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It isn't so much about controlling how you watch it as controlling what's produced to watch or read. As for "you can just stream it" let's see, Disney owns at least 30% of HULU, NBCUniversal through Fandago purchased VUDU,along with having Peacock, ViacomCBS own PlutoTv, Amazon of course owns Amazon media(licensed & original movies,tv). Remember that NBCUniversal is owned by Comcast. Poor Netflx is like "Why people want to jump me for a rate hike?" "On February 25, 2020, Comcast announced it would purchase Xumo from the Panasonic/Viant joint venture for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of the service—which will continue to operate as an independent business, albeit within Comcast's cable television division—stems mainly from Xumo's partnerships with smart TV manufacturers (including LG, Panasonic, and Vizio), which would allow Comcast to use Xumo's placement to market or showcase Xfinity and other Comcast services as well as use its technology to develop additional streaming platforms. The company plans to add content from the NBCUniversal programming library and the company's various television networks as well as use it to upsell its free/subscription hybrid service Peacock, akin to ViacomCBS's utilization of Pluto TV to offer content from its cable networks following the former Viacom's purchase of the rival streamer in the Spring of 2019." They control what we can see......

perfect example when I was still subscribing to cable tv, suddenlink and viacom had an issue over viacom wanting to raise their rates and I lost a half dozen channels for over 9 months. NOW these are some of the 1's they control....

The problem is that the "providers" are also the creators in the majority of cases. Look at how many studios are owned by these 5 Media Corps, and the shares they own of streaming channels. Major film studios - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

Here's mine, think it's what you have showing.

I agree, from what I could make out,they're getting the figure from 4 x 12v lines at 5 amp each in that cable. That seems like alot of heat build up in the cable.

I'm sure many of them did,especially when they're being forced to compete with corps that are more than 10x's size their size. The govt. is always stepping in to make sure that companies like Microsoft aren't becoming too large or becoming a monopoly but you hardly see that in the film industry buy outs. They make Cable companies sell movie/film divisions when purchasing other companies to break them up, but let media companies like Disney & paramount just keep buying out smaller film & tv companies.

lol, 1 of the contracts in question was for ghost writing the Star Wars novel for Lucas based on his script. Who could have imagined all the media buyouts back in the 70's?

Too many mergers into one giant company anymore....

lol, I love in the comments where someone posted "Isn't Apple the same company that set up an office to poach employees from Qualcom?"

Anyone else feel that media Corps are getting too large and being left too unsupervised? For example,Disney,when they purchased Lucas Films,bought all their contracts and royalty rights also. Now,normally that's not such a bad thing,but Disney acquired the rights to contracts for books that had been written for Star Wars also.These contracts gave the authors a percentage of royalties and Lucas got a percentage as the TM holder who authorized the books to be written. Disney stopped paying the royalties to the author. When contacted they at first ignored him, Then after being contacted by his lawyer,they requested he sign a NDA before they would talk with him agreeing NOT to disclose what was discussed or that it was even held. SERIOUSLY? After the writers guilds got involved, Disney said they weren't responsible for the royalty payments because his contract had been with Lucas Films. If that had been allowed to stand, ANY company could get out of contract obligations simply by selling them to a sibling company. I can just see google selling it's playstore contracts to alphabet and telling developers "we don't owe you the 70% of sales because your contract was with google and alphabet owns it now."The problem is that authors are under different contract laws then others(say actors)and it's crazy that companies can use a loophole like this legally. https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/16/22166064/star-wars-alien-novelization-disney-royalties-sfwa-alan-dean-foster "Lawyers familiar with contract law tell Polygon that Disney’s arguments, that the transfer of the property to another publisher, and the ending of an original publisher’s edition of a book, nullifies any obligation to pay a writer or establish a new contract, might hold up. Companies buy assets and not the liabilities all the time, precisely because they don’t want to shoulder the burden of those obligations." If you buy a companies assets,you should ALSO have to abide by the liabilities it incurred and had at the time of your purchase, that includes dealing in good faith with the people you owe.

lol, don't shame me, but I STILL use a couple of aol email acct's because they're not popular so don't get alot of junk sent their way.

