Nah ain't doing movies and shows physical media, I only watch things once. Torrent it is
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Same bro. I don't get people who want to watch Dirty Dancing and The Lion King two million times. It's good but... I want new things! New experiences! I get bored revisiting what I already know.
There is a difference between how people watch stuff and how much they remember. I also can't rewatch anything within a decade, because I remember every single line. My wife didn't remember what that episode was about a week later. Sometimes I envy her, because I constantly need to look for new stuff, which might or might not be good. she can just rewatch something and she knows that she likes it. Of course this is exaggerated, but I guess you get the point.
Literally the only benefit to paying for streaming over hosting your own stuff is discovery. So if the service sucks ass at that, it serves literally no benefit.
I thought the same, so I bought some Blu-rays and DVDs. DVDs are fine as long as you're okay with the quality. Blu-rays have DRM though, which in Linux feels like you're pirating even when playing legit content
I don't know if that changes by know, but some years back when I was looking trying to play a Blu-ray (got for birthday) and there was no legal way to play it on Linux. It was so frustrating to tinker with that I ended up downloading the movie and put the disc on top of the PC, just to pretend.
I am freshly into selfhosting and am running Beelink s12 pro with Jellyfin on. Ripped tons of DVDs and about to get blu ray drive for ripping. Never paid a cent to Netflix or any other streaming sites. Dunno why my wife pays entry subscription to Netflix. Cant watch FHD or higher, got ads, cant mirror screen to a TV with entry subscription, no choice in what movies to watch, shows from competitors are not on netflix. Fuck this shit, man. I pay for DVDs and blurays anyday as long as I can chose what to watch and to keep it to myself.
Got recently raspberry pi 3. Planning to setup private VPN in my homeland where pirating is not an issue yet.
Torrents and Jellyfin - streaming is better if you do it yourself
I just got mine set up with a custom domain name and CloudFlare tunnel, it seems to work a treat. Now to start selling user accounts... 🤔
Gods I could never figure out how in the hell to get Tunnels working, though I'd like to try it again someday and use one of my domains. For now Tailscale works.
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.
I don't miss physical media either tho. I always hated that they force you to watch an anti piracy ad on a disc you bought, and force feed you trailers. Just let me see the movie i paid for.
And you forgot the good'ol laserdisc 😰
Your local Library has videos.
I've got no way to play DVDs though I'd have to go and buy a DVD player. Streaming content is much more convenient I would like to be able to do it legally and without hassle. But the content creating companies don't seem to be interested in providing me an option to do that.
Anyway my local library isn't really that local it's a 25-minute drive and probably an hour plus walk up a really steep hill.
I just don't want to have to pay for anything
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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.
Stremio + Torrentio FTW.
I was buying every season of it’s always sunny, now they don’t 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.
… when there’s literally no other option to own it in a way it can’t be just taken from you …
There’s at least one legal route that’s still viable.
I buy lots of Blu-ray and 4K UHD discs. I rip them straight on to my Jellyfin server. In fact, there’s been renewed vitality in disc releases during the past few years. Small shops like Shout Factory and Arrow are buying rights to old (‘60s through ‘00s) films that were shot on 35mm. They re-scan and remaster for UHD 4K and then straight to physical disc. That’s a cheap production pipeline with modern tech.
I’ve 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!
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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DVD, Blueray, VHS? I've never heard of those torrent sites before 🏴☠️
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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 think i have more Laserdiscs than Blu-rays
I'm finally ready to embrace Blu-ray.
What's the iPlayer done?
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We're fast approaching a time where owning media is considered a luxury.
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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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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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Fuck the blu-ray consortium.
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
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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Where is Plex on this image?
Have you heard of our Lord and Saviour, Jellyfin?
I have. It's not as good as Plex.
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