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Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by reureu »

saghm wrote: post #27
kvetching wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But a strong solar flare might.

That's the other benefit of offline backups; you can have as many as you want. If a solar flare wipes out every hard drive I own simultaneously, I think I might have bigger problems than a lack of TV shows to watch.

Quick plug for "Mr. Burns: a Post-Electric play", where an event wipes out the electric grid and people start trying to recreate an old Simpsons episode.

There are multiple productions on YouTube, such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuL7EbjFBBw

Description on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Burns,_a_Post-Electric_Pla...

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by enriquto »

jimbob45 wrote: post #50
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…

https://medium.com/everything-80s/why-are-streaming-services... They already do this frequently. 4chan has been tracking it for ages now.

Heh. This is like medieval illuminators who painted fig leaves over the nude drawings made by their predecessors.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by dylan604 »

rektide wrote: post #20

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.

I remember the middle section of shelves at Blockbuster. I'm quite content not having access to a lot of that schlock any more. A lot of it didn't deserve to be put on DVD!

I'm reading the "so awful" within the context of this thread more of an accusation for someone making the decision to not allow content vs I just wish it were on DVD for my convenience. It's not all conspiracy theories. Sometimes, it's just financial. Some older content was done on such a cheap budget and companies that we'll just call fly by night. These types of places might not be able to remaster their content for blu-ray either because they no longer exist, don't have the funding to re-transfer the film to a higher scan, or just physically no longer have the materials.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by 56friends »

eggy wrote: post #57
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!

This fact always reminds me of that funny video cut of Stallone where his machine gun is edited out so it looks like he is thumbs up-ing relentlessly.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by dylan604 »

toast0 wrote: post #37
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?

DVDs are easy to backup. Lots of software out there, and there's nothing low level to worry about. Audio CDs also have lots of software out there, but you have to be a bit more picky if you're concerned about getting a bit for bit copy rather than just a sounds the same copy. If your discs have hidden tracks and all that kind of weird stuff, care is needed. Once you have things onto your filesystem, the usual rules o…

>the usual rules of backups apply.

which would include keeping the original disc ripped to make this new copy that needs backing up. more than one copy. more than one format. more than one location.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by xeromal »

js8 wrote: post #66
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…

You don't have public libraries in the U.S.? In my country, it's government-mandated job of public libraries to collect historical media.

We do have that. It's the library of congress that ensures the safety of culturally important media in the US.

And of course we have public libraries with all kinds of good media.

I don't think the comment your replying to is even talking about public libraries. I believe they're saying if society determines a person is cancelled and it's on a streaming service, it can instantly disappear from most streaming media.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by 082349872349872 »

dylan604 wrote: post #25
jzellis wrote: post #9

If only there were some way to download anything you wanted even if it was never released on DVD or Blu-ray and isn't on streaming anymore....

So if it was never released on DVD or Blu-ray, then where did the source for the torrents come from? If I saw a file with the name of something I knew wasn't available on a shiny round disc, I would be very skeptical and hesitant to download it from fear of it not being what it said it was. I damn sure don't want to go to the hassle of downloading a VHS transfer

> downloading a VHS transfer

you kids with your universal formats; we used to have to make camera copies to watch PAL shows on NTSC...

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by 56friends »

ubermonkey wrote: post #58

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…

Interesting. Do you know if this extends to basically all digitized music regardless of the specifics of artist/label streaming preferences? Eg King Crimson’s catalog was never added to Spotify, if I link my ripped CDs to AM, would it make it available for me to stream on my phone?
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