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My husband was right about DVDs

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Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by beej71 »

LinuxBender wrote: post #2

Not just DVD's but also music CD's. Plenty of music from the 1960's through early 2000's is no longer online for either contractual disputes, or cultural cancellation and other reasons I have yet to figure out. I assume some of this transition must be the cost issues of producing physical CD's vs. delivering online or renting the music online. When it is only available as a stream online I call it renting and every d…

A friend of mine refuses streaming. He buys CDs in bulk from the flea market and rips them to FLAC.

I was just thinking of doing the same for my collection in the attic, assuming the CDs have survived a couple thousand freeze/thaw cycles. :)

I like the idea of ditching the hard cases for space.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by Karsteski »

sdflhasjd wrote: post #7
ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #3

In a similar vein, once you pirate something you also own it forever. Netflix is never gonna delete Bojack Horseman off my hard drive.

In 2035, your hard drive will have firmware with built-in CSAM filtering, which - after a legal battle in the high court - will get hijacked for copyright enforcement.

Guess I'll be relegated to living in a cabin in the woods if we ever get to that point...

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Post by Freak_NL »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #3

In a similar vein, once you pirate something you also own it forever. Netflix is never gonna delete Bojack Horseman off my hard drive.

That sounds like the onset of a Cory Doctorow story. Armed autonomous Netflix' bots bearing down on your residence to physically delete your Bojack Horseman copies — all legalities taken care of by the newly amended copyright protection laws.

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Post by InCityDreams »

sublinear wrote: post #4

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I've been hoarding every bit of music I've composed since the eighties. What advice would you give, before it becomes a serious problem? I'd also like to ask: how old is the oldest thing you own? And, additionally, what are the two oldest things you own? At what point does having more than one of something become hoarding?

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Post by jasode »

>I still don’t actually use our DVDs and Blu-rays all that often. But every time I see them lining the shelves, I feel a bit of comfort. Because when I do need them, they’ll be there.

The importance of that type of redundancy depends on the viewing habits of a particular person. In the case of my friend, the "don’t actually use our DVDs all that often" really was "never re-watched the DVDs she owned". She had a DVD collection with all the X-Files seasons, James Bond movies, etc.

But she inadvertently learned her true viewing habits when Amazon Prime included video streaming for free. She realized she always preferred watching something new on Amazon rather than play an old X-Files DVD.

But what if Netflix and Amazon Prime Video lets their streaming licenses expire for "X-Files" and it's no longer available? Wouldn't that make the X-Files DVDs a great backup?!? It would, if she actually re-watched the X-Files -- but she never did. Owning DVDs was a waste of money for her particular viewing preferences (new stuff instead of reruns) and she was happy to get rid of the clutter.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by rektide »

And now it feels like 2/3rds of media doesnt have a dvd or blu-ray release! So awful.

This has been such an ever enmissserating situation. Started as a high & mighty &bgood convenience, but we're ending up worse than where we started; fragmented & ephemeral.

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