![]() ![]() Streaming catalogs are all incomplete except Netflix, a bunch of parts to a collector that is madness. I like to own movies and shows to always have them. There is almost a PTSD about what movies/shows are available, not, when they will go away, etc. People just want to see the content they want to see easily when they want it, they will pay for that gladly. TV and movies haven't figured that out yet and the rights warfare is very intense. Music piracy is much easier than movie piracy due to size and availability, yet most people who used to pirate music are now on these services. ![]() Spotify and Apple Music seem to have killed off lots of music piracy, no need to, everything is on there. I just want a better experience and switching between half a dozen streaming services without a consistent search mechanism or offline viewing option just isn't cutting it. I paid for the NAS and disks to store terrabytes of content and host all the software I need to get it. I pay for the gigabit internet connection to facilitate those download speeds. I pay for usenet connections and indexers. It's really not about the money aspect for me. The other huge benefit over streaming services is that Plex allows you to cache media on mobile devices which has been crucial for road trips with three kids. TV shows download at around 1-2 minutes per episode. I can request a movie from my Ombi website and have downloaded and ready to stream on all my devices in less than 10 minutes. These tools also take care of moving the content around to the right location for Plex to find it and renames them so it's all consistent. Usually less than a couple hours after a show has been aired, it will be found and downloaded automatically. If the content isn't available yet (hasn't released on streaming / bluray to get a quality rip) it will track it and download as soon as it is available. Those then search for the show or movie you're interested in via usenet indexers. From there it gets pushed over to Sonarr / Radarr depending on whether it is a movie or tv show. I have a web portal (Ombi) my family can use to request content that we don't have downloaded. Once you've got Sonarr, Radarr, Omni, NZBget and Plex all playing happily together, it's a sublime experience compared to dealing with multiple streaming sources. I've gone back to pirating content, but via usenet instead of torrents.
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