You Don't Really Own the Digital Movies You Buy (2021)
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#2But I do own all these MKVs I bought 100% legit pinky swear, yarr-harr-harr.
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#3But I do own all these MKVs I bought 100% legit pinky swear, yarr-harr-harr.
Ah a fellow rum drinking parrot afficionado!
I bought a movie once and the seller stole it back. So I stole another copy. Still got it. Checkmate fuckers.
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#4I also realized that giving media as gifts is dead as well. Hardly anyone that I know uses CD/DVD/Blu-Ray players any more.
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#5I also realized that giving media as gifts is dead as well. Hardly anyone that I know uses CD/DVD/Blu-Ray players any more.
This is very true. Everyone always asks me to get them Netflix vouchers and stuff like that now. I'll give them the cash and they can make their own poor decisions.
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#6I also realized that giving media as gifts is dead as well. Hardly anyone that I know uses CD/DVD/Blu-Ray players any more.
I certainly watch DVDs still but I even run into people my age who think that's almost a bit weird. And I have CDs but rarely play them.
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#7My wife and I use our travel trailer when the weather is nice. Most times we are in areas where there's no coverage. We don't want to pay for any kind of services that will add cost to our trip. So we use our DVDs and BRs, which I have ripped to hard disk. No commercials and works every time!
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#8I also realized that giving media as gifts is dead as well. Hardly anyone that I know uses CD/DVD/Blu-Ray players any more.
Why not use MakeMKV to remux it for them, from the fragile and DRM-infested Blu-ray into a sane .mkv on a USB drive that they can plug into the back of their TV: https://nitter.net/turtlekiosk/status/1709057325170905363
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#9I also realized that giving media as gifts is dead as well. Hardly anyone that I know uses CD/DVD/Blu-Ray players any more.
We do rarely. Two reasons: One, because we watch Harry Potter enough and it wasn't worth buying the set on demand, and Two, I usually cannot keep track of which service we bought a particular movie on.
I also have a Roku and a large USB thumb drive, so if I have time, I rip a movie onto the thumbdrive, thus, creating our own little on-demand service.
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#10I have great nostalgia for physical media beyond the current reemergence of vinyl records. Compact cassette, minidisc, CD, reel to reel, and digital audio tape are in my hifi system.
I also love blu-ray and DVD. I just bought “Mank” on Blu-ray despite being easily seen on Netflix.
Obviously I’m an outlier. Yet my 26 year-old daughter has become enamored with cassette tapes and CD’s when the used car she bought had a head unit capable of playing both.
So it’s not just me being old and nostalgic. Beyond the familiar arguments about the art and extras that come with physical media - I do have a problem paying monthly for access to music or movies. Or having digital purchases disappear when formats become obsolete. I still pay for these services, but I like the idea that I can stop paying and I lose nothing I love.
I’ll probably buy a copy of Wes Anderson’s Netflix short “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”. It’s utterly delightful and will look spectacular on my 12 foot projection screen - much better than the Netflix compression allows.
I’m familiar with all the streaming and digital purchase arguments. But I’m curious if my daughter and her friends are a precursor to a fatigue with the ephemeral nature of digital purchases.