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I still think it’s crazy that people prefer streaming to downloads.
It seems my situation is different, sometimes I want to watch some movie. I know which. I spin up my external Harddrive and BAM! I AM watching MY movie. If I dont have a Movie or whatelse downloaded and it needs to be now not later, then its always very frantic, because, well streaming services are a bit crap.
But it still does have to get on your hard drive somehow, which tends not to be as convenient as opening an app and clinking play
As I said, its not that way for me, because my hard-drive is right there, I plug it in, move to the right folder, which is where I want it, where I know it.
Those "oh so easy" applications are bloatware, need sign-ins, money, need crappy mobile/console interfaces, and very often still dont have what I want to watch (language, captions, resolution or even "nah, we dont have the rights to this series (anymore), because we rented them to someone else, even though we have initially created tge whole thing")
imagine I want to make a meme or gif out of star wars, VLC or Windows Movie Editor or whatnot is just better than trying to film Neftlix.
I will state again: for me "pirating" and locally storing content is the significantly easier option.
I guess I don't watch enough TV or movies to justify streaming/not downloading.
I prefer streaming. I'll just stream movie from my Jellyfin instance instead of downloading. 😅
Well, it is more convenient, but do you know what is even more convenient? Using a service that has all the catalogue of all paid streaming sites together, with no ads whatsoever, I'm talking about Stremio or Kodi along with a debrid account.
In a nutshell Stremio turned the hoarding me into a streaming guy.
Jup, debrid is the way to go.
I don’t have infinity storage space, and if the intention is to erase after watching then why not just stream on stremio?
I’m saying this as someone with 70TB usable storage in nas
How are you complaining about having to delete with 70TB? I have 5 TB drive and I haven't had to delete anything yet.
Download is usually higher quality, more customizable (subtitles, video player client, audio refinement, etc), and is more censorship proof model in the grand scheme.
stremio is the perfect mix in my opinion. You can pick any torrent and it gets deleted after you finish watching
I didn’t complain. And I don’t need to hoard anything that I’m not going to watch again.
I get all of what you’re describing with stremio/premiuimize. I watch 4K high bitrate HDR content flawlessly. All I do is open the app, select a stream and it plays.
Same, real debrid or premiumize on kodi makes downloading mostly unnecessary. Occasionally I get something a bit niche I need to hunt down on torrent or Usenet, very rarely.
Yeah been using real-debrid and kodi for almost a decade only thing I have issues with is foreign content. 99% of the time it's super practical vs maintaining a library or buying storage. I also always stream 4k bluray remuxes which is not what I would want to store anyway
What add on do you use on kodi out of interest. I've been on Ezra for a couple of years.
Seren, tried ezra before but still mainly just use seren