For the past year or so, I have been fairly happy with the RD, Torrentio, and Stremio setup. I've enjoyed being able to have a mostly seamless streaming experience; just search, click, and watch with little load or wait. In the past, I've experimented with the -arr's and qTorrent setup on a local machine, but I switched to RD for the convenience of being able to spontaneously watch a show or movie (like on a date night).

With the possible (maybe likely) end of RD, I have wanted to look back again at having a personal setup, but I want to see if anyone has recommendations for a setup that is as close as possible to the current one. I know, of course, that a local setup will not have the same benefit as a massive service as RD with a huge cache of torrents ready to go, but is there a way to get close? Round off some of the sharp edges and pain points?

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[–] bluetoque@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm out of the loop, what's going on with RD?

[–] Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 months ago

I'm guessing this is what they're referring to:

Real-Debrid Implements Extreme Anti-Piracy Filters to Appease Film Companies

[–] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

RD still works and there are multiple other debrids out there if you prefer stremio.

If you are fine just deleting stuff after watching instead of hoarding you can save in storage and management costs if you go the self hosted route. Also its a lot cheaper to host if your willing to watch at say 1080p then 4k.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't even notice a real difference between 1080p and 4k. I bever watch 4k. For some shows, like stupid sitcoms, I still accept 720p, because it's less than 1gb.

[+] blad314@lemmynsfw.com -7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You probably need a better tv if you don’t notice it.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Do I though? My TV still works fine and isn't smart and I don't feel like I'm missing anything

[–] DrinkMonkey@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

First, good job on not having a smart TV. They’re truly awful.

I would de-emphasize the actual resolution benefits of 4K. Most of us don’t sit close enough to notice the difference.

For me, it’s about high dynamic range (HDR).

For example, when I was a kid, I was always annoyed by how the photos I took of what I thought was a gorgeous landscape, and then developed the film (yes, I’m an old) it always looked horribly bland and drab.

Watching 4K content on a TV for the first time was like looking at the beautiful landscape again. (It actually was - Netflix’s Marco Polo had the most stunning vistas!)

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

For example, when I was a kid, I was always annoyed by how the photos I took of what I thought was a gorgeous landscape, and then developed the film (yes, I’m an old) it always looked horribly bland and drab.

Must have been terrible film (or was scanned/printed badly, or maybe poor development process). I found that most pictures I've taken digitally (before I got a modern higher quality digital camera) looked awful, but the ones I took on film look amazing and had better color depth than many of the earlier digital cameras and especially the digital cameras on phones. Of course modern digital cameras are much better both in color depth, resolution, and also less noise in the image, and since you can reuse the picture medium, which you can't do with film (which can get expensive if you take a lot of pictures), they're way worth it today.

[–] DrinkMonkey@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe. I was a kid so probably was given crap equipment anf cheap film and likely didn’t treat it well. But the principle is the same. Having deeper shadows that preserve detail, and brighter highlights that aren’t blown out is what, for me, evokes a more visceral response when watching content, whereas Increasing the number of pixels from 1080p to 4K doesn’t.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah I agree, it's the contrast and colors that really matter, hence why OLEDs are becoming more popular and content looks much better on OLEDs even if it's just 1080p or even 720p

[–] blad314@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I have a Sony A80L Oled TV. You are definitely missing out!

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

About to stop working and stop existing

[–] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Its been like 8 weeks now. Still works and still exists. Hmmm

[–] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago

It has now been 3 weeks and you are still full of shit.

[–] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

People have been saying this for 5 days now lol

RD already having to ban a bunch of idiots who got refunds, went to torbox which actually doesn't work, and now are trying to come back.