Not looking so bad now
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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? (^_-)
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Yeah, but that's not some massive conspiracy to remove them. They just don't sell, like CDs before them. Blu-ray never really won its format war. It just staved off the execution of discs for a few years.
£25 for one movie is a hard sell when it will come to Disney+ in a month. Even more so when it can get you a VPN for 6 months and you can have it now.
You should go to the flea market. No recent things but lots of choice for maximum 3€ the DVD.
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Just use jellyfish or kodi
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Sounds dangerous, you could get a problem with copyrights with a name like that.
JVC still owns the trademark.
https://trademarks.justia.com/731/03/vhs-73103407.htmldef couldn't use the logo, you'd at least get a c&d and likely followup court
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Digital Video Download
Subcaption Direct to Disk
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Thought progress was always good? Think again
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You dont have a favourite show or movie?
I'm like the OP. I watch it once.
If I want to watch it again, which hasn't been the case for over a decade:
- Find the physical version. Often at a thrift store
- Sail the open seas
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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.
Im like you. I'm a "give me new things".
it took me a few years to understand. Especially since I have a coworker who shared she plays the Office in the background, nearly every day for a few years.
It's comfort food for them. Why do some people play 1000+ hours of the same mobile games? Why do some people do those thousand piece puzzles?
It's just comfort and consistency.
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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.
Yep! It's how I learned about that Poop Cruise documentary. Or Tiger King. Or all the trash Isekai.
Things I would never walk into a store and just outright buy them. And if I did, it would be like $10-50 bucks, the price of the subscription.
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I just don't want to have to pay for anything
/S
I'm happy to favour things they are just not giving me a convenient way to give them money.
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Oh no not having to leave my house or get a little bit of exercise or go outside!
Except I didn't actually say that. I said that going to a physical location and getting a physical disk and then driving all the way back home is considerably less convenient than streaming content.
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Your local Library has videos.
not everyone lives in countries with local libraries that have videos
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Man if there was only a convenient program that can be used to make mkv’s from optical media
Is MakeMKV still around?
