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JellyFin + your own media = ad free streaming. I detest ads and general streaming services. Whenever you want to talk about a show, you have to preface it with 'what streaming service is it on'?
Sure but that requires infrastructure. Have you seen the price of storage these days?
That is the unfortunate thing, hosting your own media does take storage, but I still think overall it would be cheaper depending on the amount of storage and how much you are spending on Streaming services. A quick look says people are spending $100 or so on services each month. So $1,200 a year. You can easily build a 30tb array and the NAS for under that, even with today's outrageous prices, as as you find more storage, expand upon it. 30tb is going to host a whole lot of media. Let's say the average 30 minute TV show is 0.5 gb and a movie is 2gb, you can store something like 20,000 TV episodes and 10,000 movies. I think you'd be just fine, and that's a payback of one year. And you can easily share that with your friends and family without paying additional fees.
Stremio is piracy so has no cost.
Paying for a debrid service is optional, you can use a VPN instead, but debrid just makes it cleaner since that is built into many of the addon options.
For me at least, I like owning my media, at least that way you don't have to worry about it disappearing in the future.