why would download an uncompressed copy of a bluray and then delete it? that sounds like a waste of time
1 month ago
Anonymous
why would you download*
1 month ago
Anonymous
to watch it moron
1 month ago
Anonymous
so you are going to download a 50GB bluray just to watch it once?
you might as well just download a 5gb 720p rip
1 month ago
Anonymous
>Spend 20 minutes downloading a movie for free bad >Spend significantly longer going to the store to look for it or ordering it online for $$$ good
you're fricking braindead
1 month ago
Anonymous
Where are you getting these random file size from? Your ass?
Terminator 2, a film with a runtime of 2 hours and 10 minutes, at 4K is 6.19GB.
1 month ago
Anonymous
that's a compressed rip of it
the actual size is like 25GB or 50GB on a bluray
1 month ago
Anonymous
uncompressed files are a lie capitalists tell to braindead corporate consumers
1 month ago
Anonymous
an uncompressed dvd is 4.5GB or 9GB(depending on how long the movie is)
the 700mb rips of dvds you see are shitty compressed rips and don't represent real dvd quality
1 month ago
Anonymous
>pic
how do they perfectly make film the movie to take up 100 percent of the DVD?
1 month ago
Anonymous
they fill it up full of special features and shit like that to fill the disc space up i imagine
it' not 100 percent full. there is 800MB of space left that they didn't fill
1 month ago
Anonymous
It says there's 8.2GB used because the DVD can't be written to. If you look at the actual size of the files it's 7.8GB.
1 month ago
Anonymous
stop beliving the corporate lies
brilliant computer scientists like yify have found a way to obliterate the need for dvd storage and consumerism
kino viewers of the world unite
you have nothing to lose but your chains
1 month ago
Anonymous
Having a cupboard of movies instead of a folder makes it easier to organise in my brain.
1 month ago
Anonymous
Oh. I'm sorry. I didn't know that. Frick me, I download the compressed versions over the uncompressed versions.
What did I miss out on?
>significant amount of hdd space
You can buy 8TB+ hard drives for $15-$20 per TB and 4K Blu-ray remuxes are 50GB or less. Storage space is not a concern in 2024.
i can see a reason to pirate films if they are expensive films
but i see no reason to store movies that you can get for 1-3 dollars
you can get a bluray of the road warrior at the dollar tree. it would make no sense to put that on a HDD
1 month ago
Anonymous
because you don't even have to go to dollar tree
1 month ago
Anonymous
you would be using up 50 gb of disc space for a bluray you get for a dollar
You do realize if nobody paid for movies and television there would not be any movies or television, right? I get it, you're a pirate, you don't need to flaunt it everywhere you go
Torrents are compressed. They’re not full uncompressed rips, native codec and bitrates. Most don’t have proper Dolby or DTS etc multi channel audio, or alternative audio (directors commentary languages) or proper subs encoded, they don’t have video extras or ability to screen with provided deleted or extended scenes properly. Torrents are, in all aspects, inferior to hard discs, and the difference is even greater as you move from DVD to BlueRay to 4K, especially in video audio quality.
this is a problem with re-writable media.
if it happens with stamped media, it means you really abused the shit out of the disc or there was a major manufacturing defect in the lot.
Disc rot is a thing, there are already DVDs today that can't be read anymore, meanwhile priating everything with multiple backup storages is the patrician way to go
Don't live in the jungle or store your discs in a 120 degree attic and you'll be fine.
Unless there was a frick up at the manufacturer, then yeah you're fricked.
The disc rot as you describe it is practically an urban legend akin to checking Halloween candy for razors. So called disc rot is a manufacturing defect that can be traced to the factory where it was produced.
It is, but only for certain production lines and situations like keeping the DVDs under intense conditions. The grand majority of DVDs won't have to deal with this issue.
Do Blu-Rays still have a bunch of ads until you get to the menu? I haven't bought one in 10 years.
Yeah, but for most you can scene jump forward to skip through them easily. Also nice trips
eventually they get desperate, lower their prices, the shit gets instabought by a bot, and it gets relisted at absurd prices all over again.
its the circle of life
The good news is usually they sit there for three or four years without a sale, while the reasonably priced listings get sold for significantly less.
