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Netflix adds 13.1 million subscribers, tops revenue estimates (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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This is so strange to me. I guess people enjoy being ripped off and getting less and less value for their money.

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[–] SpacetimeMachine 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The people who don't know how I understand completely. But honestly people who have the know-how are underestimating how easy it has got. I can torrent a movie at a much higher quality than Netflix will even stream to my PC and do it all within 5 minutes.

[–] rolling_resistance 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Now imagine you have a family that likes to watch TV in the living room and not in your room.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So you download the movie to your Plex or Jellyfin server and watch it in living room. I do exactly this all the time.

[–] rolling_resistance 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Right, I use Plex now too. However, it only has things that I already downloaded. So if we don't plan, we end up watching something on Netflix instead of spending extra time on looking+downloading+going back and forth between rooms.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

Well Plex soon is adding support for buying and renting stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"download this app, create an account, I'll add you as a friend, off you go"

It's literally as easy as Netflix in that scenario.

[–] rolling_resistance 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm curious to hear more about this. What's the app?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Plex

[–] Hule 1 points 5 months ago

Jellyfin for the win!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Lol that hasn't been an issue for at least a decade.

[–] thedirtyknapkin 2 points 5 months ago

hell, I'm across the country at my parent's place and got them a movie by remoting into my home pc to start a torrent and had it populatred in my Plex server and streaming at full bluray quality 4k hdr in less time that it took for them to get popcorn ready.

they never even knew that i had to do any of that. i just told them "yeah, I'll get that set up while you get snacks"