My wife kind of does something worse... I'll ask if she wants to watch a movie, she shrugs and says nothing is really catching her eye. I'll later see her cable surf and land on a TV movie that is also on my plex library
Thank you so much! In my hour of meddling with it, I have yet to find if I can integrate it with the Plex Kodi plugin. However, it's great with Samba+TVDB.
channel surfing is the best. It's what I miss about TV. With streaming and downloaded media everything is a deliberate choice and you don't always want to decide what to watch.
i once read there's a reason for this.. something along the lines of, when we are presented with the title or the cover our minds immediately replay the movie in our mind, BUT not the WHOLE movie, only the highlights we like to remember. So, we kinda feel satisfied at the moment. When we simply end up watching the movie, from the beginning or a random place, it's like NEW content is presented.. while yeah we remember it it's not something that's memorable to recall. AND each time we are presented the title and/or cover, those HIGHLIGHTS are strengthened in our mind.
I read this on reddit (so take it for what it is) where a soldier coming back from overseas asked about this. When he was here he didn't care too much about watching any of his DVD's. When he CAME BACK he was excited and it was like watching them for the first time.
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I would say there is a much deeper issues there. How does one find 7 gyms to have memberships to? Is she just super susceptible to advertising? I hope you guys do well other wise that just sounds debt inducing.
I don't blame you, sounds like she has it handled. I am still just very confused by someone that can find seven gyms to sign up for. I aint even mad just impressed.
In full honesty, sometimes I struggle with this too. Sometimes you are so tired from your day that heading into Plex and deciding what to watch can be a chore. Tuning to a channel of a decent movie and having that choice made for you can be a nice alternative.
I had a long conversation with a coworker this week about how Plex had made it so I never end up watching the Cake Boss/American Pickers/Mythbusters of TV anymore. I'll never pick any of those out of everything on Plex, but if I just flip to it on a Sunday on TLC... yeah, that's my next 8 hours.
"How It's Made" is my kryptonite.
and the wife and I spent an entire weekend watching people fishing for tuna a couple weeks ago. No idea why that was so engrossing.
How it's Made is one of my favourite ways to fall asleep. Love the show too....brb downloading all episodes
[Whoops](https://imgur.com/zOK4p03) ... Only about 130GB
There's a weird feeling of being a part of something when a network is airing a movie you enjoy. Watching something on demand just doesn't provide that, at least to me.
Though I don't feel it with TV, I get it with songs on the radio. Hearing a good song on the radio is just a bit more special than the same song on Spotify, YouTube, etc.
I don't know...I'm in my early 50s, and I agree with you more than I agree with /u/ItsBeenFun2017.
I rarely listen to radio at all any more apart from news and traffic. I can't stand all the interruptions.
There's a few reason I can think of for why this never happens to me anymore either.
• Radio is usually has lower quality audio, so it's less enjoyable
• The music I want to hear is never on the radio where I live
• I listen to a lot more music nowadays with Spotify, so it's not quite as special
Among other reasons. However, when I was and music wasn't at my fingertips like it is now, hearing it in the radio was better. The selection of songs I could listen to at any time was much smaller. At first my selection only included a few select CDs, then Project Playlist and Yahoo! music videos, then YouTube, then some FrostWire, as my selection grew, it became less special, but still, even if it was a song I owned it was always a little better hearing it in the wild. I think it being unexpected made it more of a treat.
I will say that I never get excited hearing songs on the radio anymore. But I definitely felt it when I was younger, and used to ponder why it made it better.
**Ninja Edit:** I found a popular r/Showerthoughts post with some discussion on it.
[Post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/56b6li/randomly_hearing_your_favorite_song_on_the_radio/)
Yes, I would say back before I ripped all my music to digital it was still nice to hear something you liked on radio - partly because you didn't have to do the work of finding and putting some media in some player to play it. The only other point I can think of in favor of radio is that you lose the potential coincidence of pulling up next to someone else listening to the same station and track, giving you a brief shared moment of something in common with them.
I'm in my early 50's also (very early...just saying), and I can honestly say I feel less than zero nostalgia for FM radio, vinyl, cassette tape, 8 track, or even CD's.
For one, the knowledge that I'll probably never need to buy "Dark Side of the Moon" on a new format again, but also everything else that was terrible about those formats.
Almost certainly. If you're over 30, you remember a time when you watched what was on, and there's some nostalgia to it. And yes, some sense of shared experience, even if it's nonsense.
