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Re:Disney+ Loses 700k Subscribers Following Price Increase by PetitPrince on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:41AM (#42962781)
> Unless you use Plex, which allows your own content [...] you're SOL.

... how about connecting a computer to your TV ? Inconvenient depending on your setup, but not hopeless.

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Re:Disney+ Loses 700k Subscribers Following Price Increase by edm0nd on Thursday February 06, 2025 @11:10AM (#42963748)
Depending upon the TV type, a lot of them will let you access a networked directory from it and play media directly from it.
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Re:Disney+ Loses 700k Subscribers Following Price Increase by spwa4 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:46AM (#42962844)
True. I wish VLC had some sort of interface browser you could use to just create your own netflix interface.
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Re:Disney+ Loses 700k Subscribers Following Price Increase by soco on Thursday February 06, 2025 @11:04AM (#42963685)
For windows there's still going around the good old Popcorn Time in its hundredth (or so) incarnation...
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Re:Disney+ Loses 700k Subscribers Following Price Increase by Gormo on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:56AM (#42962951)
That's what Kodi is for.

Get a cheap Raspberry Pi, install LibreELEC (a minimal Linux distro that boots directly into Kodi), and you've got a turnkey full-featured media center without much cost or effort. It even supports HDMI-CEC so you can navigate on the RasPi using your TV remote.

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