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They were called broadcasts back then. And the equipment you needed was a bit more expensive and bulkier.
They were called broadcasts back then.
They still are. I get 50 channels OTA and I have a DVR to record them if I need to. I stream nothing but my own media off Plex. All this costs me $0/mo.
Thumbnail looked like Weird Al.
There were huge antiwar protests and the National Guard shot a bunch of students at Kent State. But thank God there was no streaming TV. That would have been insufferable.
I stream from self hosted sources, best of all worlds. No enshitification.
New media is acquired for free from the public libraries and then ripped, which under my local laws is perfectly legal.
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What about 1870 then?
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It’s not the technology it’s the culture behind it. the same was said about TV. American mainstream consumerist culture is the cancer,
I wonder when I first started regularly streaming video? I remember downloading things to watch because streaming was too slow. Probably YouTube, but I don’t remember when I started using it.
I think it was RealPlayer for me. I remember finding different sites and praying the connection was alright. That they were at least close enough in the world that you didn’t see that awful word, “Buffering…” Then I learned how to rip the whole rt file. Pretty sure I still have Trigun in rt actually…
Then once Winamp had video streaming, I remember surfing through crap on there all the time. Sooooo many weird foreign movies and anime…
I remember watching South Park on RealPlayer…I guess it was streaming and I forgot! Yeah, that’d be my first time as well.
I lived in the middle of nowhere and my dial-up could only do 19.6k.
Good enough to “12/f/Cali sorry no mic I gotta TracFone with no minutes parents keep the house phone in their room cuz I got caught talking to guys lol”
And that’s how me as a 14 year old boy paid for my cellphone with no job.
A decent “no logs” VPN + thepiratebay.org, or Streamio + realdebrid has solved just about every media issue I’ve had.
Most of the time it’s easier just to open Streamio than search through 8 apps for what I want to watch only to find it gated behind a $65/mo. add on subscription, or not at all.
Mainstream app streaming has gotten worse, and open source streaming has gotten wildly easier.
Been self hosting my own content since Netflix removed King of the Hill. Cancelled my sub immediately.
For the most part I was doing everything manually with a seedbox, SFTP, and then renaming things.
Just scrapped that setup and did a docker environment with gluetun, qbit, and some *arr apps. Pretty good so far, some annoyances, but was a bit easier than I expected.
I get frustrated even trying to pay for a subscription, only to find that I’m being gatekept at 720p/1080p for deigning to use my browser on PC.
Plex?
nah. Plex bad. Kodi or Jellyfin
Kodi is dated and barely works and jellyfin lacks basic features. I have both jellyfin and plex, I prefer Plex but I have my own server with lifetime bought for $50
Well maybe. But I value the absence of needing any online service and hackability way more. Also for me, Kodi works perfectly. I have one on each TV, laptop, tablet, all synced. All I need is to open a torrent file from anywhere. But I admit, I have a hairy setup.
Why use Plex (and relying on trusting them) when you can selfhost Jellyin?
You can self host Plex and it has more developed features then jellyfin. Just Plex raised cost and it’s losing its edge for that. Lifetime was great and still is.
A lot of little things I use in Plex jellyfin lacked so I pulled the server until it’s developed more. It’s not bad, but it’s not there, yet
Edit: I couldn’t even tell you the features anymore it was about a year ago, but it was enough for me to just buy lifetime Plex on a flash sale.
Sadly, Plex needs a subscription and it’s only worth it if you buy the lifetime on a flash sale.
yeaaaaaaah, and thats a big nope. Why does one need a subscription or a lifetime lease when you supposedly can self host? Subscription is what brought us into this mess in the first place.
Edit: I believe for me it was remote access ease of use by Plex that I use heavily.
Setting up a Wireguard / VPN isn’t that hard, and cuts out unwanted Corpos as well.
There was something called a rotary telephone and TV with an antenna. Children were typically used as the remote control to change the channel using a dial or buttons on the TV.
Also kids being the first to run into the house and turn on the TV because it had to warm up. You needed to have it up and running before your show came on because if you missed it you weren’t gonna see it until reruns. Now it has occurred to me the term rerun is obsolete
And fetch drinks, but you were expected to tip them
Is that a young Weird Al?
No, that’s Veronica. She explains things. Keep up
But can she explain how Big Earth has convinced people that the earth is round?
Veronica is the best!
I wish I had a cool aunt like Veronica.
And so, are you *cue theme tune
In 1970, I’d get home from kindergarten and watch Mr. Rogers in B&W. My mom didn’t like color TVs for a long time because the colors were “wrong”–she was an artist, a painter. So, we didn’t have a color TV till the mid-70s when she saw a Sony TV and decided the color was okay.
EDIT: I don’t like that Lemmy is changing my double hyphen (--) to an en-dash. I guess I’ll need to escape it from now on. I don’t like being tagged as AI, when I’m clearly just an old-school non-AI bot.
Tunes in a TV stream…
I guess people sit all day and stream stuff, because you cant do hobbies like dance, yoga, bicycle or anything else looool.
Yeah most people dont have the energy for those things, but its by design. Work and family takes all your energy. And then they want you to watch tv so you can get served ads, or watch news so you feel small and afraid.
work and family is excluded, for obvious reasons.
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