Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it?::<em>What should I watch? </em>is now a much easier question than <em>How do I watch it?</em>

  • Hellfire103@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    The streaming services have managed to completely forget their business model of being marginally more convenient than piracy.

    As for me, though, I’ll start ripping my DVDs. I’ll sail the high seas when I have to, but I’d may as well get hard copies of my favourite films and TV shows.

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 year ago

          By subscribing to D+, surrendering your soul, finding out that it’s unavailable in your region, trying to import the BD/DVD, failing because of import tax or shipping not offered to that region and then dusting of the good black hat and saying Arrr matey?

          • Hellfire103@sopuli.xyz
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            1 year ago

            Almost. I tried t’ get it on DVD, but one o’ th’ sellers were bein’ based in China, and th’ other were bein’ a “large retailer” operatin’ out o’ a garage in London, and not th’ nice part. I had already been piratin’, but I thought I’d try t’ get it legitimately t’ support th’ people who worked on th’ show. Aarrr! Few movies and series be good enough t’ earn that, in me book.

    • halcyondays@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      Curious as someone who’s never watched an actual physical blu ray, but finding myself with a player (ps5) and a decent home theater setup for the first time - is there a noticeable increase in quality watching a real disc compared to streaming or your average plundered h265 rip? I was thinking about picking up hard copies a few of my all time favorites, but if it doesn’t offer a noticeable benefit I’d probably end up playing them from Jellyfin anyway just because it’s more convenient.

      • Parabola@lemmy.world
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        Depends on the quality of the rip. As far as streaming goes, yes the Blu-ray will always look and sound better due to the huge bitrate difference. Netflix says “oh it’s 4k!” Okay great, but resolution has little to do with quality. It’s all how much information is available per second (bitrate).

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        1 year ago

        If you paid $500~ for your TV, no probably not. If you’ve got a $2k OLED yes (4k Bluray though)