However, content absolutely blows. I regularly go to cinemas, but there are not any tv shows in there. As of today I am going to cancel all of them and I know it's not much of a "blow" to their cash flow, but seriously, this is ridiculous. They kill the only platform that lets me watch content that's not available for me otherwise and that I would have gladly pay for if it was available. Popcorn time had an amazing support for streaming directly to TV, which was my main use case. I have a desktop computer in a separate room and I definitely do not plan on drilling my walls to push an HDMI cable through them. I guess it's time for Plex.
Plex with something like Sonarr set up is a bit of a hassle to configure but generally works pretty well for this in my experience.
I agree though, it used to be great when you could pay $10 a month for Netflix and it actually had most content you wanted. Now you pay more than that to three or four services and still don’t get everything. I wish the film industry would come up with something like what Spotify did for music and what Steam did for video games. Make your content easily available legally for a reasonable fee and piracy rates will naturally go down.
- HBO Go
- Youtube Premium
- Netflix
- Amazon Prime
However, content absolutely blows. I regularly go to cinemas, but there are not any tv shows in there. As of today I am going to cancel all of them and I know it's not much of a "blow" to their cash flow, but seriously, this is ridiculous. They kill the only platform that lets me watch content that's not available for me otherwise and that I would have gladly pay for if it was available. Popcorn time had an amazing support for streaming directly to TV, which was my main use case. I have a desktop computer in a separate room and I definitely do not plan on drilling my walls to push an HDMI cable through them. I guess it's time for Plex.