The film fans who refuse to surrender to streaming: ‘One day you’ll barter bread for our DVDs’

IsThisAnAI, 2 months ago

Maybe blue ray but definitely not dvd lol.

Harbinger01173430, 2 months ago

Lmao. Use a home media server and store your videos in drives. The future is now, primitive disk user.

Entropywins, 2 months ago

Me giving my last piece of bread for season 2 episode 3 of everybody love Raymond in the ends times...

cm0002, 2 months ago

Screw physical, you can have your streaming cake and eat it too with Plex/Jellyfin

All streaming and yet all the digital content files are still under my control…

survivalmachine, 2 months ago

I don’t think 99% of people in America would ever stop to think, ‘What would I do if I woke up tomorrow and all access to digital media disappeared?’

Bruh, I don’t want to be the one to tell you what the first D in DVD stands for.

Rentlar, 2 months ago

Dirigible Video Disc :)

crawancon, 2 months ago

but, why?

dvds have a shelf life of ~25-40 years on average. they won’t magically contain all future releases as well (digital only releases, etc)

Now VHS… that’s a physical medium. lol kidding. they all suck and it’s dumb to stick to a physical anything.

also screw vinyl.

WolfLink, 2 months ago

Because streaming services discard shows once they aren’t “new” anymore. There’s a lot of content you simply cannot stream on any streaming service.

crawancon, 2 months ago

you can digitize your own collections and store everything you watch…

sure you can augment with a streaming svc.

WolfLink, 2 months ago

That starts with buying physical media. Except music since a lot (but not all) music is sold for DRM-free download on various sites.

exocrinous, 2 months ago

No, it starts with downloading a torrent client

cm0002, 2 months ago

That starts with buying physical media.

“Lol” said Sonarr and Radarr, “LMAO”

Coasting0942, 2 months ago

Fuck if they aren’t probably right

LinkOpensChest_wav, 2 months ago

I’m honestly considering this myself. I’ve started buying copies of the movies and shows I really like when I see them.

I do know most physical media decays though. Not sure what the best way is to cope with that, but I’ve never been a huge fan of streaming in the first place

wizardbeard, 2 months ago

Once you have the physical media, ripping it to a file and using standard backup practices is really your best bet. It’s a bit roundabout, but 4K on disc is significantly higher quality than the compressed bandwidth saving versions available via streaming services.

blindsight, 2 months ago

You can also download remux quality rips. Be warned: they take a lot of disc space! Hard drives cost 1.4¢/GB right now, so say 2¢/GB for a raid NAS, all in. That means each remux costs about $1 USD to store with backup… But you need to put down the cash for like 1000 movies at a time to get the best marginal price.