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I was buying every season of it’s always sunny, now they don’t even make physical copies. They stopped at like season 10.
At least that means you have the lethal weapon episodes!
May I interest you in the [email protected] wiki/megathread? Yo ho yo ho…
I support creators as I can, but when there’s literally no other option to own it in a way it can’t be just taken from you I don’t feel there’s any strong argument against it.
I have loads of DVDs and a lot more VHS tapes but you don’t exactly keep watching the same thing over and over again, except a few favorites. Buying a mediocre movie just to watch once will have you thinking about how much it’s worth the space and money.
OTOH, here at least, you are allowed to have/create a backup of your media, so having rips of those is no issue and they are more convenient.
I’m finally ready to embrace Blu-ray.
yes, it was horrible. There’s like 10 minutes of ads that you PAY for. Also corruption for scratches and fiddling with the player were painful
piracy is best
Where is Plex on this image?
Fuck the blu-ray consortium.
I was in a car with one of them there blu-ray players, and it turned out there was actually disc in, so we tried to use it. After 15 minutes of unskippable content, we finally got to the start of the film and wanted to select language/subtitles - and it wouldn’t let us. 20 mins wasted.
DVDs and BlueRay were crap, we just forgot.
Some players/remotes are more helpful than others.
Skip doesn’t work? Try menu, fast forward, etc
The corpo sold ones were.
The ones you could DIY, on the other hand…Oh look at Mr rich with his DVD burner. In our house we databurned videos to CDs and we LIKED it
Good old two disc VCDs. Man I miss those days.
I was happy to get a DVD burner though. My best friend and I had Netflix and we’d rip everything that came in the mail. A huge book full of movies and tv shows.
Good times.
We had no phone, no cable, no internet. Most creative time in my life.
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Exactly just like CD’s huge, unpractical and fragile.
While you could have mp3’s and movie files at about the same time.
I don’t understand people’s choices sometimes, and now I can’t get how everyone pays for this ridiculous Spotify, with it’s scummy practices and worse, when you’re at some houseparty and the host asks what I want to hear it doesn’t have my music since it’s not mainstream enough.
Glad I’m old and don’t have to deal with this BS where consumers can choose from the same multinational corporate pushed garbage they hear everywhere and nothing else.
And they’re OK with it too since it’s all they know.
This post made me realize something.
Up until blu ray, the value proposition for buying electronics was always an absolute upgrade over the old tech.
You could do everything you wanted with DVDs that you could do with VHS and more (rewind, commentary).
Same thing with blue ray, sure the price might not have been worth the quality bump, but it was superior technology.
Ever since fucking Netflix it’s the opposite, the quality is lower and no extras + you lose access.
Seriously, Netflix introduced the idea of treating digital customers like shit by giving less for more and it worked so everyone is following it
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.
I watched my first anime, Tenchi Muyo, by streaming it on Real Player at like 90p.
oh man I used to have (way long ago, the statue of limitations has crumbled) the most extensive collection of early simpsons. then my family started buying me plastic simpson head collections for birthdays and holidays, so I stopped downloading. still have a great collection.
now instead my hard drive is filled with so much music. more music than games, which my wife refuses to believe (but half of it is hers).
and we have an entire cd collection, and vinyl collection to rip if I ever get bored.
there was this old blues program on the local npr station that I’d listen to religiously in high school. I was trying to learn sax. I kind of did, but I’ve got a stack of those tapes taller than me. I just right now found out the guy who ran the program died last month so I’m trying to dig out a cassette deck. here’s a song i got off his program.
and fill up my hard drives.
This is the real cost of your method. Luckily hard drive costs halve every 2 years or so.
Good. I’m wanting to build a NAS soon.
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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’d still rather have on demand streaming over broadcast. Having to time-shift by recording live shows was super annoying.
Broadcast had its charm. I feel like I discovered more things.
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.
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.
Welcome to the land of mkv! Get your hand brake ready.
Toss Betamax in there and you’ve got me. I miss those little tapes.
I keep bards and othersuch minstrels in the back yard (don’t worry, they’re fenced in) and have them play for me whenever I clap my hands. I can clap them off too
Laserdisk, I had this friend who collected all sorts of junk and this was impressive Tek from decades ago.