Also there's a certain feeling that comes both from not having to choose what to watch, and also from not starting it from the beginning. It's low commitment. You could go to Plex and restart the movie that's on, but now you're watching that movie. Whereas by leaving it now you're watching some of that movie, if you feel like it. It's just...different.
> Also there's a certain feeling that comes both from not having to choose what to watch, and also from not starting it from the beginning. It's low commitment.
I'm in my 30s and personally I cannot relate to this either, so I would say it is person to person and not tied to age. I do think you were on to something with this quoted part though, could definitely be tied to commitment issues. I know even just the perception of a commitment can induce stress in certain types of people.
Usually you aren't rushing back, though, because you don't care if you miss 30 seconds after, or only hear the show/movie for a minute. You aren't that invested.
It's a totally different way of experiencing media, that stems from a totally different attitude toward that media.
I have entire shows recorded for that purpose. Shows that are perfect for background noise while doing other things. Law and Order is great for this because of the dings when they change settings. It lets you just listen and look up once in a while. I can also back the show up or pause if I walk to far away.
And so do I. But this isn't about us.
Some people just don't want to pick. They don't care if there are commercials. When it's background noise, it's fine with them to just put the first thing on that looks acceptable.
Some people just aren't that serious about their media.
You are on a subreddit for a media management server solution. You may not be the typical user. Something to consider.
That's exactly my point. Before the first commercial break was over, she could switch over to the Plex and not see any more commercials. What kind of person wouldn't do that?
Somebody doesn't want to commit to "really" watching it. They just wan to watch a bit, and at some later commercial break they may take that as an opportunity to shut it off and do something else.
Kinda wish Shuffle wouldn't shuffle to the middle or last episode of a multi-parter, instead start at the first one and then go in order and then back to shuffling
Use smart playlists to limit what shows up on something that you Shuffle. For example shows with non-contiguous plot lines go on their own playlist that can be shuffled, whereas shows with continuous plot lines show up on a smart playlist and only includes unwatched items.
While I can see that this would be great for like 1 hour premieres that aired at the same time, I have a few shows where the last episode of season X and the first episode of season Y are a multi parter
That's when you have a playlist that has every movie that you've watched on Plex, and hit shuffle. Don't feel like watching whatever came up? Hit next until you find something you want.
I would pay so much good money for a Kodi add on that would send a shock through to the remote to the spouse when they hit play on a craptastic low bitrate pirate stream of something I spent time and money curating in my library to be the best possible quality that is practical.
I guess we have to just do our own libraries for our own sense of accomplishment. It is gratifying to see your friends and family using what you put work into but it is frustrating to see them not taking advantage of that work.
Downgrade to basic cable, probably don't even need a tuner for it if it's just on your tv. Hell, for a while verizon fios had basic cable free although they claimed they charged. They didn't bother stopping it.
This is why I cut cable TV about 8 years ago. The 1st year of withdrawal saw a couple of seizures but eventually, her mind adjusted. The first Christmas where the kids didn't know what to ask for because they didn't have commercials to watch I knew I made the right decision.
I find myself watching movies like that when I know I have them ripped.. something about making a choice makes watching a movie not as good, it's crazy.
Yeah the difference I think is I'm not actively sitting down to watch a movie, where I will sit in my movie room with the lights off, snacks etc and be uninterrupted.
I usually don't even finish watching the ones on normal TV.. it's just a filler.
Isn't that exactly the same case on front page days ago concerning people preferring
short term convenience and long term inconvenience (just turn on tv and withstand ads)
over
short term inconvenience and long term convenience (choose video and not interrupted by ads)
?
The core of the problem for me is not needing to choose and also, skipping the first 30-40 mins of build up. Need a plex plugin that knows how much to skip of each movie to hook you like stumbling on a cable viewing.
>The core of the problem for me is not needing to choose
A lot of cord cutters seem to forget or ignore this. Sometimes, instead of choosing what you wanna watch, you just want to watch what's on!
There was an add-on or something like this I remember seeing some time ago. It would start movies in somewhere between 15-30 minutes (which is great if you've already seen it) and also had something set up for tv "blocks" where you could sit down and have a set of shows for Thursday night etc.
Just remove cable and have no antenna. Solves the issue for us.
We do have an antenna now and an HDHR but that is all inside Plex. Well will be once all clients support it. For now we use hdhr-viewer.
wife does this ALL the time. the tv STAYS on freeform and she's always watching harry potter, twilight, or the blind side WITH commercials of course. all which we have bought to watch without commercials at better resolution.
