Remember when streaming was supposed to save us from cable?
You paid for Netflix, had a ridiculous amount of stuff to watch, and didn’t have to deal with a giant cable bill or 200 channels you never watched.
It was simple.
Now?
There are too many damn streaming services.
Netflix. Hulu. Disney+. Max. Peacock. Paramount+. Apple TV+. Prime Video. And probably three others I’m forgetting while writing this.
Want to watch one show? Better figure out which service currently owns it.
Want to watch another season of something? Surprise! It moved somewhere else.
And individually, most of these services don’t sound that expensive. It’s when you start stacking them together that you realize we’ve basically reinvented cable.
I Just Want My Stuff in One Place
This is probably the nerd in me talking, but every time I deal with streaming services I start thinking about how nice it would be to have my own media server.
And that’s where Jellyfin comes in.
Jellyfin is basically exactly what I want: my own movies and shows, stored on my own hardware, organized into one nice interface and streamed to the devices around my house.
No wondering which service has something.
No bouncing between five different apps.
Just one library.
Obviously, that means actually owning and storing your media instead of expecting Jellyfin to magically replace streaming services. But I’ve always liked physical media anyway, so
