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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.
Just the other day I learned about m-discs, so burn to that for archiving using your BR burner.
Never heard of them, had to look it up. Seems kinda a spotty record depending on the manufacturer.
Genuinely curious how are publishers limiting physical media? I haven’t bought a blu-ray in a long while.
Almost all big box stores are significantly limiting or completely removing physical media from their stores
Yeah, but that’s not some massive conspiracy to remove them. They just don’t sell, like CDs before them. Blu-ray never really won its format war. It just staved off the execution of discs for a few years.
£25 for one movie is a hard sell when it will come to Disney+ in a month. Even more so when it can get you a VPN for 6 months and you can have it now.
I haven’t bought a blu-ray in a long while.
Exactly!
Not the publishers fault, for the vast majority it’s by choice and not necessity that they don’t buy physical media anymore.
No they’re not, hard drives are for sale everywhere and not being phased out any time soon.
I was talking about blu-rays
Why not talk about floppy discs?
Just because Blu-Rays are going away, does not mean physical media is going away. We have better physical media options, use them.
While we do have floppy disks, the storage capacity limitations do not make them practical in today’s era
I wouldn’t consider floppies superior to Blu-ray.
“The powers that be” aren’t doing some kind of nefarious thing here. Physical media is only worth producing if they’re doing it at incredibly high volumes. The smaller the run, the more expensive it is for each individual unit. Fewer and fewer people are buying, and there are fewer and fewer physical devices out there capable of playing the media.
For them, it’s a simple calculation of the cost of producing physical media, getting it from the factory to stores, paying the stores to shelve it, etc. vs. simply having a website with media files on it.
While there are some people who still prefer physical media, for the most part consumers also prefer just going to a website and clicking a button vs. driving to a store, parking, searching the shelves in the hope they have what they’re looking for, and so-on. In addition, as fewer companies put out physical media, it’s harder to find the physical media you want in the stores, so more people prefer to go online, which leads to less demand for physical media, fewer choices on the shelves, and more demand for streaming.
I’m sure the bonus of consumers rarely having a way to view a movie or listen to a song an unlimited number of times without paying is something the media companies also enjoy. But, the main reason physical media is disappearing isn’t some kind of conspiracy by the mysterious “powers that be”, it’s a simple profit calculation by accountants at Sony and Disney.
instructions unclear, set fire to my entire DVD collection
It’s just a shame that DVDs and Blu-Rays for new movies aren’t really made anymore. They’re just leaving money on the table at this point that bootleggers in Malaysia are getting instead.
But still, absolutely. DVD all the way. I fixed the cord I cut back in 2015 and I’m much better off for it.
There are still DVDs and Blurays being made for new movies. Some movies are 100% digital, but in my experience they tend to be the ones that the streaming platforms produce themselves and they have an interest in keeping people on their service.
But most other movies still get dvds and blurays made and are still sold in stores.
They come out with new releases all the time. Brick and mortar stores just don’t always carry them. In the past year Target and Best Buy stopped. Here’s a list of physical media that came out this week: https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=36930
Everyone seems to be telling me that there’s still new releases, but seemingly not for anything I’m interested in. The last Blu-Ray I’ve been able to pick up was WandaVision. There was a time where basically 100% of movies got physical releases and, acknowledging confirmation bias, it does feel like those times are gone.
What are the movies that haven’t gotten releases you’ve wanted? For me anything I’ve wanted has gotten a release lately, but I don’t watch the most niche movies. So perhaps that’s my confirmation bias
I guess it’s not technically a new movie, but I just bought the 4k blu ray rerelease of Dark City that came out this year. So there are still some new releases in the format.
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You got it backwards. The Sith are the corpos and the resistance is piracy.
I’m not really sure what you mean. Yoda is responding to Obi-Wan who had just said “That boy is our last hope”. Yoda was referring to the fact that there is another Skywalker (Leia). So in this context, Luke would be physical media, Leia would be piracy, and the streaming services would be the Sith/Empire.
Thought progress was always good? Think again
I think progress by definition is good. Change is not always good. Not all change is progress.
Just use jellyfish or kodi
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I could not get jellyfish to work
All these one size fits all media servers are aweful, i use rygel for now but it chokes on larger collections.
Try Jellyfin instead.
Maybe because its supposed to just be the jelly"fin" and not the whole fish. Might have complicated things for you.
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 !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.
… 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.
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
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.
Casual reminder, Sony and Intel tried to tether Blu-ray discs to SGX DRM, which was killed just a few years after they introduced the standard, rendering all of your SGX DRM Blu-rays unplayable on PC. They disabled it so quickly, because people could use Intel SGX DRM for remote code execution in your machine, below the operating system and kernel level.
Also, if you have one of the CPUs which still has SGX DRM, congratulations, you have a hardware Trojan! Digital restrictions management is a cancer because look at what it does in reality, vs. what they say. Who came up with this?
Toss Betamax in there and you’ve got me. I miss those little tapes.
Laserdisk, I had this friend who collected all sorts of junk and this was impressive Tek from decades ago.
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
#BackToThePast
Luckily I saved all of my blu-rays. And, bonus: they’re all good movies from before Disney went to shit
That must mean you have the original Lilo & Stitch.
Excellent.
Wait, did they mess with lilo and stitch?
The live-action redo is terribly tropified and shockingly bad in comparison.
No you can still watch it, it hasn’t been altered or removed…but they have also made a live action lilo & stitch, but watching it is optional so who the fuck cares.
That one is on DVD, actually
Disney has always been shit, especially their business practices.
I don’t really think men look back anymore nowadays
DVD, Blueray, VHS? I’ve never heard of those torrent sites before 🏴☠️
Because I’m uncreative, I’m just going to steal the joke from Sseth.
Because the vehicle in From Software’s game, Elden Ring, is called “Torrent”, I can’t wait for the next From Soft character “Punjabi Codex Denuvo, pre-cracked Novirus [MeGusta]”.
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Missed opportunity IMO there should totally be a piracy product or site called VHS
Virtual Home Streaming
I LOVE IT
Digital Video Download
Subcaption Direct to Disk
they are what your torrents evolved from.
No, I ain’t going back to VHS. The quality was horrible. I don’t want to fiddle the with tracking.
The best thing about it was that you could easily record what was on the TV.
There was auto tracking towards the end. It was the rewind that done it for me.
I’ll only watch a VHS, if it’s a weird Japanese anime OVA from the 80s.
They look okay on CRTs hooked up with composite. I tried watching one on a modern LCD and yeah it was awful.
this makes Greggs Turkington and the boys at the VFA very happy.
