"Hmm... Netflix usually sucks, they probably wont have it. I'm just gonna say I'll watch Y off my hard drive instead. But let's still confirm that Netflix doesn't have X..."

Next thing you know, I'm watching Y off my hard drive.

Streaming services suck so much nowdays that I already resolve myself to watching something else before I even finish checking. Gotta shield myself from disappointment. Why would you pay for each channel on a TV? Just get the hard copy at that point....

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[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I'm with you on that. There are some gems on streaming sites still, but lots of half baked content to sift through.

I've actually started buying DVDs again to add to a plex archive. A lot of not-current shows and movies are in my budget and I don't have to worry about availability. I will say Plex tells me what service has what content in my watchlist which is nice, but doesn't work for everything.

My SO and I were searching for a show and just gave up; too much of a hassle. Downloading would have been easy if we wanted, but after doing the searching dance, we just didn't care anymore and threw on a show we know and enjoy.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

we just didn’t care anymore and threw on a show we know and enjoy.

Yep! Ya know back in the old days we had to just watch whatever was on TV! Or go buy a VHS! But nowdays we have entire media libraries on our computers that, as a VHS collection, would be the kind of shelf someone would brag about. I suppose I should feel grateful for that. But I wanna have it! Blockbuster died for a reason.... maybe not the one we thought?

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago

A true pirate would build a macrovision remover circuit and make a copy of their friends tape instead of buying one.

[–] variants@possumpat.io 5 points 8 months ago

I set up my plex so it auto searches and downloads things added to the watch list, that and I follow a few lists in trakt for upcoming shows and movies so between the two it's much more content that any streaming service we uses to have