An independent reporter claims that more than 1.7 million paying subscribers canceled their plans to DIsney streaming services.
      • FireWire400@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 个月前

        I have to confess that I don’t actually use FireWire, nor have I ever used it to transfer anything. I just thought the port looked cool…

      • datavoid@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 个月前

        I bought a PCIe card for FireWire slots, there might be a usb converter though. On windows it worked out of the box, and I used WinDV for importing video.

      • tal@olio.cafeEnglish
        0·
        2 个月前

        If it’s Linux, sounds like it should just work out of box, at least for a while longer.

        https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-to-support-firewire-until-2029

        Linux to Support Firewire Until 2029

        The ancient connectivity standard still has years of life ahead of it.

        Firewire is getting a new lease on life and will have extended support up to 2029 on Linux operating systems. Phoronix reports that a Linux maintainer Takashi Sakamoto has volunteered to oversee the Firewire subsystem for Linux during this time, and will work on Firewire’s core functions and sound drivers for the remaining few that still use the connectivity standard.

        Further, Takashi Sakamoto says that his work will help users transition from Firewire to more modern technology standards (like perhaps USB 2.0). Apparently, Firewire still has a dedicated fanbase that is big enough to warrant six more years of support. But we suspect this will be the final stretch for Firewire support, surrounding Linux operating systems. Once 2029 comes around, there’s a good chance Firewire will finally be dropped from the Linux kernel altogether.

        • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
          0·
          2 个月前

          I have a feeling its mostly due to some audio and video hardware that has some real longevity. I’ve got a VHS+minidv player that I am transferring old videos from using FireWire (well, for the minidv. VHS is s-video capture).

          I’m just passing a FireWire PCI card through to a VM though. Though with how old the box is, it doesnt really need to be a VM. Thats a whole different discussion though.

          I had some FireWire audio interfaces too, 8ch and 16ch, but I got rid of those a while back. I’m sure someone’s making use of it though! Probably the m-audio delta 1010 I sold too, I think they are still going for a few hundred each despite being so long in the tooth.

          • tal@olio.cafeEnglish
            0·
            2 个月前

            I have a feeling its mostly due to some audio and video hardware that has some real longevity. I’ve got a VHS+minidv player that I am transferring old videos from using FireWire (well, for the minidv. VHS is s-video capture).

            Yeah, that’s a thought…though honestly, unless whatever someone is doing requires real-time processing and adding latency is a problem, they can probably pass it through some other old device that can speak both Firewire and something else.

            Probably the m-audio delta 1010

            That doesn’t have a Firewire interface, does it? I thought I had one of those.

            checks

            Oh, I’m thinking of the 1010LT, not the 1010. That lives on a PCI card.

            • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
              0·
              2 个月前

              That doesn’t have a Firewire interface, does it? I thought I had one of those.

              checks

              Oh, I’m thinking of the 1010LT, not the 1010. That lives on a PCI card.

              No I’m talking about the PCI card, just commenting on the longevity of some devices. I know two people still using FireWire for their interfaces in spare kit (RME fire faces), which got me thinking of some of my old kit I’ve replaced like the delta1010.

              These days I’m mostly pushing dante around

              • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                0·
                2 个月前

                Yup, that’s what I’m doing… an rme fireface. Incredible device, but uses fw. And since Microsoft is a bunch of aholes, I have to figure out how best to go forwards post windows 10. Except since I’m poor it’s my main interface that I’ve upgraded to.

                • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
                  1·
                  2 个月前

                  Linux is a good way forward if you want to try it and keep the fireface. Ubuntu is not my favorite base, but Ubuntu Studio (I’d suggest the LTS if you don’t need the latest and greatest all the time) is nicely set up, but I’d make one change from their preinstalled and I’d use Reaper over Ardour, but thats me.

                  Your biggest headache will be plugins if you’ve got a ton of vst’s, not all will work on linux.

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    461·
    2 个月前

    Nice. None of those “go woke go broke” boycotts ever actually materialize into meaningful business pressure.

    Unless you’re fucking Cracker Barrel.

    • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      2 个月前

      Cracker Barrel is so far in the red that the logo redesign was a hail mary move. They couldn’t afford to lose the tiny number of people who still frequent their trash diners.

    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      4·
      2 个月前

      Unless you’re fucking Cracker Barrel.

      Which was manufactured outrage, spawned by a few Shitter posts which were then amplified by a huge bot network.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      2 个月前

      lol they are already on another “cracker barrel trend” right now, about a music performer making maga mad. also CB situation was fueled mostly by a certain propaganda source.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      2 个月前

      Most CEOs are generally bright enough to look at the sales data rather than all of the online rhetoric and if the sales data isn’t going down they can ignore everything else.