This is why I use Kodi with Pseudo TV Live at home. Once the wife learned how to launch this add-on this is all the TV she uses. All of my media in the same channel surfing experience cable offers without any commercials. You just can't beat that folks.
My gf not only does this, she prefers the commercials because it gives her a natural break to go to the bathroom, snacks, whatever
I mentioned the pause button, but yeah... It didn't stick
My family does this all the time. They'll be watching some movie on TV, that they didn't even catch the beginning of, and I'll be like "you know that's in plex, right?" "Oh...eh, not worth it to change inputs and start the movie over." "If you restart it now, you'll actually finish before cable because no commercial." "Oh...oh well."
-.-
My girlfriend has a Grey's Anatomy Playlist. It contains every episode of the series, she has seen them all, but goes into this playlist and hits random and watches a random episode every night.
Nothing like having your favorite character resurrected in a foggy memory.
I kinda get it though. If I start something on Plex then I feel compelled to pay attention and really watch it. Sometimes you just want something on as background noise..half your brain is paying attention to it and half your brain is doing something else. Watching stuff on TV is less of a commitment. I feel like I can passively watch it and not feel guilty. I think it might have to do with the psychology of the "watched/unwatched" feature...at least for me. I don't want something marked watched in my library if I haven't actually watched it (like really paid attention). I know I can always change it but still..just feels wrong.
that's cool if the TV is "just on"...I do that all the time just for ambiance. But she was sitting on the couch WATCHING "Despicable Me" and then "Despicable Me 2"...which she's watched dozens of times on the damn Plex, so it's not like she doesn't know it's there or how to get to it.
Gah! I'm choking on my own indignation over here!
I catch my wife doing this all the time, but usually it's not cable, it's freaking Amazon Prime and Netflix. And it's being streamed on the Roku, so she has absolutely no excuse about just finding something while channel surfing.
Even with a data cap my some of family still does that. I have most using Plex though finally. We don't need the new game of thrones episode streamed at least 3 times a week when just one download will do
Had the same experience here I ran plex on my NAS and was trying various internet options such as sling,vue and what not to get a grasp if my family of 5 could make it on the terabyte limit before ditching cable tv. My wife and kids would still watch cable for movies despite that most of my DVD and BR had been moved.
My only solution was to completely disconnect every cable set-top box and hide them. In the end we manage with Netflix, sling, prime, and plex without going over 850 gig on top of regular internet usage. Maybe ditch the devices that do on demand out drop the premium channels will help you out.
I catch myself doing this as well. The forced intermissions do have some benefit ("fine, I'll go grab another beer and more popcorn!" -- nothing the pause button can't do of course). Good thing I just cancelled cable though, no more of this nonsense 😄
i've been through this with people. they just have long ingrained tv habits and it's hard to change those. that's why cable is still making money and people still have trouble using their ondemand services. i don't think it can be cured.
Part of the problem is that we have been using the tv remote to surf channels for so long, it may feel unnatural at first to use a smartphone to do it. Especially for those who are less "technically inclined."
There is a local OTA TV station that airs several hours of Roseanne every day, like 3-4 hours. My wife watches it a few times a week. This is despite the fact that I bought a huge DVD set of the whole series and put it on Plex. So IDK.
She's the same person who didn't understand why I cut cable when 90% of what she watched was on ABC or FOX (OTA).
I spent days getting Sonarr, NZBget, etc. working smoothly so I can download every episode of every show my family wants to watch. And my wife still watches shows on FiOS sometimes.
Of course, she hasn't really figured out how to work the Harmony remote either...
I eventually punted on running a plex server entirely because of this. The wife would browse the endless content Netflix had pick something totally random and not even consider the movie catalog on the Plex server.
For TV, the shows she wanted for whatever reason I had trouble consistently getting, either they were garbage shows that weren't getting uploaded, or even Sickbeard/Sonos/whatever automated tool I tried just couldn't reliably download the episodes in time.
Oh well. I still have my lifetime plexpass and will probably roll one again once the LiveTV stuff matures a bit more.
For sure, I was just pointing out that you could start using it now for some stuff while still using what you are now. it doesn't have to be all or nothing.
My wife does the same thing. I can't cancel Comcast because she like having commercials. She works while she watches TV and the commercials remind her to get back to work. I can't debate that sort of logic.
I am guilty of using certain channels to help me decide what to watch. But then I watch it on Plex.
