CNN Max is likely to evolve over time. Among the features the company will try out are ways of alerting Max viewers to breaking news while they are watching something else on the service, whether it be an HBO series, a Turner Classic Movies selection or an old episode of Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.”

The enshittification of our world continues unabated.

  • kaitco@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    It depends on how deep you wish to go down the hole.

    For me, and especially now that Netflix is ending their DVD service, if I can’t find something old via torrent, I’ll find it on DVD on Amazon, used for as cheap as possible. Then, rip it, and sell it back on Amazon used. Odds are, whoever is buying it from me is doing the same thing I just did.

      • kaitco@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        I mean, not immediately, but once you’ve got your collection, you’re pretty much set. You can watch whatever you want, whenever, wherever.

        The only streaming service I have these days is Max and that’s only because it’s part of my cellphone plan and I’m grandfathered into that plan as well.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          What you don’t get to do, which you could do back when TV was just TV and you happened to catch it on, or you could do when it is added to a streaming service, is discover something you didn’t know existed.

          • kaitco@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 year ago

            That’s fair. I’ve discovered some neat old films on Max by just browsing around.

          • Rootiest@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            There are some decent discovery services you can use with your torrent software.

            I use Ombi which my plex users can log into with their Plex id, discover new/old/etc content and then send an automated request to my Radarr/Sonarr software.

            Each users permissions can be configured as to the quality/language/etc of the content as well as which types they can request to automatically download and which require my approval first

              • Rootiest@lemm.ee
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                2
                ·
                1 year ago

                Yeah just as in manually downloading them you’re gonna need a decent private tracker or two to reliably find some more obscure stuff like that