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Maybe that SkyShowtime - being inspired by the likes of of Netflix and Amazon Prime - announced it'll be raising prices and adding an ad-powered "cheaper" tier.
Streaming services have become what cable was all those years ago: ad-powered, overpriced, low quality entertainment.
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What's the best way for me to stream to a Samsung (Q70T) TV these days? I use a Plex server, and their Plex TV app (which is hit & miss quite often), but at least it has a nice GUI.
If watching directly from laptop I have Kodi, but have also installed Jellyfin for testing recently.
I have kodi on some cheap android box that I bought for retro gaming but it's running kodi now.
The solution before was the synology videostation app on Samsung TV but this app did not play everything (otherwise pretty good).
With kodi I have a solution now that I can fall back to, once the official app stops working.
Ps Plex seemed hardware hungry for my old NAS in my case so I never used it.
Emby app on Samsung works great. There's a premium pass for unlimited clients on a server but you can pay for a lifetime pass. I consider it one of the best purchases I ever made.
Something like an Nvidia Shield would open up a ton of options for you. I use it plus kodi primarily, but also stremio, my country's national stations service, etc
Yeah, the Samsung plex app is not the best. At least some of the blame is on Samsung I think for not supporting more codecs.
My wife requires me to find the answer to this in order to cancel “convenient streaming”
IK if you put your tv in developer mode you can sideload other apps like jellyfin (better then plex, doesn’t require email signup)
I have yet to find an app to sideload that connects to online free streaming sites or alternatively a pc way to search and download that same contest to the jellyfin drive that is more noob friendly then torrents.
You should look into Overseerr/Jellyseerr, it provides a simple frontend or web app for Sonarr/Radarr. There's also Reiverr that would probably be the most convenient as it allows you to download and watch from a single ui but I don't know if it's still actively developed and it's only available as a webapp
Alternatively, if you want to stream directly you could try CloudStream which work over http or Stremio for streaming torrent tho I wouldn't use it without a debrid account
I used Radarr and Sonarr, both with Transmission. It's easy enough to just say "Hey find and download me this", and it appears in your Jellyfin server as soon as its done. IIRC it supports notifications.
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