Obligatory winRAR mention. Technically proprietary paid software, trial never expires.

I’m pretty sour on murena. Never used their hardware but their cloud services have been down since October last year.

Different financial goals. Movie series are designed around a hype cycle to put out a major blockbuster every few years or whatever and produce massive ROI at the box office. Word of mouth and reviews matter; if it isn’t widely liked, it’ll get less revenue.

Series are produced by streaming providers primarily to entice new customers on to their platform and rake in subscription fees. Once they have the customers from season one, there’s less incentive to keep pumping money into the series. They rely on customer inertia and make it difficult to cancel a subscription to keep you around.

They do, but differently than us. They trade some sharpness and colour perception for field of view, low light vision, and speed / motion tracking. 30fps to a cat would look like a series of stills. Source via Archive.org