You Hated Your Cable Package. Your Streaming Services Are Bringing It Back

Re:You Hated Your Cable Package. Your Streaming Services Are... by parenthesis on Saturday October 08, 2022 @01:38PM (#33134290)

This. I want a streaming service that has more or less every movie and TV show ever made before, let's say ten years ago.

Fair enough if Disney etc. want to keep new stuff exclusive to them. Also, fair enough if certain big evergreen content is kept exclusive (Star Wars, classic Disney movies etc.).

But, seriously, why can't I go to one service and watch every Cary Grant movie, or every movie directed by John Ford, or every episode of Remington Steele, or every episode of Matlock or whatever.

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Re:You Hated Your Cable Package. Your Streaming Services Are... by JKCalhoun on Saturday October 08, 2022 @03:54PM (#33135439)

I've been buying DVDs for ... 20 years now? I have quite a few old movies now.

I wrote an app that is playing them (according to a schedule I created) on a Raspberry Pi from a 5TB drive (they're ripped to drive). It's kind of fun to walk by the TV downstairs and see the original "The Fly" or whatever on. No fast-forward or pause, but no internet required either (no ads, of course).

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