Interested in how much content you have on those drives. Are you storing full bluray backups (40-100gb each), or are you doing like 10-15gb movies or the 2-6gb versions?
Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
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Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#32Why not just pay $5/mo for a Plex share with tens of thousands of the most popular movies and TV shows? I haven't torrented or paid for content in years. If I want to watch something and it's not on the server, I message the admin in Bangalore and he adds it. Sure I don't "have" the content in the sense it's not sitting on spinning disks, but I don't care. Life is too short to try to collect widely available digital…
One of the advantages of local storage is that internet outages don't necessarily affect your ability to watch some shows. One of the main advantages that streaming has for me over live TV is the ability to watch things when I want to, without restrictions.
Don't even get me started about commercials. Amazon Prime has been putting up movies without commercials, and then adding commercials later. This has bit our movie group a few times lately. Very frustrating.
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#33Why not just pay $5/mo for a Plex share with tens of thousands of the most popular movies and TV shows? I haven't torrented or paid for content in years. If I want to watch something and it's not on the server, I message the admin in Bangalore and he adds it. Sure I don't "have" the content in the sense it's not sitting on spinning disks, but I don't care. Life is too short to try to collect widely available digital…
Collecting the media can be almost 100% automated with sonarr and radarr. Getting content can be even easier than messaging an admin.
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#34Why not just pay $5/mo for a Plex share with tens of thousands of the most popular movies and TV shows? I haven't torrented or paid for content in years. If I want to watch something and it's not on the server, I message the admin in Bangalore and he adds it. Sure I don't "have" the content in the sense it's not sitting on spinning disks, but I don't care. Life is too short to try to collect widely available digital…
Never heard of this. Where would one find such a service?
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#35Plex is trying to solve the `we've reached peak streaming` problem. From their blogpost[0]
> Today, we’re proud to be launching an entirely new section of Plex, focused on discovering, searching, and personalizing movies and TV shows across virtually any streaming service—whether it’s Plex’s own free movies and TV, or your other subscriptions like Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max
[0] https://www.plex.tv/blog/end-the-streaming-struggle-with-ple...
Worth giving it a shot. I haven't tried it, but it looks promising.
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#36When Netflix first launched, it was great - they had a massive catalogue of older/pre-existing content, and were making a bunch of their own new, original content that likely wouldn't have been made elsewhere. Their UX was also pretty great - and made finding interesting content easy. They made it dead-easy to sign up, there was no pushy retention teams or hoops to jump through if you wanted to cancel. That's why I p…
I can't imagine anyone at 'Amazon Video' actually uses the service, else they'd realise that the UI is horrific...and whole service is terrible. I only have it as its "free" with my delivery options.
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#37Why not just pay $5/mo for a Plex share with tens of thousands of the most popular movies and TV shows? I haven't torrented or paid for content in years. If I want to watch something and it's not on the server, I message the admin in Bangalore and he adds it. Sure I don't "have" the content in the sense it's not sitting on spinning disks, but I don't care. Life is too short to try to collect widely available digital…
what is this plex share?
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#38Where are you paying 45$/month for power on a single computer. The moon?
If we assume the computer consumes 200 Watt in average, the electricity price would be something like 0,32 USD per kWh. So probably Germany, Denmark or Belgium.
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#39I also appreciate local copies and created a seedbox recently. Torrents still seems better for TV. But I delete shows after I watch them so no need to have such a large amount of space for media.
What do you mean by TOR for TV? Watching foreign TV thorugh Tor network?
Just jetlagged, I meant torrents.
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#40On the flip, I just $20 for a plexshare and can watch whatever I like in 4k remux. I recommend instead of having this beast server. Let someone else worry about hardware.