After spending a few months borrowing DVDs from the library, amazed anyone deals with the constant, annoying, repetitive commercials on satellite/cable. On the negative side, my tolerance for inane ads on YouTube has dropped dramatically... I tend to turn stuff instead of power through some miracle-diet-nutrient-vitamin-clickbait cure something or other #DVDs
Studio Update: A few weeks ago I was soliciting opinions about whether or not to get a Mac Mini to replace my ailing, nearly decade-old PC.
Opinions differed, leaning toward "yes but get more RAM than base model" and I had just about decided not to do it when I stumbled on a good video from a music tech vlogger I really like (video here: https://youtu.be/obkCMxaIIFM) who did exactly what I was thinking and had great results.
Thanks to everyone that offered advice/shared their experience. Extra special thanks to everyone here in Mastodon who bought my old #TTRPG stuff and #DVDs and #Videogame collectibles to fund the extra bits I needed to buy; this would have been a lot more painful if I had to spend "real" money (i.e. money that would otherwise go to feed and house my family) on it.
I know it's a personal thing but:
I'm impressed to know that there are more friends who are turning to digital music and throwing away their physical collection. No way!
As long as God lets me, I won't go digital and lose my whole-life collection! #MusicLover#VinylRecords#Cassettes#CompactDiscs#MiniDiscs#DVDs#VHS
I never stopped collecting #DVDs. Just cataloged my collection which numbers 2183 at the moment.
As for storage, I discard the cases but keep the paper covers and store the DVDs in sleeves in specially designed CD/DVD storage units with built in drawers. I've got 6 of these units which each have 2 drawers in them. I use 3 of these units for DVDs & 3 for CDs.
The company that use to make these units was named "Per Madsen" (the owner of the company) which was based in San Francisco Per retired and that thought that these units were no longer available but I just discovered that someone bought the company and is still making these units.
A good book and accompanying DVD is Designing Interactions / Bill Moggridge. They covers some of the earlier days of computing. On them it shows a few other Xerox mouse designs that are totally different from what is used today. Also shows the first laptop. The book and DVD also cover up-to mid-2000s interviews looking back. Also has more than one interview / perspectives more than one for the mouse and palm pilot.
They're like the 100-in-1 #pirated Game Boy cartridges of #music :sagume_think:
This is the shit I am #nostalgic about :akyuu_headphones:
I'm kinda surprised they still exist here in the #Philippines, but if there are pirated #DVDs and #Bluray being sold in the black market, why not MP3 CDs as well? :satrithink:
Went back to DVDs (on my PC), after one too many evenings dealing with advertising in the middle of free streamed movies. ("free" i.e. paid for by that advertising). Amazon Prime used to be not-so-bad, but it's terrible now. I forgot how awesome it is to NOT BE INTERRUPTED in the middle of key movie scenes. Borrowing them from the library, and buying some of the ones I'll watch multiple times from thrift stores/library sales. #movies#streaming#DVDs
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Ich möchte #DVDs für die Kinder auf #Jellyfin ziehen. Manche DVDs öffnet VLC unter Linux, andere (aus der gleichen Box) nicht. Die von VLC abgespielten kann ich dann auch rippen.
Bleiben die, die VLC unter Linux nicht öffnet. Gerade unter Windows probiert, da spielen die ab. Handbrake bleibt da aber auch irgendwann beim Überprüfen hängen.
Habt ihr Ideen oder Tipps, was ich noch versuchen kann?
The day has finally come. Today is the last day that #Netflix is mailing out #DVDs, and has already said that customers are welcome to keep them. 25 years is a long time for a service. I was graduating high school. Just, wow. *pours one out*
I just dropped off 8 Netflix DVDs that I picked up at my PO yesterday & I've got 8 more DVDs still in my queue.
The turn around time is usually 1 day, so I hope I get the last 8 DVDs sent to me before the program ends tomorrow 9/29.
I'll really going to miss the Netflix DVD program.
No other way to truly watch movies "on demand" unless you can rent/OWN a DVD copy of the movie or "buy" the rights to movie online which I'll never do because I prefer to get something tangible for my $.
Redbox will never be an viable substitute unless they buy up all of Netflix's DVD inventory and take over its mail delivery service.
I just recently sorted thru & reorganized my DVD collection in response to the end of the Netflix DVD program & have already resorted to buying DVDs on eBay to back fill missing spots in my collection.
I was paying Netflix about $50/mo for my subscription to their DVD rental program. So, the way I look at it, I've got about $50/month to buy any new DVDs that I want/need.
I've restocked my #LittleFreeLibrary 😁📚
It's the only #LFL on Kamloops Ave in #Saanich 👍 If you're in my area, swing by & grab some #free#books or #DVDs or #CDs from my free community sharing library.
Now that Netflix has announced that it plans to shut down its DVD rental program (again) in Sept (apparently now for good), I thought I'd search to see if there are still any video rental stores in existence in the SFBA and found these 2 on Yelp:
I am an "8 movie at a time" Netflix DVD renter and have been spoiled to get every new DVD as released (about 3 months following its 1st theatrical showing) for yrs.
For those of you like me, who do not like the limited and ephemeral offerings on streaming and who like to view the newest DVD releases as soon as they become available without buying them, video store rental is the only recourse.
I'm glad to see there are still a couple of video rental stores open & perhaps the death of the Netflix DVD rental program (which killed Blockbuster and other video rental stores when it started) will see a resurrance in video rentals.
This is what I’m saying! “As is pretty much always the case in these situations, it’s the enthusiasts who truly value variety and eclecticism who will miss out, as they are cast aside in an appeal to the masses who consume whatever the media giants tell them to consume.”