Peacock = pisspenis

In no way is Peacock worth $17/month.

HDD prices are up over the last several years even with greater density drives coming on the scene, but it still pales in comparison to the price increases of these streaming services.

People only liked Blockbusters business model because there were no other options. Redbox came on the scene and decimated the company and they were even sued to get the distribution model changed so that they had to wait a month before they could rent new movies out. Now both companies are relics of the past since streaming became mainstream.

I used to point this out about Hulu probably close to a decade ago on reddit and would get endless comments about how "it's just a few shows," "i never see any ads," and "it's not their fault." I wonder if those same people exist here.

There's literally nothing compelling these shitty companies to advertise these plans as ad free when they do in fact contain ads. Just like cellular ISPs have no legitimate reason to call their data plans "unlimited" when they cap you after using a predefined amount of data.

I guess that’s fair, and I had forgot going to a friends to watch their rentals together.

At least I definitely did not rip rented dvds to my hard drive.

I agree that a lot of shows and movies, especially the more recent ones, have little rewatchability. You could always replace those with an armful of whatever is current and on your watchlist after you are done though.

And personally i have a couple of evergreens and classics i enjoy watching again now and then, and it is nice to know i always have something to watch even if i cant afford the subscription any more / the stuff i like gets region locked / fucking licensing pulls the rug. It also feels a little empowering to have my own stuff that really is just mine and nobody can revoke my viewing permissions, in the face of endless enshittification.

As for the media server, i am not tech savvy enough myself to run one so i just bought a large ass external drive. When i am away from home i just bring that thing and can watch my stuff on any computer and generally also tv i plug it into.

And like clockwork, I am continuing to not subscribe.

It seems to be going the othwr way again? There was a thread the other day about new 38tb drives and how they are pretty cost efficient on a per gb level

Nah still pricey. I believe the article stated they were $800 which puts them at $20+/TB. 5 years ago I could get new drives at $12/TB but now I can only find these types of deals on used server drives or no-name brands.

These new 30+TB drives should be driving down the cost of the small to midrange drives but that doesn't appear to be the case currently.

At this point, I don’t think there is a single streaming service worth the subscription price. What’s more distressing is that, rather than learning their lessons, these companies will collude to scare people into subscribing with repeats of the copyright crackdowns and corporate empowerment of the late 90s and early 2000s.

We're canceling the most watched late night show on all platforms! Pay more now! For less!

Gotta love that great management. Hail capitalism!

Arrrrrrr

I hear good things about nebula.

I have a jellyfin server. I haven’t bothered setting up the *arrs because there’s not much worth watching anymore and the few things I want I can get manually. It’s not even worth automating the piracy anymore.

Two years ago, I paid $100 for a 4TB internal.
Last week, I paid $89 for each 8TB enterprise-grade internal, granted, refurbished

...You be the judge.

Which ones...? I'm in the market for exactly that

Funny... My ad tier sub for $50/year has none

Peacock is NBC / Comcast. Colbert was on CBS / Paramount.

In my case, Streamio and... Wait, no, just Streamio