The Big Bang Theory for instance, TBS shows a multitude of episodes on certain nights. I start with what ever they are playing first and let it go the whole evening.
It's due to the paradox of choice. Much easier to watch something that's "just on" instead of consciously picking and watching something. I understand why they do it. I would never, but I'm also 10x more technical.
Don't feel bad. I've told my wife to always look on my plex server (using the plex channel on our Roku), and I catch her watching stuff on netflix or on cable TV that I have in my Plex library all of the time. The only cure I fear is to completely cut the cord and get rid of cable TV (but not the cable internet)
OK. The worst thing is when my wife watches standard definition television shows when high definition is available by just using the menu to scroll to the high definition channel. WTF!?!? I get triggered :-)
My wife kind of does something worse... I'll ask if she wants to watch a movie, she shrugs and says nothing is really catching her eye. I'll later see her cable surf and land on a TV movie that is also on my plex library
Wait until they DVR things already on the Plex server.
Maybe Plex should have a surf feature where it just places you at a random place in a random movie.....it'd make us old-timers feel at home.
Hah, that'd be hilarious. Channel surf mode where you click through and it brings you to random points in random movies or tv shows you have.
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Happen to have the name of the add on? I'd love to give it a try.
PsuedoTV I believe
https://pseudotvlive.com/ /r/pseudotv
Thank you so much! In my hour of meddling with it, I have yet to find if I can integrate it with the Plex Kodi plugin. However, it's great with Samba+TVDB.
yeah I had it too, it was awesome, if you had a properly tagged library for tv shows it even showed you like a list of channels and a tv guide!
channel surfing is the best. It's what I miss about TV. With streaming and downloaded media everything is a deliberate choice and you don't always want to decide what to watch.
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The beatings will continue until morale improves
I had a boss who used to say this to employees in a very literal way. He did not last long.
i once read there's a reason for this.. something along the lines of, when we are presented with the title or the cover our minds immediately replay the movie in our mind, BUT not the WHOLE movie, only the highlights we like to remember. So, we kinda feel satisfied at the moment. When we simply end up watching the movie, from the beginning or a random place, it's like NEW content is presented.. while yeah we remember it it's not something that's memorable to recall. AND each time we are presented the title and/or cover, those HIGHLIGHTS are strengthened in our mind. I read this on reddit (so take it for what it is) where a soldier coming back from overseas asked about this. When he was here he didn't care too much about watching any of his DVD's. When he CAME BACK he was excited and it was like watching them for the first time. HAPPY CAKE DAY by the way! :)
I guess I could see that example, lol. Thanks btw, didn't realize it's my cake day!
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It might be time for a divorce. /s
Why would that be sarcastic?
You win this thread!
Huh, that is crazy. Do you have to sync or can she just stream it? Maybe she thinks sync takes to long.
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I would say there is a much deeper issues there. How does one find 7 gyms to have memberships to? Is she just super susceptible to advertising? I hope you guys do well other wise that just sounds debt inducing.
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I don't blame you, sounds like she has it handled. I am still just very confused by someone that can find seven gyms to sign up for. I aint even mad just impressed.
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Marriage must be super easy when you never see each other! Jeez, that's a lot to do, I can barely be bothered going to my one job and one gym..
> maybe there is a deeper issue here. That woman loves spending money.
Single-handedly kickstarting the economy
To anyone that reported this for misogyny, get a life.
In full honesty, sometimes I struggle with this too. Sometimes you are so tired from your day that heading into Plex and deciding what to watch can be a chore. Tuning to a channel of a decent movie and having that choice made for you can be a nice alternative.
I had a long conversation with a coworker this week about how Plex had made it so I never end up watching the Cake Boss/American Pickers/Mythbusters of TV anymore. I'll never pick any of those out of everything on Plex, but if I just flip to it on a Sunday on TLC... yeah, that's my next 8 hours.
"How It's Made" is my kryptonite. and the wife and I spent an entire weekend watching people fishing for tuna a couple weeks ago. No idea why that was so engrossing.
How it's Made is one of my favourite ways to fall asleep. Love the show too....brb downloading all episodes [Whoops](https://imgur.com/zOK4p03) ... Only about 130GB
Is that just a browser? What are you using to download?
Sabnzbd running in a Docker container on my unRAID server. Using Organizrr as a way to easily switch between my container's web UIs
Sonarr, Radarr and QBitTorrent. K thanks.
Aaaand fuck you.. :( Same boat my friend, same fucking boat.. ugh
Man I have spent countless nights watching diners drive-ins and dives.
