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>
Yo ho fiddle de dee
Being a pirate is alright with me
YOU ARE A PIRATE
Scissor me timbers! 🏴☠️🦜🏴☠️
You got a typo there… let me help you out.
I think you mean;
Scissor me tinders
YARG!
Arrrr!
I’ll pay for a few streaming services that can keep something I want to watch in stock year around. For the ones that can’t, their shows go onto a seedbox with plex and sonarr.
This is the way. I pay for Sling TV because there are some shows (Drag Race, SNL, Sunday Fox cartoons) that I prefer to watch while they’re still in the zeitgeist, YouTube Premium, and Hulu. That covers pretty much all of my watching habits and I don’t feel left out of anything.
For anything else, there’s piracy™️
To bypass the paywall: https://archive.ph/GO7mu
The irony…
It’s always been, what should i watch. There just used to be the caveat of how.
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“Oh you should definitely check out Mr. Inbetween”
“Is it on Netflix?”
“idk it’s on my plex”
I love Plex!
Too bad they’re cracking down on sharing. :(
How do you mean?
They’re closing accounts for the big plex-sharing communities. A bunch of them are having issues keeping their accounts active.
Thank you.
Roku has a great voice search which works across all of the installed apps. I can just ask it for a movie, and it tells me which services have it.
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If there isn’t a physical option available to you just not watch it?
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It’s like the author never used the search function on a set top box. Most will allow you to add a program to a master queue and then will show you what channel(s) the program is on when you want to watch it. And unlike cable, you don’t have to call to add the channel when you don’t have it, or to cancel when you no longer want it.
Well, how? I go to my mighty little website and they give it to me for free…
I’m sorry, but I really don’t get it… the bigger question is and always has been where can I watch it.
It was a bit easier during the beginning of the streaming era, but never that easy, especially in Europe…
I need a stupid app (JustWatch) to tell me where I can watch a movie or show… so how is it easy to watch? It’s also not easy if I need 4+ streaming services…
That’s the point that’s being made.
I mostly just channel surf on Pluto or Roku for free lol
That quality is terrible though.
The irony of a pay-walled article from one of the 50+ news websites requiring subscriptions complaining about fragmented streaming services is palpable.
Was there a single website where all news can post their article and be supported by a subscription model before this? If there isn’t, how is this comparison relevant?
Yes. It was called a newspaper…
The ads were terrible.
At least they didn’t autoplay or pop up
Post.news is exactly that
NPR/PBS.
I’m back to sailing the high seas and dumping my loot into Plex.
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Use your local library! Thousands of Blu-ray/DVD titles for free you can check out and rip freely. And then you don’t have to worry about any nasty letters from your ISP.
Most libraries always give you access to Kanopy to steam movies/documentaries. Just need your library card and the app.
I honestly didn’t even include a DVD/BluRay drive in my PC build, so can’t really use those. And I tunnel all that traffic through Proton VPN, so ISP isn’t an issue.
If you have a spare USB 3 port and a spare power outlet, then you can get an external 4K Bluray drive for $100 or less.
It may be cheaper to just buy an old PC for this purpose.
An old, sub-$100 PC isn’t going to be able to read 4K blurays, and if you only want a regular bluray reader then those drives are even cheaper.
leave the house
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Thats what a VPN is for.
Or just not getting the content via torrenting
Indeed however that would necessitate having an optical drive
They’re pretty cheap, I have one that can read 4K blurays. About $70. I get access to all sorts of hard to find movies, and my library will even order blurays for me if they don’t have it in their catalog (up to 30 per year)
Love this! Supporting your community library and building your trove of booty at the same time lol.
I also like to collect physical media from my favorite artists, so I also rip from those disks and get the best of all worlds :)
My local library only has DVDs with kids movies, matey.
Yeah, this is much less chaotic. It’s not even about the cost so much as the convince now.
BTW I use the plex discovery search to find stuff across streaming services. This deserves a shoutout here. Could be better but I haven’t found a better solution. Google voice search on my nvidia shield used to be good at this but it’s really degraded lately.
Justwatch.com works well for finding the service hosting the show you want to watch.
It’s particularly bad at MAX right now. Several times I’ve been told a title was available and it wasn’t.
How do you use Plex? Can it work on a fire stick?
Yes. There is a legit plex app on fire stick and roku. It comes with free live TV and on Demand content, but you can also run your own server on your network with your own downloaded content. If you have an IPTV service you can stream that through plex as well.
Note that Jellyfin is a similar app/server that works the same way and is totally free. Plex is also free, but there are additional features behind the pay wall like GPU decoding, PVR service for IPTV, and others.
Yes you can get plex on firestick
You need something to host it on like a PC or even a Shield plus storage space
Plex - in the way users here are describing (important context since Plex’s management has recently shifted heavily to trying to be like Pluto.TV with less emphasis on its original purpose) works as an application that acts like a library for your own media collection.
There are 2 required parts to it :
- A “server” or “host” which acts as your library.
- A client - like an NVIDIA Shield, your phone, PlayStation, Roku, or eve your Fire Stick.
Without your own server with content stored on it, or at least a friend’s server credentials you can connect to, you are limited to the “Pluto.TV” type ad-driven media collection.
So the answer is “yes it works on a fire stick,” but you will need #1 also for it to be the single source library for your content and not just another ad-riddled garbage service.
Same here on Jellyfin.
I was always 100% on board with paying 50-100 bucks a month for being able to watch anything I wanted, whenever I wanted, in perpetuity — for the rest of my life.
Instead, capitalism chose to fracture all content behind multiple paywalls that don’t even host the content I want to watch, or censor/change it so that I can never watch the OG versions I want to watch, so I’ve instead been spending 50-100 bucks a month on computing hardware to download it and host it myself for over a decade.
I’ll continue to fucking do it too, because these soulless sociopath leeches don’t deserve a cent from me. They don’t even fucking pay their content creators or staff a decent wage, and will spend 10x more just to screw their workers. At this point I’d prefer them to fail and collapse, so I’ll continue not giving them money — I’m doing my part!
Can we stop over-simplifying corporate greed as “capitalism”?
Ten years ago Netflix gave is the solution all of us wanted, and that was also capitalism.
I wholeheartedly agree. Capitalism isn’t the issue here, corporate greed and not understanding the market is the issue. A free market allows better solutions to come into play, hopefully driving the price down of a greedy service.
Don’t forget the taxes they surely pay very diligently.
Just let me have my Stremio, and I’m a content man
When lost for what to watch, goto /r/InterdimensionalCable
GTFO with your subreddit nonsense! (In the nicest way possible.)
