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  • J [email protected]

    I was in a car with one of them there blu-ray players, and it turned out there was actually disc in, so we tried to use it. After 15 minutes of unskippable content, we finally got to the start of the film and wanted to select language/subtitles - and it wouldn't let us. 20 mins wasted.

    DVDs and BlueRay were crap, we just forgot.

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    The corpo sold ones were.
    The ones you could DIY, on the other hand...

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    • darkfuture@lemmy.worldD [email protected]

      Toss Betamax in there and you've got me. I miss those little tapes.

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      I keep bards and othersuch minstrels in the back yard (don't worry, they're fenced in) and have them play for me whenever I clap my hands. I can clap them off too

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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.

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        They look okay on CRTs hooked up with composite. I tried watching one on a modern LCD and yeah it was awful.

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          I'm sure there's other "old" people here that never stopped sailing the seas. I started to use a computer in the mid 90ies and internet a few years later. From the start, there has been attempts at streaming. I remember using RealPlayer trying to stream some video while on dial-up, only to be just a bunch of pixels in a very tiny window. So you downloaded everything, and kept it because you didn't want to spend 45 minutes to download the very same song once again.

          And I never stopped this practise. I still have my MP3 collection that I started 25 years ago. I still have .rm files from movies that I captured myself. I can't believe how much bandwidth we just waste on streaming stuff again and again.

          Once, the zoomer trying to sell my a data plan for my phone couldn't believe I didn't need more than a few gigs a month. No, I don't stream music. No, I don't stream movies nor series. I download them once, store them, and enjoy them whenever I want. No censored episodes, no missing episodes, no ads, just the content.

          Although I do buy some of my MP3s now if possible. If I can straight up pay to download MP3 files, like on Bandcamp, I will. I wish we could do the same for series and movies, but since we're absolutely not there, I'll just continue to sail the seas and fill up my hard drives.

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          I watched my first anime, Tenchi Muyo, by streaming it on Real Player at like 90p.

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          • icastfist@programming.devI [email protected]

            The corpo sold ones were.
            The ones you could DIY, on the other hand...

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            🏴‍☠️ ➡️ 💿

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              This post made me realize something.

              Up until blu ray, the value proposition for buying electronics was always an absolute upgrade over the old tech.

              You could do everything you wanted with DVDs that you could do with VHS and more (rewind, commentary).

              Same thing with blue ray, sure the price might not have been worth the quality bump, but it was superior technology.

              Ever since fucking Netflix it’s the opposite, the quality is lower and no extras + you lose access.

              Seriously, Netflix introduced the idea of treating digital customers like shit by giving less for more and it worked so everyone is following it

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              • J [email protected]

                I was in a car with one of them there blu-ray players, and it turned out there was actually disc in, so we tried to use it. After 15 minutes of unskippable content, we finally got to the start of the film and wanted to select language/subtitles - and it wouldn't let us. 20 mins wasted.

                DVDs and BlueRay were crap, we just forgot.

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                Exactly just like CD's huge, unpractical and fragile.
                While you could have mp3's and movie files at about the same time.
                I don't understand people's choices sometimes, and now I can't get how everyone pays for this ridiculous Spotify, with it's scummy practices and worse, when you're at some houseparty and the host asks what I want to hear it doesn't have my music since it's not mainstream enough.
                Glad I'm old and don't have to deal with this BS where consumers can choose from the same multinational corporate pushed garbage they hear everywhere and nothing else.
                And they're OK with it too since it's all they know.

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                • J [email protected]

                  I was in a car with one of them there blu-ray players, and it turned out there was actually disc in, so we tried to use it. After 15 minutes of unskippable content, we finally got to the start of the film and wanted to select language/subtitles - and it wouldn't let us. 20 mins wasted.

                  DVDs and BlueRay were crap, we just forgot.

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                  Some players/remotes are more helpful than others.

                  Skip doesn't work? Try menu, fast forward, etc

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                    The corpo sold ones were.
                    The ones you could DIY, on the other hand...

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                    Oh look at Mr rich with his DVD burner. In our house we databurned videos to CDs and we LIKED it

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                      Fuck the blu-ray consortium.

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                      • K [email protected]

                        and fill up my hard drives.

                        This is the real cost of your method. Luckily hard drive costs halve every 2 years or so.

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                        Good. I'm wanting to build a NAS soon.

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                          Where is Plex on this image?

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                            yes, it was horrible. There's like 10 minutes of ads that you PAY for. Also corruption for scratches and fiddling with the player were painful

                            piracy is best

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                              Oh look at Mr rich with his DVD burner. In our house we databurned videos to CDs and we LIKED it

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                              Good old two disc VCDs. Man I miss those days.

                              I was happy to get a DVD burner though. My best friend and I had Netflix and we’d rip everything that came in the mail. A huge book full of movies and tv shows.

                              Good times.

                              We had no phone, no cable, no internet. Most creative time in my life.

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                                I'm finally ready to embrace Blu-ray.

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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.

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                                  • J [email protected]

                                    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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                                    For a second, I thought Curiosity had gone enshittified lol. I don't mind paying the subscription because they are what cable documentary channels used to be.

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                                      I’d still rather have on demand streaming over broadcast. Having to time-shift by recording live shows was super annoying.

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                                      Broadcast had its charm. I feel like I discovered more things.

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                                      • remembertheapollo_@lemmy.worldR [email protected]

                                        Or save them redundantly to several archive-quality hdds. Why have 20 blu-ray dvds for one copy of a collection when you could have 3 complete copies on 3 hdd. Both are life limited media, both will eventually require re-archiving. One has potential for mechanical failure, the other more likely to physically degrade. Pick your poison, or do one of each.

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                                        Just the other day I learned about m-discs, so burn to that for archiving using your BR burner.

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                                          Just the other day I learned about m-discs, so burn to that for archiving using your BR burner.

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                                          Never heard of them, had to look it up. Seems kinda a spotty record depending on the manufacturer.

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