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Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by sergiotapia » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 5:59 PM UTC

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia was butchered on streaming platforms, so I agree with you OP! Taiwan Tammy? GONE! Martina Martinez? GONE! Santa asking: "Is he retarded?" when Charlie just stares at him frozen in rage? GONE! Lots of funny moments missed by new fans unfortunately.

Related: Why have hard drive sizes stagnated? It feels like 8TB has been the golden standard going on 8 years now.

I'm very close to doing the following: Putting 6 drives in a portable RAID device, and ripping my movies to 720p x265 for storage. I can store a near limitless amount of movies and TV shows this way, and honestly I don't notice 720p. At least not enough to trade a 1GB movie for a 45GB 4k Remux. And I own a latest brand new 65 inch LG OLED and Sony OLED.

Added benefit is that its trivial to stream this anywhere at home or remotely. The files are so small that even scanning around the movie is instant.

The only thing holding me back is 8TB hard drives. So I wait patiently and continue to pay for a plexserver some guy manages for me.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by convolvatron » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 5:59 PM UTC

rolenthedeep wrote: post #82

js8 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Our public libraries are underfunded and used as a punching bag by conservatives. Libraries have very limited shelf space and must constantly prune items from the collection. If a movie isn't checked out for a few months, it gets sold for like 50 cents and replaced with whatever is currently in demand. Most public libraries don't have the resources to archive materials. That's mostly down to academic and specialist l…

does LOC archive content that was never put on a physical format?

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by layer8 » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 6:00 PM UTC

Terretta wrote: post #51

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.

If food was infinitely replicable at basically no cost, you’d only be allowed to eat your cereals at the respective store.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 6:01 PM UTC

zdw wrote: post #85

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…

There are already incidences of this: The TV show Community is missing an episode on Netflix for some reason (edit: reason was Ken Jeong in what could be interpreted as blackface). The IT Crowd is missing one in some geos because it was considered anti-Trans by some - that episode also has the unrelated and hilarious plot where Roy and Moss convince Jen that they're loaning her a "black box that holds the entire inte…

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Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by naveen99 » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 6:02 PM UTC

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…

Maybe limit the actual truth to the top 1-5% , and leave the masses to the sanitized version of history… which is basically the status quo in the west with mainstream media / Hollywood, and CCP in the east with China.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by dkarter » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 6:03 PM UTC

You can have both hard copies and streaming by ripping your DVDs and putting them on a NAS with Jellyfin. https://youtu.be/RZ8ijmy3qPo

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by LawTalkingGuy » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 6:04 PM UTC

neuronic wrote: post #88

snickerbockers wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Netflix actually removed a segment from an early 90s bill Nye episode because it said there are two genders.

This seems weird. No one disagrees that there are 2 biological (genetic) genders. Gender identity is something entirely else that is being actively researched. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6677266/

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Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by amelius » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 6:04 PM UTC

In the old days it was legal to record shows on your VCR.

What happened to the laws around that?

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by jsz0 » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 6:05 PM UTC

Alternatively consider reducing your addiction to television/movies and stop worrying about where your next fix is coming from. In the golden era of piracy I used to be a huge media pack rat spending hours a day obtaining more media to stash away. One day my ZFS array puked and I lost almost everything. I wasn't even upset. It was a blessing in disguise to be liberated from caring about hoarding media. Never seeing your favorite television/movies again is going to have almost zero impact on your life. It's not worth wasting much of your time and money on.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by Godel_unicode » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 6:05 PM UTC

neuronic wrote: post #88

snickerbockers wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Netflix actually removed a segment from an early 90s bill Nye episode because it said there are two genders.

This seems weird. No one disagrees that there are 2 biological (genetic) genders. Gender identity is something entirely else that is being actively researched. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6677266/

This is incorrect. According to NIH there is no such thing as “biological (genetic) gender”. You’re thinking of biological sex.

https://orwh.od.nih.gov/sex-gender