The real winner of the streaming wars.
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
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I still use UseNet. Almost as often as I use faxes.
or nzb, but aye.
This, plus self hosting jellyfin and *arr and I basically have a better service, with no ads, nice UI, access from all my devices, offline access, 4K resolution, music streaming. Basically the all-inclusive premium plan, not exactly for free, but for a very reasonable cost.
I dump Blu-rays to my NAS with zero re-encoding. Even for older shows the quality is leaps and bounds superior to any streaming service with plenty of bandwidth.
My brother in Christ please get Handbrake. Your storage space will go much farther if you’re at least re-encoding after the fact.
Some people are just insane and swear they can see a quality difference between compressed and uncompressed.
I think it’s bunk, but it’s not my storage space.
I wish I could give you 100 upvotes
I had stopped piracy for probably 12 years? Streaming was easy and cheap and worth it. I have a huge collection of movies I bought on google play. Then everything went to shit and everyone kept hiking the prices while losing anything interesting.
I like my plex server now. To the point where when I had amazon prime for shipping I still torrented the new season of the boys and hazbin.