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Re:Disney+ Loses 700k Subscribers Following Price Increase by reaperducer on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:42AM (#42962795)
Unless you use Plex, which allows your own content

Or just use an AppleTV, which comes with a built-in program called "Computer" that lets you stream your own content from any Mac on the LAN.

I have about 400 movies and thousands of TV shows that I stream this way, in subscription-free bliss.

The content comes from CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays from the library or my own purchases; and I have a $20 gadget that records OTA TV shows and movies onto a USB stick.

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Re:Disney+ Loses 700k Subscribers Following Price Increase by oorza on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:46AM (#42962851)
You don't even need an AppleTV. My Roku and Amazon TVs were both zero-configuration AirPlay targets. And generally speaking, there's not any issue with wifi streaming video - there's a noticeable input lag, but it doesn't desync audio, and videos tend not to be interactive.
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Re:Disney+ Loses 700k Subscribers Following Price Increase by mezzie2 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:55AM (#42962939)
Yup. I'm introducing my sister to the masterpiece that is Chrono Trigger by playing an emulated version on my Mac streamed to our Roku TV. Works great. Video is even easier.
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