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Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by Terretta »

snapplebobapple wrote: post #43

Her husband ian't right about dvds, the government is wrong about how they are regulating streaming services. The government needs to enforce reasonable content licencing across all the services like they did with music and radio stations decades ago so all content is on all services and the services start competing on vectors that actually matter to consumers like interface design and fast content delivery networks.

It's crazy that you can go to a grocery store as distribution aggregator and buy any type and brand of food in one place.

You should have to go to a Kellog's store or a Quaker store depending what you want to eat next week.

At least, that's what studios and labels think.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by nvr219 »

This goes back to the classic backup calculation. Never spend more to protect the data than the data is worth, right? That means the husband will be right or wrong on a user by user basis. If you have room to keep binders and binders of DVDs in your house, you need to calculate - is that space worth it for the data on there? Me, personally, once I've seen a movie or a TV show I rarely watch it again. There are a few that I do repeat watch, enough that I have a backup of those movies or shows even though I can get it on my streaming subscription today. But I'm not keeping binders or DVDs because that data is not important enough for me to back up.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

InCityDreams wrote: post #17
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?

Keeping your own work is completely different from keeping everything you've ever watched on Netflix.

Michael W. Smith tells about being in the studio, and not being able to get something to sound right. He went back to listen to an old work tape, and realized "OK, nobody should be playing but the piano. That's what's wrong right now in the studio." If that's what you do, keep it all, even the "in process" stuff.

But as I said, stuff you watched is different from stuff you made.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by tpmx »

People tend to shit on Spotify (while still using it), but they did manage something that we all want: Access to (almost everything), for a nominal monthly fee.

We need the same, but for movies and tv shows. Globally. It's an economical problem that currently has a suboptimal solution.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by haunter »

plusminusplus wrote: post #13

My understanding was there's a risk of disc degradation, is this a concern? How do you "back up" a CD/DVD?

For Audio CDs you want to rip it lossless with something that support AccurateRip so you can be sure that others made the same copy byte-to-byte. Fortunately there are several options https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=AccurateRip#Soft...

For DVDs you can use the infamous DVD Decrypter to make ISO files https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_Decrypter

or MakeMKV which straight copies the MPEG2 files (.vob) into a nice MKV container https://www.makemkv.com/

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by eggy »

photochemsyn wrote: post #42

One real danger of putting all historical video media on streaming sites is that it makes it far too easy to introduce an Orwellian Ministry of Truth that is empowered to rewrite the past to make it conform to today's acceptable social norms, academic ideologies, government agendas and so on. For example, one could make the argument that Alfred Hitchcock's entire library promotes negative stereotypes of women - and i…

Sort of like the anniversary edition of ET where Spielberg replaced the guns with walkie talkies, and other digital edits. Ironically he was criticized for too much smoking in the West Side Story remake. And sometimes a film I want is nowhere to be found, even a mainstream, older hit. I keep a few boxes of DVDs to make sure I can show them to the people stuck in the Matrix in the future!

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by ubermonkey »

I'm a very happy Apple Music subscriber, but I'm also 52 and so own thousands of CDs and hundreds of LPs.

I subscribed to AM for a possibly non-intuitive reason: for me, the "all you can eat" aspect is secondary. The driver was "stop syncing my phone." My library is too large to carry on my main computer, so the "music computer" had to be the one running iTunes and whatnot. Getting something new on there was a hassle, and couldn't be done on the move.

Moreover, while this scenario made sense to ME, my wife found it so off-putting that I discovered she was just not listening to music on her phone at all.

AM solved this problem pretty well. PLUS, AM has a feature where it will give you access via Apple Music to weird, indie, or out of print stuff in your library that might not exist in Apple Music's library.

A case in point is the 1990 Wendy & Lisa record Eroica. It's one of my favorites, and has always been part of my library -- it's even been re-ripped, because the first time I digitized it I only used 128Kbps MP3, and I wanted it at 256Kbps AAC. But it's also 100% not available via any streaming service because of rights issues of some kind.

YOU can't get it from Apple Music, but I can because Apple Music sees it in the library on my music server. That's pretty cool.

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