>cut the resolution down to tiny size and then scale it up again
Why? DVDs have no place in the modern world. They only made sense when TV's couldn't display a higher resolution than 480 lines. As soon as 720p and 1080p TV's came out, DVD was already obsolete. I even remember preferring to watch movies on TV in the mid 2000s because they were broadcast in HD sometimes and looked a million times better than what you could buy on DVD.
this, I have lots of DVDs (and blurays) and 99% of the DVDs look great played on my good Sony BR player that upscales DVDs to 1080
My 4K player DVDs and 1080p blu-rays to 3840x2160, and still anything standard def looks like absolute shit. DVDs are dead in my eyes. I am only have about 20 left that I haven't upgraded because they are only available on DVD or are out of print. I will say that some 1080p blu-rays look as good as 4K after upscaling, though. Nothing beats the dynamic range and color of 10-bit 4K discs, though.
imagine having a contingency plan for watching this shit in case internet is gone
homie i'm not trading you bread I'm eating my bread and laughing at you
its actually kind of crazy to think that pretty much every information storage we use in the modern world with modern tech has extremely low longevity. If humans disappeared tomorrow the only thing that will be left in a few thousand years will be ancient texts that were carved in stone, as out of every information recording technology we have created, stone tablets have the greatest shelf life.
Almost makes you wonder if ancient civilizations did have advanced technology and recording devices, but none of it would last when buried for thousands of years.
I have 1000 plus Blurays. Can never find the one i want to watch and go to bed angry after going through hundreds of stupid blue cases. Cant bring a girl over because she will see my horde and realize im a loser. Watch the same 100 movies all the time. I will never watch 70% of my horde again. Some discs are from 2010s and my player has hard time reading them. Couldnt even rescue my childhood N64 from my fathers horde at his house. Frick my fricking life.
I've got over 2,000 and had this same problem. Someone on reddit figured it out. Random number generator. Catalogue them then use a RNG and watch anything it spits out. It's perfect and you really end up going through stuff you never got to.
I've got over 2,000 and had this same problem. Someone on reddit figured it out. Random number generator. Catalogue them then use a RNG and watch anything it spits out. It's perfect and you really end up going through stuff you never got to.
Why don't you guys hire a bluray librarian. They organize your bluray dvds after a week session of 150$. Sutran Prurissa the Youtube guy who rates physical copies with a bunch of Bluray dvds got one.
Shouldve bought laserdiscs instead of blewrays.
Nothing gets a girls panties off faster than the sound of your player flipping to side b.
I dont even want to tell you what theyll do when you have to change discs.
Just download it, hell you even have some people out there who keep very specific versions available
I can understand being worried about HDD's dying but there's always redundancy
"Physical media" is such a red herring. The thing that actually matters is media ownership. When I care about an album, I buy it online, download the flacs, and dump them on my server. I wish I could do that with movies. Instead, I have to buy the discs and spend time ripping them, but I wish I could just buy them digitally.
DVD'S are great, I'm all for getting a good amount since the Globalists want everything to be subscription based so you can't own anything. But I also support Torrenting, feels good to have an extra 200-300 movies on the computer in case DVD players have issues.
"Physical media" is such a red herring. The thing that actually matters is media ownership. When I care about an album, I buy it online, download the flacs, and dump them on my server. I wish I could do that with movies. Instead, I have to buy the discs and spend time ripping them, but I wish I could just buy them digitally.
I've got over 2,000 and had this same problem. Someone on reddit figured it out. Random number generator. Catalogue them then use a RNG and watch anything it spits out. It's perfect and you really end up going through stuff you never got to.
I have 1000 plus Blurays. Can never find the one i want to watch and go to bed angry after going through hundreds of stupid blue cases. Cant bring a girl over because she will see my horde and realize im a loser. Watch the same 100 movies all the time. I will never watch 70% of my horde again. Some discs are from 2010s and my player has hard time reading them. Couldnt even rescue my childhood N64 from my fathers horde at his house. Frick my fricking life.
OH NOOOO sorry EMP just took down the grid. You will have to resort to boardgames like monopoly. Tough luck, that DVD player doesn't work, and that server certainly is fricked.
>massive cataclysmic thing that will shake society at its core occurs >"W-well at least I can still watch my blu ray of Jennifer's Body!!!! Well worth paying $24.99 for it and having it sit in plastic for eight years...."
Huh. Yeah I guess. Streaming platforms can censor content and remove scenes pretty easily. Physical media wins there. On the down side, now you have to mess with physical media all the time instead of plopping down on the couch with a remote once and only once, and the only holes you've got to frick are built into the discs themselves. Not my favorite trade.
"Physical media" is such a red herring. The thing that actually matters is media ownership. When I care about an album, I buy it online, download the flacs, and dump them on my server. I wish I could do that with movies. Instead, I have to buy the discs and spend time ripping them, but I wish I could just buy them digitally.
Pirates are the real winners. I wanted to get the OST for The Dark Crystal and no tracker had it, no website had it for purchase. Just people selling physical for 400$.
