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.
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.
You wouldn’t upscale a car.
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
Throw a tv tuner in front of a Plex server and you get magic!
Oh, can you use Plex as a DVR then?
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.
Obscenely true
Spot on
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?
Because Plex has that feature built-in with little hassle and Jellyfin does not (for now)
Jellyfin gives you 100% control. You’re responsible for setting up remote access. Which actually isn’t that hard. Several IT and network admins of the community (myself included) hand out documentation on how to do this. Without completely ruining your security.
With Plex, some of the application communication is routed through their network. It requires an active internet connection and you must create an account with them. They have third party analytics embedded, use tracking pixels, beacons and device fingerprinting. Whatever personal data you have supplied is used to serve ads. This being their promoted content that isn’t part of your library.
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.
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.
Do they have NHL and if so is it possible to learn your powers?
(Edit: But don’t post links to pirated content here lest they be found by the DCMA bots, DM them if necessary please, and thank you.)
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.
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.
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.
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
Haha jellyfin go brrrrrrr
🌏👨🚀🔫🧑🚀
On earth, astronaut shoots astronaut? You talk in riddles.
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.
Then floodgates of piracy opened as a means of being with exorbitant prices on music, and then television.
The solution for the industry was to make it more convenient to pay them than it was to steal. Stealing never stopped, it just lessened, because it was more convenient to pay.
Critical mistake, making it difficult for us to get what we want…
The fact that there are 11 quadrillion streaming services now makes me suspect that there actually cannot be a secret cabal of shady business types running the world. Because they are all far too interested in competing with each other to actually notice that if they stop doing that then they’d be better off.
That’s why they all try to buy each other
And a bottle of rum!
Yarrrrrrrrrr
