I think I might cancel. I’m not watching ads and I’m not going to pay the extra $3/mo to opt out. I don’t know if I’d end up paying more than the subscription cost in shipping though…

  • Kid_Thunder@kbin.social
    3·
    9 months ago

    This and the rising costs plus adding ads to ‘basic’ tiers and attempting to create limitations (resolutions, “screens”, offline downloads) is what might push me to build a nice, large NAS. We don’t want Cable again.

    • ebits21@lemmy.caEnglish
      0·
      9 months ago

      Jellyfin + Synology NAS was a great investment for me! ;)

      Wouldn’t go back.

      • Kid_Thunder@kbin.social
        0·
        9 months ago

        I appreciate the advice! I am thinking of Synology or perhaps DIY with either TrueNAS (Scale likely) or Unraid. Synology would be cheap, small, easy on power and thermals too though and I’ve been looking at the latest and previous gen DS2XX lines.

        Also I appreciate the Jellyfin mention. I’ve been using Plex so long and was thinking about something else like Jellyfin especially but I’ve never worked with it before.

        • ebits21@lemmy.caEnglish
          0·
          9 months ago

          The nice thing about Jellyfin is that you can point Jellyfin and Plex to the same media folders and both will work, to try it out.

          I would get a Synology with intel Quicksync if you go the Synology route for hardware transcoding. Unfortunately, a lot of the new models don’t have it.

          I just have a 220+ but would maybe get a 4 bay model if I did it again.

          • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
            01·
            9 months ago

            i do this with jellyfin and kodi. the media library is standalone. they both get read-only access to all the metadata which i manage with a different tool (mediaelch)