Do the good ol google search trick to find it available on some obscure blog. Now not even the physical copy cucks have power over me
When the frick is Samsung going to stop holding out on me and release SATAs that store more than 8tb? You frickers put 4tb on M.2 drives I know you can shove more storage into your 95% empty 3.5 inch box
>pirate >Plex or the gay fish one
ezpz
now streaming services can't censor your content
but you can stream
and you can get things no streaming services have
including rare arthouse shit that arthoes love
ez arthoe Plex & Chill
Sometimes I just stare at my movie collection and admire it. All my hidden gems and kinos, all the films that are no longer being printed, the special editions and ones with stupid useless extra shit in them. I'm like a boomer who just finished a fence or something.
I do it with my bookshelf too.
Streaming is for normies and physical media for boomers.
I have 6TB of anime + 4TB of movies and shows in two external drives.
Sometimes I'm so lazy that instead of plugging them I just re-download the whole thing again (in less than a minute) because it's faster.
eventually they get desperate, lower their prices, the shit gets instabought by a bot, and it gets relisted at absurd prices all over again.
its the circle of life
I'd like to have a "trick record" collection. I wonder how many albums have recordings in the locked groove. And other kinds of tricks. Playing inside out, secretly needing to be played at the wrong speed. All kinds of stuff. I wish I had known about that 40 year old series of record players that would "flip" the record for you. It really just had two needles. I don't think I would've sold my collection. But I seriously flipped my last frickin record. I had a big 7" collection that eventually just drove me crazy.
Opening paragraphs of the story >When a hurricane struck Florida in 2018, Christina’s neighborhood lost electricity, cell service and internet. For four weeks her family was cut off from the world, their days dictated by the rising and setting sun. But Christina did have a vast collection of movies on DVD and Blu-ray, and a portable player that could be charged from an emergency generator.
>Word got around. The family’s library of physical films and books became a kind of currency. Neighbors offered bottled water or jars of peanut butter for access. The 1989 Tom Hanks comedy The ’Burbs was an inexplicably valuable commodity, as were movies that could captivate restless and anxious children.
>“I don’t think 99% of people in America would ever stop to think, ‘What would I do if I woke up tomorrow and all access to digital media disappeared?’ But we know,” Christina told me. “We’ve lived it. We’ll never give up our collection. Ever. And maybe, one day, you’ll be the one to come and barter a loaf of bread for our DVD of Casino.”
Or these homosexual learn how to exist without fricking magic box >OH MY KIDS ARE LITERALLY DYING BECAUSE THEY CAN'T CONSUME SLOP
frick off and start parenting.
The real issue is that the kids have been distracted and they haven't been doing any actual parenting.
Literally the best? Dealing with physical media and shelves etc the point is completion. Otherwise it's an insane literally never ending process of shifting if it's done by title. I tried U-Z for awhile and even that soon became untenable. For example how many directors are dead? How many directors only release one movie every few years? Their shelves can be completed and basically never touched again.
Personally I group them by similar categories/genres and by series. But I have close to 100 items, so maybe similar groupings isn't so reasonable with a larger collection.
My old 3DS copy of Yokai Watch now crashes at random points so I had to homebrew my 3DS just to play it again. Retro game stores also sell their product for $35+ unless it's garbage shovelware or Madden, so that's not really a reasonable option.
Physical media ain't all that it's cracked up to be. At least not for gaming.
If no one else has DVDs or Blu Rays, then they likely won't have a disc player, so why would they want a physical disc? Can't play it.
Also, if they have electricity to power a TV and DVD player, then just collect a ton of digital movies and play them on your laptop or tv. They act like streaming movies via the internet are the ONLY kinds of digital movies you can have.
Why would you want cover art if it's just going to sit on the shelf 99.99999 percent of the time and you only see the spine? Are you moronic?
You see the cover on plex when you pick what to watch.
So i can look at it, even if its only for 0.001% of the time i have it.
Its amazing that the same kind of people that brag about their downloaded video quality like its all thats worth mentioning about it would find it weird for someone to want the physical cover or even just the art they came in.
Why wouldnt i want it, who the hell wouldnt want that?
1 month ago
Anonymous
so you pay 50 dollars to look at a piece of paper? >who the hell wouldnt want that?
people who find validation outside posting their physical media collection or funko pops on reddit
1 month ago
Anonymous
I dont pay 50 dollars.
And i pay to have something interesting to look at with my movie or show.
You downloaders wouldnt get it, its a physical thing.
1 month ago
Anonymous
No I actually do understand, you're an uninteresting person with no skills or hobbies worth talking about so your surrogate hobby is just buying things to put on a shelf for a sense of progress, which you then photograph to send to other sad c**ts so you can upvote each other, without this you would have no identity so you cling to it and pretend there's some special value in mass produced plastic vessels for mass produced dvds with stickers on them
1 month ago
Anonymous
The literal first sign of not understanding is becoming irrational and combative.
