Amazon Prime Video won’t offer Dolby Vision and Atmos on its ad-supported plan | The company is now facing a lawsuit over its decision to charge $3 more for ad-free viewing.::Amazon isn’t only interrupting its Prime Video subscribers’ viewing experience with ads – it’s also removing their access to Dolby Vision and Atmos unless they pay $3 a month on top of their subscription fees.
Meanwhile I get support for both completely ad free with infinite selection on my Jellyfin server… What on earth are these companies thinking, you literally get a superior product by not paying for it. I would gladly pay a small fee per download of DRM free files if that were an option.
Care to elaborate on a Jellyfin server for those who don’t know? I would gather a lot who read this would be interested in a summary or ELI5 it.
Jellyfin, kodi, openelec, emby and plex are currently the best self-hosted media streaming platforms. Just attach some hard drive with your vacation videos, ripped dvds/blurays, other owned content and you can have your own service that is only available in your local network at home, for free, with whatever quality you want. One benefit is that this will still work in the rare occasion that your ISP screws up and knocks your neighborhood offline. The downside is you have to have sufficient storage and need to acquire your media yourself.
https://jellyfin.org/
The easiest way forward is to take that and couple it with something like this for near instant access to a shit ton of content.
Edit: If you are using Set Top Boxes or Smart TVs like Roku / Google / Samsung make sure there’s a Jellyfin client available for your device. You may need to use something else like Plex or Kodi if a Jellyfin client isn’t available for your environment.