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Re:Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies by somehnguy on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @10:36AM (#33177617)
I went back years ago when a lot of media companies started pulling their stuff off Netflix in favor of creating their own platforms.

Cloudbox on a rented dedicated server, everything is automatic and things just show up in Plex.

Re:Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies by eptcyka on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @10:58AM (#33177930)
I love how horrible UX ends up wasting hardware - not that this is something to be held against people who host their own media services, I'm doing the same. But serving media is definitely a thing that scales well with centralized CDNs and other infrastructure - copying the same data to everyone's personal cloud hosted Plex implies duplicating a lot of terabytes, essentially wasting hard drive space, nobody watches their Plex troves 24/7, so the hard drives and CPUs will be idling a good amount of their life. Popcorntime was a great way to increase homebrew media distribution efficiency w.r.t. to content delivery and storage, maybe it's time it got resurected?