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What you don't get to do, which you could do back when TV was just TV and you happened to catch it on, or you could do when it is added to a streaming service, is discover something you didn't know existed.
That’s fair. I’ve discovered some neat old films on Max by just browsing around.
There are some decent discovery services you can use with your torrent software.
I use Ombi which my plex users can log into with their Plex id, discover new/old/etc content and then send an automated request to my Radarr/Sonarr software.
Each users permissions can be configured as to the quality/language/etc of the content as well as which types they can request to automatically download and which require my approval first
But how likely are they to have obscure movies from the 1930s? That was what makes TCM such a gem.
Yeah just as in manually downloading them you're gonna need a decent private tracker or two to reliably find some more obscure stuff like that