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But ramping up Plex with what content? Netflix has the content…

0x000000001 5y ago
You pay $90 a year to a Usenet provider, $15 a year to a Usenet indexer, and get gigabit+ download speeds of any TV show or Movie you want and they automatically get fetched via https://Sonarr.tv https://Sonarr.tv or https://Radarr.video https://Radarr.video Plus it's all done over TLS and your ISP won't send you notices because you're not uploading/sharing anything.
- donkarma 5y ago
  please note in some cases you need 2 backbones and 2 indexers to find some content
- panda88888 5y ago
  Do you have recommendation for good indexers?
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thinkingkong 5y ago
Bittorrent has the most content.
- shell0x 5y ago
  Agreed. Outside of the US a lot of content is just not available at all.
  - jumelles 5y ago
    Even in the US.
- positr0n 5y ago
  I haven't looked in a long time, but it has high quality 4k rips with Atmos sound tracks like a Blu-ray would?
  - MAGZine 5y ago
    there are entire communities dedicated to hd rips. so yes. keep in mind, they won't be small.
  - neverminder 5y ago
    Private trackers have Blu Ray 4K remuxes before the disks hit the shelves.
Matticus_Rex 5y ago
They have the content... that you can obtain and host (or pay someone to host via a Plex Share). Piracy is back, and getting more convenient by the day.
purerandomness 5y ago
Netflix has a subset of the content, and the subset differs on where they think you currently live. There is no way to legally obtain all the content by paying.
- wafflespotato 5y ago
  > Netflix has a subset of the content, and the subset differs on where they think you currently live and what deal netflix had with the various content providers that expires, see e.g. https://www.pcmag.com/news/everything-leaving-netflix https://www.pcmag.com/news/everything-leaving-netflix
hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
When you strip away all the N-marked pulp, very little remains. Of these, very few titles merit being seen. I'm so weary of these I actually consider going back to buying movies as an alternative to renting (i.e. streaming).
- azinman2 5y ago
  Meaning DVD/blueray?
  - ghaff 5y ago
    If I'm going to buy, I might as well have the physical media. It's usually not much (if any) more--and I own the media.
    - azinman2 5y ago
      But can you even buy most content anymore? Everything has gone digital to the point where I wouldn’t even know where to get said dvds outside of a few rental stores that somehow still exist in SF. Amazon? Somewhere else?
      - ghaff 5y ago
        For recent movies you can often rent from RedBox. To buy DVDs, I usually go to Amazon. Sometimes something will catch my eye in the remainder pile at Walmart. Except for some straight to streaming content maybe, my experience is that most films that aren't really obscure are still available for physical purchase.
    - Lev1a 5y ago
      Also, I may or may not rip the Blu-Ray media to my external HDD, since - the BR-enabled player software ("Cyberlink something " Windows-only) is a POS[1], - playing BR directly on Linux is not a fun experience to get working (fucking DRM) - not having to search through a cupboard of boxes for the disk I want to watch (convenience) - not being arbitrarily restricted to 720p or less on streaming platforms ( because I have the audacity run Linux ) even for movies/series I would "buy in HD" - etc. pp. [1] From what I remember from using that software years ago: extremely laggy interface, audio volume slider does basically nothing above the "2%" setting where the sound will just be so loud it nearly blows your eardrums (even with Windows audio setting for that program at ~10%), basically no useful keybindings apart from <SPACE>, putting the popout menu on the screen to get more controls almost always locked the program up for >20 seconds, the software had giant ad banners for the other garbage made by that company, etc. pp.
dave_sullivan 5y ago
Plex is a media server mainly used for serving downloaded content, so I'll let you make of that what you will. Piracy has not gotten harder in the past 20 years. In many countries it is de facto legal.
slapfrog 5y ago
Netflix has very little content in the grand scheme of things. I quit paying for netflix because 99 times out of a hundred, Netflix didn't have the movie I wanted to watch. They try to hid how small their streaming library is by making it difficult to search, but there are/were third party indexes (with reasonable UX) of their streaming library and once you start using such an index, it becomes clear just how little content they have.
OJFord 5y ago
At least some 'Netflix originals' are released on Bluray.