I didnt mean to rustle your jimmies over this.
Its just that i get these nice covers that sometimes are basically works of art themselves with my physical media and all you get to look at with your downloads are the serial numbers on your hard drive.
1 month ago
Anonymous
>all you get to do is uhh download and watch the movie you wanted to watch while I look at some stickers I paid for at an insane markup
the "rational" mind of the physicalcuck
1 month ago
Anonymous
There is no need to be upset.
Always remember, that hard drive also came in a box with pictures on it.
1 month ago
Anonymous
Yeah and I threw the box out because I'm not a moronic redditor who compulsively collects packaging to fill up his empty life.
1 month ago
Anonymous
>uh, what if there was a house fire??
Then your hard drives would be toast too you fricking moron >I'll just retorrent
Yeah that works great for normalgay films that are easily found. Finding a torrent for some movies is harder than just finding a VHS/DVD
1 month ago
Anonymous
>Then your hard drives would be toast too you fricking moron
Yes and you could buy a new hard drive and restore your collection in less than a day if you had a good collection and a laptop >Finding a torrent for some movies is harder than just finding a VHS/DVD
Please name one(1) movie that you can find a DVD for that you can't find a torrent for, just one
1 month ago
Anonymous
>Please name one(1) movie that you can find a DVD for that you can't find a torrent for, just one
you can but it will be a heavily compressed piece of shit. this is one of the downsides of downloading films
sure it's free but you will most likely find shit rips of the films you want
1 month ago
Anonymous
you did not answer, I accept your concession
1 month ago
Anonymous
Okay, I concede, you can find butt ugly rips of movies if you want to. Now you must concede that you can often find higher quality versions of movies on disc than through digital piracy.
1 month ago
Anonymous
What movies are you watching where you can only find 360p torrents but you can easily find the physical media? The shit you're talking about literally does not exist.
1 month ago
Anonymous
feh. Yify rips are just as good as your shitty corporate dvds. I reject your evil capitalist consumer products and embrace the socialist uprising of free downlaods for all.
1 month ago
Anonymous
they are not. true dvd quality is better than yiffy 1080p rips
true dvd quality isn't pixelated like yiffy 1080p rips are
i would rather watch a dvd than watch a yiffy rip
1 month ago
Anonymous
are you telling me to yiff in hell?
you buy 10tb hdds(that cost like 200 dollars) and pretend to be anti-consumerist
Which is why the government should provide computer hard drives to people and subsidize films based on hard drive sales instead of this evil capitalist plot of buying films on dvd. They should provide free high quality hard drives for movies just like they provide free high quality healthcare. You know. Unless you live in a shitty red state without socialist healrhcare in place. Good films are just as important to life as a doctor visit.
1 month ago
Anonymous
you buy 10tb hdds(that cost like 200 dollars) and pretend to be anti-consumerist
1 month ago
Anonymous
if you put like 10 movies on it it's already paid itself back compared to physical before you've even factored in the price of the dvd player
1 month ago
Anonymous
>heh, kid there's torrents for everything >Seeders: 0
1 month ago
Anonymous
>Listings: 0
1 month ago
Anonymous
Oh please. I literally just went to ebay and bought a DVD of The Mission because I couldn't find any torrents. Oh but thank god, someone uploaded it to youtube where it looks like total fricking dogshit. No thanks.
1 month ago
Anonymous
why are you so smug about being moronic
1 month ago
Anonymous
I'm talking about The Mission from 1999 by Johnnie To
1 month ago
Anonymous
oh shit you're right that one's off the map
1 month ago
Anonymous
I know we're in an epic Cinemaphile argument but thanks for posting this, I don't know how I didn't find it before, even uses the French scan of the film and corrects grammar errors in the subtitles, of which there were a ton of. I kneel piratechads
1 month ago
Anonymous
bullshit, there is ALWAYS some autist that is seeding even the most obscure thing in the world. you probably have a bad torrent link that everyone abandoned
I do wish I had a VHS or dvd from when the matrix was a normal movie and not some green lurid jean pierre jeunet looking nonsense. I want to rewatch it but I refuse to rewatch it in Lucas special edition green wash
Do you organize via genre, director or boutique label (like Arrow, Scream Factory, Vinegar Syndrome etc)? I do genre, but I order them by director as a sub-category (like Carpenter, Cronenberg under horror.) I can't be bothered sorting by year
No one cares that you pirate things, every single soul that has ever passed through this website pirates things, even the people with giant collections. You are not special.
Dvds and Blu-rays only last a couple of decades, not a lifetime. You would have to repeat buying them all over again every 20-30 years. Unless you intend to rip that content to an external hard drive or burn another copy, which both are illegal, so might as well just pirate them or stream them illegally.
