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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And fuck. I really miss plex. I've had Netflix and Hulu forever as family won't let me cancel. Decided to sign up to Paramount + for some Trek. Twice in lower decks it didn't save my watched episodes. Doesn't mark episode as watched if you exit during the credits. And multiple playback issues.

Wanted to add no ad Disney to the Hulu for some Doctor Who. Only the add supported is available through Hulu. So I'd have to cancel, wait for the month to end and sign up via Disney. Deal with ads or pay almost double the duo plan costs, or include ESPN, and honestly fuck sports.

What is so difficult about just providing a decent service for a fair price? Why is plex like a decade ahead of the streaming UI's? I'm trying to give you fucks money and you're making it extremely difficult.

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[–] [email protected] 163 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Some more examples of why piracy is a service problem

[–] [email protected] 70 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It really is. Everyone splintering off to their own app is what got me back to it. Had Netflix, Hulu, max, Disney, prime and I think Apple plus or peacock for a while and I could never remember what service the shows I was watching were on. Opening up 4 streaming apps to find what I was watching the other day got tiresome. When it was mainly Netflix and Hulu I only pirated the few shows that were on like HBO that I wanted to see. Arr apps with plex is so nice in comparison.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I could never remember what service the shows I was watching were on. Opening up 4 streaming apps to find what I was watching the other day got tiresome.

I know what community this is, but using something like a Chromecast w/ Google TV lets you search across all your streaming services simultaneously.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And those searches fucking suck, they are wrong half the time

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Uh huh... Operative word: Google

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

In my experience, the only problem I've run into is the remote's microphone feature is a bit flakey, but generally when it does work it's right most of the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I remember that was a Roku selling point back in the day

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You can just use the Google TV app on your phone to search across services

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are steps to piracy which cost time and effort. For most of the media I consume that time and effort cost is significantly less than the time, effort, and capital I would need to invest in a paid service. However, the time, effort, and capital I spend to play videogames has been less than piracy would cost for me for decades. Being able to effortlessly get those games running on a mobile steamdeck is orders of magnitude cheaper than what it would have cost me to set everything up myself even if I'm not paying for software and my costly version wouldn't be nearly as smooth. This quote would be true enough even if a counter-example didn't exist, but Steam and GOG are pretty clear demonstrations of the kind of service the average person is satisfied with even if they still have some real issues.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Am I the only one who has a distrust of pirating video games? Watching a movie is one thing but a video game is actual code running on your computer downloaded from an untrusted source.