Not looking so bad now
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Literally the only benefit to paying for streaming over hosting your own stuff is discovery. So if the service sucks ass at that, it serves literally no benefit.
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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
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Nah ain't doing movies and shows physical media, I only watch things once. Torrent it is
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Nah ain't doing movies and shows physical media, I only watch things once. Torrent it is
Same bro. I don't get people who want to watch Dirty Dancing and The Lion King two million times. It's good but... I want new things! New experiences! I get bored revisiting what I already know.
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Same bro. I don't get people who want to watch Dirty Dancing and The Lion King two million times. It's good but... I want new things! New experiences! I get bored revisiting what I already know.
There is a difference between how people watch stuff and how much they remember. I also can't rewatch anything within a decade, because I remember every single line. My wife didn't remember what that episode was about a week later. Sometimes I envy her, because I constantly need to look for new stuff, which might or might not be good. she can just rewatch something and she knows that she likes it. Of course this is exaggerated, but I guess you get the point.
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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.
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I don't miss physical media either tho. I always hated that they force you to watch an anti piracy ad on a disc you bought, and force feed you trailers. Just let me see the movie i paid for.
I mean, you can just skip the trailers and not every disc has the piracy ad. At least that is not my experience! Out of all the dvds I own or have borrowed from the library, only a handful of them have the unskippable piracy ad. In fact, I have experienced a lot of dvds that don't even have ads and just skip straight to the menu. Those rarely have extra material either. Only language options and a play button. Seems to mostly be a thing with modern dvd movies.
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Gods I could never figure out how in the hell to get Tunnels working, though I'd like to try it again someday and use one of my domains. For now Tailscale works.
I actually tried for two days to figure it out, and failed, and gave up. Then I came back monthly later and tried again, and it worked in 20 minutes. The CloudFlare UX is atrocious and exceptionally confusing. I still don't know what I did differently to make it work.
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Streamio
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Nah I don't miss having to deal with region zones, they are such a pain... sure you can rip the disk, but you're still left with a disk you bought yet can't use because your players are deliberately sabotaged to not work.
I don't miss using physical media either, they take up so much space... I'd need a mansion if I wanted to replace the content of my media server with physical media.
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Torrents and Jellyfin - streaming is better if you do it yourself
I just have the server on an isolated VLAN that has all traffic routed through a no log commercial VPN service.
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Nah ain't doing movies and shows physical media, I only watch things once. Torrent it is
You dont have a favourite show or movie?
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I don't miss physical media either tho. I always hated that they force you to watch an anti piracy ad on a disc you bought, and force feed you trailers. Just let me see the movie i paid for.
Most dvds/blu-rays either let you skip those or just open up to the title menu at this point...
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I've got no way to play DVDs though I'd have to go and buy a DVD player. Streaming content is much more convenient I would like to be able to do it legally and without hassle. But the content creating companies don't seem to be interested in providing me an option to do that.
Anyway my local library isn't really that local it's a 25-minute drive and probably an hour plus walk up a really steep hill.
Oh no not having to leave my house or get a little bit of exercise or go outside!
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It's just a shame that DVDs and Blu-Rays for new movies aren't really made anymore. They're just leaving money on the table at this point that bootleggers in Malaysia are getting instead.
But still, absolutely. DVD all the way. I fixed the cord I cut back in 2015 and I'm much better off for it.
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Nah I don't miss having to deal with region zones, they are such a pain... sure you can rip the disk, but you're still left with a disk you bought yet can't use because your players are deliberately sabotaged to not work.
I don't miss using physical media either, they take up so much space... I'd need a mansion if I wanted to replace the content of my media server with physical media.
Region zones do indeed suck, but I installed custom firmware on my PS3 to remove the DVD/Blu-Ray region lock, and now it's a non-issue.
And I use disc binders for most of my collection, unless it's something I really want to display. Long-term, once my collection is complete, I do plan to rip everything.
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Support your local library
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It's just a shame that DVDs and Blu-Rays for new movies aren't really made anymore. They're just leaving money on the table at this point that bootleggers in Malaysia are getting instead.
But still, absolutely. DVD all the way. I fixed the cord I cut back in 2015 and I'm much better off for it.
They come out with new releases all the time. Brick and mortar stores just don't always carry them. In the past year Target and Best Buy stopped. Here's a list of physical media that came out this week: https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=36930
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Missed opportunity IMO there should totally be a piracy product or site called VHS
Sounds dangerous, you could get a problem with copyrights with a name like that.
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DVD, Blueray, VHS? I've never heard of those torrent sites before
️Have you heard of doing both? (^_-)
