Does anyone have a firestick? (not a grass i promise)
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kingtreelo
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mine is still going strong but im going to either ask for a discount or go to someone new in a month, i have 4 subs now for me and all my kids(who arent fucking kids)Anyone else 'lost' their IPTV sub in the last week ?gutted, it's been pretty rock solid the last 6 years ...
If anyone knows where I might 'find' a new one ?
Anyone else 'lost' their IPTV sub in the last week ?
If anyone knows where I might 'find' a new one ?
An IPTV ring got taken down in the Manchester area recently, maybe pick one of the many advertising on FB as they seem to be more India based and so less likely to be taken down? I keep thinking about getting a sub, but then I don't watch TV as it is anyway.
PIA mate
Dave it comes with my IPTV free, its not a standalone freeby.
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My firesticks stopped all my apps ive sideloaded (the f******s) think il be moving over to android box.daft really, as amazon wont be selling as many sticks because theyve stopped jailbraking.mind you,its not as if jeff bezos needs the money eh?
kingtreelo
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so my current sub with my firestick runs out tomorrow, just tried my lads one which is a different provider and the different in quality is shocking, i guess the old adage of "you get what you pay for rings true here"
shame no party provided cheaper 4k rips legally. i find some a lot better than streaming. i personally like to keep a collection on a hardrive so there when i want to watch it. most of my bought dvds went through a ripper. 4k disks are so expensive i dont own any, and have nothing to rip them with either. i think my xbox plays them but that hware is not as good as a dedicated player, which are still very expensive.
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so, on the look again for my sons, anyone recommend any providers?
I agree, it's expensive. However, I'd note that there are often sales and (for example) Amazon fuckups (that they must honor, but are increasingly rare) on UHD BR that bring the cost far closer to the £12-15 that it should be for a brand new film.
Similarly ... almost every single CEX store has a (growing) UHD section, and they often turn up in charity stores ... so it's worth nipping into them when you're walking down the high-street at lunch time.
Equally, there are places onIine for UHD film purchasing offering at/near/better than UHD BR quality. To my mind there are two sources that I can *immediately* think of that provide high-bitrate sources:
Any Sony televisions (doesn't need to be their top of the range ones) are often far superior to other TVs in their class and will come with the BRAVIA CORE service, whereby one can purchase films to own for good. The Kaleidescape service is a specific hardware software ecosystem and you keep your digital copies, and those copies are yours to maintain.
The main downside is the high cost of these options (particularly the latter) but it should also be noted that Sony (VERY weirdly, imo) do *NOT* provide similarly high quality, high definition, sound. Similarly, there's also the nuclear 'Amazon Book Deletion' potential of Sony (less so Kaleidescape, I feel) to just say that unfortunately they can no longer allow you to have a copy of a film ... anywhere.
Equally, there is the option of just making rips (questionable legality depending on locale?) of ones own UHD disc (which can be automated) and using a CoreELEC device that has a legal Dolby Vision licence already on it to play things back perfectly (either locally from connected storage or from a NAS/SMB source) without any transcoding required.
This will retain the FULL visual and audio quality of the disc (or whatever your preferred encode level is - perhaps wise in today's storage price apocalypse) for your viewing pleasure.
The benefit of this over a 'service' (think P L E X, etc) is that you won't have the (predictable) rug pull which can (dependent on one's capacity to break 'easy service charges' etc) end up costing a bomb.
Plus, you will sleep easier from a 'data' POV in that everything is contained locally, no phone-home, no data on some server, somewhere. If you get super paranoid, you can even remove the worry that someone may fingerprint via film/tv DB API requests (or scraping actions) from add-ons ... by way of separating out that function to wherever you rip from and housing said film data in a
I'm not saying any of this as some weird online 'uhm actually' because I totally agree with you ... I'm just trying to think of a few ways in which one can afford to have some semblance of a relationship with the cinematic arts in the modern world without either losing one's wad ... or getting stabbed because you shushed the wrong person in the cinema. 😏
I have always found the 'economy' of the 'DVD Extra' weird, as I literally do not give a flying fuck about anything (and some of them are excellent ... like there was a whole second Anchorman film before ... the second Anchorman film!) beyond the film that I want to watch and have the ability to watch again.
If you absolutely MUST pepper the world with this shit (again, not necessarily in quality), then offer the OPTION to a consumer to have more affordable access to the film on its own, at the same quality as the 'main release' copy, just without the extras.
Anyway ... I dye cress ...
If you absolutely MUST pepper the world with this shit (again, not necessarily in quality), then offer the OPTION to a consumer to have more affordable access to the film on its own, at the same quality as the 'main release' copy, just without the extras.
Anyway ... I dye cress ...
Equally, there are places onIine for UHD film purchasing offering at/near/better than UHD BR quality. To my mind there are two sources that I can *immediately* think of that provide high-bitrate sources:
- BRAVIA CORE (by SONY) - https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/tv-support-bravia-core
- Kaleidescape - https://www.kaleidescape.com
Any Sony televisions (doesn't need to be their top of the range ones) are often far superior to other TVs in their class and will come with the BRAVIA CORE service, whereby one can purchase films to own for good. The Kaleidescape service is a specific hardware software ecosystem and you keep your digital copies, and those copies are yours to maintain.
The main downside is the high cost of these options (particularly the latter) but it should also be noted that Sony (VERY weirdly, imo) do *NOT* provide similarly high quality, high definition, sound. Similarly, there's also the nuclear 'Amazon Book Deletion' potential of Sony (less so Kaleidescape, I feel) to just say that unfortunately they can no longer allow you to have a copy of a film ... anywhere.
Equally, there is the option of just making rips (questionable legality depending on locale?) of ones own UHD disc (which can be automated) and using a CoreELEC device that has a legal Dolby Vision licence already on it to play things back perfectly (either locally from connected storage or from a NAS/SMB source) without any transcoding required.
This will retain the FULL visual and audio quality of the disc (or whatever your preferred encode level is - perhaps wise in today's storage price apocalypse) for your viewing pleasure.
The benefit of this over a 'service' (think P L E X, etc) is that you won't have the (predictable) rug pull which can (dependent on one's capacity to break 'easy service charges' etc) end up costing a bomb.
Plus, you will sleep easier from a 'data' POV in that everything is contained locally, no phone-home, no data on some server, somewhere. If you get super paranoid, you can even remove the worry that someone may fingerprint via film/tv DB API requests (or scraping actions) from add-ons ... by way of separating out that function to wherever you rip from and housing said film data in a
.nfo text file adjacent to a given film file.I'm not saying any of this as some weird online 'uhm actually' because I totally agree with you ... I'm just trying to think of a few ways in which one can afford to have some semblance of a relationship with the cinematic arts in the modern world without either losing one's wad ... or getting stabbed because you shushed the wrong person in the cinema. 😏