Kodi

[Michael Butash]

I think he's asking for something of a one-stop shop for media aggregation
across services, paid or not.  I'm not sure such exists now that all the
fragmentation has occurred.  My nvidia shield or any android tv does have
google voice search capabilities, and I think if you have the service apps,
it will search those (or knows how to index them anyways).  My girl has
used it to search for something on netflix ot youtube, but not sure how
smart it is with so many services now, particularly more janky and
non-mainstream ones.

In kodi, if you search star trek, it shows you or search what you have, and
one click later you're watching it, or you go to whatever your trusty
source and download it.  Now you have to figure out which service has it
that month, if any do, how much it costs to get the service, and or "rent
the movie" atop that.  Maybe IMDB or other tv/movie stites would tell you
what is playing where, but never really looked.

Cable MSO's screwed their pooch being that one stop for all video not
offering ala cart channels or better pricing options, that since they
refused so long, the consumers and media industry moved on from their model
without them.  Netflix was almost that again, but media cartel greed turned
into just a mess in general with the upstart service fragmentation that no
one really likes either, which takes us back to Mike's question and (I
think) underlying problem.

You know who almost always has whatever I want to watch in one place?  The
pirate bay - best of everything internationally, the price is always right,
and never ads in my shows or movies.  I can afford them, but I see no
benefit for me to ever do so, plus I see the media cartels can still afford
to go on without my going to theaters or monthly service fees that I sleep
at night after 25 years of downloading what I watch.  Good luck with the 50
different media services to still be annoyed and inconvenienced with a high
monthly cost for them all.

-mb



On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 6:15 PM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Okay, seriously though, please re-articulate your question. It was unclear
> what you were asking.
>
> Thanks,
> Alexander
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S22+
>
> On Sat, Apr 2, 2022, 17:25 Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ok, thanks.
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 8:15 PM Snyder, Alexander J <
>> alexander at snyderfamily.co> wrote:
>>
>>> You can give me money and I'll make sure all the stuff you stole back
>>> then gets paid for. Promise.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alexander
>>>
>>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S22+
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 2, 2022, 16:28 Michael via PLUG-discuss <
>>> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yeah I waas pirating movies and such until 4 years ago. Now I want to
>>>> pay for my tv. We got net flix right now. How do I get an add on that gives
>>>> us like xbmc was when I was pirating my content and how do I pay for it???
>>>>
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