About 40% of Americans have cut back on streaming services in the last three months because of financial concerns, according to a recent report
Americans are quitting subscription streaming services in droves as the cost of living continues to climb, a recent report has found.
Streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu have become increasingly popular in recent years, but Deloitte’s 2026 Digital Media Trends report, released late last month, shows how Americans are getting frustrated over the cost to have their favorite movies and TV shows at the click of a button.
“As the cost of everyday essentials like food and housing remain high, many consumers are reevaluating their budgets and cutting back on nonessential expenditures,” Deloitte said in its survey results. “At the same time, prices for media and entertainment services continue to climb.”
My Jellyfin server is doing great. My only constraint is my free disk space
Jellyfin is the way. Streaming only made sense when prices were low and all the content was basically in one place.
I’ll just keep growing my personal library.
Yea, fucking AI making it too expensive to be a data hoarder. I have to keep making hard decisions on which media to delete.
I’m kicking myself now for not buying more 20 TB hard drives when they were under $250. It’s rough out there for any computer related hobbies right now.
Which is why it can make sense to pay for pirate shares.
Many are around $5-8/mo, and they’re libraries are bigger than my own, with the added bonus of I don’t have to do any maintenance.
$60 to $98 per year, is a better deal than paying for these HDD prices. For me at least the trade-offs are worth it.
Private torrent tracker groups are better and free
Not at these storage costs, which was my point.
Dude. Tell me more.
What would you like to know?
How does a fella get piped into those private torrent tracker groups?
should be some cheap storage hitting the second hand market, when this AI bubble pops
Waiting for the AI bubble to pop
Same! I actually still have a decent amount of free space though, but my library is still growing.
I’m even using jellyfin in the car with android auto to listen to music. Recently bought a external blu-ray drive so I can rip all my old CD’s and DVD’s so at least some of my data is legit :D
I had to resort to used SAS drives on my server.
You can get them pretty cheap, but you absolutely have to run a full smart test and check the error correction log before using.
Plus they usually come with 5 years power on time minimum, so you’d only want to run them in any RAID/ZRAID combo that has redundancy.
Couple of people here mentioned re-encoding, but that also harms the seed count if you’re using BitTorrent as the exchange medium.
Part of the issue is that Bluray remux rips are usually in H.265 at 10 bit with Dolby Vision which pushes 4K file size into the 70-100Gb range.
That’s fine for a single movie on a bluray disk, but its atrocious for saving multiple onto a drive or NAS.
But then most encodes still almost all use H.265 or H.264 which still gives you a fat 30Gb file for 4K.
I’m pretty sure AV1 solves this issue because it has much better compression compared to H.265, especially for higher pixel content, but no Blurays are using AV1 because there’s no reduced cost in forcing a change in consumer hardware.
Plus I think AV1 technically doesn’t support Dolby Vision in proper yet.
So you can store over 500 films on a 2TB HDD. I’m failing to see the issue.
I think you need to check your math.
Pinchflat right into the jellyfin server. Tada!