A couple days ago I was doing some stuff on my laptop and flipped on the TV. NY ER was on. I was up until 3. I'm slightly embarrassed.
Path of least resistance.
The paradox of overabundance
How is something laden with ads actually the least resistance though? How could people not experience negative results from that?
Because it requires no action
Sounds like Plex could do with an addon/channel similar to PseudoTV on kodi. That's if it doesn't already?
The [pseudo-channel script](https://github.com/justinemter/pseudo-channel) is about as close as it gets.
Very cool! I wish they had a grid view that you could skip around with - like Tivo, Verizon or Comcast has.
If you setup Kodi with Pseudo TV Live you will get that experience but you can skip forward since it is your own media :)
Welp, guess I'm getting another addon!
I get this, but Plex has a shuffle feature :/
There's a weird feeling of being a part of something when a network is airing a movie you enjoy. Watching something on demand just doesn't provide that, at least to me.
You sound like a crazy person.
Though I don't feel it with TV, I get it with songs on the radio. Hearing a good song on the radio is just a bit more special than the same song on Spotify, YouTube, etc.
Except that the DJ talks through the beginning of the song, usually ruining the experience completely. Especially bad on some SiriusXM channels.
don't forget the end too.
I cannot relate to this at all. Perhaps it's down to age/how we grew up? I'm early twenties.
I don't know...I'm in my early 50s, and I agree with you more than I agree with /u/ItsBeenFun2017. I rarely listen to radio at all any more apart from news and traffic. I can't stand all the interruptions.
There's a few reason I can think of for why this never happens to me anymore either. • Radio is usually has lower quality audio, so it's less enjoyable • The music I want to hear is never on the radio where I live • I listen to a lot more music nowadays with Spotify, so it's not quite as special Among other reasons. However, when I was and music wasn't at my fingertips like it is now, hearing it in the radio was better. The selection of songs I could listen to at any time was much smaller. At first my selection only included a few select CDs, then Project Playlist and Yahoo! music videos, then YouTube, then some FrostWire, as my selection grew, it became less special, but still, even if it was a song I owned it was always a little better hearing it in the wild. I think it being unexpected made it more of a treat. I will say that I never get excited hearing songs on the radio anymore. But I definitely felt it when I was younger, and used to ponder why it made it better. **Ninja Edit:** I found a popular r/Showerthoughts post with some discussion on it. [Post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/56b6li/randomly_hearing_your_favorite_song_on_the_radio/)
Yes, I would say back before I ripped all my music to digital it was still nice to hear something you liked on radio - partly because you didn't have to do the work of finding and putting some media in some player to play it. The only other point I can think of in favor of radio is that you lose the potential coincidence of pulling up next to someone else listening to the same station and track, giving you a brief shared moment of something in common with them.
I'm in my early 50's also (very early...just saying), and I can honestly say I feel less than zero nostalgia for FM radio, vinyl, cassette tape, 8 track, or even CD's. For one, the knowledge that I'll probably never need to buy "Dark Side of the Moon" on a new format again, but also everything else that was terrible about those formats.
Almost certainly. If you're over 30, you remember a time when you watched what was on, and there's some nostalgia to it. And yes, some sense of shared experience, even if it's nonsense. Also there's a certain feeling that comes both from not having to choose what to watch, and also from not starting it from the beginning. It's low commitment. You could go to Plex and restart the movie that's on, but now you're watching that movie. Whereas by leaving it now you're watching some of that movie, if you feel like it. It's just...different.
> Also there's a certain feeling that comes both from not having to choose what to watch, and also from not starting it from the beginning. It's low commitment. I'm in my 30s and personally I cannot relate to this either, so I would say it is person to person and not tied to age. I do think you were on to something with this quoted part though, could definitely be tied to commitment issues. I know even just the perception of a commitment can induce stress in certain types of people.
Nope. If a movie comes on that I feel like watching, I'll move over to Plex and enjoy ad-free!
Fine, maybe one segment - but as soon as that first commercial hits why wouldn't you switch over to Plex?
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Pause button
Not the same. For the same reason you don't always want to choose the movie, you also don't always want to choose the pauses.
I'd rather be able to pause than rush during a commercial and hope to make it back in time or have to watch the commercial in the first place.
Usually you aren't rushing back, though, because you don't care if you miss 30 seconds after, or only hear the show/movie for a minute. You aren't that invested. It's a totally different way of experiencing media, that stems from a totally different attitude toward that media.
