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Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by andrewmackrodt »

sergiotapia wrote: post #101

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…

I'm not sure of prices in your region, but I see 20TB drives priced competitively to 8TB drives in terms of price/terabyte. I've been thinking of building a new media array to replace my existing 8TB drives and similar storage capacity would cost me less now than 3 years ago, for arguably better drives too. I've been thinking of using the Seagate Exos X18 (18TB drives) but haven't made the purchase yet to form an opinion.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by divided »

yucky wrote: post #132
rolenthedeep wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

The US has by far the largest public library system in the world, and it's not close. So by what metric would you consider it underfunded?

Comparing size without considering population will only lead to bad conclusions. Could you imagine someone claiming cancer deaths in Germany aren’t a problem because it doesn’t have near as many deaths as the US, it’s not even close? Sounds silly, right?

The US is reportedly 62nd in the world in libraries per capita. [1] Given the US has more wealth per capita than most of the world as well, I think claiming we underfund our public library system is fairly obvious.

[1] https://onlinegrad.syracuse.edu/blog/best-countries-book-lov...

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by amelius »

theandrewbailey wrote: post #177
amelius wrote: post #108

In the old days it was legal to record shows on your VCR. What happened to the laws around that?

The laws didn't change, but what happened is almost everybody threw out their VCRs. Or never had them.

Surely the laws are more general than VCRs? Or should I add a tape drive to my computer to make it legally a VCR?

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by oliveshell »

Klonoar wrote: post #170
legitster wrote: post #89

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A couple of episodes of 30 Rock as well.

Doesn’t Always Sunny have this issue as well?

Yes [1], mostly the episodes that involve Kaitlin Olson's character, Dee Reynolds, who aspires to a career in comedy, herself inventing and portraying racially insensitive characters within the story of the show.

I'm not the type to rail against such things generally, but IMO it was unnecessary and misguided to remove these episodes: their humor came deliberately from how oblivious Dee was to the offensiveness of her act.

Indeed, her portrayals are usually immediately and explicitly critiqued by her fellow characters as being racist and insane.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/IASIP/comments/hflb6t/list_of_its_a...

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by shuntress »

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…

It's more nuanced than you are presenting here. The obvious middle ground is the use of "Poison Cabinets" where certain works are deliberately and explicitly separated from their contemporaries with obvious labels explaining that they express ideas or opinions known now to be harmful. This way they are not lost or erased but also not treated as if they are perfectly normal and acceptable.

For another thing, there is also at least some element here of the right to be forgotten. It's obviously different for groups vs individuals but our systems should allow some amount of agency to people who regret things they have produced in the past and wish for them to be forgotten.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by eggy »

cgh wrote: post #155
eggy wrote: post #57

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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!

The lack of smoking is something to ponder. It's always so glaring to me when TV shows that take place in the '80s and '90s show almost no one smoking, when in fact if you went into any public place, probably 30-50% (or more, if it's eg a pub) would be smoking, including in people's homes, offices and so forth. I wonder if the huge and realistic amounts of smoking seen in shows like Mad Men will be edited out one day…

I grew up when there was a smoking section on the plane (BTW, why do modern aircraft still have ashtrays? Are there any airlines that allow smoking?). I miss All in the Family. Is it even available anymore?

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by legitster »

Klonoar wrote: post #170
legitster wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A couple of episodes of 30 Rock as well.

Doesn’t Always Sunny have this issue as well?

This is somehow the most mindnumbing. It's a show about terrible people doing terrible things. Like, they can only display certain, acceptable, forms of terribleness?

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by czx4f4bd »

RajT88 wrote: post #135
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…

A related, but different phenomena: Streaming episodes have been edited to inject product placement. I read an article a while back about how old Friends episodes have movie posters in the background of films which were released after 2010.

I would be interested to see that article. I tried googling for it but could only find some articles about censorship on Chinese streaming sites and Netflix missing some scenes from the DVD release due to issues with the master copies.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by mdp2021 »

werdnapk wrote: post #176
birdyrooster wrote: post #115

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

The main character in Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy is a black face, but do people honestly say any face painted in black is racist? Noel is clearly using a black face in his show for artistic reasons and isn't racist in the slightest... IMO.

In fact, there had been censorship of the Mighty Boosh episode with "the Spirit of Jazz".

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by satysin »

layer8 wrote: post #97
satysin wrote: post #65

I get the point the author is making but keeping all the DVDs also isn't the answer IMHO. At least it wasn't for me, it was just annoying to find a place to store it all, to move it when we moved country would have cost money for basically nothing of value. I had a purge of pretty much all my physical media a bit over a decade ago. I had a little over 1000 DVDs and Blu-rays. Probably 200 VHS too. God knows how many C…

You can store them in CD wallets like this one: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/388541-REG/Case_Logic... I have ~1500 DVDs stored that way in less than a meter of shelf space.

That is a good compromise however most people I know that collect physical media like to keep the whole package not just the disc in a wallet like that. It is a good alternative to mine though and a lot cheaper :D
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