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Why does anyone bother with streaming services when you can buy DVDs cheaper and own the media forever and the collection only accumulates over time? Kodi is awesome.
I don’t rewatch much. A collection of discs just takes up space and collects dust.
I mean one requires a few clicks, the other requires effort, time and more steps.
I also don’t rewatch stuff frequently, there’s no point in keeping it after other than taking up space or data.
DVDs don’t last forever. I have a ton of dvds that are no longer good. Is actually so bad there are people trying to find still working copies of shows from the 90’s so they can digitize them before they are lost forever.
This is why I went through and ripped all of mine. As soon as the second one died I went full “Fuck this, I’m backing them up.”
Jellyfin and offline streaming was just an extra bonus.
OOC, what do you mean by “no longer good”? Did they de-laminate, did the plastic break down, or did they just stop working?
If it helps, you can get kits to polish CDs and DVDs in case they’re too scratched up.
It’s called dvd rot.
I think it can happen a couple different ways.
The price of one dvd is more than a month of streaming. So I guess this works if you only watch one movie a month, or one season of a series every six months.
$0.99 is more than a month of streaming?
The bargain bin usually doesn’t have anything interesting. How much is an actual recent movie?
Disagree. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118214/
Also, depending on how you define a “recent” movie. You can get them for as little as $0.25 or as much as $300. Heck the most expensive movie that my husband bought was old not new.
The movie you shared is 13$ on Walmart’s website. Regardless, you’re talking about reducing the choice by a lot to stay under a fixed budget, not really the same as having access to a whole database and recent movies/series. All that goes out the window for series anyways, those are usually stupid expensive.
More power to you though. Personally, I would rip the CDs and put them on a hardrive with jellyfin just out of convenience.
The other aspect of this, for me, is that streaming is high definition and I have functional eyeballs.
Even the most highly compressed HD content that’s been served up to me is orders of magnitude better looking than low-def DVD potato quality video. So at a minimum, if it were going to be a remotely accurate comparison between paid physical versus paid streaming, DVD shouldn’t even be in the discussion for many/most of us.
It’s obvious though that bacon_pdp is not a serious person nor trying to have an honest discussion with you, but hopefully you already recognize that.
I don’t want to re-watch things much. It’s plastic waste the instant I watch it.
I wanted to watch the 1939 movie the wizard of oz and in my country is not available on any of the streaming subscriptions. Can be only rented for 24 hours like it’s some fresh movie out of the theater
Fmhy dot net got you covered
Yo ho ho, a pirate is free
it’s a pirate’s life for me 🏴☠️
I had a conversation, recently, about how some of the practical skills makers (like knitting and crochet) are offering more lessons on DVD, so that they can actually monetize their work, rather than letting YouTube feed them a drip. At one point, the per-publication video delivery platforms were fantastic, but I find myself wanting to get those lessons on DVD, and then rip them to my own media server. As people point out DVD’s aren’t “forever,” but honestly, nothing is. At least with the content on DVD, I have a chance of keeping the media.
If you buy DVDs new and store them well, they’ll last nearly forever. I buy mostly used and while I’ve seen my fair share of disc rot, my copy of Se7en is so old, the back is basically an ad for the concept of DVD and it plays fine.
This is why i miss video rental stores.
Noy only was there none of this bullshit.
You got to walk up and down the aisles and discover things you’d never see otherwise.
All while eating a enormous tub of popcorn that you got to buy for only 99 cents.
I miss the friday evening ritual of going to the rental shop and picking up two movies and a game for the weekend so goddamn much.
Tub of popcorn for 99c? How old are you? I mean shit you can still do this. Dollar store microwave popcorn, c it better yet. An air popper and a huge jar of popping corn. Not only that but hell I get to sit at home browse through all my streaming services and if I need to rent something I can rent something if not typically I don’t even have to rent, it’s just available.
That being said the original meme on here did actually affect me last night. I really wanted to watch Quentin Tarantino’s grindhouse and apparently it’s unavailable on all streaming services but I could rent it for $3.99. really didn’t want to so I chose not to and watch something else instead.
How about them charging $15-$20 to rent for the first week or two of a new release?
It disgusts me that there are people willing to pay that (likely because they have enough money where $3 vs. $20 is no real difference).
Stremio + Torrentio + Real-Debrid
Usenet + torrents + Jellyfin.
Right?!
I’ve looked up MULTIPLE random movies from the 2000-2010 range… not no-names, not block busters… Nothing, not available, Always not available on Prime/Netflix/Disney.
Made me seriously look at starting to dust off the plex server again…
WTF am I paying for all these services, and they can’t even host the basics…
Weird, jellyfin always seems to have it.
Jellyfin? What’s that?
Home media server with huge security holes for remote streaming.
“Hugely overblown”, you mean.
Enjoy your arbitrary code execution.
You mean, the one in the GHSA that was swiftly fixed in accordance with proper protocols?
Your poor internet hygiene is more troubling.
If you’ve heard of plex, it’s that but you don’t have to pay money to access your own content.
If you haven’t, it’s a media server and client program that organizes your backups of dvds and definitely nothing else
Oh cool! So I can stream stuff on the go for free?
Yes and no. You could, in theory, put it behind a reverse proxy, but you shouldn’t without further security measures.
You could put your server in a tailnet (tailscale, there are FOSS alternatives, but those are more difficult to set up), which is extremely, easy to configure, and allows every device in it (smartphones, tablets, computers…) to access your media server.
Upvote for Tailscale. I don’t use it for media streaming but my frigate server with my pet cams is on there. Really great for a free service.
The only cost is of obtaining the media you wish to stream, using whatever method you wish to aquire it.
Ok and then I can let the kids watch Wild Kratts in the car?
Yeah you definitely can’t set up an automated system to grab releases of cool shows and stuff then send it to a torrent client to download before being sorted into jellyfin libraries.
No, not at all. You definitely should avoid the tools sonarr, radarr, jellyseer, and jackett
Why are we talking all hush hush here? checks com instance Ohh
Basically self hosted streaming. If you havent already set it up you’re missing out, choose what content you want to watch, no ads, watch it however you like…
My experience exactly. It’s only in English though, but I’m okay with that
Though they seem to keep making it harder and harder to buy egitimate harder copies of the content I want.
I don’t even need hard copies, just give me the ability to buy a DRMless file I can run on any of my devices for a fair price. I don’t even necessarily need to be able to download it again in the future if that makes it cheaper. I can back my shit up myself.
“Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem” - Gabe Newell
This quote is relevant far too often
Kind of. But when Amazon has the option to rent a movie for $3, and all I have to do is click that button and it will stream instantly, I still NEVER click that button. It’s not really a service issue, because it’s available instantly at just the click of a button.
It’s more of a principal issue. Like why the fuck am I paying all this money for all these streaming services and you still want to charge me even more? Makes piracy an easy choice.
I still see it as a service issue. I can only watch it once or for a very short time. That’s not the service I’m looking for.
Yarr
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🎶"yo ho, all hands, hoist the colors high"🎶
This person is complaining while also paying like ten bucks a month for that blue check.
Can you pirate a blue check?
Gotchu, fam…
Well he’s subscribed to 13 streaming services
And we’re right back to cable TV.
A half dozen “packages” as streaming services, nothing good on, prices keep going up, and anything you do want to see costs more (pay-per-view).
I talked about this happening years ago. I hate that it became true.
My partner and I cycle. We have 1 or 2 services at a time, burn them out, and move on.
I learned it from watching you, Elon!
