Nebula isn't really even in the same ballpark, super weird to include it there. Not sure when YouTubers started minting blu-rays and DVDs...
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I went back to physical media half a year ago. Fuck streaming. I don't miss that shit. My local library has tons of dvds and blurays so my household gets to experience many interesting films these days.
Thought progress was always good? Think again
I think progress by definition is good. Change is not always good. Not all change is progress.
There’s only so many times I want to watch the same movie, so my library would be limited
We need Bluray/DVD rental stores back.
Many libraries have large DVD collections.
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I am freshly into selfhosting and am running Beelink s12 pro with Jellyfin on. Ripped tons of DVDs and about to get blu ray drive for ripping. Never paid a cent to Netflix or any other streaming sites. Dunno why my wife pays entry subscription to Netflix. Cant watch FHD or higher, got ads, cant mirror screen to a TV with entry subscription, no choice in what movies to watch, shows from competitors are not on netflix. Fuck this shit, man. I pay for DVDs and blurays anyday as long as I can chose what to watch and to keep it to myself.
Got recently raspberry pi 3. Planning to setup private VPN in my homeland where pirating is not an issue yet.
This meme would be more accurate if you replace the girl he's with with Fat Bastard from Austin Powers feasting from a trough of IP.
I miss some of those great DVD extras.
In the movie, Robert Downey Jr's said he didn't break character until he finished do the DVD commentary. He was in character when he did the DVD commentary.
There was a special edition of Buckaroo Banzai with an onscreen commentary that pointed out that Buckaroo was carrying Einstein's brain with him when he entered dimension 8
edit = the movie was 'Tropic Thunder.'
In the movie, Robert Downey Jr's character said...
I know you're talking about Tropic Thunder, but how many other people would?
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When there was 3-4 big streaming platforms things were great... now everyone is just copy/pasting their services and slapping their own content and logo on it and charging a premium.
That movie you watched on Netflix 5 years ago, is likely no longer on Netflix. If you want to rewatch it you'd have to find it on another platform, pay their monthly fee - or pay the rental fee... ironically from one of these streaming services.
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Yohohoho
I thought the same, so I bought some Blu-rays and DVDs. DVDs are fine as long as you're okay with the quality. Blu-rays have DRM though, which in Linux feels like you're pirating even when playing legit content
I don't know if that changes by know, but some years back when I was looking trying to play a Blu-ray (got for birthday) and there was no legal way to play it on Linux. It was so frustrating to tinker with that I ended up downloading the movie and put the disc on top of the PC, just to pretend.
🏴☠️, folks. whats the holdup why people rather mess with fucking VHS again rather than just do it the convenient way?
is that the extent of the anti piracy propaganda?
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You meant to put the bittorrent symbol on the red girl.
No, I ain't going back to VHS. The quality was horrible. I don't want to fiddle the with tracking.
The best thing about it was that you could easily record what was on the TV.
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I want to be in the room when they plug that VCR into a 70-in TV and hit play just to see their faces.
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I was buying every season of it’s always sunny, now they don’t even make physical copies. They stopped at like season 10.
May I interest you in the !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com wiki/megathread? Yo ho yo ho...
I support creators as I can, but when there's literally no other option to own it in a way it can't be just taken from you I don't feel there's any strong argument against it.
… when there’s literally no other option to own it in a way it can’t be just taken from you …
There’s at least one legal route that’s still viable.
I buy lots of Blu-ray and 4K UHD discs. I rip them straight on to my Jellyfin server. In fact, there’s been renewed vitality in disc releases during the past few years. Small shops like Shout Factory and Arrow are buying rights to old (‘60s through ‘00s) films that were shot on 35mm. They re-scan and remaster for UHD 4K and then straight to physical disc. That’s a cheap production pipeline with modern tech.
I’ve been having a blast re-visiting films that I never saw in the theater and only know from VHS or DVD rentals. Seeing them again with fresh eyes in 4K has been really gratifying.
That, plus new release discs keep me with more options than I have time to watch.
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I'm finally ready to embrace Blu-ray.