Black person, no. are you fricking serious? there is absolutely nothing to back up what you're saying, there are plenty of DVDs around from 20+ years ago that are still in circulation and there's nothing wrong with them at all, other than scratches and that's an owner/player error
>Unless you intend to rip that content to an external hard drive or burn another copy, which both are illegal
My country is wack in that copying another copy of DVD or Blu-ray isn't illegal for personal use or as a backup, but somehow the corps managed to weasel their way of out this by making the extraction method illegal because that somehow violates copyright.
It's like saying you own all the pictures in your camera that you bought, but extracting it to another format is prohibited and against the law.
It's also why cash will always be superior to cashless. Enjoy not being able to pay for anything once anything happens. Ships are already crashing into our bridges, all it takes is 1 guy to disrupt any cities electricity network
This, and 10 years is a long time for torrents. Many of the ones up now will be gone with no substitute, so when the hard drive goes you better hope most of the data is retrievable
you are not actually wasting money if you buy the films you like
stop blind-buying and ruining your film collections by filling them full of crap you don't watch
A lot of these collectors haven't seen most of the films they own
watch a shitty rip of a film online first and if you like it buy it(cheaply if you can).
It is what smart people do.
Downloads inform what I buy and I try to download what I own. Not to mention out of print shit. Even if I own it,nInwould rather give someone a digital copy.
pfft. if everything goes down and rolls back, people will just do shows for eachother, like in the good old days. just four (five) lonely cowboys around a fire, performing shows they came up with when they were out riding all day. every night would be a new episode, and every cowboy would get to watch three (four) other shows after performing his own, as god intended.
>me starving and down to my last loaf ration >I come across a settlement >Im saved >Hey smoothskin, you look tired, can I interest you in Maid in Manhatten starring Jennifer Lopez on DVD?
>paying for something you can get for free, anywhere, in better quality and any version you want
Lol, lmao even
>you can get movies at higher quality than 4k bluray for free
Absolute state of streamcucks.
You can though, because autists fix issues with official releases.
>500mb file
fricking kek you're delusional.
also
>264 codec
yeah nah, just take the being able to play on your phone or laptop as a plus and go away.
You can get uncompressed blu ray rips for free yes
but they take up a significant amount of hdd space. you might as well just buy the fricking bluray
>download
>watch
>delete
or simply choose a limit to your downloaded files and keep the collection.
>delete
why would download an uncompressed copy of a bluray and then delete it? that sounds like a waste of time
why would you download*
to watch it moron
so you are going to download a 50GB bluray just to watch it once?
you might as well just download a 5gb 720p rip
>Spend 20 minutes downloading a movie for free bad
>Spend significantly longer going to the store to look for it or ordering it online for $$$ good
you're fricking braindead
Where are you getting these random file size from? Your ass?
Terminator 2, a film with a runtime of 2 hours and 10 minutes, at 4K is 6.19GB.
that's a compressed rip of it
the actual size is like 25GB or 50GB on a bluray
uncompressed files are a lie capitalists tell to braindead corporate consumers
an uncompressed dvd is 4.5GB or 9GB(depending on how long the movie is)
the 700mb rips of dvds you see are shitty compressed rips and don't represent real dvd quality
>pic
how do they perfectly make film the movie to take up 100 percent of the DVD?
they fill it up full of special features and shit like that to fill the disc space up i imagine
it' not 100 percent full. there is 800MB of space left that they didn't fill
It says there's 8.2GB used because the DVD can't be written to. If you look at the actual size of the files it's 7.8GB.
stop beliving the corporate lies
brilliant computer scientists like yify have found a way to obliterate the need for dvd storage and consumerism
kino viewers of the world unite
you have nothing to lose but your chains
Having a cupboard of movies instead of a folder makes it easier to organise in my brain.
Oh. I'm sorry. I didn't know that. Frick me, I download the compressed versions over the uncompressed versions.
What did I miss out on?
A 10tb drive can store 150 blu rays in the physical footprint of two keep cases
>significant amount of hdd space
You can buy 8TB+ hard drives for $15-$20 per TB and 4K Blu-ray remuxes are 50GB or less. Storage space is not a concern in 2024.
i can see a reason to pirate films if they are expensive films
but i see no reason to store movies that you can get for 1-3 dollars
you can get a bluray of the road warrior at the dollar tree. it would make no sense to put that on a HDD
because you don't even have to go to dollar tree
you would be using up 50 gb of disc space for a bluray you get for a dollar
Tbis jist reminded me I bought an external to backup family photos and I need to do that.
they are going after torrent sites and free streaming sites
finding torrents is getting more difficult by the year
if you do find a movie it's heavily compressed and looks like shit
there are ways to find physical copies of movies for very cheap
You do realize if nobody paid for movies and television there would not be any movies or television, right? I get it, you're a pirate, you don't need to flaunt it everywhere you go
Why are nerds always the most pathetic egotistical morons? Imagine daydreaming about the day people beg for your DVDs. Fricking loser.
youre not going to be laughing when your down on your knees sucking my dick for a paul blart dvd
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night
Cope for not owning 17 copies of Flubber on BluRay
You must know you're just trying to justify your materialism and spending habits, right?
