DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again
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#3Whatever your thoughts about piracy ethically it's hard to argue it's going to soon be the only viewing experience where you actually own the media.
Torrenting has for some media become the only way of acquiring it at all.
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#4Over the past few months I've actually gone back to buying DVDs. Sure their quality isn't amazing, but they're so practical and dependable.
The local charity shops sell movies for €1 each, and boxed-sets of TV-series are typically no more than €5 each. I even managed to pick up a decent DVD player to sit under my TV for €25, used.
Before this I used to stream to a chromecast, with VLC, but it was always a bit of a pain. Now I can pop in a disk, or tell my child to do the same, and hit play and everything just works.
Streaming services are pretty, but you can't rely on them for keeping content available, and it's risky to get sucked into a new show that might get cancelled after one, or two, series. Much better, for me, to watch all those other shows that are complete, or nostalgic.
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#5Streaming has been the producer dream all along so we need a ‘video recorder’ to tape what we watch to watch it again and again. I am not in favour of piracy and I pay for some streaming, however, when I get ads even though I pay, I get geo restrictions even though I pay or they remove things I like an make them paid, even though I pay, I will download illegally. We really need to move to a legal way of paying the people who actually made the stuff directly and making that a valid and legal option. We need global legal options as internet and binaries are global, and I am not waiting for season 3 of blah to become available ‘in my region’ when you got me hooked on 1 & 2.
Edit; I don’t think I mean ‘producer’ here but I do not know what the word is; for books I guess publisher?
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#6Whatever your thoughts about piracy ethically it's hard to argue it's going to soon be the only viewing experience where you actually own the media. Torrenting has for some media become the only way of acquiring it at all.
At the end of the day its the pirates who are maintaining the library of Alexandria of our times. The pirates we insist on vilifying and speaking little of in technical forums even. What does that make those people who stand against those who seek to spread information? No different than the book burners, in my eyes. A shame so many engineers spend their precious time and efforts fighting on what future generations will no doubt see as the wrong side of history, all for a dollar they could easily make elsewhere on less unsavory work.
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#7Whatever your thoughts about piracy ethically it's hard to argue it's going to soon be the only viewing experience where you actually own the media. Torrenting has for some media become the only way of acquiring it at all.
The UX of piracy tools is now much better than that of the big streamers too.
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#8I dont mind paying for content, but the current state of streaming makes it easier to get movies from torrents.
Like the Alien for example, some parts are on Netflix, some are not. Meaning i have to buy like 5 different subscriptions to be able to watch everything i want.
Or even better one, Dr House. I don't think we had it streamed in our country, so the only way to watch it was to pirate.
Its bad how the platforms are right now.
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#9Over the past few months I've actually gone back to buying DVDs. Sure their quality isn't amazing, but they're so practical and dependable. The local charity shops sell movies for €1 each, and boxed-sets of TV-series are typically no more than €5 each. I even managed to pick up a decent DVD player to sit under my TV for €25, used. Before this I used to stream to a chromecast, with VLC, but it was always a bit of a pa…
The other benefits of DVD are the extra features and directors commentary.
I'm not sure I've ever seen these on streaming services or torrents. They extend the use of a movie to many hours. I'm still working through the extended versions of Lotr and I've just become aware that the commentary on the normal versions were different!
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#10Whatever your thoughts about piracy ethically it's hard to argue it's going to soon be the only viewing experience where you actually own the media. Torrenting has for some media become the only way of acquiring it at all.
The UX of piracy tools is now much better than that of the big streamers too.
Now? Xbox Media Centre nailed it like 15 years ago.
When the user is in control you can't push anti-features like e.g. Chromecast or Samsung TVs are full of.