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I'm with you on that. There are some gems on streaming sites still, but lots of half baked content to sift through.
I've actually started buying DVDs again to add to a plex archive. A lot of not-current shows and movies are in my budget and I don't have to worry about availability. I will say Plex tells me what service has what content in my watchlist which is nice, but doesn't work for everything.
My SO and I were searching for a show and just gave up; too much of a hassle. Downloading would have been easy if we wanted, but after doing the searching dance, we just didn't care anymore and threw on a show we know and enjoy.
Yep! Ya know back in the old days we had to just watch whatever was on TV! Or go buy a VHS! But nowdays we have entire media libraries on our computers that, as a VHS collection, would be the kind of shelf someone would brag about. I suppose I should feel grateful for that. But I wanna have it! Blockbuster died for a reason.... maybe not the one we thought?
A true pirate would build a macrovision remover circuit and make a copy of their friends tape instead of buying one.
I set up my plex so it auto searches and downloads things added to the watch list, that and I follow a few lists in trakt for upcoming shows and movies so between the two it's much more content that any streaming service we uses to have