>muhterialism
Meanwhile you are just trying to excuse your troonyism.
Yeah torrents and blank discs are really expensive. I can barely afford to keep the lights on.
The image in OP implied something else. Don't be an butthole.
Many govts are trying to ban farming, so the reverse will be true.
disc rot
just transfer it to a new disc problem solved
at this point how is it different than torrenting and don't say bitrate give me a proper answer
Torrents are compressed. They’re not full uncompressed rips, native codec and bitrates. Most don’t have proper Dolby or DTS etc multi channel audio, or alternative audio (directors commentary languages) or proper subs encoded, they don’t have video extras or ability to screen with provided deleted or extended scenes properly. Torrents are, in all aspects, inferior to hard discs, and the difference is even greater as you move from DVD to BlueRay to 4K, especially in video audio quality.
this is a problem with re-writable media.
if it happens with stamped media, it means you really abused the shit out of the disc or there was a major manufacturing defect in the lot.
DVD collectors are as moronic as streamcucks
Disc rot is a thing, there are already DVDs today that can't be read anymore, meanwhile priating everything with multiple backup storages is the patrician way to go
not really an issue with non organic dye blu-ray plus it was never all that big of an issue if you live anywhere decent with less than 50% humidity
Don't live in the jungle or store your discs in a 120 degree attic and you'll be fine.
Unless there was a frick up at the manufacturer, then yeah you're fricked.
The disc rot as you describe it is practically an urban legend akin to checking Halloween candy for razors. So called disc rot is a manufacturing defect that can be traced to the factory where it was produced.
It is, but only for certain production lines and situations like keeping the DVDs under intense conditions. The grand majority of DVDs won't have to deal with this issue.
Yeah, but for most you can scene jump forward to skip through them easily. Also nice trips
The good news is usually they sit there for three or four years without a sale, while the reasonably priced listings get sold for significantly less.
Rip them to a HD using MakeMKV and bit rot is a non entity.
Just like your sex life
>in 30 years 1 out of your 100 discs will be unreadable!
Discs can last for a long time unused, but any machine which reqires spinning motion generally has lower shelf-life.
>disc fails
>restore from backup or just torrent again
>dvd fails
>you're fricked
>investment payout is.... bread
mmmmm
Not just a loaf or something a truckload and then sell the bread to other people for the price of their daughters.
>how do we respond without sounding mad?
We don't
We listen to what they have to say, and that's what no one did..
Hard drives are superior. Tremble before my mighty NAS.
i kneel
DVD looks like absolute shit on anything that isn't a 480i CRT.
It looks great if you have an actual bluray player with a good built in upscaler.
>cut the resolution down to tiny size and then scale it up again
Why? DVDs have no place in the modern world. They only made sense when TV's couldn't display a higher resolution than 480 lines. As soon as 720p and 1080p TV's came out, DVD was already obsolete. I even remember preferring to watch movies on TV in the mid 2000s because they were broadcast in HD sometimes and looked a million times better than what you could buy on DVD.
this, I have lots of DVDs (and blurays) and 99% of the DVDs look great played on my good Sony BR player that upscales DVDs to 1080
My 4K player DVDs and 1080p blu-rays to 3840x2160, and still anything standard def looks like absolute shit. DVDs are dead in my eyes. I am only have about 20 left that I haven't upgraded because they are only available on DVD or are out of print. I will say that some 1080p blu-rays look as good as 4K after upscaling, though. Nothing beats the dynamic range and color of 10-bit 4K discs, though.
imagine having a contingency plan for watching this shit in case internet is gone
homie i'm not trading you bread I'm eating my bread and laughing at you
>I'm eating my bread
>carbs
Not even in the face of Armageddon
good luck, disc rot will get them first.
blurays last up to 50-80 years (commercial)
new BD-Rs can last up to 100 years (but cost 40 bucks a pop)
old BD-Rs (consumer) last 20-30 years
What is the difference between a commercial Bluray and a BD-R? Why wouldn't all studios just use old BD-Rs to save money?
That's great, it means that everything in that picture is essentially worthless.
What about regular DVDs? I'm not spending 30$ on a blu-ray + 300$ on a blu-ray player.
