The Netflix Thread

its stremio + debrid, basically auto streaming torrents off hosted seed servers.

you can go to https://www.reddit.com/r/Stremio/ to learn all about it, put it up on a amazon fire 4K TV via kodi or a nvidia shield and its basically millions of aggregated IPTV servers.

the flaw is that its all illegal and pretty easy to get taken down, and a few times in the past six months the services have gone offline as key sites get taken down. its the paradox, the more easy/popular it gets the easier it is for the authorities to shut it down, and then you are left with your dick in your hand unable to watch stuff randomly.

while when you setup your own plex/torrent system you always have the shows you actually love forever, offline, and its pretty easy to migrate to new systems when old ones get shut down, and you completely control the quality/setup. Even still, long time sites like BTN/PTP aren't immune to getting shut down but at least I have every sci fi show and movie of the past 20 years on my NAS.

Kiki said:

Shit I dont' even download stuff anymore. There are pirate streaming sites, chromecast it to my tv instantly. No download, No giant harddrive or media server, don't spend 5 minutes downloading not good shit.

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I download from the high seas in 2160p Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. Not sure if these pirate streaming sites can also stream the Atmos soundtracks. I'm fairly sure they can't stream the Dolby Vision either. Even if they could it wouldn't make sense for them to do so as the majority of people won't have DV compatible TVs

Void said:

Finally something we can agree on. If people are fine with watching and listening to shitty inferior versions of movies, more power to them I guess, but unless you're on satellite and have severely limited internet bandwidth, why wouldn't you want the best quality you can get?? That's like the guy I work with that insists he is fine with his 35"ish TV and wants to buy another one the same size, when a 55-65" is only a couple hundred dollars more for the quality he'd be fine with.

It kills me seeing comments on torrent sites about "why is this file so big?? where is the 720p version??" Motherfucker, is there some sort of Sean-level internet plan for people on welfare or something? And who watches shit at 720p these days if they don't have to?

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lol when I had housemates after University we had a living room PC and a projector. I gave them access to my torrent sites and we used to watch LOST and various other shows together. The projector was 1024 * 768 and they would download the standard 500mb divx non HD files on the basis that the projector wasn't HD. I would respond with, it's still gonna be a higher quality file so why not bother.


Oh, and I also had a treasured HDBits account until one of the morons raped my ratio by downloading HD episodes of the Simpsons - fucking animation - the one thing were you could barely see a difference.

Mahes said:

You cannot come in bragging about how you get everything free and then say that line. List them. If it is so easy to do and setup, show everyone.

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If you think that's bragging you should hear about my sex life.

wow, so hard, go click a movie, it plays. So hard to setup right? Let me just list them all on a public forum, great idea. There are tons of sites, surely you are smart enough to know how to google/reddit things.

Intrinsic said:

My wife has become more and more comfortable with Plex now. If we want to watch something during dinner, knowing that I can run upstairs and download it and ready to watch in 15 minutes, has her sold. We were more than happy to pay $3.99 for an Amazon movie here or there just for immediate access, but even those prices are creeping up. Netflix continuing to raise prices... I'll have her on the high seas eventually full time.

We're back in this cycle were pirating was infinitely easier than paying for content, then paying for content became so easy and accessible and cheap I didn't pirate anything for almost a decade, now I'm back to looking for options.

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Pretty much how it is with us, too. I was fine paying subscriptions when there were 2 or 3 services and they were cheap. Somehow competition made the price go way up as everyone wanted a piece of the pie and then got greedy. I'd bet it's more expensive than cable/satellite now.

Although I never got rid of my usenet account. I've always been downloading the shit that's either hard to find, or just on a streaming service I don't have.

We should also talk about commercials on paid subscription services. That's causing me to download shit I actually have a subscription for just to cut down the viewing time by 10 minutes of bullshit.

The Rescue - Docufilm about the Tham Luang cave incident in 2018.

Very well made with a rescue straight out of a Hollywood script!

I'm watching "Wrong side of the tracks" on Netflix atm.

It's a Spanish series so if subtitles aren't your thing it's a skip.

But other than that it's basically a Spanish Gran Torino. I'm 4 episodes in and it's fairly entertaining. Nothing groundbreaking or great, but pretty good. Episodes are long though, most are 70 minutes+

Harshaw said:

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by orders of the Peaky Blinders Guinness Clan

The main reason I maintain my own video library isn't that companies lose the Rights to movies and TV Shows, making it difficult to know when you'll lose access to your favorite show, but rather the ability to censor the shows and movies I like. Someone already has A.I. putting clothes on models/thots. Now imagine the Govt. decides to go back through all the classics in order to remove any signs of toxic masculinity or nudity, or to add diversity and inclusion to shows like I Love Lucy by making the neighbors black and gay, etc. My whole intent is to preserve the good times.

no more $300m shitty action movies i guess

also millie bobbie brown can't act

So just shitty DEI projects without anything worthwhile to attract any other audiences?

spronk said:

no more $300m shitty action movies i guess

also millie bobbie brown can't act

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She really sucks, her best role was where she couldn't talk