The way of the Blockbuster 2: Electric Boogaloo

Obscenely true

Spot on

yeah we're running our own plex server now and it's been amazing. too many price hikes and reductions in quality of service. over it

My plex server is the best streaming experience I ever had. Only stopped running it because I just wasn’t watching anything for a good bit. More time on my hands now, so time for a revival.

All of you folks using Plex should check out Jellyfin, it may suit your needs better.

Jellyfin is better for in home streaming, but I find plex easier for sharing external to family/friends.
- In what way tho?
I keep trying, I have an extremely large collection and it keeps falling flat on metadata matching. Especially with anime, yes I have installed the add-ons. They still suck. And for whatever reason it's transcoding performance is nowhere near as good. It also still has an unresolved memory leak issue with a ticket that's been open for a long long time about it. I want to replace Plex but it needs to be with something as good as Plex
- I use jellyfin a lot for anime, no plugins. I just label all my folders like kaguya_sama_[tmdbid-12345].
  As long as the The Movie DB id is there, aboslutely no problems indexing.
- I had a lot of trouble jellyfin and anime until I started putting things into season folders, even if they only had one season. So if I had Ano Hana I'd put the episodes in a folder like this
  Media Disk/Anime/Ano Hana/Season 1/episodes_here
  If it's a movie, then it goes into a folder with other movies.
  Media Disk/Anime Movies/movies_here
  Once I started doing that, Jellyfin automatically recognized most Anime.
- Emby is the premium version of Jellyfin. I have found the meta information works a lot better. I haven’t done much transcoding but it does support it, and there are more apps to access it. Not too happy with the iOS app but the LG WebOS app works great.
Is jellyfin only usable with computers or is there a way to use it with smart tvs/consoles?
- It should have its own native app, it does for FireTV and Samsung iirc
- It has a few clients available for different devices, I'm using the Android TV client for example in my Philips Smart TV
How so?
I’m just happy with all the pirate sites today. Works fine for me. I’m about to cancel everything.

I have been rekindling my patronage to my county's libraries and archive.org.

Sure, these are DVDs, but they can be upscaled and are easily backed up.

I buy a crap load of books like I have a spending problem, but I get them used from bookstores and thriftstores. Libraries will always have something I can't find, with the added glory of browsing serendipity.

Sure, I like to pirate, but there is more treasure at your ports than you think.

It has content from almost every country, not just yours.
- I feel you misread. I mean what I spelled, county, the collection of cities that define the specific region I live in.
  My library card gives me access to many libraries in that county, which yes, has works from people across the globe.
Oh man. Ai can upscale DVDs.
Like. I can upscale anything. But damn.
- You wouldn't upscale a car.
- I know. It is not great. I ended up using FFMPEG to upscale to 4k using lanzcos filter.
  Not the crispest, but vastly more watchable.
  I will try AI upscaling when I can.

We need more One Piece Live action memes
- I went in blind, not knowing anything about One Piece other than it is a long running anime. Easily my favorite show I've watched in 2023 so far.

All it took for me to take up sailing full time was the removal of King of the Hill from Netflix. I couldn’t find it anywhere at first, so I did the next logical step. I later found out that it was available on Hulu. Asinine. I feel like Hank would have done the same thing, for the principle of it alone.

Plex is so much better than Netflix, or really any other streaming service, in my opinion. I have all of the content that I want, and supplement the rest with my favorite YouTubers.

Maybe not Hank, but Dale for sure.
- RIP Mr.Gribble
- Yep, Hank would have traveled to a library and rented the disc, watched one episode, and returned it immediately. Then he'd repeat the process each time he wanted to watch an episode.
You can also automatically download YouTube content.

I recently looked at buying NBA league pass in the UK, £100 to watch games that aren’t on at a reasonable time and still full of ads…

Now I’ve set up RSS to download the games, and the uploaders even cut the ads and intermissions.

Haha jellyfin go brrrrrrr

🌏👨‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

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  . . Pirating is best way to watch tv?👨‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀always has been. Arrrrrrr

I understand the sentiment, but Netflix having a monopoly on streaming content wasn't a good situation, either.

The ideal solution is multiple competing services with the same content.
- Like music streaming services figured out years ago.
- I'd recommend considering how the recently expired https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc. would have applied to streaming services.
Does Walmart have a monopoly on kinder chocolate? The idea is to have several distributors each with as complete a catalog as possible. Having such a shattered offers between platforms makes it very noncompetitive against any piracy solution.
- This right here dammit.
There is a difference between 1, 4 and 30 streaming services...
The usurper delivered us from the evil that was cable or nothing.
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the enemy. The cycle must repeat

And a bottle of rum!

For around two years now I'm using Kodi with Seren and Real-Debrid on my Smart TV and it was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

i have never paid for any streaming services and will never tbh

Rather support directly than through this anti-consumer bs

What does "support directly" mean? Like you're going to cut checks to the entire cast and crews of the shows you watch?

Yarrrrrrrrrr

Shishishishi