I hate that everything now is a subscription service instead of buying it and do whatever you want.

  • ghostermonster
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    172 years ago

    Why I went to DVDs. There is libre software to rip them and depending on country it’s legal, so basically you get a DRM-free legal copy with ability to archive or lend to a friend.

      • @[email protected]
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        72 years ago

        I’ve been buying preowned DVDs off ebay every few weeks or so for the last year. I don’t even bother looking to see if they are available to stream anymore.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 years ago

        This. My only media expense monthly is my VPN at $10. Everything is pirated.

        Even that though - I just download only my favorites for the collection. Everything else is available on stand alone websites these days (multiple) so if you’re paying for a streaming service or really even using bittorrent then you’re living in the past as far as movies go.

      • ghostermonster
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        -12 years ago

        It’s really good quality. In my opinion low resolution only matters in static images or when video is paused, I’ll take high bitrate and superior sound every day instead of today’s streaming.

        Sure you can just download, super convinient and gives best results. But sometimes it’s good to do things the way that can scale in society or just actually own something you like :).

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          DVD isn’t very good quality. I don’t really care and I have a tiny TV, and DVDs still don’t look very good on it.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          The video quality is shit and it’s extremely obvious in my opinion. Even the sound is inferior to a good torrent with Dolby TrueHD/DTS HD sound.

      • ghostermonster
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        02 years ago

        Plain VLC can do it. You may need to at least install libdvdcss and libdvdread packages, they are 100% open source and easy to obtain, but you need to read the guide for specific OS because some system distribution repositories does not ship them by default for legal reasons in a few countries.