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Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it? (www.theatlantic.com)

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[-] Fades@lemmy.world 49 points 9 months ago

Just sails the seven fucking seas

[-] Muetzenman@feddit.de 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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.

[-] Sprinklebump@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

Plus they keep making me verify my account and log back in. Such a hassel.

[-] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 months ago

Too fragmented. I want my piracy all in one sea

[+] Mdotaut801@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[-] jdaxe@infosec.pub 6 points 9 months ago

Once you have it set up right you can

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months 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.world 2 points 9 months 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.pub 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[-] Ghostmetre@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

Unless you’re like me, no friends with plex servers to hop on to lol

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