The Kelvin movies are still on Paramount+.
  • vladmech@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    3 years ago

    It’s like companies actively want me to cancel my subscriptions and sail the high seas…

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      3 years ago

      For me the joke is that there were any Star Trek fans who’d consider anything but torrenting (though I’ll admit ed2k is still not finally dead, and Fopnu is a usable filesharing tool, albeit proprietary).

      • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
        14·
        3 years ago

        I watch Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds on Paramount+ only because I want them to keep getting made

        • Overzeetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          3 years ago

          The funny part is that I have legitimate accounts with Prime, Netflix, Paramount+, Apple and two others, but I still d/l and watch everything on Plex. (though I should probably admit that all the big names I get “free” via other services, like Prime, Tmo, etc).

      • milkisklim@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        3 years ago

        The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates

        Gabe Newell

        • NumbersCanBeFun@mastodon.social
          3·
          3 years ago

          It’s so true though. I have been learning piano and the price for sheet music is outrageous. I was going to do the right thing and pay for it but everything is a subscription or a book. I’m not buying 10 other songs just for one I really want.

          In seconds I had thousands of PDF’s at my disposal. I have so much sheet music now I don’t have enough ink to print it all out.

        • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
          11·
          3 years ago

          There’s a structural problem - it may be beneficial for companies as some coherent entities to provide such a service, but for individuals inside them, like various kinds of sales, management and so on, it’s not.

          In every case where such an elusive thing as potential popularity of something conflicts with a less elusive thing like control they have in streaming services, the latter wins. Because what makes its makers rewarded on their job wins.

        • CindyLouWho2@startrek.websiteEnglish
          2·
          3 years ago

          I don’t mind paying for content, as long as prices are reasonable. Creators do deserve to be paid! I get all the shows on CTV-SciFi (cable) currently, as well as some on Pluto, but will slowly start adding to the DVD/BluRays as I see good prices. I already have DS9 & Voyager, plus season 1 of Prodigy.

      • poinck@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        3 years ago

        I bought them more than a century ago. The DVDs start to fade, some of my DS9 DVDs are. I had to go to Paramount+ to resume watching. I wonder in which shape my Star Trek movie DVDs will be when I rewatch them.

        Btw., the stream versions don’t have Dolby Surround. Is this the same for the movies. Yet another reason to have that DVDs.

        • CindyLouWho2@startrek.websiteEnglish
          2·
          3 years ago

          hmm, my DS9 DVDs are fine, but I’ve had them for less than 1 decade. I’ll get back to you when it gets to a century 😀

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    14·
    3 years ago

    keep switching where availability of movies and shows are on streaming platforms while also ending selling physical media…

    • Samus Crankpork@beehaw.orgEnglish
      7·
      3 years ago

      Yeah. Getting out of physical media now, as every streaming service is hitting peak enshittification, is such a wild choice for Best Buy to be making, it has to have been handed to them by people trying to keep people on streaming. Now is the time to be making a killing in physical media.

  • quotheraven404@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    3 years ago

    Well that sucks, I just paid for a full year. Was this announced beforehand or did they disappear with no warning? What else are they going to drop?

  • BoisZoi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    3 years ago

    When the shows and movies left Netflix a few years back, I just purchased them all on iTunes and downloaded them.

  • CmdData@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 years ago

    As if this wasn’t inevitable. Buy the DVD’s or Blu-Rays on eBay or just straight up pirate it. Paramount doesn’t deserve our money if they pull shit like this. They haven’t deserved any money for a long ass time in my opinion.

  • Elise@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    3 years ago

    I was genuinely excited about the tiny picture of key and peele doing a star trek sketch. Oh woes.