Thanks for the reminder to cancel my HBO Max subscription that I barely use!
Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead
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#242Not a lawyer but... if you have the DVD its legal to make a backup digital copy. I am thinking the same thing. Most recent movies are available for under $20 per DVD - and there are tons of deals. You can get the 4 lego movies for $5 on DVD on Amazon right now. A "Tom Cruise 10-Movie Collection" is $12. You get the idea. Get the DVD. Make a legal backup. Keep the physical DVD in storage. You now "own" the movie (or T…
But who wants boxes of DVD's cluttering up the place?
Could someone turn this into a business where they store all those DVD's you bought, on your behalf?
Or even go out and proactively build your library for you. Then let you download the missing ones (or if that flouts distribution laws, roundtrip mail them to you).
Since you're unlikely to need to view all of your titles at once, maybe they could do a loaner program where customers pool their entitlements and "check out" movies to watch.
Wait, have I just reinvented OG Netflix?
Move the storage to the cloud and now you have something like contemporary Netflix.
The difference being instead of going out and negotiating bulk streaming contracts, there's a physical DVD backing every single ownership title.
(For my next trick we'll tokenize them to a cryptocurrency...)
Re: Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead
#243Not a lawyer but... if you have the DVD its legal to make a backup digital copy. I am thinking the same thing. Most recent movies are available for under $20 per DVD - and there are tons of deals. You can get the 4 lego movies for $5 on DVD on Amazon right now. A "Tom Cruise 10-Movie Collection" is $12. You get the idea. Get the DVD. Make a legal backup. Keep the physical DVD in storage. You now "own" the movie (or T…
Also with this approach, you actually have a real collection and it's fun to collect things. My son has autism and viewed his Netflix homepage as his personal curated collection. But then, of course, Netflix renegotiates licensing deals and entire seasons or shows just go away. And it really crushes him because it's like they were stolen from his personal collection. So now when I hear him play, the super villain try…
I understand his frustration : I have a similar issue with video games - Xbox gamepass games sometimes leave the service. So I built an app that takes all my games across the various gaming services ( steam etc ) including the Xbox gamepass ones, and it grabs them from the achievements ( games I have played ) on top of the catalog ( available games )should they have left the catalog
That way games that are gone remain and I have a Netflix like interface to view all my games past and present
Re: Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead
#244Not a lawyer but... if you have the DVD its legal to make a backup digital copy. I am thinking the same thing. Most recent movies are available for under $20 per DVD - and there are tons of deals. You can get the 4 lego movies for $5 on DVD on Amazon right now. A "Tom Cruise 10-Movie Collection" is $12. You get the idea. Get the DVD. Make a legal backup. Keep the physical DVD in storage. You now "own" the movie (or T…
But who wants boxes of DVD's cluttering up the place? Could someone turn this into a business where they store all those DVD's you bought, on your behalf? Or even go out and proactively build your library for you. Then let you download the missing ones (or if that flouts distribution laws, roundtrip mail them to you). Since you're unlikely to need to view all of your titles at once, maybe they could do a loaner progr…
> But who wants boxes of DVD's cluttering up the place?
I buy Blu-Rays at charity shops, strip them from the case and once ripped slide them in to a CD wallet with the inner leaflet. A horror show if you were collecting with cases but works for if you desire to own movie to NAS legally.
> Could someone turn this into a business where they store all those DVD's you bought, on your behalf?
Someone did, got sued and the business took the shock and closed down. They used to let you buy old stocked DVD's they owned. When you cancelled your subcription they sent you back the DVD's.
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#245I used to pay $30 a month for HBO. Premium cable wasn't cheap, but you had primo shows and there was a big movie release almost every Saturday night. Netflix is disposable background TV. This money will buy you two DVDs a month and 6-8 rentals. I just don't see the point unless you are wasting hours in front of the TV.
Compared to going to see a movie in a theater, netflix and rest are extraordinarily good value most of them time. Given that I watch mostly with my wife, we only have watch several hours of something once a month to be ahead of the theater-going cost. And most streamers have something that we want to see once a month (not 100% of the time, but most of the time). The Netflix adaptation of "100 Years of Solitude" (part…
There is a good movie here and there. Maybe one per year. I am paying $400 a year for that?
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#247I just stopped watching movies or anything on broadcast television. Problem solved.
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#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you buy one that has a VUDU code, and go on moviesanywhere.com you can now link your VUDU account, your Apple iTunes account and your Google Movies account, and whoever else, and the movie unlocks on all those other streaming services. So if you buy a BluRay movie, you can stream it on your favorite streaming service provider thanks to MovisAnywhere (run by the movie industry - the one rare good thing they did). I…
It's also worth looking into if your local library offers Kanopy services.
https://www.hoopladigital.com/
Hoopla is good for this is what I hear as well. I have not tried it yet, I have not taken the time to get my library card since I moved and forgot to renew. There's a new library opening up near me, so waiting on that to open a new card.
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
Incredible value for money then.
It might not seem like a lot, but it is a lot when you consider that most residents don't use the library at all, and that adult book collections aren't great. 850,000 people have to share just 2 copies of Thompson's Calculus Made Easy. (I didn't cherry pick this: I looked up at my bookshelf and picked the first book I saw.) Very little of the money is spent on books. Only 15% of the money is spent on 'collections',…
I misunderstood and thought it was $10/year. SF clearly has a spending problem. Maybe it's to do with the high cost of living.
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#250"When sales are hot, you can sometimes get amazing deals on physical media - you pay the cost once and own it for good." Is the author aware that Netflix's original subscription business was sending DVDs to customers and customers returning the DVDs to Netflix all via postal mail. "DVD-by-mail rental service" There was no "streaaming"
*streaming