• Flanhare@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I did that many years ago and the fact that all content is in one place instead of multiple apps is so nice.

    • Kamikazimatt@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I miss the early days of Netflix when that held true too. If I remember right piracy was down too. But everyone wanted a piece of the stupid pie and we’re back to where we started all over again

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        1 year ago

        I think that’s what they mean. They sail the high seas and put all the booty in one place, like a Plex media server.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah, I was agreeing and relating it to the good ol days when pirating for a one asp experience wasn’t needed unless you really wanted to.

          Now we’re back to that’s the only way to easily get it all in one place is pirating. Apple TV seems to sort of have that ability but it’s not seamless because it takes you to whatever app the video is on, which still means you have to pay for all the streams.

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            1 year ago

            I’m just back to buying Blu rays. To me it’s the safer option, you legally own your product and you can host everything you want yourself still. MakeMKV is a great tool.

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            1 year ago

            Plex and Google TV also work similarly, universal search that then opens the streaming app

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      1 year ago

      Even when we had a few streaming services, we’d end up pirating some stuff that was available because we incorrectly assumed it wasn’t on one of them and it’s just too annoying to have to look up where something is every time.

      So we’d tend to go the piracy route first if we were seeking something out and only use the streaming services if we knew off the top of our heads where something was.