Torrents and Jellyfin - streaming is better if you do it yourself
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I went back to physical media half a year ago. Fuck streaming. I don't miss that shit. My local library has tons of dvds and blurays so my household gets to experience many interesting films these days.
And you forgot the good'ol laserdisc π°
Your local Library has videos.
My local torrent site has them without getting off the couch.
True, but if you get a walk to the library it is both healthy and you support your local library (more users means more funding hopefully).
Yohohoho
When there was 3-4 big streaming platforms things were great... now everyone is just copy/pasting their services and slapping their own content and logo on it and charging a premium.
That movie you watched on Netflix 5 years ago, is likely no longer on Netflix. If you want to rewatch it you'd have to find it on another platform, pay their monthly fee - or pay the rental fee... ironically from one of these streaming services.
What's the iPlayer done?
I was buying every season of itβs always sunny, now they donβt even make physical copies. They stopped at like season 10.
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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.
β¦ when thereβs literally no other option to own it in a way it canβt be just taken from you β¦
Thereβs at least one legal route thatβs still viable.
I buy lots of Blu-ray and 4K UHD discs. I rip them straight on to my Jellyfin server. In fact, thereβs been renewed vitality in disc releases during the past few years. Small shops like Shout Factory and Arrow are buying rights to old (β60s through β00s) films that were shot on 35mm. They re-scan and remaster for UHD 4K and then straight to physical disc. Thatβs a cheap production pipeline with modern tech.
Iβve been having a blast re-visiting films that I never saw in the theater and only know from VHS or DVD rentals. Seeing them again with fresh eyes in 4K has been really gratifying.
That, plus new release discs keep me with more options than I have time to watch.
I'm a huge fan of Shout Factory, and I'm at a place in my life where I can generally afford to pay for my media, so I do. I'll have to look up Arrow.
Voting with your wallet works both ways, and while most of the payment will be eaten by corporate interests at least it signals "I want more of this sort of thing".
My comment was mainly meant as a response to the statement regarding later seasons of Always Sunny simply not being available to purchase physically. In situations like that, I see no reasonable objection to raising the sails.
It's weird watching 4k re releases of CG animated movies from the early 2000s. Some of them they re-rendered at 4k and you can see that major characters are high res, but all the background assets are not. Same with some early special effects in 4k. You can really see the rotoscoping and how some effects were done
At least that means you have the lethal weapon episodes!
Stremio + Torrentio FTW.
I think i have more Laserdiscs than Blu-rays
I'm finally ready to embrace Blu-ray.
Nah, I have more room without bookshelves of physical media.
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 itβs 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.
hard drive costs halve every 2 years or so.
Where did you get halves from? Maybe if you're buying refurb/low-cap/shuck-drives on sale...? Not even the 2 year price projections (which are usually extremely optimistic) are anywhere near halving for higher-cap drives.
Even now, the only thing you'd get even nearing the optimal $10/TB mark would be a shuck-drive on sale as far as I can tell. Whereas the cheapest non-shuck is like $12.50/TB, but you'll most likely be wasting tons of time RMAing it within a year anyways because it's Sea*ate π€’
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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
Fuck the blu-ray consortium.
Where is Plex on this image?
Have you heard of our Lord and Saviour, Jellyfin?
DVD, Blueray, VHS? I've never heard of those torrent sites before π΄ββ οΈ
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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!
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Welcome to the land of mkv! Get your hand brake ready.
Workin' on it! Got me a used laptop that's about as recent as possible to still have a slim bluray slot built in. Learning all the things.
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.
We're fast approaching a time where owning media is considered a luxury.
Perhaps even a crime.
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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.
instructions unclear, set fire to my entire DVD collection
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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
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