Not looking so bad now
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I've never cared about visual quality myself. I regularly play atari 2600 games so graphics are no where in my realm of care
wrote last edited by [email protected]a fair and subjective opinion
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So are your local pirates. Where would we be without rippers, uploaders and seeders?
Libraries are not pirates, and both being our friends doesn't make them the same thing.
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ļø, folks. whats the holdup why people rather mess with fucking VHS again rather than just do it the convenient way?is that the extent of the anti piracy propaganda?
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People got lazy and threw away their stuff thinking streaming was the future. Some of us knew better because we know how capitalism works.
Own your media folks!
I just don't have nearly the amount of places to get them anymore. Still, I have a small wall worth of DVDs and Blu-ray.
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I just don't have nearly the amount of places to get them anymore. Still, I have a small wall worth of DVDs and Blu-ray.
A hand full of VHS as well.
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I'm sure there's other "old" people here that never stopped sailing the seas. I started to use a computer in the mid 90ies and internet a few years later. From the start, there has been attempts at streaming. I remember using RealPlayer trying to stream some video while on dial-up, only to be just a bunch of pixels in a very tiny window. So you downloaded everything, and kept it because you didn't want to spend 45 minutes to download the very same song once again.
And I never stopped this practise. I still have my MP3 collection that I started 25 years ago. I still have .rm files from movies that I captured myself. I can't believe how much bandwidth we just waste on streaming stuff again and again.
Once, the zoomer trying to sell my a data plan for my phone couldn't believe I didn't need more than a few gigs a month. No, I don't stream music. No, I don't stream movies nor series. I download them once, store them, and enjoy them whenever I want. No censored episodes, no missing episodes, no ads, just the content.
Although I do buy some of my MP3s now if possible. If I can straight up pay to download MP3 files, like on Bandcamp, I will. I wish we could do the same for series and movies, but since we're absolutely not there, I'll just continue to sail the seas and fill up my hard drives.
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People got lazy and threw away their stuff thinking streaming was the future. Some of us knew better because we know how capitalism works.
Own your media folks!
wrote last edited by [email protected]Iād still rather have on demand streaming over broadcast. Having to time-shift by recording live shows was super annoying.
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Wait, did they mess with lilo and stitch?
The live-action redo is terribly tropified and shockingly bad in comparison.
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No, I ain't going back to VHS. The quality was horrible. I don't want to fiddle the with tracking.
The best thing about it was that you could easily record what was on the TV.
There was auto tracking towards the end. It was the rewind that done it for me.
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Nebula isn't really even in the same ballpark, super weird to include it there. Not sure when YouTubers started minting blu-rays and DVDs...
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What's wrong with Curiosity?
While some of the cited services have done some egregious stuff all on there own, I was taking it as mostly about how you have just so many of them and you have to keep track of what content is available via what service and how that changes over time.
Curiosity isn't part of the content shuffling part of it, but it is still a reminder of just how fractured the general experience is.
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Don't forget S-VHS, D-VHS, and HD-DVD...
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No, I ain't going back to VHS. The quality was horrible. I don't want to fiddle the with tracking.
The best thing about it was that you could easily record what was on the TV.
I'll only watch a VHS, if it's a weird Japanese anime OVA from the 80s.
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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?
I'll edit. I would have sworn I mentioned the title. Silly me
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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.
Funny thing.
I did a quick search of 'robert downey jr stays in character in dvd extras' and got the result instantly.
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Nebula isn't really even in the same ballpark, super weird to include it there. Not sure when YouTubers started minting blu-rays and DVDs...
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.
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Iāve bought a lot of physical media over the last couple of years and it can be great, but thereās a lot of pitfalls
The quality of, particularly, DVDs is all over the place and the transition from NTSC to digital is handled in so many different ways that each require special handling.
PAL and European releases can be terrible in all kinds of ways including speeding up the content and optionally pitch correcting the audio.
A lot of content youād want isnāt available or is only available at exorbitant prices.
UHD discs have tons of read errors that make ripping perfectly difficult and the quality (and this price) of the drive makes a big difference in how well you can do this.
Drives donāt last if youāre ripping lots of stuff.
Just some things off the top of my head, nowhere near a complete list.
Itās still worth it, though, and new releases are easier if thatās what youāre looking for.
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Toss Betamax in there and you've got me. I miss those little tapes.
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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.
Good to know. Iām not picky on subtitles but my wife needs them. A friend of mine is very familiar with the high seas so I may consider getting his help instead.
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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.
Iāll look into it, I appreciate it.
