Subj : Media Servers
To   : Accession
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Nov 03 2023 16:59:57

  Re: Media Servers
  By: Accession to niter3 on Tue Oct 03 2023 05:36 pm

 ni>> We don't pay for any streaming services if you know what I mean.

 Ac> Sure do. I'm not sure how you're able to do it, seeing as though it would
 Ac> take me quite a long time to try to snag any/all TV series we actually
 Ac> watch somewhat regularly. I don't have time for that shiii.. lol.

I've done that and generally haven't had a problem getting TV series I want to watch.

 Ac> If you use the hell out of it, then it's definitely worth it. It was worth
 Ac> it for us for quite awhile until we just damn near flat out stopped using
 Ac> it. *shrug*

Yeah, I still use Plex quite a bit.  I haven't had cable in years, and I generally don't use streaming services (there really isn't a whole lot I can think of that I want to watch on them), so I'm not sure I want to spend the money on them.  But there are several shows I can get over the air (Jeopardy, etc.), and I've been using Plex as a DVR for those so I can watch them any time I want to.  Over the past few years, I feel like Plex has been increasingly useful for me, as I've been using it as a DVR, and for other things I want to watch, I can throw them on my Plex server and watch them fairly easily.  I've also ripped much of what I have on blu-ray (movies and TV shows) and put them on my Plex server so I can watch them whenever I want.

One thing that bugs me about streaming services is that they could remove content at any time, or change what you can watch.  One time, I was watching a TV series on Amazon Prime that was included free with Prime, and then suddenly one day they changed that series so you had to pay extra to watch it.

Nightfox
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