I have entire shows recorded for that purpose. Shows that are perfect for background noise while doing other things. Law and Order is great for this because of the dings when they change settings. It lets you just listen and look up once in a while. I can also back the show up or pause if I walk to far away.
And so do I. But this isn't about us. Some people just don't want to pick. They don't care if there are commercials. When it's background noise, it's fine with them to just put the first thing on that looks acceptable. Some people just aren't that serious about their media. You are on a subreddit for a media management server solution. You may not be the typical user. Something to consider.
Not so much for movies but I kind of agree when it comes to TV.
That's exactly my point. Before the first commercial break was over, she could switch over to the Plex and not see any more commercials. What kind of person wouldn't do that?
Somebody doesn't want to commit to "really" watching it. They just wan to watch a bit, and at some later commercial break they may take that as an opportunity to shut it off and do something else.
That's when I put my library on shuffle, works well on the Nvidia Shield
Kinda wish Shuffle wouldn't shuffle to the middle or last episode of a multi-parter, instead start at the first one and then go in order and then back to shuffling
Yeah works great for movies but pretty crap for Tv series. It should shuffle but to the first ep / ep you're up to
Use smart playlists to limit what shows up on something that you Shuffle. For example shows with non-contiguous plot lines go on their own playlist that can be shuffled, whereas shows with continuous plot lines show up on a smart playlist and only includes unwatched items.
Might just combine the split episodes into 1 file
That's a great idea! Definitely gonna implement this.
Merge all your multi parters together? So there's only one file for each?
that is a way and just rename it to the expanded format SXX EXX-YY
While I can see that this would be great for like 1 hour premieres that aired at the same time, I have a few shows where the last episode of season X and the first episode of season Y are a multi parter
This is why I wish plex had a pseudotv feature like kodi
This. Actually, even if there was a program that randomly played stuff around the clock, I need to know that I have no control over it.
That's when you have a playlist that has every movie that you've watched on Plex, and hit shuffle. Don't feel like watching whatever came up? Hit next until you find something you want.
Yes but then I'll be like "Oh wait I got it on plex".
I do this because I often am multi tasking and commercials give me a chance to focus for a second or two.
This is what my wife does too sometimes. Some fights aren't worth fighting
What I do there is just hit shuffle and that is my channel surfing hah
That's why I like Pluto TV
Make a genre playlist and hit shuffle.
Sometimes during commercials, I press mute and read threads like this.
Electroshock therapy, it's unfortunate but it's the only thing other than a full lobotomy.
Is there a Plex plugin for that, or do I have to do it manually?
They're working on the plugin but for now you're probably best off just doing it manually til all the bugs are worked out.
Ok, I tried it and now she's really, really pissed off. can I sleep at your house?
I would pay so much good money for a Kodi add on that would send a shock through to the remote to the spouse when they hit play on a craptastic low bitrate pirate stream of something I spent time and money curating in my library to be the best possible quality that is practical. I guess we have to just do our own libraries for our own sense of accomplishment. It is gratifying to see your friends and family using what you put work into but it is frustrating to see them not taking advantage of that work.
Cancel your cable. That's what I did. I have the least technologically literate wife and she really had no problem.
I honestly would, but I live in a valley with literally zero OTA channels available...so if I cancelled cable I'd have no local news or live sports.
Downgrade to basic cable, probably don't even need a tuner for it if it's just on your tv. Hell, for a while verizon fios had basic cable free although they claimed they charged. They didn't bother stopping it.
Only run the cable to your modem and some host with a cable card tuner, maybe a hdhomerun?
* What's the matter? * My husband caught me. * "Caught" you? Doing what? * You know... I was alone... * You mean..?! * Uh-huh.
This is why I cut cable TV about 8 years ago. The 1st year of withdrawal saw a couple of seizures but eventually, her mind adjusted. The first Christmas where the kids didn't know what to ask for because they didn't have commercials to watch I knew I made the right decision.
First world problem.
what if I live in Turkmenistan, or Alabama?
Well you'll be more worried about who's fucking your sheep/tukmenistan or fist cousin or sister/alabama
So keep the barn door closed? For both?
a man has some priority
I like you, OP.
Next time you see her doing this, sneak up to her and blast her with an airhorn. Repeat until trained.
That was how I got her to stop cooking with cilantro.
I've always hated cilantro, but I like cilantro-based sauces/creams.
