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.
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
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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?
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I don't really think men look back anymore nowadays
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Is MakeMKV still around?
Very much, yes.
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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.
I guess it's not technically a new movie, but I just bought the 4k blu ray rerelease of Dark City that came out this year. So there are still some new releases in the format.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]While not a gurantee, they are not VC-founded which helps a lot.
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There is something very satisfying about opening up a movie DVD box or game DVD box. You see all these artworks and especially for games, guides !
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use libraries! they are great.
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Just use jellyfish or kodi
I could not get jellyfish to work
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While not a gurantee, they are not VC-founded which helps a lot.
And they're partly creator owned, but I didn't see anyone claiming that creators owned more than 50% of the share or the voting rights, so it's not impossible that it gets bought and enshittified
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Thought progress was always good? Think again
I think progress by definition is good. Change is not always good. Not all change is progress.
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There is something very satisfying about opening up a movie DVD box or game DVD box. You see all these artworks and especially for games, guides !
It's almost nostalgic for me.
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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.
I get that this isn't an option for everyone. Part of why I wrote it in such big text without any qualifiers is that it is an option for a significant amount of people, yet frequently gets completely overlooked.
But I gotta ask
Why would you make a 25-munute drive but stop at the bottom of the hill? Why not just drive the rest of the way up?
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There is something very satisfying about opening up a movie DVD box or game DVD box. You see all these artworks and especially for games, guides !
I'm kind of the same way with music.
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I get that this isn't an option for everyone. Part of why I wrote it in such big text without any qualifiers is that it is an option for a significant amount of people, yet frequently gets completely overlooked.
But I gotta ask
Why would you make a 25-munute drive but stop at the bottom of the hill? Why not just drive the rest of the way up?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Why should I put in effort, they don't, the content creators don't.
The content creators have not built a method via which I can legitimately give them money. If they wish to do that then we can talk but they apparently are not interested.
I have no idea what an earth it is that you think I should do instead, clearly you are an intellectual though so I would value your input.
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Why should I put in effort, they don't, the content creators don't.
The content creators have not built a method via which I can legitimately give them money. If they wish to do that then we can talk but they apparently are not interested.
I have no idea what an earth it is that you think I should do instead, clearly you are an intellectual though so I would value your input.
For high cost production that takes tens or hundreds of people to make, it's usually not up to the actual artists and creators how their stuff gets distributed. That's up to the publishers. They kinda... destroyed their older distribution methods, each one chasing the impossible goal of a streaming monopoly.
For some people, local Libraries are an option. If that isn't feasible, there are other options. Legal or otherwise. Whatever works, works. Most artists care more that you engage with their work, than how you got a hold of it. They already got paid, and residuals are less and less offered (or weaseled out of) by the publishers.
