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It's pretty insane that Comcast gives me a free sub to HBO Max with my cable sub, but I cannot access HBO Max on their DVR (or my Roku or FireTV devices).

Imagine back in the day of three channels if some corporation had gone all-in on a fourth channel that you couldn't watch on the tv you use to watch all of the other channels on. Maybe you could build your own special set, though? From a kit or something?

Shitty analogy, I know, but...just imagine it.

It would be more like RCA demanding a cut from the new channel in order to send a code to your TV to receive it, though?

God knows! These cross-payment deals suck, and reek of customer data sharing.

Yeah, can't think of anyone as the good guy in this morass. Sad thing is normally I would support Roku as the most open device, but they'll put the knives in when it suits them.

Still seems like a straight-up Android TV device might be the best option. Wonder if there is some off-brand thing that works fine.

Yes it's called your imagination

Given the world we live in, I support Roku’s right to stick the knives in in this situation. The Roku does like seventy things we really need during lockdown and HBO does maybe one. Eliminating HBO GO on our Roku was a dumb move and I’m still confused about why it was necessary.

I think it's that Roku was extorting them for more subscription revenue (as is Amazon) but it's hard to know without leaks

It gets even more convoluted because I think get HBO Max through Hulu and Amazon Prime, and it'll work through those apps. But in those cases the cut has been distributed

Imagine back in the day of three channels if some corporation had gone all-in on a fourth channel that you couldn't watch on the tv you use to watch all of the other channels on.

In the UK that actually happened with the launch of our 5th terrestrial channel (imaginatively titled Channel 5) where it used a frequency already occupied by most of the country's VCRs. We ended up with around 5000 people employed around the country retuning videos so we could get the new channel, which was shit.

This new Ridley Scott series on HBO Max looks promising:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZMeRoGw6uo

Wait wrong trailer. Meant to post this:

https://youtu.be/0hBFGTCjK3g

i could be into that! also appreciate the lack of superfluous IP for the punters.

I tried a chinese Android tv device with a pretty vanilla interface and it was terrible. Couldn’t decide if it wanted to be a set top box or a phone without a touch screen and you had to keep using the incredibly slow joystick as a mouse.

Makes the Apple TV trackpad on the remote seem like a welcome relief.

Raised by Wolves def looks interesting

One of the things we’re really enjoying about Disney+ is having easy access to a lot of the extras with every movie.

I'm super psyched about starting Lovecraft Country on HBO. Oh, and the Action Park doc starts next week! My wife has been watching the I'll Be Gone in the Dark doc, too, so (free-ish) HBO Max has been doing well for us.

Raised by Wolves def looks interesting

Thought you were referring to the Caitlin Moran thing so was somewhat confused but have seen the trailer now and agree

Half related to thread, it looks like there is some kind of torrent apocalypse going on, or at least there is one this week.

some kind of torrent apocalypse

?

even the pirate bay is currently shut down. stories of other sites being prosecuted heavily and or cooperating. check out torrentfreak for news.

tenet related maybe? in any case, it's unsurprising, if deluded, that studios desperate to start their $30 rentals are deciding to attack piracy.

urge to pirate tenet rising

fwiw, it has not leaked afaik

Federal prosecutors have busted an international movie-pirating operation that caused “tens of millions of dollars in losses” for film production studios over the course of nine years, court filings reveal.

George Bridi, Umar Ahmad and Jonatan Correa belonged to a copyright-infringement crew called “The Sparks Group” that posted “nearly every movie released by major production studios” online, according to indictments unsealed Tuesday.

The trio allegedly duped distributors in Manhattan, Brooklyn, New Jersey and Canada into mailing them advance Blu-Ray and DVD copies of movies and television shows. The group then cracked copyright protections on the discs and posted the movies and TV shows online ahead of official release dates, prosecutors say."

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-movie-pirates-bust-20200825-p6hiwexxxbd47faukjgvftfqyq-story.html

aren't there like at least 20 or so major torrenting crews for DVD/Blu-ray releases? of which this would be... 1?

bay of pirates is still up for me, but I have some proxy bookmarked.

If you go to the legit site it just says "no."

'the legit site'

well, for sure there are a degrees of illegitimacy.

i don't think i've actually used the OG pirate bay website in.... years? there are like a bazillion mirrors depending on what country you live in and whether your ISP's blocked it

TPB looks up to me

Looks like it is back up now. It definitely wasn't blocked for me though, it had been hacked or altered. Just said the word no, and wouldn't load.

Starting September 4, with Premier Access, you can watch Mulan before it's available to all Disney+ subscribers or anywhere else. Disney+ will offer Premier Access to Mulan for $29.99 on disneyplus.com and in the Disney+ app on select platforms, including Apple, Google, and Roku. The Premier Access offer will be available until November 2, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Once you have Premier Access to Mulan, you can watch as many times as you want on any platform where Disney+ is available. Your access to Mulan will continue as long as you are an active Disney+ subscriber. Mulan will be available to all Disney+ subscribers on December 4, 2020 for no additional cost.

Thirty bucks is ~two burritos on grubhub. We'll probably pay for this and we'll probably pay a little more for Black Widow, if we have to.

I'm also perfectly happy to wait to a) wait 3 months and b) not support that price point, so I guess it's a decent compromise?

Yeah I’m not really defending the business model as much as I’m just stating a fact about my household to counter “this is not a great plan.”

I think it's going to do pretty well at that price point.

I gotta say, $30 for two burritos? That's not right.

what's the problem? I could have bought Mulan three times over with the $100 bill I just lit on fire because a poor touched it

you gotta tip the driver, Josh.

so anyone watch raised by wolves yet?

xpost I guess I don't get delivery that often/ever.

if you were planning on cancelling disney+ after you watched mulan, and you are currently paying for it, i guess they're getting your 30 bucks either way lol

anyway did anyone talk about ted lasso itt? i can't remember (maybe even i did)

this show is a fucking delight. maybe my fave new show of 2020. sudeikis rules and the new character in episode 6 is wonderful and also in ep6 sudeikis paraphrases the greatest monologue in sports history dont at me

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dangit i forgot that was a separate thread!!

So Raised By Wolves, based on first episode, is full-on late Ridley Scott sci fi: very pretty to look at, terrible acting from people capable of better, and terribly, terribly written. And even the pretty visuals seem to be a compulation of self-plagiarism. Plus it has some incredibly shit costume design.

But in other news, we just started "Lovecraft Country" on HBO last night and the first episode is excellent. I'm looking forward to watching the new season of "The Boys," too.

Lovecraft Country has been great so far

Latest Lovecraft Country was basically a filmed LARP Call of Cthulhu, which made it great.