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Jellyfin (Or Plex if you have to deal with the "Spouse Factor") + Radarr and Sonarr + Usenet
Perfection, no annoying physical media to worry about, but you still get to keep the data you...uhh.."acquired"
I use Stremio/Torrentio/RealDebrid, is there any practical reason to switch?
Those are dependent on the relevant torrent being available and seeded
Jellyfin/Plex and Radarr/Sonarr + Usenet, you'll have said file once downloaded for as long as you want, but requires considerably more storage space and torrents suck for older, more obscure stuff. Usenet doesn't depend on seeders, and the big boys have something like 15+ years retention and you'll always download them at full speed (no tons of seeders but slow upload speeds to worry about either)
So it's a matter of personal preference
Can the storage be regular ol slow ass HDDs? That sounds pretty sweet honestly
Yea absolutely, people have ran it off Raspberry Pis and external USB drives lol
I store my entire Plex library on an old Dell t420 server which has an old spinning disk raid array and it performs well enough. And if you're able to direct play the files they you don't even need a strong CPU when hosting Plex, you can run it on a raspberry pi.
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I've only used Jellyfin, what does Plex do better for the non-expert user?
If you like Jellyfin, stick with it. Plex kept screwing up requiring me to wipe the database. And the people who run it keep adding shit nobody wants.
Just a more polished interface, solid stability, real good transcoding and a client on just about everything that installs an app lmao
If you and everyone you care about being on it have been fine with Jellyfin, then there's absolutely no reason to switch
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I genuinely believe more people would have kept uaing physical media if they made it more convenient just to pop in a movie and play it.
Everytime I put in a 4k blu Ray, there's like 40 seconds of useless loading screens, unskippabble warnings, menu animations, and other bullshit. It feels like the old days of massively overcooked multimedia "experiences" in the worst way possible.
The best bit is that Blu-ray supports “online content” so they can update the forced intros and trailers to fresh ones!
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