I recently got into Broadcast the Net through a friend of a friend and it is infinitely better than any streaming service in combination with the *are suite and Plex. I had almost forgotten how much better piracy is until Netflix pulled their no account sharing bullshit. Now they get $0/month from me and that money goes to BTN.
Hollywood Keeps Reminding Us Why We Need Physical Media More Than Ever - IGN
Submitted 10 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to moviesandtv@lemm.ee
https://www.ign.com/articles/hollywood-keeps-reminding-us-why-we-need-physical-media-more-than-ever
Comments
JDubbleu@programming.dev 10 months ago
spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Can you tell me more about BTN?
JDubbleu@programming.dev 10 months ago
Think of The Pirate Bay, but you have to get an invite to make an account to be able to leech/seed.
It’s a private torrent tracker with strict rules (you must seed every show you download for at least 24 hours, and every season pack for 5 days, both within 2 weeks). If you break that rule you get a mark on your account, and after enough of them you get banned. As a result of these rules just about every torrent has download speeds above 500 Mbps, and almost every TV show you can imagine is on there.
It’s almost impossible to get into without knowing someone who’s already in.
Rediphile@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
No need for physical media when it comes to file sharing. But if you really hate the environment so much, I guess yeah… sure, physical media accomplishes something.
I haven’t deleted any downloaded content in about 17 years now.
bus_factor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Did you store your content on physical hard drives? That follows the spirit of the statement.
Sheeple@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This so much this. A file is physical media. Streaming isn’t
Rediphile@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
No I just memorize all the ones and zeros. /s
But yes, you are correct. I still feel it’s important to remind people that the only alternative to streaming isn’t like DVDs or vinyl records or something.
ech@lemm.ee 10 months ago
To be frank, any mention of “physical media” almost exclusively means DVDs/blu-rays/etc. But people really should talk more about hard drives as physical storage. It’s essentially the same concept as those mediums anyhow. The only physical difference is storage size and the practical differences (no ads, locked content, quality limits, etc) are huge.
GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Huh… [GardenVarietyAnxiety leveled up! Gained a new perspective]
quams69@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Shhh he doesn’t know drives are physical devices
notaviking@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why the hate on your post. Physical media has its downsides as well, like polution you mentioned but others such as degradation over time, region locking, especially optical disks. There isn’t a best solution since I believe the preservation of media should be a mixture, I like having physical copies of my favourite media and then soft copies of the rest
quams69@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Physical media meaning pirate it and stored on a Raid 10 array
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 10 months ago
I be fearing the media executives may decide my DVD purchases be cutting into their plans to sell me streaming services. If they keel haul DVD sales, I’ve no mind what I could be doing about it. Arrr. It be a mystery as deep as the high seas.
BoisZoi@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
I’ve been buying physical media (DVDs, BluRay) and ripping them with MakeMKV + Encoding them with HandBrake and use my cloud storage + a mix of Kodi and Infuse Pro to stream my shows.
I’ll rip a thousand DVDs before I let this company die!
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I use the same set up. It works great. The $5 bin at Walmart, garage sales, and good will are great places to find great deals. Although the latter two have way too many full screen cropped versions. Why we ever decided pan and scan was preferable to black bar widescreen is beyond me.
Drusas@kbin.social 10 months ago
I've been buying DVDs / blu-rays more in the past year than I have in probably the past decade.
malchior@aussie.zone 10 months ago
We don’t need physical media, we need DRM removed and the ability to buy tv/music/movies in a format we want at a reasonable price to use as we see fit.
MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Fellow lemmings, I, for one, agree wholeheartedly with the premise of this article, which is why I will be using this opportunity to buy the collector’s edition of the Golden Globe winning movie, Barbie, on Blu-Ray, so that I can watch it whenever I want to.
In fact, I will be buying multiple copies, one for every room in my house, because you just never know.
oxjox@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
I stopped buying physical discs when they started adding unskippable commercials at the beginning. Not sure if they still do that.
I did however receive a number of Blu-rays for a gift recently and I was able to redeem codes to add them to my iTunes library. Pretty cool… until Apple decides to not support it.
SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 10 months ago
MakeMKV is your friend. Nothing is unskippable in Jellyfin
jlow@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Well less and less stuff is coming out on physical media (I also don’t like the plastic waste) so what are we gonna do …
java@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Given that modern players come with Android TV and other bloatware, the only option I see is piracy.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“It might be time to start recollecting those discs.”
What if I told you, I never stopped?
ghostface@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Aye Captain!