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I’d happily pay $50/m for a streaming service with a single UI that had all the shit my piracy server does, and a guarantee that things won’t disappear (or at least a track record of that rarely happening). Hell, I might pay as much as $100/m. Maintaining the server and pirating stuff takes time, and hard drives cost real money.

It’s only the combo of money savings, higher quality (most steams are shit), unavailability of what I want (the best versions of several TV shows and movies are piracy exclusives, for one thing), and unified UI that make it worth it. Start chipping away at those, and it gets not-worth-it pretty fast. Apple tried with their unified streaming service UI on Apple TV, but several big players who hate their paying customers refused to implement it, so that’s a dud.

Hell, I in-fact still pay for like five streaming services despite all the above. I’d gladly pay one higher bill if it let me stop fussing with this crap.

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> Apple tried with their unified streaming service UI on Apple TV, but several big players who hate their paying customers refused to implement it, so that’s a dud.

It’s not just that companies like Netflix didn’t implement it, but that it also shows you stuff you don’t have access to. I can’t count the number of times I get a notification about $sportsteam being in a close game, and clicking it, only for it to show me a link to subscribe to yet another “plus” service that likely will have the game blacked out anyway.

The “unified” Apple TV app has absolutely no idea what you actually are subscribed to, so it just shows you links to everything, and it’s a guessing game whether any of it will work. So it fails on both counts: it doesn’t show things you have, and it does show things you don’t have.

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> but several big players who hate their paying customers refused to implement it, so that’s a dud.

Only Netflix in my experience.

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Could’ve sworn (HBO) Max and Disney don’t work through it, either.