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Sway said:
One thing I do find (usually) is that the 4k is bloody good quality. Noticeably better than most other options.
However, the last week or so D+ has been effectively unwatchable. Buffering constantly when there has never been an issue before (and nothing has changed on our Internet connection).
They're probably desperately cost cutting behind the scenes given the ongoing losses. For the streamers that usually means dropping the stream quality & cutting back on infrastructure and CDN provision. However, the last week or so D+ has been effectively unwatchable. Buffering constantly when there has never been an issue before (and nothing has changed on our Internet connection).
I wouldn't be surprised if they also nibbled the 1080p stream quality to try to make the 4K option appear more worth having.
I piggy back D+ on somebody else's subscription. There's no way I'd pay £10.99 for it whilst there are free alternatives available. Just like I don't pay Paramount.
I hate having to pay £20/m for youtube premium as Brave makes the subscription pointless to me, but I have two teenagers in the house and not having youtube available is not tenable to them. It's worth far more to them than any streaming service is worth to me.
Prime I do for the next day delivery.
Spotify for the ease of use across various forms of hardware. Tidal just doesn't cut it.
Netflix is almost through some strange and non sensical loyalty. I can see this being the next one to go.
I hate having to pay £20/m for youtube premium as Brave makes the subscription pointless to me, but I have two teenagers in the house and not having youtube available is not tenable to them. It's worth far more to them than any streaming service is worth to me.
Prime I do for the next day delivery.
Spotify for the ease of use across various forms of hardware. Tidal just doesn't cut it.
Netflix is almost through some strange and non sensical loyalty. I can see this being the next one to go.
ThunderSpook said:
I’m still confused as to why people are happy to pay so much for YouTube premium, doesn’t it just get rid of ads? You can still watch YouTube without it.
I’ve paid for YT premium for about 7 years. It’s my main sourceOf “telly”. The adverts are unbearable on standard.
Bullett said:
I don't think youtube premium offers very good vfm, I don't need the downloads or music.
If there was an Ad free version without those I'd be all over it though.
They did test out a ‘Premium Lite’ type subscription a few years ago that was just ad free YouTube without the music but I don’t think anything came of it.If there was an Ad free version without those I'd be all over it though.
Bullett said:
I don't think youtube premium offers very good vfm, I don't need the downloads or music.
If there was an Ad free version without those I'd be all over it though.
Youtube via a browser is trivial to get entirely without ads even on a phone, it's only people using the dedicated apps who are stuck with them. If there was an Ad free version without those I'd be all over it though.
Weird that that still works when other ad supported streamers usually have no workarounds even in a browser.
As it is Youtube is crap value for what you get if you pay for it.
YouTube premium would be the last streaming service I cancel. Yes you can watch it for free but only if you spend several minutes watching ads on each video and with them being targeted, they get very irritating and repetitive. Browser solutions are of course available but I like the ease of it being ad free natively across devices such as the TV and my nest hub. My car also runs on android auto OS so has native YouTube music which is handy.
John87 said:
YouTube premium would be the last streaming service I cancel. Yes you can watch it for free but only if you spend several minutes watching ads on each video and with them being targeted, they get very irritating and repetitive. Browser solutions are of course available but I like the ease of it being ad free natively across devices such as the TV and my nest hub. My car also runs on android auto OS so has native YouTube music which is handy.
I got no more than about 10s of adverts, most are 2-3s before I can skip.ThunderSpook said:
Are people watching more than just 2 minute videos then? I don’t really have the patience to watch more than that length on YouTube.
Another youtube premium subscriber here.Everything I watch on youtube is over 2 minutes, mostly by a significant margin. Just the other night I watched a 45 minute documentary about the Barkley marathons endurance event. There really is a huge amount of excellent content available on youtube which would just be too painful to watch with adverts.
Speckle said:
Another youtube premium subscriber here.
Everything I watch on youtube is over 2 minutes, mostly by a significant margin. Just the other night I watched a 45 minute documentary about the Barkley marathons endurance event. There really is a huge amount of excellent content available on youtube which would just be too painful to watch with adverts.
Yep that was superb. My son loves Half Asleep Chris (Lego / Travel stuff) and Mark Rober (science / engineering) and I'm always sucked into them. Poduction values in some of the independent YT videos are better than actual telly.Everything I watch on youtube is over 2 minutes, mostly by a significant margin. Just the other night I watched a 45 minute documentary about the Barkley marathons endurance event. There really is a huge amount of excellent content available on youtube which would just be too painful to watch with adverts.
Even some of the Mr Beast videos are pretty good, particularly when he does endurance challenges, clearly spends an obscene amount of money on them.
I signed up with YT premium when the pandemic started, even though the location workaround stopped working when my card expired, I still use it all the time. Yes I could easily bypass ads on my dekstop or tablet, but not my TV which is where watch the most. Plus YT Music the background play feature is really useful at work, or when going to bed.
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