I think that’s a good idea, although I’m not sure why you didn’t request your new community here at lemmy.film. I also hope this doesn’t mean you’re not going to post here as frequently—that would be a shame. Nevertheless, I wish you much success, realcaseyrollins@eightdifferentlemmyinstances! 😁
Blockbuster, simply because they (at least used to have) the best pricing, though the app is not very good. Now days I tend to use YouTube more since the prices on Blockbuster has gone up. This is probably a local thing. I guess prices probably differ between diffent regions.
Piracy is the only stable platform for this. I’m constantly moving between services following the “seasons” of the things I like rather than continuing to pay during the droughts.
It used to be Netflix though. Back when they were one of the only streaming services and had a way bigger back catalogue of syndicated shows.
The worst is Paramount +. They absconded all the Star Trek there, and the service has literally never actually worked for me to watch anything on it, so I end up pirating Discovery, Picard and Lower Decks anyway.
Plex server is my recommendation. There is a Roku TV app and I have yet to come across a device that there isn’t a Plex app for. I have personally had no issues with my Plex server in the year+ I’ve been using it.
I recently got into Real-Debrid and I’ve used it via Stremio. Works wonderfully but I still am uneasy about needing an account where all my activity and very likely IP addresses and all are centralised. All it takes is a single VPN fail to compromise the whole account and myself too. I guess people use the service by constantly creating new accounts and scrapping the old ones?
I use Cheap Charts in conjunction with Movies Anywhere to take advantage of whatever sales there are across different platforms and to hopefully keep my small collection as platform agnostic as possible. For movies that aren’t eligible, I stick to iTunes as my main service.
This is probably true, but it at least tells the people that run the studios that the people involved in that movie are profitable and should keep making movies.
Okay, but what if you don’t have cable because it’s a massive rip off full of ads despite costing a fortune, or buy physical media?
I Pirate because of all the hoops that I have to jump through in order to access media. And even then, if you choose to legally stream etc then the creators are still getting fucked over while execs make fucking BANK. So no thanks, fuck that.
Well, an EU study a few years back found that online piracy has little affect on actual legal sales, except for newly released movies which took like a 4.4% knock on their box-office sales.
Games apparently see an increase in sales, with 100 illegal downloads spurring 24 additional legal transactions than would have otherwise occurred.
That said, I support studios/musicians/devs that I care about by buying their stuff.
I refuse to subscribe to the 10+ mainstream streaming services, though. I’m voting with my money, and the current streaming landscape is just as anti-consumer as cable TV was before it.
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