      Everyone knows the right are terrible at organising themselves, they need a central figure in lieu of that they never achieve anything. When they try and boycott something it generally fails because most of them will continue to use the service while declaring loudly online that their not. The right don’t have actual moral values, other than selfishness.

  • reluctant_squidd@lemmy.caEnglish
    36·
    2 个月前

    It may seem like a small percentage loss when talking dollar for dollar subscription loss vs Disneys massive revenue, but the scarier thing for their board of directors is damage to their brand.

    The thought that a situation like this could cause any long a lasting or irreparable harm to the iconic mouse ears in any way would make keep them awake at night.

    • hansolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
      221·
      2 个月前

      Streaming services are very sensitive to the ups and downs of anything that’s a standard deviation of from normal. They’re too new to have 10+ years of data to fall back on, so the same overreactions that canceled Kimmel also uncanceled him because of panicky reactions to repercussions.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      2 个月前

      Disney has been trying to keep thier streaming alive, despite the massive costs maintaining one(paying all those actors and studios it aint cheap) which is why you see declining quality in the shows and movies.

      • Jourei@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        13·
        2 个月前

        I think this is how boycotts are supposed to be. Protest and return if it’s successful.

        If companies know they won’t ever recover from the mistake, why walk it back?

  • nothrone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    309·
    2 个月前

    This just shows that the whole “muh, it is the corporations fault for the climate emergency, there is nothing I can do about it!” is a load of BS. You can vote with your wallet. Become anti-consumption.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
      18·
      2 个月前

      It takes two to tango, they say. Corporations have a lot more wallet to vote with, as it were - but we are not powerless or blameless when we support them out of complacency.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      213·
      2 个月前

      That’s an incredibly naive and misinformed opinion you’ve got there. Most of the companies polluting are not businesses that members of the public buy services from. The vast majority of the largest polluters are business to business providers, Joe public can’t do anything about that.

      Just look up Monsanto, if we took them out the total pollution worldwide would probably drop by about 50% but they sell to farmers, so you might say well don’t buy from farmers that buy from Monsanto but the problem is all farmers buy from Monsanto, so there isn’t another option.

    • monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 个月前

      I was trying to buy food that wasn’t covered in plastic. I don’t have an option. I have looked for butchers, bakers and general food items that sell without plastic wrapping and it just isn’t feasible.

    • PhAzE@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      2 个月前

      Vance was recently on tv saying carr isn’t responsible because “look, Jimmy is still on tv, so what’d Carr do wrong?”, trying to sweep it under the rug.

      • ziggurat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 个月前

        They were not successful in their goal when breaking the law, so this argument is that therefor they are innocent

  • gary@piefed.worldEnglish
    191·
    2 个月前

    Almost everyone I know who cancelled their subscription is happily renewing it now that Kimmel is back on the air. I’m sticking with donating to PBS every month instead.

    • teejay@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      2 个月前

      We’re not. We were halfway out the door already with the lack of good content and increasing prices. This just gave us a needed push to actually cancel. We won’t resubscribe.

      • gary@piefed.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 个月前

        That’s how I feel about it too. Literally nothing I wanted to watch over there anyway. I’m not missing anything.

  • KiloGex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 个月前

    And then they raised the price, so anyone who goes back sheet this is punished for leaving in the first place. Screw Disney.

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 个月前

    I wonder what is worth more to ABC/Disney, all those direct subscribers, or these affiliates that are consolidating into two or three big media companies?

    This might be the beginning of the death of the affiliate model. What would happen if Sinclair simply stopped affiliating with ABC altogether? They own enough stations that they can do their own thing. Would it matter if there is no ABC station in Mobile, Alabama, if people who still want to watch can stream it?

    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 个月前

      The problem for OTA affiliates/broadcasters is content. Their business model relies on getting eyeballs so they can justify what they charge for advertising. Creating content that your viewers actually want to watch is expensive.

      Aside from some of the larger PBS stations, I don’t know that any of the major broadcasters, like Sinclair, have any experience producing their own content. They can throw their little tantrum and refuse to air Kimmel, but that’s just going to hurt them in the short term as advertisers will decide OTA timeslots are not a good investment.

      • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 个月前

        Sinclair seems to have some experience producing their own Fantasy shows (masquerading as News Content). They don’t have to put in that much effort to capture the attention of the MAGA crowd.