24/04/2026
You pay Netflix $19.99 a month.
Then Disney+ takes another $18.99. HBO Max wants $18.49. Hulu is $18.99. That is $76.46 a month. $917 a year.
And the shows still disappear. Your favorite movie gets pulled. The show you were halfway through gets cancelled.
Netflix raised prices on March 26, 2026. HBO Max went up in October 2025. Plex doubled its Lifetime Pass from $120 to $249.99 and put remote streaming behind a paywall.
Remember the movies you "bought" on Amazon Prime? Some of them vanished. Amazon is being sued in a class action right now because "purchased" does not actually mean purchased.
You do not own anything you stream. You rent permission.
There is a self-hosted Netflix you run on your own hardware. Every movie. Every show. Every song. Every photo. Streaming to every device you own. For $0.
It is called Jellyfin. 50,500+ stars on GitHub.
Not a stripped-down media player. A full Netflix-grade streaming platform. Beautiful interface. Posters, descriptions, cast, trailers fetched automatically. Looks and feels like the real thing.
Here is what it does:
→ Stream movies, TV, music, audiobooks, photos to any device.
→ Apps for iOS, Android, Apple TV, Fire TV, Roku, Android TV, Samsung, LG, Xbox, Kodi, Chromecast, browser.
→ Hardware transcoding on Intel, NVIDIA, AMD, Raspberry Pi.
→ Live TV and DVR with an antenna.
→ SyncPlay. Watch movies in perfect sync with friends across the country.
→ Multi-user profiles, parental controls, plugin ecosystem.
→ No account. No cloud. No telemetry. No ads. Ever.
Here's the wildest part:
Plex used to be the move. Then they doubled the Lifetime Pass. Locked remote streaming behind a paywall. Auto-shared your watch history with strangers. Made you sign into THEIR cloud servers to access YOUR files on YOUR hardware.
The community said enough. They forked Emby in 2018 and built Jellyfin.
Hardware transcoding? Free. Plex charges for it.
Remote streaming? Free. Plex charges for it.
Live TV DVR? Free. Plex charges for it.
Mobile offline sync? Free. Plex charges for it.
Plex Pass: $249.99 lifetime.
Netflix + Disney+ + HBO Max + Hulu: $917 a year.
Jellyfin: $0. Forever.
Runs on a Raspberry Pi. Runs on a 10-year-old laptop. Runs on a $20 mini PC. Runs on your existing NAS.
50,500+ stars. 4,672 forks. 370+ contributors. GPL-2.0 license. Active daily since 2018.
Your movies. Your music. Your server. Your rules.
100% Open Source.
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