Thread 518959592

Is it truly over for physical discs? Your future entertainment experience will be controlled by streaming companies that store all your data and can revoke access because of your views?

it wasnt already over? i haven't touched an optical disc in almost 20 years

as if anyone would by bluray of ai generated labubu slop cartoons

I've been pirating for years: media, porn. I would rather pay 10 € every month for a seedbox than subscribe to some shitty service.

>>518959750
kek. i use them a fair bit for my kids. they watch some really good educational shows that can t be found anywhere else.

>>518959592 (OP)
I can't wait to spend £30 for the latest slop in Ultra HD.

>>518959592 (OP)
I used to have a Geography teacher called Mr Gibson back in say 05. He would download all these fun things like Steve Irwin: Crocodile Hunter from the internet and burn them all to disks. Guy had a shelf full of those disk folders full of David Attenborough nature films going back to the 1970s, and we watched all of them, for 2 years in our Geography GCSE classes. It was awesome.

Why did you repost this thread on /pol/?
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>>518959959
90% of new stuff isn't worth pirating.

>>518959592 (OP)
Anything that can be viewed or listened to can be recorded.
We learned this in the early 2000s

>>518960216
then pirate old stuff

>>518959750
>>518959592 (OP)

You guys are idiots here is my collection. Keep in mind this is like 1/10th of it. The rest is still at my parents house.

I only by DVDs of movies i either never seen or know i will rewatch again

>>518959592 (OP)
cd/dvd/bluray are too expensive/too fragile/too small
obsolete to an extreme when a 128gig thumbdrive is so dirt cheap even the dollar store has them.

>>518960388
oh. my collection is just on an external HDD

>>518960630
I do have a few downloads myself. But i cant be bothered switching hard drives every 20 years. At some point something will happen to it

>>518959592 (OP)
I have an entire library of movies on one hard drive. It's mine I don't need to stream it, or worry about where to store it. Yes it's backed up.

I download movies from stream sites before I want to watch them so I don't have to wait for buffering or wade through ads

>>518960742
get magic cable for 5 bucks.
every hard drive is now a thumbdrive. "switching" is zero effort.

>>518959592 (OP)
>Heavily protected DRM
>Can't play it on a computer even with a blueray tray due to said DRM
>Need ancient specialized disc player to hook to TV
>Doesn't work half the time due to ancient tech
Jeez, I wonder why no one wants to use this piece of shit medium.

>>518961067
>bluray player is updating!
to improve my experience right? what do you mean no? that doesn't sound good.

>>518959959
>$10 every month
I spend roughly $20 a YEAR on usenet

>>518959592 (OP)
I plan to make it come back in a way.
new shop
- competition to Steam
- but also option to buy physical copy too
- option to resale (digital as well as physical)

Physical discs can break. Digital is forever....

>>518959592 (OP)
Bought my last blu-ray in 2014. Haven't watched the movie yet. It's a jewish scheme, betting on our bad goy brains that constantly forget movies and have to watch them again.

>>518962573
they don't even need to break t obe unusable.
a bunch of my earliest cd-r/rw have bitrot. zips and rars that won't open anymore unless it had recovery info. audio files with squeeks and clicks in the songs now.

>>518959592 (OP)
I got into collecting media really late, started during late era bluray and decided to concentrate on 4k. I started because I liked some of the metal covers, I never had many regular DVD's, just stuff I'd see on sale for $5. People I know went big on DVD but not much after, some of them actually don't look that bad if they didn't try to slam too many episodes on a single disc. On a small CRT its a big like looking through a glass window.

I just like simply getting a disc out of my box and putting it in a player, I don't have to root around hard drives looking for a file so I can save $15.

But from talking to other people it might be over, a lot of them went straight from DVD to streaming, never even owning a Bluray. For me I've got most of the classic movies I wanted, if they stopping making them I'd still be pretty happy with what I have.

>>518961067
I wanted to buy a pc drive instead of spending money on a player. Thought it was a joke at first but no pc bluray drives really can't play movies.

>>518960100
What about $60 for the Godfather trilogy. The 4k blurays I buy are usually much cheaper. If a movie is not worth paying to buy on 4k bluray then I don't really need to watch it. I'll buy $1 or $2 2nd hand stuff for that.

>>518961249
Prophetic as usual.

>>518961067
Its really easy to rip 4k blu rays dude.

>>518962573
Tell me all bout your ECC ram, checksum filesystem, and 321 backup strategy bro.

I'm selling all my old anime dvds and buying hundreds of dollars of UHD blu rays with it. I like to get the disk because it's better quality than streaming. There's also some thing where you do like heavily DRM'd download though my cousin does that, but that seems cucked.

I refuse to pay for a license, you give me a copy or you don't get my fucking money. So even though digital would be better than physical, I have to go physical.

I pirate anything that's not in 4k or anything that's only available in steelbook or 100 dollar special edition. I won't pay over 30 for anything, and only stuff I'm willing to pay 30 for is really good ones like criterion collection. My average cost is probably around 15, my average cost for the 15 hitchcock movies I got is more like 7.50.

>>518960100
The whole fucking point of 4k blu ray is to buy old movies. The new movies aren't even in 4k, but 35mm film is.

Special effects and picture quality are like:

2001 a space odyssey, or John Carpenter's The Thing era > Jurassic Park era > Now >>>>>>>>>> the early 21st century

>>518959592 (OP)
>buy movie on disc
>30 minutes of unskippable previews and ads for movies ill never watch

>pirate movie
>.mp4 file immediately opens to the movie i wanted to watch

>>518960388
Why would anyone collect DVDs?

DVD quality is too low to be enjoyable on even a 50 inch tv, let alone a nice 76 inch oled, but if you want that quality level you can pirate it in 2 seconds off pirate bay, and you can easily stream it from your jellyfin server.

The only format that is not mogged by piracy is 4k UHD Blu Ray, everything else you should pirate. (Pirated UHDs tend to be finicky for streaming on jellyfin, and the compression is usually worse depending on who uploaded it, plus they can be quite large files).

To be fair soon I'm guessing computers will be really good at playing, streaming, and transcoding 4k so that only piracy will really be justified except for political/moral reasons.

>>518965057
They don't do that anymore, that was like an early 00s thing.

>>518959592 (OP)
That's a different market that backup media.

>>518962986
>I just like simply getting a disc out of my box and putting it in a player

Its based that you like disks and all, but use jellyfin you retard. I hate how so many people in the disk community are copers who deliberately give themselves a worse experience when the only point is to get a better one.

>>518959592 (OP)
I bought an expensive UHD player
the number of new releases on 4K discs is tiny
streaming quality is shit
its ogre

>>518960173
for more perspectives

>>518959592 (OP)
Laserdisc has always been the patrician's choice.

>>518966076
Why would you want to watch new movies?

>>518959592 (OP)
Just pirate and use mdiscs.