Subj : Re: Media Servers
To   : Accession
From : jack phlash
Date : Fri Oct 06 2023 08:45:49

on 03 Oct 2023, Accession said...
 
 Ac> Plex just happened to be the first one I ever setup, and just stuck with
 Ac> it because the need for it wasn't all that major, and it's super easy to
 Ac> maintain and/or upgrade. I used to throw movies on there quite a bit,
 Ac> but haven't in the past few years or so.. probably more due to the lack
 Ac> of good movies that have come out since the great and powerful covid
 Ac> scare of 2020. :|

Yep, Plex tends to be a lot easier for basic management than most other options out there I'm aware of, though if you end up getting deep into building an archive and getting your meta data and everything just right, you'll do just as much work as when we used to do it mostly by hand back in the day. :P

Agreed about the lack of good movies. I've seen quite a few decent to good ones, but not many that have done all that much for me. Maybe I'm just less obsessed with good movies than when I was younger though.

 Ac> Once we picked up streaming services, there really hasn't been a need to
 Ac> use it. I'm definitely not going to try to keep up with downloading
 Ac> everything we enjoy watching when I can just flip on the TV and pick and
 Ac> choose. Still less than paying for cable, and we have half a dozen
 Ac> services probably. The money I save from getting rid of cable is able to
 Ac> take care of my gig internet upgrade and then some.

I'm the same way. Streaming services are cheap and convenient. The only issue is that now there are so many, and individually, they seem to be going down in quality content, plus having too many counteracts the cheap part. We keep a couple all the time and rotate others depending on what we want to watch. I still download movies sometimes, but it's rare to need to download a show.

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