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Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by gjsman-1000 »

asddubs wrote: post #168
zdw wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are already incidences of this: The TV show Community is missing an episode on Netflix for some reason (edit: reason was Ken Jeong in what could be interpreted as blackface). The IT Crowd is missing one in some geos because it was considered anti-Trans by some - that episode also has the unrelated and hilarious plot where Roy and Moss convince Jen that they're loaning her a "black box that holds the entire inte…

I mean, "was considered anti-Trans by some" is pretty charitable for that episode. It is pretty overtly anti-trans, and the show as a whole was written by grahan linnehan who has also been vocally anti-trans

The classic issue with censorship. "I don't enjoy it, therefore, nobody should be allowed to enjoy it. And I won't be happy until nobody else can enjoy it. If you enjoy it, that makes you . And because I am not that, and nobody who is is for that content, it should be removed."

Now... I will admit, it isn't always wrong (CP). But it often is the fruit of an unwitting narcissism.

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Post by klyrs »

rajin444 wrote: post #173
klyrs wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nor should we forget the social contagion risk of suicide > After the series' release, a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that suicide among teenagers rose by 28.9% in the month after Netflix launched the show.

Nor should we forget to beware the man of one study.

Who's the "man" in this case? Not me. Not a man, and I see that study as a single data point associated with a single event. There are many studies on the social contagion effect of suicide, enough that it's worth considering the possible impact of how suicide is depicted in media.

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Post by justinlloyd »

beej71 wrote: post #11
LinuxBender wrote: post #2

Not just DVD's but also music CD's. Plenty of music from the 1960's through early 2000's is no longer online for either contractual disputes, or cultural cancellation and other reasons I have yet to figure out. I assume some of this transition must be the cost issues of producing physical CD's vs. delivering online or renting the music online. When it is only available as a stream online I call it renting and every d…

A friend of mine refuses streaming. He buys CDs in bulk from the flea market and rips them to FLAC. I was just thinking of doing the same for my collection in the attic, assuming the CDs have survived a couple thousand freeze/thaw cycles. :) I like the idea of ditching the hard cases for space.

I did the same thing with DVDs, Blurays and CDs. Everything got pulled out of the hardcase unless the hardcase was a special design or unique in some way. Kept the inserts for each media type in a couple of small shoebox sized storage boxes, put each disc in to a soft sleeve that I bought in bulk for about two cents each, and then put all that into two banker's boxes. Reduced from eight or nine banker's boxes to nothing at all. The digital contents are stored on my local server and I can stream it to any local device or over the internet to my laptop or phone.

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Post by klipklop »

zdw wrote: post #85
photochemsyn wrote: post #42

One real danger of putting all historical video media on streaming sites is that it makes it far too easy to introduce an Orwellian Ministry of Truth that is empowered to rewrite the past to make it conform to today's acceptable social norms, academic ideologies, government agendas and so on. For example, one could make the argument that Alfred Hitchcock's entire library promotes negative stereotypes of women - and i…

There are already incidences of this: The TV show Community is missing an episode on Netflix for some reason (edit: reason was Ken Jeong in what could be interpreted as blackface). The IT Crowd is missing one in some geos because it was considered anti-Trans by some - that episode also has the unrelated and hilarious plot where Roy and Moss convince Jen that they're loaning her a "black box that holds the entire inte…

I bought a copy of ‘Tropic Thunder’ for exactly this reason. One day it will be pulled from all streaming platforms due to RDJ playing a black man.

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Post by mdp2021 »

asddubs wrote: post #168
zdw wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are already incidences of this: The TV show Community is missing an episode on Netflix for some reason (edit: reason was Ken Jeong in what could be interpreted as blackface). The IT Crowd is missing one in some geos because it was considered anti-Trans by some - that episode also has the unrelated and hilarious plot where Roy and Moss convince Jen that they're loaning her a "black box that holds the entire inte…

I mean, "was considered anti-Trans by some" is pretty charitable for that episode. It is pretty overtly anti-trans, and the show as a whole was written by grahan linnehan who has also been vocally anti-trans

A very "semantically open" use of 'anti-', as some may be surprised to know that there are people who watched that episode and did not judge it the least deprecatory towards any category.

"I mean", as if Douglas Reynholm (the "phobic" - finally, a literal case - in the episode) was drawn as an exemplary character, a model of a human being... "I mean II", I checked on a search engine for the spelling of the surname, and the first under-link stub that resulted is «Douglas Reynholm was an incredibly arrogant, self-righteous, pompous, cruel and elitist egomaniac who considered himself to be somewhat above everybody else. He viewed women as objects to feel and manipulate to his incredible sexual mania»...

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Edit: Furthermore. As "everyone" knows, Graham was a humble watchman in the hospital where Dr. Rick Dagless worked (the "Darkplace"), and probably does not even speak TCP today. So, when he wrote the scene of the people who believe they have in front of them "the Internet" - like the one called "«stupid cow»" by an adlibber because she did not realize "the internet is weightless" (and so also must be "the box which is the Internet" in the scene) -, when he wrote that, did he mean to diminish and elicit contempt for all the non technically inclined, probably including himself?

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Post by undersuit »

layer8 wrote: post #103
Terretta wrote: post #51

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It's crazy that you can go to a grocery store as distribution aggregator and buy any type and brand of food in one place. You should have to go to a Kellog's store or a Quaker store depending what you want to eat next week. At least, that's what studios and labels think.

If food was infinitely replicable at basically no cost, you’d only be allowed to eat your cereals at the respective store.

Like a restaurant almost.

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Post by jsz0 »

Sakos wrote: post #174
jsz0 wrote: post #109

Alternatively consider reducing your addiction to television/movies and stop worrying about where your next fix is coming from. In the golden era of piracy I used to be a huge media pack rat spending hours a day obtaining more media to stash away. One day my ZFS array puked and I lost almost everything. I wasn't even upset. It was a blessing in disguise to be liberated from caring about hoarding media. Never seeing y…

I have terabytes of movies and series. I've spent like 1 hour in the past 12 months adding some stuff to my collection. HDD space is extremely cheap and keeping a local copy is such low effort that I don't see why I should get rid of my collection. Some of it is also so rare as to be impossible to find unless you're a member of some private sharing sites (try finding a complete archive of Jon Stewart on The Daily Sho…

If you're able to horde in a healthy way it's no problem. I just think for a lot of people it tends to become an unhealthy obsession of relying on obtaining media to self medicate. Chasing the dragon trying to obtain more and more media. Then ultimately facing the disappointment when it doesn't provide the dopamine fix or childhood nostalgia you're hoping for. I vividly remember the terrible feeling of opening up Plex with countless terabytes of data and realizing nothing here is going to actually make me feel better. Media is a powerful stimulant and I've reached the conclusion for myself at least it has to be used in moderation.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by distantsounds »

no, you were both wrong. rip the discs to an external drive and play it over your local network. or even better, over the internet with plex/emby/jellyfin.

how are these articles getting up voted? what boomers are reading HN on a Saturday and going 'yeah I miss my DVD collection'?

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Post by mrweasel »

friend_and_foe wrote: post #203

If you want to save physical space, you can rip them all and store them on a drive that's smaller then the DVD player you use to play your DVDs. That's what I do.

The DVDs actually doesn't take up a ton of space. What we did was buying the cheapest version of a movie and just throw away the cover. You can get DVD/BluRay binders that will hold 200 - 400 discs in the space of a few large books.

I find ripping movies a little tiresome. Getting the quality, sound and subtitles right can be challenging.

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