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This was the plan the entire time
In the golden age of television, advertisers paid for the production of content and used the content to sell their wares by placing “commercials” within. Now they no longer produce content but have made deals with the content creators to insert their ads, while the end user, the consumer of content, suffers for it.
Maybe I should start running ads on my jellyfin server. Something like “want unlimited bluey for a weekend? Clear and load the dishwasher twice this week”
Or “want +16 content? Start being an adult and use the toilet brush”
You may have just become your parents
Ngl that might work on me, gating Bluey behind the dishwasher. At least until the obsession ran out.
some time ago I saw an homeassistant customizatoin where the smartplug for TV would turn on only after the child confirmed they completed a bunch of tasks (homework, putting away toys etc). Sure they could “cheat” but that would just trigger a total ban for a month.
Borrowing this idea.
I saw great potential in streaming. Then physical media started to evaporate. Then everyone started to have their own streaming platform. Then came the ads.
By the time I could have afforded them, it got enshittified. Back to swashbuckling I guess.
Was the plan all along. You gotta pay the same price, but now also watch ads and have it all gone once you stop paying for subscriptions.
I:m so used to block ads on every platform I use. That everytime I’m forced to use an infected version of said platform I’m shocked by the amount of ads that are being shuved down your throat.
Stremio + Real-Debrid = adfree streaming.
JellyFin + your own media = ad free streaming. I detest ads and general streaming services. Whenever you want to talk about a show, you have to preface it with ‘what streaming service is it on’?
This will be the way for me going forward building storage and library. I’d rather don’t watch something than watch with ads.
And you can watch it when your internet is down.
Sure but that requires infrastructure. Have you seen the price of storage these days?
It’s still not bad if you’re buying old SAS drives. At this point, anything 4TB or less is fine, and for most people that’s plenty to start with.
If you’re ripping DVD and BluRay content, you probably will gobble up space quickly without re-encoding it, but otherwise you can store content from streaming services with ease.
I built my 32tb server a couple of years ago when drive prices were reasonable, but many of the rips on it are strait remuxes. Now that another drive or two is not likely affordable anytime soon, I’m re-encoding them to x265 to reclaim a bunch of space.
My point was more that Stremio with debrid costs maybe $50/yr and requires minimal knowledge/maintenance, as well as having other benefits (depending on the debrid service.)
If you have zero care in the world about storing the media, Stremio makes much more sense imho.
I can only speak for myself, but any such service can only be looked at as a temporary solution. How long before that goes away? With your own media (be it ripped from disks you own or obtained elsewhere), it’s not temporary.
That is the unfortunate thing, hosting your own media does take storage, but I still think overall it would be cheaper depending on the amount of storage and how much you are spending on Streaming services. A quick look says people are spending $100 or so on services each month. So $1,200 a year. You can easily build a 30tb array and the NAS for under that, even with today’s outrageous prices, as as you find more storage, expand upon it. 30tb is going to host a whole lot of media. Let’s say the average 30 minute TV show is 0.5 gb and a movie is 2gb, you can store something like 20,000 TV episodes and 10,000 movies. I think you’d be just fine, and that’s a payback of one year. And you can easily share that with your friends and family without paying additional fees.
Stremio is piracy so has no cost.
Paying for a debrid service is optional, you can use a VPN instead, but debrid just makes it cleaner since that is built into many of the addon options.
For me at least, I like owning my media, at least that way you don’t have to worry about it disappearing in the future.
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I haven’t watched something with ads in it for many years.
Y’all know how.
Only time is when I stay in hotels and watch their cable. It’s so weird and insulting after freeing myself from them for so long. It breaks up the pace and basically ruins the entire experience.
Maybe look into getting a GL.inet travel router with WiFi and a Chromecast/Android stick. I use that when I travel. Setup a WiFi network on the travel router and setup the Chromecast on it for when you’re at the hotel.
At the hotel, either jack the travel router into a network port then use your phone to sign in to the hotel’s network, or configure Repeater/WISP to get the travel router to connect to and re-broadcast the hotel WiFi (again using your phone or PC to sign in). Going Repeater/WISP brings a sizeable performance hit due to the lack of radios but it’s definitely do-able.
If you’re hosting Jellyfin externally, job done. If not, you can configure OpenVPN/Wireguard on the travel router and your home router and connect privately that way.
Source: Tech worker who had a requirement to be overseas 80% of the year in different hotels :)
https://www.gl-inet.com/collections/travel-routers
https://wifirepeater.org/openwrt-wisp-repeater-mode-configuration/
Yet one more thing pushing people to Piracy…
There is nothing more maddening than advertising during a show that wasn’t written for commercial breaks.
Yet one more thing pushing people to Piracy…
Piracy is the poor doing what the rich do all the time.
Add free streaming is a myth now.
-there I corrected it
I prefer minuses too.
Yeah. When I heard about cable (as a kid because I heard you paid for it), I imagined it was ad free. And then when I became an adult and experienced cable, I was super disappointed and it made me mildly upset.
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just fucking torrent it all you losers. a vpn sub is cheaper than netflix.
Sometimes I make it a challenge. Can my other half access the content the “right” way faster than a torrent can be found?
its really funny how this is so much the way cable went.
I must be living a very luxurious life then. Jellyfin has kept the same price for ad-free ‘streaming’, as has Stremio (so far).
Is IPTV piracy just a European thing then?
My friend here in the States has it. He let me use it for a while. It’s really cool, but finding an IPTV service that’s reliable is a real challenge.
Go to Chinese amazon, search for android boxes and ask for a test they will give you a code. Use tivimax premium as your app, said to be the best.
Tivimate is THE app for IPTV on Android. But it seems providers are scarce in the US so regardless of software that is a problem.
Yeah, follow the instructions and get direct access you dont need a reseller. I pay 35 a year for everything available direct to a seller on one of the chinese marketplace sites
