Home Media Library

A lot has changed over the years since the Bluray’s release. The media industry has shifted from a mostly program-based model to a self-service streaming model. With it exists a community that many would consider underground, but those that do it have excellent reason to do so.

Families with children are often buying them tablets that have Netflix or even Amazon Prime. While kid versions exist, you can’t truly control the content that they watch once you unleash them onto the device. It would require you to constantly stay in the know of any changes and to essentially pre-watch everything they do, while not letting them find anything themselves.

It’s not all about the kids, though. For myself, before streaming came out, but after my Hauppauge capture card no longer was useful, I obtained my movies and TV shows through questionable (but at the time claimed-legal) means. I had a satellite subscription and even had a case with the BBB over the tactics used by our satellite provider, where they never said anything about the box being a lease, charged $200 upfront, and expected it back. I of course remember it as a win, because they changed their website following the report. I did it though because the DVR’s at the time didn’t work well, had limited capacity, and still left me with the dreaded commercials. The Hopper of course did help with this with commercial skip, but that at the time was not available to me and only worked so well, so I hear. For me, I wanted to be able to drag my movie over to the TV that was about 10ft away so that I could play video games and have the television on in the background. It was so much easier to hit a few keys on my computer than it was to fiddle with a remote control. I could even control it with my cell phone, or play it in the other room, had I wanted. 

So what’s today’s alternative? A Home Media Library, almost exactly like I described above that was for personal use. Most of the content is curated from the internet, but coincides with having a physical copy of the disk purchased. Some have the technical capability to backup their discs to a NAS (Network Attached Storage) which serves the whole family’s media collection. This currently takes a little bit of technical know-how, but with Eanix the idea is to bring that to the modern household. Just like the elite get copies of movies on hard drives to watch in their home theaters, modern families would be able to watch in their living rooms or individually throughout the house. This could even be done at the same time for the same video with a watch party, bringing families closer together again while everyone does their own thing.

The idea is to completely control the content available to your household by running your own catalog for your family, with support for ultra HD 4K content on any device, even away from the home. The content is protected by the 4th Amendment, and you could technically even include home videos to show off at the Christmas parties.