You pay $90 a year to a Usenet provider, $15 a year to a Usenet indexer, and get gigabit+ download speeds of any TV show or Movie you want and they automatically get fetched via https://Sonarr.tv https://Sonarr.tv or https://Radarr.video https://Radarr.video Plus it's all done over TLS and your ISP won't send you notices because you're not uploading/sharing anything.

donkarma 5y ago
please note in some cases you need 2 backbones and 2 indexers to find some content
panda88888 5y ago
Do you have recommendation for good indexers?

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thinkingkong 5y ago

Bittorrent has the most content.

shell0x 5y ago
Agreed. Outside of the US a lot of content is just not available at all.
- jumelles 5y ago
  Even in the US.
positr0n 5y ago
I haven't looked in a long time, but it has high quality 4k rips with Atmos sound tracks like a Blu-ray would?
- MAGZine 5y ago
  there are entire communities dedicated to hd rips. so yes. keep in mind, they won't be small.
- neverminder 5y ago
  Private trackers have Blu Ray 4K remuxes before the disks hit the shelves.

Matticus_Rex 5y ago

They have the content... that you can obtain and host (or pay someone to host via a Plex Share). Piracy is back, and getting more convenient by the day.

purerandomness 5y ago

Netflix has a subset of the content, and the subset differs on where they think you currently live. There is no way to legally obtain all the content by paying.

wafflespotato 5y ago
> Netflix has a subset of the content, and the subset differs on where they think you currently live and what deal netflix had with the various content providers that expires, see e.g. https://www.pcmag.com/news/everything-leaving-netflix https://www.pcmag.com/news/everything-leaving-netflix

hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago

When you strip away all the N-marked pulp, very little remains. Of these, very few titles merit being seen. I'm so weary of these I actually consider going back to buying movies as an alternative to renting (i.e. streaming).

azinman2 5y ago
Meaning DVD/blueray?
- ghaff 5y ago
  If I'm going to buy, I might as well have the physical media. It's usually not much (if any) more--and I own the media.
  - azinman2 5y ago
    But can you even buy most content anymore? Everything has gone digital to the point where I wouldn’t even know where to get said dvds outside of a few rental stores that somehow still exist in SF. Amazon? Somewhere else?
    - ghaff 5y ago
      For recent movies you can often rent from RedBox. To buy DVDs, I usually go to Amazon. Sometimes something will catch my eye in the remainder pile at Walmart. Except for some straight to streaming content maybe, my experience is that most films that aren't really obscure are still available for physical purchase.
  - Lev1a 5y ago
    Also, I may or may not rip the Blu-Ray media to my external HDD, since - the BR-enabled player software ("Cyberlink something " Windows-only) is a POS[1], - playing BR directly on Linux is not a fun experience to get working (fucking DRM) - not having to search through a cupboard of boxes for the disk I want to watch (convenience) - not being arbitrarily restricted to 720p or less on streaming platforms ( because I have the audacity run Linux ) even for movies/series I would "buy in HD" - etc. pp. [1] From what I remember from using that software years ago: extremely laggy interface, audio volume slider does basically nothing above the "2%" setting where the sound will just be so loud it nearly blows your eardrums (even with Windows audio setting for that program at ~10%), basically no useful keybindings apart from <SPACE>, putting the popout menu on the screen to get more controls almost always locked the program up for >20 seconds, the software had giant ad banners for the other garbage made by that company, etc. pp.

dave_sullivan 5y ago

Plex is a media server mainly used for serving downloaded content, so I'll let you make of that what you will. Piracy has not gotten harder in the past 20 years. In many countries it is de facto legal.

slapfrog 5y ago

Netflix has very little content in the grand scheme of things. I quit paying for netflix because 99 times out of a hundred, Netflix didn't have the movie I wanted to watch. They try to hid how small their streaming library is by making it difficult to search, but there are/were third party indexes (with reasonable UX) of their streaming library and once you start using such an index, it becomes clear just how little content they have.

OJFord 5y ago

At least some 'Netflix originals' are released on Bluray.