You could rent DVD’s at Blockbuster etc. We did it all the time in the 90’s. Bunch of guys all hit the Blockbuster on a Friday night and grab 2-3 movies and then sit back and drink our faces off. Then we’d forget to return them and would get charged an amount equal to the cost of the DVD itself in late fees. Ah, good times.
Comment on I’m sick of streaming. Films were better on Blu-ray
Merwyn@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
But how do you know if you love a film before buying it’d dvd if you watch only on dvd ? And if you watched it already somewhere else, what’s the point of buying the dvd ?
I can maybe fill one small shelf with DVD of movies that I enjoying re watching (maybe 20, top 30). Otherwise for nearly all the movie I watch them once and that’s done. So streaming or piracy are the best for my use case.
Oderus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
My dad was an OG pirate. He would burn the dvds we got at blockbuster if he liked the movie
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Except blockbuster fully no longer exists anymore.
SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I still rent from Redbox and the library. Sure the library is only DVD quality but it is free. For most movies that is fine and I can upgrade later to Blu-ray or 4K if I like the movie later.
Oderus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Of course not. Everyone moved to streaming services. Zero physical media and you get to charge people whatever you want and can increase your prices yearly, while dropping content you love. For me, that’s not working so I pirate everything.
I still have 300+ DVD’s but I’ve downloaded them all once I got my Plex home media server setup and now I don’t even care what streaming services are out there. I got everything I need and it works when my internet doesn’t.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m with you. I agree that it’s silly that physical media has all but disappeared. It’s especially sad that it happened right after bluray became affordable. The picture quality on them is astounding. The banding/artifacts you sometimes see on streaming services should not be acceptable at all, but honestly I think a lot of people do not notice them at all!
StorminNorman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The same way we did before streaming…? Trusted reviews. Gut instinct. That sorta thing. You take a chance and go with it. I still do it with music hard copies. Sometimes I’ve never even heard of the artist I’m buying, I just like the artwork, or someone in the store will say something about it. I pirate a lot myself, been on some forums for near on 2 decades now, a lot of the people I know on them still buy media. I mean, it’s kinda like going out to eat, you don’t always get a winner every time, but the hits usually outweigh the misses.