I canceled my streaming services and built a Plex server — I’m never going back

$12 on Hulu. $17 on Max. $14 on Disney+. $23 on — wait, twenty-three dollars?! — on Netflix. I’m not the only one who’s reluctantly pulled up a bank statement to see the revolving door of streaming subscriptions slowly draining my account. I have a massive collection of Blu-rays, a treasure trove of digital movies and TV shows, and even more box sets than I care to count. And yet, I’ve been spending anywhere from $50 to $100 each month to watch that same content, all so I don’t have to get off my lazy butt and pop in a disc.

I decided to finally do something about it by building a Plex server.

Plex has been around for years, and I’ve dabbled with it in the past. But this time, I wanted to go all out. I wanted to build a streaming library of movies and TV shows I

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