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There’s at two problems with that: VHS tapes and CEDs both degrade with each playback session, and CEDs even can get damaged or destroyed if you store them incorrectly (no wonder that format flopped and brought down RCA with it, lol…), and LDs have Laser Rot to deal with which is sadly becoming more common as some discs which were pressed in certain plants age.
VHS/Beta tapes, CEDs, and LDs if there’s any media that wasn’t released outside of those formats should be archived in some way ASAP due to the fragile nature of all three formats.
(and I say ‘fragile’ although LDs in theory should last indefinitely due to the lack of physical contact with that format vs. CEDs being read by a stylus and VHS and beta being read by a spinning head drum, but as I said, Laser Rot is an increasingly big problem with them)
*CEDs are literally video on vinyl, something that someone at RCA had to have been tripping on something to come up with, and that it’s a miracle that it even worked at all, given the inherent limitations of vinyl as a format.
This meme would be more accurate if you replace the girl he’s with with Fat Bastard from Austin Powers feasting from a trough of IP.
use libraries! they are great.
There is something very satisfying about opening up a movie DVD box or game DVD box. You see all these artworks and especially for games, guides !
I remember that they had pretty much stopped doing that entirely, half the time it was a slip of paper w/ an advert on it, or some sort of legal compliance form.
I’m kind of the same way with music.
It’s almost nostalgic for me.
Just use jellyfish or kodi
I could not get jellyfish to work
Try Jellyfin instead.
All these one size fits all media servers are aweful, i use rygel for now but it chokes on larger collections.
Maybe because its supposed to just be the jelly"fin" and not the whole fish. Might have complicated things for you.
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Support your local library
Thought progress was always good? Think again
I think progress by definition is good. Change is not always good. Not all change is progress.
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.
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.
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.
Nah I don’t miss having to deal with region zones, they are such a pain… sure you can rip the disk, but you’re still left with a disk you bought yet can’t use because your players are deliberately sabotaged to not work.
I don’t miss using physical media either, they take up so much space… I’d need a mansion if I wanted to replace the content of my media server with physical media.
Region zones do indeed suck, but I installed custom firmware on my PS3 to remove the DVD/Blu-Ray region lock, and now it’s a non-issue.
And I use disc binders for most of my collection, unless it’s something I really want to display. Long-term, once my collection is complete, I do plan to rip everything.
Nah ain’t doing movies and shows physical media, I only watch things once. Torrent it is
You dont have a favourite show or movie?
I’m like the OP. I watch it once.
If I want to watch it again, which hasn’t been the case for over a decade:
- Find the physical version. Often at a thrift store
- Sail the open seas
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.
Im like you. I’m a “give me new things”.
it took me a few years to understand. Especially since I have a coworker who shared she plays the Office in the background, nearly every day for a few years.
It’s comfort food for them. Why do some people play 1000+ hours of the same mobile games? Why do some people do those thousand piece puzzles?
It’s just comfort and consistency.
That’s exactly what fits the mould of my wife as well. She watches old stuff for comfort. Makes perfect sense. 👍
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.
I totally get it, yeah. I don’t remember everything, definitely, but I remember the vibe, and if I have the vibe, I’m good with it.
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.
Yep! It’s how I learned about that Poop Cruise documentary. Or Tiger King. Or all the trash Isekai.
Things I would never walk into a store and just outright buy them. And if I did, it would be like $10-50 bucks, the price of the subscription.
Torrents and Jellyfin - streaming is better if you do it yourself
I just have the server on an isolated VLAN that has all traffic routed through a no log commercial VPN service.
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 actually tried for two days to figure it out, and failed, and gave up. Then I came back monthly later and tried again, and it worked in 20 minutes. The CloudFlare UX is atrocious and exceptionally confusing. I still don’t know what I did differently to make it work.
Streamio
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.
