Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate
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What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it?

Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it?::<em>What should I watch? </em>is now a much easier question than <em>How do I watch it?</em>

    • MuetzenmanEnglish
      29•1 year ago

      It is so much more convienient. I had Disney+, Amazon and Netflix a year ago and it was too much to bother to open the apps and search if they have what i wanted to watch, only to find out it was on HBO or whatever.

        • Flying SquidEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Highly depends on the torrent. If it’s something obscure that’s on streaming but only has a couple of slow seeders as a torrent, you’re probably not going to be able to watch the latter as you download it.

          It’s still cheaper, and still has a wider selection, but it is not always as convenient as streaming.

          But for anything new and popular? Hoist the main sails!

          • @rustyj@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            I haven’t bothered with torrents since we cancelled all our streaming services. Usenet is so good right now. SABNZBD, Sonarr, Radarr, Plex, Overseerr for my family requests/Plex share users. Finding a few good providers/indexers was really cheap (Black Friday sales were great last year).

            It definitely takes a lot of fucking around/learning initially, but once you’ve set it up right, it’s seamless.

            Somewhat related - I hear real-debrid is a pretty slick way to basically stream torrents, if you don’t have access to a bunch of physical storage. Haven’t tried it myself, but people seem to dig it.

          • @jdaxe@infosec.pubEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            Who said torrent? There’s other ways to have it set up too, e.g join a Plex share