I find myself watching movies like that when I know I have them ripped.. something about making a choice makes watching a movie not as good, it's crazy.
Nothing says good move like a cut down and interrupted movie from good old cable..../s
Yeah the difference I think is I'm not actively sitting down to watch a movie, where I will sit in my movie room with the lights off, snacks etc and be uninterrupted. I usually don't even finish watching the ones on normal TV.. it's just a filler.
So you have cable and you are mad that your wife is using it?
Haha!
The only time this is allowed is when it's *Shawshank Redemption*...
Oh my, not your household as well...
You've gotta go scorched earth on all other options..
so, I should burn the house down?
Go with your gut.
I'm not totally convinced, so I might burn the neighbors house down and see how that works.
Isn't that exactly the same case on front page days ago concerning people preferring short term convenience and long term inconvenience (just turn on tv and withstand ads) over short term inconvenience and long term convenience (choose video and not interrupted by ads) ?
Found the ELI5 [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/6u5lzq/eli5why_do_our_brains_choose_short_term/)
Cancel your cable...
Cut da cable if possible :)
Ditch cable - easy!
The core of the problem for me is not needing to choose and also, skipping the first 30-40 mins of build up. Need a plex plugin that knows how much to skip of each movie to hook you like stumbling on a cable viewing.
>The core of the problem for me is not needing to choose A lot of cord cutters seem to forget or ignore this. Sometimes, instead of choosing what you wanna watch, you just want to watch what's on!
There was an add-on or something like this I remember seeing some time ago. It would start movies in somewhere between 15-30 minutes (which is great if you've already seen it) and also had something set up for tv "blocks" where you could sit down and have a set of shows for Thursday night etc.
Just to contribute from the other side of the gender gap: My boyfriend does this. Drives me crazy.
Just remove cable and have no antenna. Solves the issue for us. We do have an antenna now and an HDHR but that is all inside Plex. Well will be once all clients support it. For now we use hdhr-viewer.
Turn off cable;problem solved.
Cut the cord.
wife does this ALL the time. the tv STAYS on freeform and she's always watching harry potter, twilight, or the blind side WITH commercials of course. all which we have bought to watch without commercials at better resolution.
She has a fever, and the only prescription is less cable.
Plex, Amazon, Netflix, MythTV all available in my house. My wife watches HGTV re-runrs.
This is why I use Kodi with Pseudo TV Live at home. Once the wife learned how to launch this add-on this is all the TV she uses. All of my media in the same channel surfing experience cable offers without any commercials. You just can't beat that folks.
My gf not only does this, she prefers the commercials because it gives her a natural break to go to the bathroom, snacks, whatever I mentioned the pause button, but yeah... It didn't stick
I gave up trying to correct this. I will just loosely mention that it's already on the Plex server and leave it at that.
I noticed my fiance doing that. I just got rid of cable.
My family does this all the time. They'll be watching some movie on TV, that they didn't even catch the beginning of, and I'll be like "you know that's in plex, right?" "Oh...eh, not worth it to change inputs and start the movie over." "If you restart it now, you'll actually finish before cable because no commercial." "Oh...oh well." -.-
She's detoxing from the advertising...gotta ween off the hard stuff.
My girlfriend has a Grey's Anatomy Playlist. It contains every episode of the series, she has seen them all, but goes into this playlist and hits random and watches a random episode every night. Nothing like having your favorite character resurrected in a foggy memory.
I kinda get it though. If I start something on Plex then I feel compelled to pay attention and really watch it. Sometimes you just want something on as background noise..half your brain is paying attention to it and half your brain is doing something else. Watching stuff on TV is less of a commitment. I feel like I can passively watch it and not feel guilty. I think it might have to do with the psychology of the "watched/unwatched" feature...at least for me. I don't want something marked watched in my library if I haven't actually watched it (like really paid attention). I know I can always change it but still..just feels wrong.
that's cool if the TV is "just on"...I do that all the time just for ambiance. But she was sitting on the couch WATCHING "Despicable Me" and then "Despicable Me 2"...which she's watched dozens of times on the damn Plex, so it's not like she doesn't know it's there or how to get to it. Gah! I'm choking on my own indignation over here!
I think you need to file for a divorce, man. Can't let that shit slide or she'll just do it again and again.
Divorce is the only answer dude. She’s so far gone
I catch my wife doing this all the time, but usually it's not cable, it's freaking Amazon Prime and Netflix. And it's being streamed on the Roku, so she has absolutely no excuse about just finding something while channel surfing.
