Not looking so bad now
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Genuinely curious how are publishers limiting physical media? I haven't bought a blu-ray in a long while.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Almost all big box stores are significantly limiting or completely removing physical media from their stores
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Genuinely curious how are publishers limiting physical media? I haven't bought a blu-ray in a long while.
I haven't bought a blu-ray in a long while.
Exactly!
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how about fucking don't? Local Libraries are our friends!
wrote last edited by [email protected]So are your local pirates. Where would we be without rippers, uploaders and seeders?
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Missed opportunity IMO there should totally be a piracy product or site called VHS
Virtual Home Streaming
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Virtual Home Streaming
I LOVE IT
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My vcr and all old consoles actually work fine on my shitty insignia flat-screen. But I'd rather play on my crt or projector tv.
Works, yes.
that 480x(520)480 resolution tho...
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Keep a 13-inch TV around?
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So are your local pirates. Where would we be without rippers, uploaders and seeders?
missing the point.
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I have a media converter made from a raspberry pi I use for all of my old consoles so I can play them on modern TVs. I bet it would work great for vhs tapes as well. Tape degradation might be a different issue though...
Even the fresh tapes don't hold up well to digital. That phosphor blur, small screen size and insane brightness made that picture look so much better than it really was. you spread that out to the large screen it looks rough.
Video games with a lot of solid colors work well, but everything else is a horror show
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you got Blu Rays from before Steamboat Willy?
Wow... an OG Disney fan...
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Yeah. Was thinking of starting that this year. Getting ready to switch my last Windows machine to Linux and it’s the one running the BluRay drive. Linux is way easier to rip with.
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.
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Welcome to the land of mkv! Get your hand brake ready.
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I started building an all-BluRay collection back in 2018. I saw the writing on the wall when I would go to watch a movie with friends on streaming and it would be gone.
Almost all of my favorite movies are mine now. I see a lot of comments talking about pirating, but for me personally, the display I get and being able to just have guests grab from the wall is a lot cooler than scrolling.
Not to mention, some of them are quite collectible. It’s neat having some movies that are really rare and I know I had to work to find them.
My Spotify playlists get greyed-out sections in them with disturbing regularity. As soon as I figure out how to download them without installing software that gives me a million viruses, I'll be deleting my account...
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I highly suggest that you make ripped backups. I learned the hard way, I digitised my grandfather's CD collection and some of his DVDs, some of which were already damaged beyond repair. Some of his broken DVDs are less than 20 years old. They are not scratched, they are in mint condition.
I started doing that a while back, but quickly realized that it's both faster and less effort to torrent those same movies than to fanny about ripping the discs...
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We're running out of safe havens to host, I feel. Countries that won't submit to the industry's will. With the additional clamping down on material not government-sanctioned recently, with invasive biometric and ID checks, it certainly feels like the wrong direction.
I wonder how tough it would be for someone to start a DVD cottage industry, replicating the old Netflix model, where you mail hard copies of pirated movies upon request? I already order hard copies of movies from Amazon if I know I want them in my collection permanently, but damn, sometimes those are pricey as hell
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They tried to kill piracy so many times, and it never worked.
They will try again and fail again. And the best of it is that sales won't go up anyway because the problem is not piracy, is their own greed.
If they somehow manage to completely kill piracy, I won't be able to pay for every streaming service anyway because I don't have the time to enjoy them all nor I think they are worth my money at all.
Someone will figure out a way to allow micro-transactions where you pay a small fee to piggyback on existing subscriptions, so you don't have to pay for everything, you can just drop three bucks to use part of an account that a subscriber isn't using
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missing the point.
I think I did, what is it?
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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
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.
