Not looking so bad now
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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.
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Almost all big box stores are significantly limiting or completely removing physical media from their stores
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.
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I miss some of those great DVD extras.
In the movie, Robert Downey Jr's said he didn't break character until he finished do the DVD commentary. He was in character when he did the DVD commentary.
There was a special edition of Buckaroo Banzai with an onscreen commentary that pointed out that Buckaroo was carrying Einstein's brain with him when he entered dimension 8
edit = the movie was 'Tropic Thunder.'
wrote last edited by [email protected]The extended DVD for 40 Year Old Virgin features all the "how I know you're gay" that didn't make the movie itself. I giggled extensively.
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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.
Probably the same software tbh. Handbrake. Whatever you choose, it's nearly all ffmpeg under the hood.
Downloading might still be better, depending if you're in the subtitles gang or not. Disc subtitles are ugly af, and might not play without transcoding on some devices.
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What's wrong with Curiosity?
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What's wrong with Curiosity?
Does it require a subscription? If it does they will make it worse and worse as they try to squeeze out every last penny they can from it. Maybe not today or tomorrow but eventually. Or they'll close shop and you'll have nothing to show for it. Unless they let you download videos that are drm free . Which I doubt
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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.
Host? Sounds like a problem I'm too "several large HDDs" to understand.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Check out the makemkv forums on drive advice. The gui makemkv should work as well, not so much anything relying on the command line tools (arm ripper, etc).
Handbrake is encoding software that works pretty well and can encode straight from disc.
VLC can also do it.
I have personally started dd'ing to iso then encoding the main feature from that for my server, and saving the iso separately just in case I really want to play those dumb dvd extra features and fbi warnings.
Ripping can be a pain, there's all kinds of encryption hoops to jump through, and I have come across a few dvds that I just couldn't rip no matter what I tried.
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That must mean you have the original Lilo & Stitch.
Excellent.
Wait, did they mess with lilo and stitch?
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In the movie, Robert Downey Jr's character said...
I know you're talking about Tropic Thunder, but how many other people would?
Anybody who has seen Tropic Thunder.
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I think I did, what is it?
its a figure of speech, but that's not important right now.
Local Libraries allows us to lend media in a social way, and just like the Internet Archive are an important pillar to our society. But thats not how Media Companies see it that way and compares the Internet Archive with Piracy.
Torrenting is fine and dandy though, so is Soulseeking.
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Works, yes.
that 480x(520)480 resolution tho...
I've never cared about visual quality myself. I regularly play atari 2600 games so graphics are no where in my realm of care
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Anybody who has seen Tropic Thunder.
I guess that's the point I'm trying to make. Not giving the name of the movie means either the comment wasn't for you (because you already know it), or that it doesn't actually help you.
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I haven't bought a blu-ray in a long while.
Exactly!
Not the publishers fault, for the vast majority it's by choice and not necessity that they don't buy physical media anymore.
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VHS? No thanks!
