Amazon Prime Video drops Dolby Vision and Atmos unless you pay extra::Amazon Prime Video has removed Dolby Vision HDR, and Atmos surround sound, unless you pay an extra $2.99 a month for its new ad-free option. The company has confirmed the move.

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      I just setup the arrs with qbittorrent using Docker on my NAS with overseer. I already had a Plex server setup on an N100 pointed at my NAS but now it is more automated. I was fine with the occasional manual adding of stuff but with how awful all of the services are now I just created my own that works for me.

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        took me a while to realize you meant sonarr and radarr by “arrs”

        I have those too, though I am running on unraid.

        previously I wrote my own program for converting, renaming and categorizing movies and tv shows, but now I just use Sonarr and Radarr.

        I will need to setup TDarr soon to start saving on space.

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    Oh no, I can’t believe I won’t be able to watch the two shows that use Dolby Vision anymore.

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      I got an LG C8 in 2017 because I thought Dolby Vision was gonna be awesome compared to HDR10, pretty much every Dolby Vision thing I’ve watched is too dark and anything white has that stupid yellowish tint to it.

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        I have an LG C2 and I find Dolby Vision content pretty good, but only since they added the IQ setting, which boosts the brightness a little bit.

        Also, I’ve got used to the warm picture settings. So much so that everything else looks too blue to me now.

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              I’ve watched multiple shows and movies with it, I’m one of those people that loves vivid colors, so even when the TV is calibrated (using an online guide) it still didn’t look good to me 🤷‍♂️

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    Is there a word for this? Yanking features from a services so they can be sold to you as an add-on?

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      Enshittification

      First, they make a service good for the customer even at a loss so customers don’t want to go other places. ✅

      Second, they use the information gathered from you to sell to companies to make money off you. In Amazon’s case they are now so big they don’t need to sell your info but they do it anyways. ✅

      Third, they screw the companies and the users to make the money all for themselves. In Amazon’s case they fuck sellers by making Amazon branded copies of best selling items to cut their third party stores out of business by putting their copies first in the search results.✅

      Read Cory Doctorow’s books about enshittification.(also read his fiction, Little Brother, for a great fast paced dystopian terrorist novel.

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    First they inject ads unless you pay more, now they reduce quality unless you, again, pay more. Wild that more and more people have reverted to sailing the seas once more, who’d of thought?

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      The headline isn’t clear, it’s actually one fee; the ad tier doesn’t have Dolby and the ad-free tier does.

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    Oh thanks! That explains why my audio was so horrible that I had to turn on subtitles. Good riddance

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      Prime video? Did anyone actually pay for prime shipping to get the video subscription?

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      It was momentum for me, just couldn’t be bothered to take care of it until recently. Glad I did and regret it wasn’t sooner

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      Usenet really is great for piracy, I’m so happy that I found out about it like a decade ago. So much better than torrents.

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        But why? I’ve been using torrents with ease for a very long time.

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          Once you set it up, it’s automatic. The *arr tools were built with usenet in mind, Jackett and the like are just wrappers, also Usenet is a lot faster and flies under the “piracy radar” unlike torrents.

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            Yeah but I don’t use the arr tools, I use the other ones which do the same deal but for torrents.

            Private trackers tend to fly under the radar to a degree too. I’m not sure how Usenet does since it’s still a popular method and seems just like a private tracker without sharing your IP with your peers but you pay for it

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              I belong to a few private trackers as well, they’re not exactly easy to get into. I feel that Usenet is “more clean” because you don’t have to seed the file for X days.