cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/9716935
As more movies vanish from streaming services, cinephiles are rallying to physical media. Can they save a seemingly dying format?
Screw physical, you can have your streaming cake and eat it too with Plex/Jellyfin
All streaming and yet all the digital content files are still under my control…
Fuck if they aren’t probably right
I’m honestly considering this myself. I’ve started buying copies of the movies and shows I really like when I see them.
I do know most physical media decays though. Not sure what the best way is to cope with that, but I’ve never been a huge fan of streaming in the first place
Once you have the physical media, ripping it to a file and using standard backup practices is really your best bet. It’s a bit roundabout, but 4K on disc is significantly higher quality than the compressed bandwidth saving versions available via streaming services.
You can also download remux quality rips. Be warned: they take a lot of disc space! Hard drives cost 1.4¢/GB right now, so say 2¢/GB for a raid NAS, all in. That means each remux costs about $1 USD to store with backup… But you need to put down the cash for like 1000 movies at a time to get the best marginal price.
I don’t think 99% of people in America would ever stop to think, ‘What would I do if I woke up tomorrow and all access to digital media disappeared?’
Bruh, I don’t want to be the one to tell you what the first D in DVD stands for.
Dirigible Video Disc :)
Lmao. Use a home media server and store your videos in drives. The future is now, primitive disk user.
Me giving my last piece of bread for season 2 episode 3 of everybody love Raymond in the ends times…
Maybe blue ray but definitely not dvd lol.
but, why?
dvds have a shelf life of ~25-40 years on average. they won’t magically contain all future releases as well (digital only releases, etc)
Now VHS… that’s a physical medium. lol kidding. they all suck and it’s dumb to stick to a physical anything.
also screw vinyl.
Because streaming services discard shows once they aren’t “new” anymore. There’s a lot of content you simply cannot stream on any streaming service.
you can digitize your own collections and store everything you watch…
sure you can augment with a streaming svc.
That starts with buying physical media. Except music since a lot (but not all) music is sold for DRM-free download on various sites.
That starts with buying physical media.
“Lol” said Sonarr and Radarr, “LMAO”
No, it starts with downloading a torrent client
