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Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by arockwell » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 6:06 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/

It really isn’t quite that simple. There are Intersex people who have ambiguous genitalia and there are several viable chromosome combos besides XX and XY.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by legitster » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 6:08 PM UTC

Paramount+ was kind of the last straw for me on streaming. A streaming platform entirely made from licenses they ripped back from existing platforms. And the new shows are trashy and lazily written.

I don't need to be on the zeitgeist any more. For all the old shows I want to catch up on, DVD box sets cost less than the streaming services to watch them on.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by danaris » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 6:08 PM UTC

layer8 wrote: post #92

danaris wrote: post #84

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And there's even a third option: Rip the DVDs, keep the digital copies somewhere safe, and discard the physical discs. If you want to ensure that this remains safe, you'll need to both back up and periodically transfer the digital copies to new physical storage devices (in my case, I just upgraded from the ~4-yr-old 4TB HDD that was holding all my media to a new 16TB HDD). This is, however, kind of a necessity in any…

That’s much more work though than just keeping the DVDs in the basement.

It is. It happens to fit my use case better, though—my viewing habits are very impulse-oriented, and the place I keep the media is my Plex library, so I can just fire up a web browser and watch anything I keep in there any time I want, from anywhere in the house. (I could probably set it up to be able to watch it from other places, too, but I'm working from home, so I'm usually there anyway.)

So if I just kept the DVDs, any time I wanted to watch something on one, I would have to:

1) Physically go to where the DVDs are

2) Locate the specific DVD I'm looking for (can be tricky if I'm looking for a specific episode of a show—I might not always remember what season it's from, and the Plex interface makes it pretty easy to scan through)

3) Get the DVD out

4) Go to the living room, where the DVD player is

5) Take exclusive control of the living room, and also bind myself to being there, for the duration of watching it

6) Put it all back when I'm done

So yes: for simple storage, as long as the DVDs you have will last the length of time you want to keep them, and you have enough physical space to keep them in comfortably, just keeping the DVDs is easier. But for actually using them on a regular basis, for places with less available space, for people who expect to be moving frequently (or just soon), and for collections where the longevity of the physical media is in doubt, digitizing is a better way to go.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by trelane » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 6:09 PM UTC

danaris wrote: post #84

jasode wrote: post #19

>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…

And there's even a third option: Rip the DVDs, keep the digital copies somewhere safe, and discard the physical discs. If you want to ensure that this remains safe, you'll need to both back up and periodically transfer the digital copies to new physical storage devices (in my case, I just upgraded from the ~4-yr-old 4TB HDD that was holding all my media to a new 16TB HDD). This is, however, kind of a necessity in any…

DVDs, sure. Is it possible to back up or store Blu-Ray media on hard drives?

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by birdyrooster » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 6:09 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…

BBC is notorious for black face on their programs even in recent decades.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by at_a_remove » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 6:11 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…

Mustn't forget tidying up the wrist-slitting in 13 Reasons Why.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by chownie » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 6:12 PM UTC

LawTalkingGuy wrote: post #107

neuronic wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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This is a pretty disingenuous take isn't it? Dylan Mulvaney carries tampons as a service to others who might need them because she was once asked for one in a bathroom.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by JuettnerDistrib » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 6:13 PM UTC

edu wrote: post #64

jasode wrote: post #19

>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…

This is my same conclusion. With books, movies, series and music I like to own physically only my personal favorites that I know will use many times. But that’s less than 10% of my media consumption.

> With books, movies, series and music I like to own physically only my personal favorites that I know will use many times.

I don't own many DVDs, but when I see them in my bookshelf they remind of the story the tell, the context when I watched them, and my theories about society, sci-fi, and utopias that those movies inspired.

With books it's even more extreme. I get the physical copy sometimes more to have a physical representation of an idea than to read the book.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by DoneWithAllThat » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 6:14 PM UTC

arockwell wrote: post #111

neuronic wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

It really isn’t quite that simple. There are Intersex people who have ambiguous genitalia and there are several viable chromosome combos besides XX and XY.

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Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by 15155 » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 6:16 PM UTC

iambateman wrote: post #63

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…

This is like keeping a shotgun in your house to protect against the government. If the government is ready to conduct systematic disinformation campaigns, your DVD’s probably won’t help.

How did Vietnam and Afghanistan fare against "the government?"