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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.
Tapes , lots and lots of them
57 years ago (1969) meant the only tapes were audio (8-tracks, reel to reel, and some cassette tapes), and those were just starting to become popular because Dolby (released in '65) was slowly starting to be used during mastering to reduce tape hiss enough that they could be used for music.
Betamax was released in '75, VHS in '76.
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Umatic came out in 1971. But it was too expensive for most consumers. My brother in law had one because his family business was TV repair.
Uhm and what about Tapes for Data Storage? Pretty sure Mainframes existed in 1969 already.
Philips started with cassettapes in my country Belgium in 63 , betamax and vhs where for video.
8 mm camera and movies were also available
I will give it a shot for the tapes my parents have in the Attic
Stream? Yeah I go down by the stream often
I live in a van near one (this generation’s dream.).
That looks like a streaming video
I mean, any YouTube creator is neck-deep in streaming. It’s probably more unhealthy than long-form TV.
EDIT: Though to this influencer’s credit, she seems more low key and avoids other social media. It appears she only does YT, Patreon, Ko-Fi, Peertube(!) and her own site, and uploads on a modest scheduile. That’s quite reasonable.
Honestly super big props to this influencer for uploading a video about cutting out all streaming services 37 years before Netflix even started trying to pivot towards internet streaming!
There was a lot more fresh water back then so they were all rivers.
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.
Plex?
nah. Plex bad. Kodi or Jellyfin
Why use Plex (and relying on trusting them) when you can selfhost Jellyin?
@DmMacniel @Casterial any advantage on jellyin over emby?
yeah, that its the open source fork of emby.
I cut all streaming services out of my life last year, except for Curiosity Stream, a sort of “Netflix” for educational documentaries.
But I haven’t even been watching that in a while, so maybe I should stop paying for it.
I just got sick of rising prices and invasive ads despite paying to avoid them. I use Plex now. I paid the one-time fee for the Lifetime Plex Pass and now I have access to all their advanced tools and streaming content, plus I can rip my movies/TV shows/music to my PC and stream them myself through Plex. No ads, no extra junk, no “are you still watching?” pop-ups. Just hit play and enjoy.
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