Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it?

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Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate
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Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it?::<em>What should I watch? </em>is now a much easier question than <em>How do I watch it?</em>

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Friendly reminder that PLEX is a great, free service, you just have to put in the effort to build up a media collection. High capacity HDDs are very cheap now, so storing a large media collection isn't particularly expensive.

They also offer a lifetime "Plex pass" which adds some neat, but non-essential features, like auto-skipping intros and credits sequences for instance. It's not necessary, but it's a nice way to show support for what they do.

Jellyfin is an open source alternative without any subscription or fees

https://jellyfin.org/

Don't use Plex. Used it for a long time until open source jellyfin came by. I never looked back.

I remember having some issue with plex, finding out it was a known issue and had been logged on their issue tracker for YEARS with no progress. They're one of those companies who prioritise shiny new features over actually maintaining the existing ones.