> $300
I bought a bluray player at the thrift store for 8 bucks. Wouldntve paid a cent more for it.
its actually kind of crazy to think that pretty much every information storage we use in the modern world with modern tech has extremely low longevity. If humans disappeared tomorrow the only thing that will be left in a few thousand years will be ancient texts that were carved in stone, as out of every information recording technology we have created, stone tablets have the greatest shelf life.
Almost makes you wonder if ancient civilizations did have advanced technology and recording devices, but none of it would last when buried for thousands of years.
Humans are information storage
I burn dvds
I have 1000 plus Blurays. Can never find the one i want to watch and go to bed angry after going through hundreds of stupid blue cases. Cant bring a girl over because she will see my horde and realize im a loser. Watch the same 100 movies all the time. I will never watch 70% of my horde again. Some discs are from 2010s and my player has hard time reading them. Couldnt even rescue my childhood N64 from my fathers horde at his house. Frick my fricking life.
I've got over 2,000 and had this same problem. Someone on reddit figured it out. Random number generator. Catalogue them then use a RNG and watch anything it spits out. It's perfect and you really end up going through stuff you never got to.
>I've got over 2,000
dear god do not ever bring a woman to your place
Imagine allowing random women to dictate you how to spend your time and money
Why don't you guys hire a bluray librarian. They organize your bluray dvds after a week session of 150$. Sutran Prurissa the Youtube guy who rates physical copies with a bunch of Bluray dvds got one.
This is a low trust society now and i dont trust people. I dont trust you for suggesting it.
Actually a good idea, get a cute girl to come organize your movies. Hell I would probably end up fricking her too.
Shouldve bought laserdiscs instead of blewrays.
Nothing gets a girls panties off faster than the sound of your player flipping to side b.
I dont even want to tell you what theyll do when you have to change discs.
Just download it, hell you even have some people out there who keep very specific versions available
I can understand being worried about HDD's dying but there's always redundancy
Im moving into a new home tomorrow
next year Im finishing the (small ass) basement so I can turn it into a library with all my books and blurays
frick you homosexuals who stream and dont think having physical isnt a big deal; enjoy your blurry and pixelated low bitrate 4K
I have noticed that DirecTv 1080p looks better than Netflix.
i have so many dvds in my basement guys, am i gonna make it?
>shoots loser
oh wow, now I have shitty movies and bread
"Physical media" is such a red herring. The thing that actually matters is media ownership. When I care about an album, I buy it online, download the flacs, and dump them on my server. I wish I could do that with movies. Instead, I have to buy the discs and spend time ripping them, but I wish I could just buy them digitally.
If only there was such a thing as piracy, where other people do the ripping for you and put up the files online for free.
God you're fricking moronic
why are white people obsessed with spending money when piracy exists
I stopped buying Blurays because Bidenomics and all media is garbage now.
DVD'S are great, I'm all for getting a good amount since the Globalists want everything to be subscription based so you can't own anything. But I also support Torrenting, feels good to have an extra 200-300 movies on the computer in case DVD players have issues.
OH NOOOO sorry EMP just took down the grid. You will have to resort to boardgames like monopoly. Tough luck, that DVD player doesn't work, and that server certainly is fricked.
If the United States is hit with a Mega EMP 9000 it wont matter because it will just mean nuclear annihilation for everyone.
A got a book collection i'll be fine, and EMP'S don't destroy dvd's, just the players, order a player from somewhere else, problem solved.
>order a player
with what?
Mail
ok walk to next city and buy another one, problem solved
>he doesn't have a dvd player and tv wrapped in aluminum foil.
>his media room isn't a Faraday Cage
Never gonna make it.
This winter the power went out for a bit and I watched the Thing on my computer in the dark. If an emp hits I have bigger problems.
>massive cataclysmic thing that will shake society at its core occurs
>"W-well at least I can still watch my blu ray of Jennifer's Body!!!! Well worth paying $24.99 for it and having it sit in plastic for eight years...."
>$24.99
I paid $2.99
I think watching a movie is the least of your worries in that scenario.
My genuine response:
DVDs serve a purpose
>he didnt take the paintingpill
Huh. Yeah I guess. Streaming platforms can censor content and remove scenes pretty easily. Physical media wins there. On the down side, now you have to mess with physical media all the time instead of plopping down on the couch with a remote once and only once, and the only holes you've got to frick are built into the discs themselves. Not my favorite trade.
See:
Not gonna last long with disc rot.
Pirates are the real winners. I wanted to get the OST for The Dark Crystal and no tracker had it, no website had it for purchase. Just people selling physical for 400$.
Do the good ol google search trick to find it available on some obscure blog. Now not even the physical copy cucks have power over me
Use Soulseek for music
>OST for The Dark Crystal
What's your blog URL?
