Eventually you'll reach the point where instead of checking Netflix for X and settling for Y locally, you'll just download X and watch it.
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This. I feel like watching Das Boot. Okay, it streams on Fubo. Maybe I'll watch K-19. No, that one is on Peacock. The Hunt for Red October? No, it's on HBO Max.
Do they really expect me to subscribe to all those different services when I could just put it into Radarr and have it a few minutes later?
I downloaded The Lighthouse and later found out that Netflix has it. I have Netflix, but it's mostly for the kids.
Heh, that's usually the plan - except I don't wanna have to wait for it to finish. But then I go back the next day to get it running before I leave the house, and it's finished before I can even get out the door!
Set your client to download pieces sequentially. VLC will play it while it downloads in the background. Probably other players too.
I’ve tried to give them my money. Max, Hulu, Netflix… and none of them want it unless they can get my telemetry. American in Europe, so I can’t use US services. Netflix and Prime will only show me the Euro selection. Don’t want that. Use a VPN, you say? All those services block IPVanish and Proton. They want my data not my money. It would be optimal if I paid them to give them my data, but if I can’t give them clean telemetry, they don’t want my money. This tells me they should be paying me for that info. And that’s not going to happen.
So, I tried. I honestly did.
Enter Stremio-Torrentio-Debrid and I can now watch every single thing I can think of. For the pittance I give Debrid, it’s been a game changer. I don’t expect it to last forever, but aligning with you fellow seafaring folks will keep me at the forefront of the game. 🤘🏼🏴☠️
Proton VPN works for me.
But we should not have to pay another company to watch the content owned by a company we are already paying.
All those services block IPVanish and Proton. They want my data not my money.
How do you come to that conclusion from their blocking of commercial VPNs? Sure, of course they want your telemetry as well, but it's mainly due to the copyright owners/distribution agreements.
With 25Mbps internet, for me harddriveflix is often the streaming service with the highest bitrate...
25Mbps? Gimme that. I have 1-5Mbps during the day.
Overnight downloads go brrr...
AppleTV: you wanted to watch this movie, that’s great, it’s on Amazon, BellTV, and Crave
Open any of those apps and it’s only available outside my subscription and I have to subscribe to some weird ass TV channel I’ve never heard of and didn’t even have their own app.
The Pancake gets it. The Wise Pancake gets me.
Commercial streaming sites are so bad. The "pirate" streaming sites have so much content from so many different countries, providers, and in so many different languages, it blows my mind how short-sighted commercial streaming websites are. They could be making so much more money by having one single video hosting service where all the production companies put their products on. Basically, a video streaming warehouse.
Imagine, no matter which country you're in, which currency you pay in, which OS or browser you use, all you have to do is go to one single website where you pay a tenner every month and you've got any and all TV shows, movies, maybe even merch for the media you watch, etc. . Imagine you could even give money to keep a show alive. Tip a few extra coins here, a few extra there, or blow a few hunnies on merch of your favorite show.
Instead, they have 100 different silos. Fuck that.
The quality is often terrible too. I've literally been watching Netflix and the pixellation/stuttering has been so bad that I've shut off the film, spent 2 minutes downloading it, then just carried on watching the downloaded version from where I left off.
So I'm not the only one! Can't remember when this was since Netflix was cancelled a while ago, but back then it wasn't even possible to select the quality or get the true quality. 1080p was actually streaming 720p. IMO, that should be worthy of a fine, but ain't nobody got the time. Much quicker to just find it elsewhere.
Or even something akin to how music works where Apple Music / Spotify / YT Music generally has the same stuff across different services
I'm with you on that. There are some gems on streaming sites still, but lots of half baked content to sift through.
I've actually started buying DVDs again to add to a plex archive. A lot of not-current shows and movies are in my budget and I don't have to worry about availability. I will say Plex tells me what service has what content in my watchlist which is nice, but doesn't work for everything.
My SO and I were searching for a show and just gave up; too much of a hassle. Downloading would have been easy if we wanted, but after doing the searching dance, we just didn't care anymore and threw on a show we know and enjoy.
I set up my plex so it auto searches and downloads things added to the watch list, that and I follow a few lists in trakt for upcoming shows and movies so between the two it's much more content that any streaming service we uses to have
we just didn’t care anymore and threw on a show we know and enjoy.
Yep! Ya know back in the old days we had to just watch whatever was on TV! Or go buy a VHS! But nowdays we have entire media libraries on our computers that, as a VHS collection, would be the kind of shelf someone would brag about. I suppose I should feel grateful for that. But I wanna have it! Blockbuster died for a reason.... maybe not the one we thought?
A true pirate would build a macrovision remover circuit and make a copy of their friends tape instead of buying one.
Libraries use a couple streaming services (such as Kanopy), so check them out.
And there are tools for saving what you stream from them. Here's one for Kanopy.
And with Overseer, when I do not have X or Y in stock, I just ask nicely and within 2-5 minutes I have my movie/episode
I haven't looked at any streaming service in at least 5 years.
Want to watch something > Open Ombi > Search title > click 'request' > (request is processed by the arr stack) 15-25min later receive notification 'request ready to watch' > Open emby from anywhere > stream request from my home pc.
Most of the time the media's already been acquired from previous requests from users, monitored imdb lists, friend recommendations randomly tossed in throughout the week, etc; and can just be streamed immediately.