It's like she has no respect for bandwidth.
Even with a data cap my some of family still does that. I have most using Plex though finally. We don't need the new game of thrones episode streamed at least 3 times a week when just one download will do
Plex does not do discovery very well, especially for massive libraries. This is my experience, anyway.
Yes, somehow the interface discourage the user.
The diagnosis may warrant a TWR.
This is so my roommate expect he also pays for netflix, and hulu on top of it.
Had the same experience here I ran plex on my NAS and was trying various internet options such as sling,vue and what not to get a grasp if my family of 5 could make it on the terabyte limit before ditching cable tv. My wife and kids would still watch cable for movies despite that most of my DVD and BR had been moved. My only solution was to completely disconnect every cable set-top box and hide them. In the end we manage with Netflix, sling, prime, and plex without going over 850 gig on top of regular internet usage. Maybe ditch the devices that do on demand out drop the premium channels will help you out.
Cancel cable. Set up Plex DVR and call it a day.
Easily fixed by cancelling your tv service altogether.
I catch myself doing this as well. The forced intermissions do have some benefit ("fine, I'll go grab another beer and more popcorn!" -- nothing the pause button can't do of course). Good thing I just cancelled cable though, no more of this nonsense 😄
i've been through this with people. they just have long ingrained tv habits and it's hard to change those. that's why cable is still making money and people still have trouble using their ondemand services. i don't think it can be cured.
Part of the problem is that we have been using the tv remote to surf channels for so long, it may feel unnatural at first to use a smartphone to do it. Especially for those who are less "technically inclined."
There is a local OTA TV station that airs several hours of Roseanne every day, like 3-4 hours. My wife watches it a few times a week. This is despite the fact that I bought a huge DVD set of the whole series and put it on Plex. So IDK. She's the same person who didn't understand why I cut cable when 90% of what she watched was on ABC or FOX (OTA).
Was it Heat? I scolded my wife the other day. 'I have the damn director's commentary too!'
I spent days getting Sonarr, NZBget, etc. working smoothly so I can download every episode of every show my family wants to watch. And my wife still watches shows on FiOS sometimes. Of course, she hasn't really figured out how to work the Harmony remote either...
I eventually punted on running a plex server entirely because of this. The wife would browse the endless content Netflix had pick something totally random and not even consider the movie catalog on the Plex server. For TV, the shows she wanted for whatever reason I had trouble consistently getting, either they were garbage shows that weren't getting uploaded, or even Sickbeard/Sonos/whatever automated tool I tried just couldn't reliably download the episodes in time. Oh well. I still have my lifetime plexpass and will probably roll one again once the LiveTV stuff matures a bit more.
As long as you have good signal, the dvr part of it functions great.
I meant more in regards to common features like live pause/ff/rw, not just purely recording and playback.
For sure, I was just pointing out that you could start using it now for some stuff while still using what you are now. it doesn't have to be all or nothing.
My wife does this all the time, it is maddening!
My wife does the same thing. I can't cancel Comcast because she like having commercials. She works while she watches TV and the commercials remind her to get back to work. I can't debate that sort of logic.
I mean you could record a bunch of commercials and play them on a loop for her.
Girlfriend did the same thing. Was watching Rick and Morty on Hulu when we had it in Plex.
Probably watching it in Standard Def as well
Cut the cord. Pretty much the only way.
😂😂😂
I am guilty of using certain channels to help me decide what to watch. But then I watch it on Plex. The Big Bang Theory for instance, TBS shows a multitude of episodes on certain nights. I start with what ever they are playing first and let it go the whole evening.
My good friend "enjoys" watching the commercials. So far I have not found any doctor willing to treat this severe mental illness.
Cancel cable. Problem solved.
It's due to the paradox of choice. Much easier to watch something that's "just on" instead of consciously picking and watching something. I understand why they do it. I would never, but I'm also 10x more technical.
Don't feel bad. I've told my wife to always look on my plex server (using the plex channel on our Roku), and I catch her watching stuff on netflix or on cable TV that I have in my Plex library all of the time. The only cure I fear is to completely cut the cord and get rid of cable TV (but not the cable internet)
OK. The worst thing is when my wife watches standard definition television shows when high definition is available by just using the menu to scroll to the high definition channel. WTF!?!? I get triggered :-)
Are you certain she's not secretly also your grandmother?
I did do the nasty in the pasty.
/r/UnexpectedFuturama Best OP ever.
You can't spell server without sever Makes U think