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We all took the DVD boom era for granted

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Re: We all took the DVD boom era for granted

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Post by gwbas1c »

bamboozled wrote: post #97
codedokode wrote: post #94

The problems with streaming services: - they do not allow anonymous usage (you need to provide a visa application worth amount of personal information) - stupid geographical restrictions - they tend to limit quality, both for copyright and traffic saving purposes As an intermediate result, a generation of people is growing who got used to watching digitally compressed audio and video (social media, especially for mob…

- You need to subscribe to ten different services rather than just having one subscription to see the thing you want to watch. Before you just needed a DVD player

Which had "stupid geographical restrictions"

Re: We all took the DVD boom era for granted

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Post by tantalor »

rob74 wrote: post #98

Stange that the article opens with a picture of the The Matrix DVD, but then doesn't mention it in the text. This was actually the first DVD I bought (even though back then I didn't have a DVD player, just a DVD drive for my PC) and spent hours exploring the extras. Looks like I wasn't the only one who was impressed: https://theextras.buzzsprout.com/1781599/episodes/9714540

Same experience; I recall being disappointed with the extremely greeniness of the Matrix on DVD, to the point I thought my monitor or computer were busted.

Re: We all took the DVD boom era for granted

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Post by robohoe »

alt227 wrote: post #104
bamboozled wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- You need to subscribe to ten different services rather than just having one subscription to see the thing you want to watch. Before you just needed a DVD player

> Before you just needed a DVD player However you also needed to physically buy a copy of every movie you want to watch, instead of signing up for one service and having access to thousandsd immediately.

Yes, and a lot of movies on DVDs cost $10-15

Re: We all took the DVD boom era for granted

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Post by gwbas1c »

pro14 wrote: post #87

have you noticed that the quality of movies has been progressively declining? i think it's because the pirated movie boom ended. there was a theory that DVD movie piracy increases the box office revenue. bring back movie piracy?

I think it's because there's more movies made today than in the past. The streaming boom has lowered the barrier to entry.

Also: There's always been bad movies, we just tend to forget them.

Re: We all took the DVD boom era for granted

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Post by jprete »

codedokode wrote: post #94

The problems with streaming services: - they do not allow anonymous usage (you need to provide a visa application worth amount of personal information) - stupid geographical restrictions - they tend to limit quality, both for copyright and traffic saving purposes As an intermediate result, a generation of people is growing who got used to watching digitally compressed audio and video (social media, especially for mob…

You're not wrong, but DVDs were also region-locked.

I think at the time this was both less annoying and more easily circumvented. I think it only came up if you bought DVDs internationally, were moving between regions, or wanted to bring DVDs but no player on such a trip.

DVDs also have less-than-stellar image quality by comparison to today, although a lot of older works need the lower resolution because special effects and the like weren't intended to be scrutinized at 4k.

Re: We all took the DVD boom era for granted

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Post by butlike »

wolrah wrote: post #82
episteme wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds great, how do you propose stopping people from sharing that mp4 with the world?

> Sounds great, how do you propose stopping people from sharing that mp4 with the world? You don't. Regardless of what DRM is applied to official releases, every single mainstream movie gets released through pirate channels the same day as and often even before the official release. There may be a couple of obscure titles that slip through the cracks because no one in the pirate community noticed they existed but the…

Not to mention if I physically own the media, I'm legally allowed to make as many backups as I want as long as I don't share them. Streaming conveniently removed this feature.

Re: We all took the DVD boom era for granted

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Post by ekianjo »

episteme wrote: post #71
vouaobrasil wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah...I just want to pay for a DRM-free copy so I can play it and own it forever. That's it. No streaming accoounts, no tracking, no plastic packaging, just the file in exchange for money. I paid for Sublime text that way and it's a great model.

Sounds great, how do you propose stopping people from sharing that mp4 with the world?

People have been sharing stuff forever, I don't see the media industry getting any poorer...

Re: We all took the DVD boom era for granted

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Post by anentropic »

doublerabbit wrote: post #59
sourcecodeplz wrote: post #45

Why bother with DVDs when you have torrents and russian streaming sites...

I enjoy watching movies without having to wait four hours to download a Blu-ray rip on my 2mb ADSL. "I feel like watching a movie, NAS" vs "I feel like watching a movie, ETA: 4 hours" And besides my TV is dumb enough that I'm proud of it. It supports DNLA and works well.

Just plan ahead and download it before you want to watch it

Re: We all took the DVD boom era for granted

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Post by alt227 »

liontwist wrote: post #68
dzonga wrote: post #40

hope physical media makes a comeback. one thing with dvd era - it allowed small scale / budget movies to made. movies that were not blockbusters but allowed art exploration.

That opportunity was a result of unmet demand for cheap entertainment, and only slightly by the medium. I’m sure that’s filled by YouTube, etc.

The problem there is discovery. When someone local to you made a low budget film or documentary and released it on DVD, you would see that for sale in your local stores and gas stations. Now if people put that stuff on youtube it just gets lost in the noise and rarely will get the local exposure it once would have.
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