Amazon had a chance, but they screwed the pooch and killed it with ads and making THEIR store the prime(pun intended) source of all apps. Sideloading playstore's an option, but it seems to slow the system down.

lol, I remember wrapping the modem in a sock to muffle the squeal so it wouldn't wake my sister who had to work the next day when I'd log on at 11-12 at night to chat with my girlfriend.

I remember a girlfriend upgrading my first computer for me, she put Windows 98SE on it from win 95, and upgraded the memory from 8Mb to 32Mb. All on a 1Gb hdd. Oh, and I met her on dial up internet on my dial up aol.com acct. We didn't even have DSL in our area then. lol, I even remember having to change out the modem in the comp and adding a 56k pci card.

So, because Intel couldn't make their own chips small enough, they become a vip customer of the people who can?

Ok, I gotta admit that's a sweet looking card with the purple,green colors and the red led behind the fans....

Yeah, I clicked on THIS alert from the home page, and even though the page continued to load after it opened, it opened with BOTH of their comments right at the bottom of my page where they belonged.... was still room to add a comment below but it didn't show it because it went to where the alert directed.

I think it may be an issue of the page opening before it's loaded all the way. My reasoning is that I just tried to replicate the issue after having this page open perfectly to your comment when I clicked on the notification. #! I closed the Tab. #2 I opened the Forums home page. #3 I opened my alerts and RIGHT clicked the 1 for this thread and opened it in a new tab. #4 Immediately opened the new tab (that was still loading ) and was greeted with THIS .... That's an image from way up the page. Possibly the page isn't loading in our browsers quickly enough? That could be due to many reasons, including junk at our end,glitches in speed,ect. Edit: The more I think about, it's always in new tabs that it happens to me 'Cause I right click on my alerts and open them in new tabs.The 1's I just straight click on from the home page when reading something new,never seem to open to some random place for me.

I was on the browser, had to open the "about chrome" tab to ck for updates and it already was downloading when I did. (I went to ck the ver. it was 100.something...) FireFox is my main browser,it only did Chrome 'Cause I opened it to ck.

What I love is nothing said to the users themselves or recent updates to fix it being applied as of yesterday... I mean no notice in MY browser on windows OR android about this. Edit: Ooops! When I just opened chrome it updated in the background to ver. 101. Maybe they didn't tell me,but they did update it.

I didn't purchase, but I know a lot of ya's are buying cards. MSI has them back in stock.

seems like it's random, sometimes it opens right where it should, others it goes all voodoo like it's possessed and opens anywhere it wants on the page and I have to scroll to the last place I was(either back or ahead)

My build started out the opposite way, I purchased a RTX 2070 for an upgrade and it wouldn't post on my Dell. Posted fine on anther build with the same cpu/memory configs so I knew the card was good. Ran across a comment in nvidia forums about how they were having issues with some older dell bios not working right with the new cards. Wife convinced me to build a new comp since the dell was a 2nd gen i7(2013 purchase) and my parts for the whole comp weren't much more than $50.00 over the cost of the card from EVGA.($549.99 +$50.32 tax) Comp parts were Ryzen 7 2700x ,16Gb ram,X470 Aorus Ultra Gaming Motherboard,120Gb NVME m.2,2Tb sata drive,Windows 10,computer case,EVGA 600w psu. Aurora Fan kit I won from InWin here on the site in a contest. Edit: EVGA and Galax have a bunch of 3000 series RTX cards back in stock at semi reasonable prices.

ccleaner has a duplicate file cleaner app built in it's tools section but you have to run it then ck each file you want to have deleted. Or ck the box at top to remove all.

lol, it could be like my gigabyte board with the main m.2 slot under the main pci-e slot for my video card and the second m.2 slot butting up against the cmos battery keeping the choice of a heatsink limited...