DVD, Blueray, VHS? I've never heard of those torrent sites before 🏴‍☠️

We're fast approaching a time where owning media is considered a luxury.

Your local Library has videos.

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

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.

I started building an all-BluRay collection back in 2018. I saw the writing on the wall when I would go to watch a movie with friends on streaming and it would be gone.

Almost all of my favorite movies are mine now. I see a lot of comments talking about pirating, but for me personally, the display I get and being able to just have guests grab from the wall is a lot cooler than scrolling.

Not to mention, some of them are quite collectible. It’s neat having some movies that are really rare and I know I had to work to find them.

Welcome to the land of mkv! Get your hand brake ready.

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Luckily I saved all of my blu-rays. And, bonus: they're all good movies from before Disney went to shit

Don’t forget to check your local libraries too, folks.

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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!

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?

Torrents and Jellyfin - streaming is better if you do it yourself

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There’s only so many times I want to watch the same movie, so my library would be limited

We need Bluray/DVD rental stores back.

Nah ain't doing movies and shows physical media, I only watch things once. Torrent it is

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.

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...

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.

Just use jellyfish or kodi

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 miss some of those great DVD extras.

In the movie, Robert Downey Jr's said he didn't break character until he finished do the DVD commentary. He was in character when he did the DVD commentary.

There was a special edition of Buckaroo Banzai with an onscreen commentary that pointed out that Buckaroo was carrying Einstein's brain with him when he entered dimension 8

edit = the movie was 'Tropic Thunder.'

use libraries! they are great.

You meant to put the bittorrent symbol on the red girl.

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.

I want to be in the room when they plug that VCR into a 70-in TV and hit play just to see their faces.

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.