Not looking so bad now
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Wait, did they mess with lilo and stitch?
The live-action redo is terribly tropified and shockingly bad in comparison.
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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.
There was auto tracking towards the end. It was the rewind that done it for me.
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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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What's wrong with Curiosity?
While some of the cited services have done some egregious stuff all on there own, I was taking it as mostly about how you have just so many of them and you have to keep track of what content is available via what service and how that changes over time.
Curiosity isn't part of the content shuffling part of it, but it is still a reminder of just how fractured the general experience is.
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Don't forget S-VHS, D-VHS, and HD-DVD...
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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.
I'll only watch a VHS, if it's a weird Japanese anime OVA from the 80s.
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In the movie, Robert Downey Jr's character said...
I know you're talking about Tropic Thunder, but how many other people would?
I'll edit. I would have sworn I mentioned the title. Silly me
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I guess that's the point I'm trying to make. Not giving the name of the movie means either the comment wasn't for you (because you already know it), or that it doesn't actually help you.
Funny thing.
I did a quick search of 'robert downey jr stays in character in dvd extras' and got the result instantly.
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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...
Yes, but there's no reason why Nebula wouldn't enshittify in the future. At least they dare to offer a lifetime account so it's not just one more subscription. And I just want google to loose.
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I’ve bought a lot of physical media over the last couple of years and it can be great, but there’s a lot of pitfalls
The quality of, particularly, DVDs is all over the place and the transition from NTSC to digital is handled in so many different ways that each require special handling.
PAL and European releases can be terrible in all kinds of ways including speeding up the content and optionally pitch correcting the audio.
A lot of content you’d want isn’t available or is only available at exorbitant prices.
UHD discs have tons of read errors that make ripping perfectly difficult and the quality (and this price) of the drive makes a big difference in how well you can do this.
Drives don’t last if you’re ripping lots of stuff.
Just some things off the top of my head, nowhere near a complete list.
It’s still worth it, though, and new releases are easier if that’s what you’re looking for.
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Toss Betamax in there and you've got me. I miss those little tapes.
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Probably the same software tbh. Handbrake. Whatever you choose, it's nearly all ffmpeg under the hood.
Downloading might still be better, depending if you're in the subtitles gang or not. Disc subtitles are ugly af, and might not play without transcoding on some devices.
Good to know. I’m not picky on subtitles but my wife needs them. A friend of mine is very familiar with the high seas so I may consider getting his help instead.
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Check out the makemkv forums on drive advice. The gui makemkv should work as well, not so much anything relying on the command line tools (arm ripper, etc).
Handbrake is encoding software that works pretty well and can encode straight from disc.
VLC can also do it.
I have personally started dd'ing to iso then encoding the main feature from that for my server, and saving the iso separately just in case I really want to play those dumb dvd extra features and fbi warnings.
Ripping can be a pain, there's all kinds of encryption hoops to jump through, and I have come across a few dvds that I just couldn't rip no matter what I tried.
I’ll look into it, I appreciate it.
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️, 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?
I'm anticipating a crackdown on piracy in the near future. Even if you use a VPN that could get you flagged and traffic analyzed maybe even dropped from your ISP.
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Only if you pay for them
️wrote last edited by [email protected]If companies are allowed unlicensed access (AI training) to media en masse I don't see a reason everyone else shouldn't have that either.
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I have a decent dvd/blu-ray collection and was hoping to rip them and put them on Jellyfin. I haven’t ever ripped video before, only CDs and that was a long time ago. I also would have to pick up a usb disc reader or similar since I don’t have one in my machine. Any suggestions on applications to use or external disc readers to look out for? I’m running Linux not windows.
Buy one that can also burn m-disc
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Burn your "acquired media" to physical media now folks. The powers that be are purposely limiting physical media so the have an excuse to phase it out
No they’re not, hard drives are for sale everywhere and not being phased out any time soon.
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I'm anticipating a crackdown on piracy in the near future. Even if you use a VPN that could get you flagged and traffic analyzed maybe even dropped from your ISP.
wrote last edited by [email protected]is there anything preventing you from pirating now?
that's not to say they haven't failed over and over again to stop piracy with their crackdowns.
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No they’re not, hard drives are for sale everywhere and not being phased out any time soon.
I was talking about blu-rays
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We're fast approaching a time where owning media is considered a luxury.
Bluray was always luxury.
