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Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead

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Re: Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead

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Post by mcculley »

donohoe wrote: post #21

Not 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…

> You now "own" the movie (or TV show), not a "license".

You do not "own" the movie. You still only have the right to view your personal copies. You cannot broadcast it. You cannot charge others to watch it.

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Post by tracker1 »

dylan604 wrote: post #215
tracker1 wrote: post #211

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And Saturday morning cartoons from 5am-1pm... then they started rolling back the non-toons earlier until no more Saturday morning cartoons. Phoenix, AZ had a local variety kids morning show, "Wallace and Ladmo" that anyone from the area born before 1985 or so probably remembers.

Dallas had the Mr Peppermint Show that was syndicated to a few places around the country. By the time the Saturday morning cartoons were gone, there were 24/7 channels for cartoons and kid's entertainment.

True... but it was never really the same... IMO Saturday Mornings were kind of a special event before there were 24/7 cartoon network etc. Even if 2/3 of it was of dubious quality.

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Post by BeetleB »

dingaling wrote: post #133
dylan604 wrote: post #28

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If everyone used the library as much as people say they are great, their shelves would be empty. Libraries have to be some of the most underutilized services.

Sadly, libraries in UK towns have very little shelf space left and what's on them is usually mass-market fiction, biography or very old non-fiction. Honestly isn't worth the effort to visit my local one, unless I want to join a crochet club or do 'mindfulness' jigsaws.

In the US, libraries are often part of a network, and we have access to all the materials in the network. So if my local library doesn't have it, I simply request it from another library. They ship it to mine and I pick it up (and return to mine).

Then we also have a larger inter-library loan, where I can request things from libraries far, far away (even in another state). It takes much longer, though, and if it is deemed a popular/useful item, my local library may decide to purchase it and give that one to me rather than use ILL.

You may want to check if your local library has something similar.

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Post by littlexsparkee »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #258
littlexsparkee wrote: post #234

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Yep, you also get a quota of 10 suggested purchases for their collection every month - I scour for new books to max mine out and they grant >95% of what I ask for

I've only suggested a purchase a couple of times. I've never heard back, so I assumed whatever I submitted was being ignored.

If you click your username at top right corner and then the bell (which will have a number if there are notifications) you can find out what happened with those requests

Re: Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #84
donohoe wrote: post #21

Not 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…

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…

And if the studio supports MoviesAnywhere, if you buy a digital copy on any of those platforms, they show up in your library on the other platforms

Re: Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead

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Post by rahimnathwani »

littlexsparkee wrote: post #274
rahimnathwani wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've only suggested a purchase a couple of times. I've never heard back, so I assumed whatever I submitted was being ignored.

If you click your username at top right corner and then the bell (which will have a number if there are notifications) you can find out what happened with those requests

I don't see any notifications. When I go to https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/suggested_purchases I see only:

Showing 0 suggestions.

10 of 10 suggestions left

Re: Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead

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Post by mindslight »

toddmorey wrote: post #124
donohoe wrote: post #21

Not 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…

> it's like they were stolen from his personal collection

They were.

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Post by jshier »

Taikonerd wrote: post #253
dawnerd wrote: post #151

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It's also fairly trivial these days to backup 4k blurays. You can also buy them very cheap second hand. The quality difference between streaming and 4k BR is nuts.

What workflow do you use to backup Blu-rays? I was looking into this before, and I couldn't find anything convenient...

Like dawnerd said, you can use MakeMKV to decrypt and rip the discs, ideally using a BR drive with an unlocked firmware (I have the Asus drive that MakeMKV ships a firmware for). Really the only annoying part is track identification, as there isn't an equivalent of CDDB for Blurays (or if there is, MakeMKV doesn't integrate it), so you have to identify content yourself. When you do that, make sure you do it in the same way that your media server will identify it. I had quite the issue trying to name my episodes as Plex expects them for things like two parters. And while Plex has "AI" credit identification, it isn't super accurate, and is another db service that should really exist but doesn't.
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