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Yep, I guess it's time to cancel Netflix.
Once they raised prices I created a media server with jellyfin (+Sonarr, Radarr, QBittorrent) and never looked back.
Automatically downloads new episodes of my favorite shows
Got my own personal netflix accesible anywhere with infinite users. No one can cancel an episode of my fav show and erase it from existence.
I have jellyfin but Netflix is more reliable and convenient. It's just that recently it's really hard to find anything interesting on Netflix anyway so this Twitter BS is just like the last drop...
IDK man, I am able to continue shows where I left off and do anything Netflix can do You can see all the actors in a movie, and then see all the shows and movies I have that the actor is in. I think it's more featured than Netflix
I followed this guide to set it up so shows automatically download, and I can add movies to be monitored. I don't do anything unless I want to add a new show for monitoring.
I have every movie I've ever liked, and don't have to switch platforms when my show gets removed from Netflix.
$0 a month....
I had issues with some shows not playing because of some encoding issues that I wasn't able to resolve. Sometimes have couple of audio tracks and some subtitles but usually there's just one language and that's it. Maybe you can get it with additional setup but Netflix just works with all the features I'm interested in. Still, Jellyfin is good enough and content on Netflix is weak lately.
You can set your download options in Sonarr and Radarr so that you only get certain filetypes and certain bitrates. This can keep you from filling your drive with 10GB+ 4k movies if you don't need that quality too
I highly suggest revisiting, using that guide I linked.
I gave up on my media server many times due to complexity and issues, once I set this up I can't go back.
Avid jellyfin user here:
Subtitles on jellyfin suck. Like really suck. Unless they are burned in with the media (maybe not the right term, but when they are shipped with the media as a track which some private trackers require) , they progressively get more and more out of sync to a plateau and get messed up with tracking. Almost every release this year has a "fix" for. Multiple clients with the same behavior. Not to mention getting hardware accelerated transcoding working on an ARC GPU 😅
But overall Jellyfin is damn great. It just is not quite to the refinement of Netflix, which is fine! It isn't commercially backed luckily, so it won't go to shit for money like Netflix did either.
Thats a fair point, i only notice it when trying to watch Korean movie. Thats not often for me, but i could see it being an issue if you use them often
Can I do this with Plex too? The automatic downloading part? Or do I need to switch to another server app
Yes I use it with Plex. Sonarr and Radarr handle the download and pass it off to Plex.
Always has been.
Why? What did they do before?
Increasing pricing while removing content is the first thing i could think of
Yeah, but just a reason to re-evaluate if the content they have is worth the money. It's not like they have some moral obligation to keep the prices low. I don't see it as a dick move. I don't have any other video streaming subscriptions so it wasn't a big difference for me.
They banned password sharing (family account) if everyone doesn't live in the same location sometime ago.
and still people are lazy enough to just pay those bucks more a month
I don't see this as a dick move. The rules were clear from the start, they just started enforcing theme. It's not a bait and switch or something.
I guess the "Sharing is Caring" campaign was just a fever dream then.
If you subscribed to Netflix because you planned on sharing password and you think it's not worth the full price then the moment you can't share your password anymore and you cancel it. No money lost, you used it for some time and now you don't use it. What's the problem? Did you get addicted to it? It's not cigarettes. Seriously, it's entertainment and people talk about it like its insulin.
I wasn't sharing my password with anyone so I didn't care about the policy change.
Why are they reinforcing this "rule" now than before?
Because they feel like they can. What's the difference? I did feel cheated in any way.
Is that how corporations or anyone work? They just do it because they feel they can?
Yes, corporation raise prices when they think people are willing to pay higher price for their product. Is this news to you? Where do you live? I would like to move there and live happily without ever knowing how the world functions and worrying about it.
I'm the one who doesn't know how the world functions? I have a bridge for you to buy.
Buy? Give it to me for free. Apparently no one cares about profits in this world.
Ssh we're mad at netflix, you're not supposed to be defending them...
Shm yeah netflix may be scum, but enforcing password sharing policies, which had been part of the EULA from day 1, isn't scummy.
They marketed 4 streams. Not 4 seats. [And only getting 1 seat 4 times, which is fucking pointless.] That's a whole different meaning. No one reads the EULA so it doesn't fucking matter what horse shit Naziflix puts in the fine print.
why do you still have it after all this time
Because they we're really doing anything bad until now. Raising prices is not a dick move. It's a private company offering entertainment. They can milk it however they want and I can cancel it when I decide it's not worth it.
I'd argue it's not been worth it for a long time. Also raising prices may not be that bad but ~~limiting your access to only one IP adress~~ preventing password sharing definitely is a dick move.
Well, that' really depends if you like their content or not, right?
Also, they don't limit your access to one IP. You can download things on your tablet to watch later and you can stream from different locations when you travel. They really only complain if you stream from two completely different geographical locations at the same time.
Define "different geographical equations". Can you still share it with a friend? I thought they prevented that.
No, you define "limiting access to one IP". Because they don't do that. It's not the same as preventing password sharing. They can prevent sharing password without limiting IP addresses.
okay preventing password sharing is a dick move then
Why? Can you share a Windows licence? Is that also a dick move?
You pay to be able to use your account on a certain amount of devices. It shouldn't matter where those devices are located.
A windows license is just for one device so your comparison doesn't work.
You pay for what the TOS says. Netflix's TOS say 'any number of devices in the same household. What you're complaining about is that they didn't enforce the rule from the beginning. You're basically complaining that Netflix offered you their service for lower prices for some time before enforcing the real price.
look if you don't believe it's a dick move that's fine, we can have different opinions
remind me in three months when you're binging Scrubs for the third time.
I've never seen scrubs. Is it any good?
Scrubs is fantastic. If you're into comedic sitcom with serious moments you should definitely give it a try.