Pretty much the only one i’m still happy with is crunchyroll. They don’t fuck around despite being basically the only game in town.
Netflix I pay for begrudgingly but if they raise the price substantially or add mandatory ads EVER they are gonna be gone.
Already axed prime, I don’t even miss the expedited delivery. Most of the stuff I want immediately walmart sells with same day shipping and no extra cost anyway (like most big box stores) - announcing adding ads to prime video made me cancel the same day, and my sub ran out just as they rolled out the ads.
Disney recently boned me out of account sharing, so my plex server is getting pimped out. $1000 buy gets you substantial NAS storage for 6-7 years. That’s ~$14/mo if you replace nothing for 6 years. By the time drives start dying the sizes double and you can expand your raid as they die off one by one.
karashta@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I keep telling my friends this. It was incredibly simple to do. And you can start with only a couple smaller 1 or 4 TB drives and still end up starting a decent collection
DdCno1@beehaw.org 4 days ago
Especially if you’re fine with the low image quality of streaming services. Equivalent video files aren’t particularly big.
freeman@feddit.org 3 days ago
Its about ~2-3GB for a movie for me. The Quality isnt great but still better than Netflix streams.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 2 days ago
I would recommend “spending” about 6 GB on a 1080p x265 encoding of a movie, if you can. The quality is much better, good enough to be viewed up close on a large screen, unless there’s a large amount of high frequency detail, like in recent animated or very CGI-heavy movies - or unless it’s an older film with strong film grain and/or large mass scenes (think Lawrence of Arabia). Those do benefit from higher bitrates and resolutions, even if your screen isn’t 4K.