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Wondering which of the 8 providers has your show is lame.

> Wondering which of the 8 providers has your show is lame.

Yep, but there is a solution. Buy physical media and rip it. You get basically the best quality available _and_ a backup at the same time. You don't have to resort to piracy to avoid streaming services.

Not all TV shows get a physical media release. Even when they do, it's not uncommon for them to be lower quality than the streaming release. (For example, the streaming release of The Expanse was 4k HDR, but the Blu-Ray release is 1080p SDR.)

I expect this will only get worse in the future - physical media is an increasingly niche product.

> Buy physical media and rip it.

Last time I tried to watch a dvd I rented it. I tried to watch it on a projector from my laptop. DRM prevented me. So I tried to watch in a standalone dvd player. It was region locked to a different region.

I’ve pirated ever since.

I subscribe to a fair few services but don’t watch stuff there. My *ars provide a better experience. It’s more expensive with the various services and hardware but it works.

My conscience is clear, I tried the ‘correct’ approach.

How many middle class families can legitimately afford an extra $100/mo+ on multiple streaming services?

$100 is unheard of in Europe.

Netflix, Disney, HBO, Amazon, Apple, Movistar, DAZN. $100/mo estimate for that combo in Spain.

I see, we're talking combos now. The lowest end Moviestar package with soccer is 9 Euro.

Correct, I said “multiple” in my original post.

I don’t doubt you can watch one stream for 9 Euro. What happens when the game you want is with the other provider?

If watching this much videos from such large array of services is that important for a family I am sure they can easily cut down on other leisure and entertainment and come up just fine.

They dont need to wach "much videos". The argument is about "specific movies and series".

And for that, there are three options: piracy, pay many services, constantly juggle sign ins and sign outs.

A lot of spanish people live with less than 1000€ a month. You can barely rent a 2 bedroom flat in many cities with that.

100€ for leisure and entertainment is already a huge sum of money when filing the tank of their cars to earn their salary cost them 2 to 3x 80€ already.

I guess I just wanna feel young again.

I’ve spend hundreds of thousands on just the hardware to store for all my pirated home theatre content.

I’d gladly pay money for it, but that’s not actually possible. The main cost of not pirating would be time, which is unacceptable because I’m neither a teenager nor poor.

Similarly, as a rich person who travels a lot, official sports streams just aren’t available for me.

Just for fun, I tried to Google and find an official site to watch LaLiga games:

“DAZN ISN'T AVAILABLE IN THIS COUNTRY”

“The request is blocked.” -https://www.laliga.com/en-GB/where-to-watch-laliga-easports

Movistar plus is in Spanish, probably not for me

But yeah, even fucking googling “laliga official stream” brings zero working paid alternatives for very very rich me.