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Ad-free streaming is a luxury now
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JellyFin + your own media = ad free streaming. I detest ads and general streaming services. Whenever you want to talk about a show, you have to preface it with 'what streaming service is it on'?
And you can watch it when your internet is down.
This will be the way for me going forward building storage and library. I'd rather don't watch something than watch with ads.
Sure but that requires infrastructure. Have you seen the price of storage these days?
It's still not bad if you're buying old SAS drives. At this point, anything 4TB or less is fine, and for most people that's plenty to start with.
If you're ripping DVD and BluRay content, you probably will gobble up space quickly without re-encoding it, but otherwise you can store content from streaming services with ease.
My point was more that Stremio with debrid costs maybe $50/yr and requires minimal knowledge/maintenance, as well as having other benefits (depending on the debrid service.)
If you have zero care in the world about storing the media, Stremio makes much more sense imho.
I can only speak for myself, but any such service can only be looked at as a temporary solution. How long before that goes away? With your own media (be it ripped from disks you own or obtained elsewhere), it's not temporary.
I built my 32tb server a couple of years ago when drive prices were reasonable, but many of the rips on it are strait remuxes. Now that another drive or two is not likely affordable anytime soon, I'm re-encoding them to x265 to reclaim a bunch of space.
That is the unfortunate thing, hosting your own media does take storage, but I still think overall it would be cheaper depending on the amount of storage and how much you are spending on Streaming services. A quick look says people are spending $100 or so on services each month. So $1,200 a year. You can easily build a 30tb array and the NAS for under that, even with today's outrageous prices, as as you find more storage, expand upon it. 30tb is going to host a whole lot of media. Let's say the average 30 minute TV show is 0.5 gb and a movie is 2gb, you can store something like 20,000 TV episodes and 10,000 movies. I think you'd be just fine, and that's a payback of one year. And you can easily share that with your friends and family without paying additional fees.
Stremio is piracy so has no cost.
Paying for a debrid service is optional, you can use a VPN instead, but debrid just makes it cleaner since that is built into many of the addon options.
For me at least, I like owning my media, at least that way you don't have to worry about it disappearing in the future.