And yet, a significant proportion of shows isn’t available for me on either of these, and requires maxdome, sky, whatever other bullshit which I’ll never subscribe to. I’m spending enough money each month on streaming that, if something isn’t on there, I’ll just pirate it.
At one point i dumped Amazon Fire because all the services didnt support it and only seemed to support Google. Now its switched, I'm not buying all new hardware again.
Damn. Let me know if you ever host movie nights, I'll come over :3
But often enough, I still need to rip blu rays to get proper, high quality versions of movies that otherwise aren't available at all, so movie night can end up with glitches from my custom setup
Its like this https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sert_-_3_smile.svg
If anything, that picture seems to be a desperate attempt at retrofitting something, no matter what exactly, onto the smiley -- just look at the name: "3smile".
(So I think I'll stick to "ballsack with eyes".)
EDIT - Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27849412
justwatch.com will solve that for you, and covers quite a few countries. Between Netflix, Hulu, and "Rent for $4 on Amazon" I can almost always find an option unless it's a Disney+ / Showtime / whatever exclusive.
$25-40/mo (depending on how often I have to invoke the "rent" option) seems pretty reasonable compared to cable.