Rolling out now to the service’s public beta is the new Discover section that helps you search, add, and stream any movie or TV show across multiple services. You can finally maintain a single universal watchlist in the Plex app (which is synced across all your Plex apps, on all popular platforms), and when you choose a title, you’ll see all the available places to stream it. When you choose to watch it on Hulu, it will open the Hulu app, and will directly start the media playback (thanks to some deep-linking magic).
There’s another advantage to using Plex’s universal watchlist: Plex will keep track of where a movie or TV show is streaming currently. So even if a TV show leaves HBO Max and moves to Hulu, it won’t suddenly disappear from your watch list.
See https://lifehacker.com/finally-a-universal-watchlist-for-all-your-streaming-s-1848756968
#technology #streaming #movies #plex
Stremio has been doing this for years. Also allows you to stream torrents.
Yes but judging from screenshots (as neither lists their services fully) Stremio shows 4 services to Plex’s 6 services. But I suppose it will depend on what one actually yes of those services.
👎 Fuck Plex and all of these DRM streaming services it integrates with now.
If you want a 10ft UI for browsing downloaded media, you can use Kodi, Jellyfin, dim, or one of the numerous other things like them. (Streamio is pretty sus with their “login with facebook” BS.)
I think you’re missing the point here - many already have streaming subscriptions with multiple services, and Plex is helping manage that. That was who the post was for. It has zip to with DRM or not.
I think I got the point fine and you’re actually missing my point: I’m saying that as long as they require DRM (which in turn necessarily requires proprietary software) I am opposed to making streaming services suck less. I want these services to fail.
I disliked plex even before it was integrated with streaming services, because it was already proprietary privacy-invasive crap, and I dislike it more now that I see it is providing a (presumably) more user-friendly alternative way to use these various streaming services. I hope this clarifies my point.
Yes, I get your point there, but I’m just saying that was not the point of my post. Whilst I prefer open source over proprietary any day (and I actively promote open source every day), people should have the freedom to choose how they want to market their stuff, just like we have the right choose what we want to buy or not.
It would be interesting though to see how the world turns with zero DRM and zero copyright. I suppose a lot of authors, artists, musicians, actors, etc would have to get real jobs ;-) To a large extent DRM/Copyright has an ecosystem that revolves around similarities with the right of ownership of property (land, cars, clothes, etc). It certainly changes the dynamics somewhat… If you think about it, today many do actually live off what their assets earn for them. For example AC/DC today would have zero income from all their hit songs as they would just be freely available for anyone. Shame they’d have to keep touring and doing live concerts until they die.
Thinking further though, for those of us outside the USA, DRM is not such an issue in that the “breaking” of DRM for personal use, is not criminalised (unless we were to redistribute and copy it to others which would be a copyright violation). Likewise, we don’t have extension after extension for copyright expiry dates. So for me, it was really not an issue to strip the DRM off my Amazon books I bought, hence it never really worried me too much as I stored them all in epub format.
So legally whether I buy a paper book or an electronic copy, it is both bought on conditional use as I never own the original creation. I can make a backup of my paper book, but can’t make 10 copies and sell them. Yet if I buy an artwork, I am buying the full rights to the original, and can sell it (can I make copies and sell it?). The more I suppose it is unravelled, the more complicated it can get.
Thank you for pointing out dim. I didn’t know it.
IMDB? Anyone?
IMDB is a database of movies, not an integration with streaming services with a universal watchlist etc…
It does in india, you can just click on the streaming service it’s available on from IMDb.
It does look different now I see. But I only see a watch list functionality, and movie trailers to play. No options to register my external streaming services. Even their Pro service makes no mention of linking to external streaming services to watch full movies.
Ah, I see another 2 levels deeper there are some links (All Topics / External Sites). But whilst one attached had links to two sites, a James Bond movie for example showed no external links, and neither did The Godfather.
It’s like this for me:
For that movie I also see a link to Amazon Prime, but nothing for Hulu, Netflix, etc. I looked up “Servant of the People” TV series that I’m watching on Netflix, and IMDB shows no link to Netflix.
Ah that’s unfortunate. In india you get links for a lot of different OTT platforms from IMDb itself
dude that’s amazon , the title is “what apple and google couldn’t”
Some bullshit title…
