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Many physical copies come with a digital copy included. It makes little sense to just buy a digital copy imho. Not only that, the digital copy is often with movies anywhere and you can watch on any video streaming service (amazon, vudu, etc...)
Many physical copies come with a digital copy included. It makes little sense to just buy a digital copy imho. Not only that, the digital copy is often with movies anywhere and you can watch on any video streaming service (amazon, vudu, etc...)
Maybe to you. Some people don't own digital media players anymore. There are many titles that have to be rented or bought digitally and are not available on streaming services.
Case and point: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/national-lampoons-christm...
Maybe you and I live in alternate universes, idk.
Little things take up so much space for something that I at most want to watch again every three years.
I 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…
Mainly because when I want to watch a specific movie it's not on the one streaming service that I pay for.
I 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…
Maybe, but I strongly suspect that her preference is a great example of LISTENER fatigue caused by the dynamic compression that has destroyed all post-'90s releases.
I wish Apple and Spotify would somehow put the boot down and reject ruined masters, the way Netflix dictates technical quality for new material. That's really the only hope of fighting the "loudness war" that has ruined music for your daughter's entire life now.
Your daughter, and a vast numbers of her peers who are so into '80s music, should be a wakeup call on this issue. But unfortunately there are very few people who even understand what it is... even artists who decry the shitty quality of today's recordings often blame data compression and want to increase sampling rates or bit depth. NO. The problem is dynamic compression. Period.
But I do own all these MKVs I bought 100% legit pinky swear, yarr-harr-harr.
There is still not been a distribution platform better than bittorrent. Yeah, it's annoying dealing with trackers, but not half as annoying as subscribing to ten different services access everything I want.
Buying bluray and dvd movies and CDs on ebay or craigslist (or better yet: finding in little free libraries while walking) and ripping them to disk and then serving locally (via jellyfin and mopidy) and selectively copying onto phone/table SD cards (e.g. before traveling) has gone pretty well for me. It's pretty cheap, has the convenience of digital media, feels like I have full control, and is legal. I often bring H…
Also, you probably mean CD decoding, not encoding.