I used to have a rule that if it was ‘readily available’ to stream then I wouldn’t get it for Plex.
Now, media rights shift in such a spectacularly dumb fashion that I’ll just get whatever I want because there no longer is an expectation that it will be available long-term on any provider. Local copies just don’t have that problem. I have things that are just considered lost media because they’ve been deleted by their providers like Infinity Train (CN/HBO/MAX) and Pantheon (AMC). Totally wiped official presence from the internet.
All the money I would have put towards Netflix for a year instead goes to drive space and capacity.
Yeah I had that happen too with Westworld being wiped from HBO so they could “show it to other markets”. We’ve reached cable 2.0, not sure what comes next but they’ll have to find something to slow the rise of piracy again.
I used to have a rule that if it was ‘readily available’ to stream then I wouldn’t get it for Plex.
Now, media rights shift in such a spectacularly dumb fashion that I’ll just get whatever I want because there no longer is an expectation that it will be available long-term on any provider. Local copies just don’t have that problem. I have things that are just considered lost media because they’ve been deleted by their providers like Infinity Train (CN/HBO/MAX) and Pantheon (AMC). Totally wiped official presence from the internet.
All the money I would have put towards Netflix for a year instead goes to drive space and capacity.
Yeah I had that happen too with Westworld being wiped from HBO so they could “show it to other markets”. We’ve reached cable 2.0, not sure what comes next but they’ll have to find something to slow the rise of piracy again.
What’s the best way to “get started” with this? Can you get the equivalent experience of something like Netflix that way?