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Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by driverdan »

andrewstuart wrote: post #307
sebzim4500 wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pirate bay is that backup option, at least for me. To use your example of the X-Files, you can currently download a 75 GB torrent with every season + extras and it will only take a few hours. I think people continue seeding torrents for longer than DVDs reliably last.

I've never understood the appeal of downloading pirate movies. Feels dodgy, always a hassle trying to fight your way through all the scams and malware and porn and when you get the movie it's of questionable quality. If I buy a DVD then I get perfect quality in a nice case in a day or two without having to visit the seedy red light district of the Internet only to get dud contraband.

Literally none of these things are true.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by swexbe »

andrewstuart wrote: post #307
sebzim4500 wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pirate bay is that backup option, at least for me. To use your example of the X-Files, you can currently download a 75 GB torrent with every season + extras and it will only take a few hours. I think people continue seeding torrents for longer than DVDs reliably last.

I've never understood the appeal of downloading pirate movies. Feels dodgy, always a hassle trying to fight your way through all the scams and malware and porn and when you get the movie it's of questionable quality. If I buy a DVD then I get perfect quality in a nice case in a day or two without having to visit the seedy red light district of the Internet only to get dud contraband.

Private trackers solve all of those problems.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by bentley »

RajT88 wrote: post #289
deadbunny wrote: post #235

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[citation needed] Can't find any evidence of this at all.

It was probably 10ish years ago I read about it. Most likely on BoingBoing. Will see if I can find it. Indeed it is not easily dug up. There are many ads about the coming trend of "Virtual Product Placement" but none that I can find which acknowledge the early attempts at it which I read about way back.

Maybe you were thinking of How I Met Your Mother?

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/iiay9/digitally_inser...

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by MrVandemar »

bloomingeek wrote: post #291
cogman10 wrote: post #262

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It's possible, but I have concerns with blu-rays. 1. Bluray drives are becoming increasingly rare. Few people are buying them (because many stream) which is slowly killing the market. 2. Blurays tend to be much more finichy with read errors (unfortunately). A little dust or a bad pressed disk and the entire episode is lost :( 3. Blurays aren't being produced. Sure, you can get bluray movies still, but for tv series i…

Have you noticed yet that playing most blu-rays in a regular player requires an internet connection for encryption purposes?

Touch wood, but I have never, ever needed to do this. I don't know why. Every time I get something from the video library (yes, we still have one) or buy a new movie I'm worried it'll complain about no internet and want to update ...

... but it never has.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by LarryMullins »

belugacat wrote: post #320
schmichael wrote: post #264

I wish this article had mentioned the greatest thing about DVDs: You can lend them. Have a friend over and find out they have never seen before?! No need to quick search and figure out if it's on a streaming service they have, just walk over and snatch it off your shelf and hand it to them. In the 00s the trade in media lending was so brisk my friends and I would keep spreadsheets and little databases of who-borrowed…

This is also true of DRM-free files on thumbdrives. More of my friends have devices with USB ports that can run VLC than optical drives these days (not to mention the whole zone thing, which is quickly a pain when you're a movie nerd)... thankfully generating a DRM-free file from a DVD is trivial. - signed, someone who also owns lots of CDs and DVDs, mostly old non US-produced things that are close to unfindable on s…

In my family we swap around portable hard drives loaded up with movies. Mostly orchestrated by my aunt who started the tradition. Before then, it was burned DVDs and before then it was copied VHS tapes. When I was a kid my mother showed me how to circumvent copy protection on VHS by connecting a VCR to a VHS camcorder, although I forget which was doing the playback and which was doing the recording. It was a neat way to circumvent macrovision though.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by dieselgate »

schmichael wrote: post #264

I wish this article had mentioned the greatest thing about DVDs: You can lend them. Have a friend over and find out they have never seen before?! No need to quick search and figure out if it's on a streaming service they have, just walk over and snatch it off your shelf and hand it to them. In the 00s the trade in media lending was so brisk my friends and I would keep spreadsheets and little databases of who-borrowed…

For sure! Assuming anyone still has a method of playing them that is

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by LarryMullins »

andrewstuart wrote: post #307
sebzim4500 wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pirate bay is that backup option, at least for me. To use your example of the X-Files, you can currently download a 75 GB torrent with every season + extras and it will only take a few hours. I think people continue seeding torrents for longer than DVDs reliably last.

I've never understood the appeal of downloading pirate movies. Feels dodgy, always a hassle trying to fight your way through all the scams and malware and porn and when you get the movie it's of questionable quality. If I buy a DVD then I get perfect quality in a nice case in a day or two without having to visit the seedy red light district of the Internet only to get dud contraband.

> Feels dodgy, always a hassle trying to fight your way through all the scams and malware and porn and when you get the movie it's of questionable quality.

Its actually really easy, it only takes seconds to get the right torrent going. I've never accidentally torrented anything I didn't intend to.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by RajT88 »

bentley wrote: post #334
RajT88 wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was probably 10ish years ago I read about it. Most likely on BoingBoing. Will see if I can find it. Indeed it is not easily dug up. There are many ads about the coming trend of "Virtual Product Placement" but none that I can find which acknowledge the early attempts at it which I read about way back.

Maybe you were thinking of How I Met Your Mother ? https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/iiay9/digitally_inser...

Nailed it. That was it 100%. Thank you!
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