• Streetdog@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m not in the US, and even though most (but not all) services adjust for local pricing, finding and keeping track of where something is (often isn’t, or not anymore) available to stream is more of a hassle (PITA really) than going to my favorite magnet site.

    Just like streaming music where 95% of the content I want is available on all providers, I’d pay for an all-in tv-streaming service. I do buy digital/physical copies of music through Bandcamp. It’s all about convenience.

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      Roku helps with that as it has a global search. Maybe other streaming hardware does too. Not sure.

      I am happy and a bit surprised that music streaming ended up so good.

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        PlayStation of all places has this. I will often turn it on just to see if something is available on one of the services I share with family. Then I turn to sketchy streaming sites or the public library.

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        But can you constrain that global search by the services you subscribe to? It’s not useful to find all the places I can’t watch something

        And can you constrain the search by language? One of the things that made Netflix easier to give up was the flood of search results in languages I don’t speak

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        Roku isn’t available in my “area”, so it (still) says. It’s a bummer because I wouldn’t have any issues with paying to binge something at high quality.

        Edit: I have used justwatch.com in the past, but it isn’t always correct or up-to-date either.

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        In my experience it’s pretty universal. My TV offers it (Android/Google TV), my Xbox has it, and Plex has it