don't mind the commercials. Grew up with them, learned to ignore them or use them for my benefit (time to grab the snacks!). What I hate is what happened to me today with netflix. A movie I started a week or two ago I finally went back to watch...and can't because it can't be shown with ads because of licensing agreements. Just take it off my menu entirely at that point.
Also not going to knock freevee. Might not be a lot of new/premium shows on it but there is a lot of stuff that I will watch on it. And it's free, unlike Amazon, netflix, etc. Hell, I've found a bunch of shows on it that I have had to pay to watch in the past.
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Maybe we can just all watch ads all day every day and just go buy things. That’d be great for the economy!
RandV
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I gotta say that having experienced some ads on Prime now (got the promo for shipping purposes while buying at Christmas and the month extended into Prime with ads) and all the doom and gloom over it... I'm rather unimpressed. Right now it's basically just a few segments over a show/episode that shows only one commercial that is just showing TV shows for one of the subscription channels, and its the same one over and over again.
Not that I would put any faith in advertisers/marketing people, but while it may not have seemed like it for the longest time it is a profession that grows and adapts with the times. In 'ye olden days' the primary sources for advertising was basically sponsorship, print, and TV commercials. Sponsorship is still their, print is pretty much dead, and while commercials are still kicking around at the same time people started cutting cable they also started carrying smart phones around with them everywhere and openly using social media, and I suspect this is where all the focus has shifted to.
While you can't do the damage that's been done to cable TV still where commercials grew to be about 1/3rd the run time of a show, I really doubt anything like that is going to happen to streaming services. The nefarious marketing/advertising schemes of the future is probably more stuff like putting a 'smart' fridge in peoples kitchen that's connected to your smart phone/social media data listens to what you're saying and makes targeted 'suggestions' on what you should buy for dinner.
Not that I would put any faith in advertisers/marketing people, but while it may not have seemed like it for the longest time it is a profession that grows and adapts with the times. In 'ye olden days' the primary sources for advertising was basically sponsorship, print, and TV commercials. Sponsorship is still their, print is pretty much dead, and while commercials are still kicking around at the same time people started cutting cable they also started carrying smart phones around with them everywhere and openly using social media, and I suspect this is where all the focus has shifted to.
While you can't do the damage that's been done to cable TV still where commercials grew to be about 1/3rd the run time of a show, I really doubt anything like that is going to happen to streaming services. The nefarious marketing/advertising schemes of the future is probably more stuff like putting a 'smart' fridge in peoples kitchen that's connected to your smart phone/social media data listens to what you're saying and makes targeted 'suggestions' on what you should buy for dinner.
Rpenny
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saw this coming
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Amazon to Shut Down Freevee (Report)
Prime Video’s decision to embrace commercials appears to have cost Freevee dearly. According to AdWeek, Amazon is planning to shutter its free, ad-supported offshoot Freevee — home to last ye…
tvline.com
Amazon Insists “No Changes” Coming To Freevee Despite Reports Of Potential Shutdown
Amazon is pushing back against recent industry chatter and a new press report indicating that it is planning to shut down Freevee.
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archangel2
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do not believe them.Amazon Insists “No Changes” Coming To Freevee Despite Reports Of Potential Shutdown
Amazon is pushing back against recent industry chatter and a new press report indicating that it is planning to shut down Freevee.
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