Comment by ACCount36

Comment by ACCount36 10 hours ago

4 replies

That's video DRM for you.

Upside? There is no, and never was, an upside. Not for the user, and not for anyone else. Video DRM literally never worked.

Nonetheless, it exists, and it makes things worse for everyone by existing.

radicality 5 hours ago

I even occasionally get audio issues on Netflix (AppleTV plugged into Samsung 4k oled tv), which I assume are due to some kind of DRM, though never dug into it. Sometimes when switching inputs (firetv stick / AppleTV stick), or switching content on AppleTV between different apps, the Netflix content audio just stops working. All app UI sounds work correctly, but no audio once you hit play. Toggling the AppleTV audio settings a few times between dolbyAtmos and standard stereo usually brings it back, so I assume it has something to do drm on the audio tracks, but if anyone has other ideas lmk

  • freedomben an hour ago

    I used to run into this often with Paramount+. I don't know if it's still an issue or not because I cancelled over it (plus them showing me ads when I pay for premium).

voidUpdate 9 hours ago

I assume it has an upside for whoever invented it since they can sell it to everyone

  • immibis 2 hours ago

    This is how the world works. If you want to get rich, you can sell something that doesn't work, to rich people who believe it does. That's basically how YCombinator works.