Same. I watch a movie for the experience of the movie. I won't rewatch it over and over and over. Given that one Bluray case is as big as a harddrive these days, it will just block space in my house after that. If I've seen the movie, the experience is in my head and that's what counts at the end of the day.
Comment on I’m sick of streaming. Films were better on Blu-ray
Carighan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ll be honest, as someone who never understood the concept of “owning” a movie - that is, why would I need that, at best I’ll have one more time I play it to watch it with someone in particular but then it’s just collecting dust and movies aren’t a collectible of value to me - streaming is exactly right for me:
It offers me a maybe-ephemeral but also near endless ocean of lightweight content to consume. That’s what I need movies or TV shows for, they’re not a central hobby for me, they’re not a big enrichment of my mental state (I got books for that, tbh), so yeah, I fit the target audience. Just put on some shit, and luckily “shit” never runs on any streaming platform.
Norgur@kbin.social 7 months ago
SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 7 months ago
A 4K movie, uncompressed is usually around 70gb. A 12 TB iron wolf NAS drive will cost you about $200. That will hold over 150 movies.
Norgur@kbin.social 7 months ago
I was referring to the physical drive. An external hard drive takes up almost the same amount of space a BluRay cover does.
boredtortoise@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yeah. Stream and watch or download, watch, delete. Repeat whenever needed, usually not needed.
squirmy_wormy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m going to assume youre on the younger side of things based on your view. If I’m wrong here, my apologies.
But having a physical copy of media that you control is very useful. You can view it whenever you want or need. Power is out? Generator, TV, media player. Soaks up a lot less juice than a PC. Internet goes out? Still got entertainment to pass the time.
From an economic system point of view, it used to be you’d pay for something and then it was yours. That system was quietly abused and without “consent”, it’s now you pay for something you rent. So from that perspective, fuck the system. Owning is better. I bought it. I didn’t rent it. And I certainly didn’t rent it pending 6 other subsystems being able to function and some arbitrary usage agreement between corporations, who more often than not, are working together against me to just make money.
Carighan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I am sadly quite old already, but no worries.
But to me, modern home consumption media is like going to the cinema. I don’t own a movie if I paid for a ticket to the movies. I just watched it once. Streaming is a monthly less-than-one-ticket and of course the quality of the presentation is lesser, but in return I also get some upsides: A selection multiple orders of magnitude than at the cinema, ability to select the time I watch, and freely pause and resume.
Neither is a way of oncsuming movies in a way where ownership is relevant to my consumption, and long before home media was a big thing going to the movies worked perfectly fine. Plus let’s not delude ourselves here (and now apologies if I assume you’re older than you are 😛): In the times of VHS, we owned very few actual movies on tape. We copied them all, and of course re-used the tapes when we no longer needed the movie around, tapes were costly. Our library was - mostly - ephemeral then as it is now.