Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it?::<em>What should I watch? </em>is now a much easier question than <em>How do I watch it?</em>
Jellyfin is a great alternative system. You just have to get the shows and movies somewhere which also isn’t that hard cough cough
How does this compare to Plex?
I haven’t used plex in a while, honestly, after they pushed more things I didn’t wanted. But for me it works awesome. I am a Linux user, it just installed straight out of the box, and works. Has a great web interface, and a mobile app that gets better and better. It gets all movie and show info from the internet, its honestly awesome.
The decline of legal streaming, through the dividing up of content onto multiple expensive streaming platforms, has pushed me away from legal options onto the black/grey market where I can get much more content for much less on a more convenient single platform.
They were never competing with cable but with piracy. Of all media sellers it seems Gabe Newell was unique in understanding that
By all accounts Gabe isn’t also a gargantuan piece of shit, which also sets him apart from the other media sellers.
Nebula.
Yo ho fiddle de dee
Being a pirate is alright with me
To bypass the paywall: https://archive.ph/GO7mu
I see an irony in the fact that I can’t read this damn article without paying for yet another media / news subscription service. Stop linking to pay walls Lemmites!
If there just was a way to micro pay for a single article. But no, it always has to be subscription based.
I’ve heard a lot about setting up a Plex or a Jellyfin server locally, but from what I can tell they are just media storage platforms and in order to watch anything you would have to add your own content. In this age of digital content, it is very unlikely for a simpleton like me to go out and purchase hundreds of movie disks separately and manually load them into my CD drive to even have a fraction of the catalogue these streaming services combined provide. Also torrenting really isn’t a viable option for me as I personally use a free tier Proton VPN which doesn’t allow P2P, and even if I did get a proper one, I would still be limited to availability of seeds for movies I want to watch, which may or may not exist depending on the popularity of the said movie. I currently use a niche streaming site to watch my movies without any issues. Are self hosted plex/jellyfin servers really for a person like me?
limited to availability of seeds for movies I want to watch,
Unless you’re into SUPER niche stuff, that’s not an issue. If you ARE into super niche stuff, it wouldn’t be on streaming services anyway. Anything on streaming services is mainstream and easily downloadable.
Piracy
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The streaming services have managed to completely forget their business model of being marginally more convenient than piracy.
As for me, though, I’ll start ripping my DVDs. I’ll sail the high seas when I have to, but I’d may as well get hard copies of my favourite films and TV shows.
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If you paid $500~ for your TV, no probably not. If you’ve got a $2k OLED yes (4k Bluray though)
The prices keep going up and I have already set a max price in my mind for each subscription I’m on based on the content they provide over the year. I as a consumer don’t have infinite money.
This Summer has been particularly bad. I think every subscription I have has gone up 15-20%.
Is there any reason to not pirate the movies?
On a macro scale, they’ll stop making those movies if they aren’t financially viable. Cheap lowest common denominator shit will be all we get.