When the frick is Samsung going to stop holding out on me and release SATAs that store more than 8tb? You frickers put 4tb on M.2 drives I know you can shove more storage into your 95% empty 3.5 inch box
Micron 32TB SSD for $3000
Will last you a lifetime of kino, or just buy one every year to expand
>using SSD for archival purposes
shiggy
>what is RAID
They are aware that someone already uploaded all their DVDs to piracy trackers 20 years ago?
>pirate
>Plex or the gay fish one
ezpz
now streaming services can't censor your content
but you can stream
and you can get things no streaming services have
including rare arthouse shit that arthoes love
ez arthoe Plex & Chill
Sometimes I just stare at my movie collection and admire it. All my hidden gems and kinos, all the films that are no longer being printed, the special editions and ones with stupid useless extra shit in them. I'm like a boomer who just finished a fence or something.
I do it with my bookshelf too.
Is there anything more pretentious than sorting by director?
Genre > Alphabetical is all you need.
Thanks Yify!
Streaming is for normies and physical media for boomers.
I have 6TB of anime + 4TB of movies and shows in two external drives.
Sometimes I'm so lazy that instead of plugging them I just re-download the whole thing again (in less than a minute) because it's faster.
Do Blu-Rays still have a bunch of ads until you get to the menu? I haven't bought one in 10 years.
Oh cool thank you for reminding me. I wouldn't pay $30 though. Maybe $20. A frickin beer costs me $10. Wtf do I care
Unironically selling my physical collection right now on eBay. Just takes too much space and I can download most of this shit digitally
Are you setting outlandish prices like everyone else on eBay? I honestly don't know how the frick people sell anything on that site.
eventually they get desperate, lower their prices, the shit gets instabought by a bot, and it gets relisted at absurd prices all over again.
its the circle of life
Reading this made me angry.
Good thing I don't collect anything but records, and I can always find great deals on discogs.
I'd like to have a "trick record" collection. I wonder how many albums have recordings in the locked groove. And other kinds of tricks. Playing inside out, secretly needing to be played at the wrong speed. All kinds of stuff. I wish I had known about that 40 year old series of record players that would "flip" the record for you. It really just had two needles. I don't think I would've sold my collection. But I seriously flipped my last frickin record. I had a big 7" collection that eventually just drove me crazy.
Vinyl is a pain in the ass, which is why I don't buy that many records anymore. Too many bad pressings, especially the newer ones.
I want stuff. I don't see the harm in posting it.
whats the implication here? that people will want DVDs when civilization collapses?
Opening paragraphs of the story
>When a hurricane struck Florida in 2018, Christina’s neighborhood lost electricity, cell service and internet. For four weeks her family was cut off from the world, their days dictated by the rising and setting sun. But Christina did have a vast collection of movies on DVD and Blu-ray, and a portable player that could be charged from an emergency generator.
>Word got around. The family’s library of physical films and books became a kind of currency. Neighbors offered bottled water or jars of peanut butter for access. The 1989 Tom Hanks comedy The ’Burbs was an inexplicably valuable commodity, as were movies that could captivate restless and anxious children.
>“I don’t think 99% of people in America would ever stop to think, ‘What would I do if I woke up tomorrow and all access to digital media disappeared?’ But we know,” Christina told me. “We’ve lived it. We’ll never give up our collection. Ever. And maybe, one day, you’ll be the one to come and barter a loaf of bread for our DVD of Casino.”
Or these homosexual learn how to exist without fricking magic box
>OH MY KIDS ARE LITERALLY DYING BECAUSE THEY CAN'T CONSUME SLOP
frick off and start parenting.
The real issue is that the kids have been distracted and they haven't been doing any actual parenting.
this is the most reddit thing I've ever seen
I believe everything except people in 2018 enjoying The 'Burbs, it wasn't even enjoyable back in 1989
Oh no an entire four weeks!
>alphabetical by DIRECTOR
what the FRICK kind of organization system is that?
Literally the best? Dealing with physical media and shelves etc the point is completion. Otherwise it's an insane literally never ending process of shifting if it's done by title. I tried U-Z for awhile and even that soon became untenable. For example how many directors are dead? How many directors only release one movie every few years? Their shelves can be completed and basically never touched again.
Personally I group them by similar categories/genres and by series. But I have close to 100 items, so maybe similar groupings isn't so reasonable with a larger collection.
I separate animation but that's about as close as I get. And tv shows.
Video Now master race checking in
i have over 1500 printed screenplays from famous movies. during SHTF im gonna film these movies myself.
no, im not kidding.
I bought a Watchmen script and the Robocop 3 script about 35 years ago
My old 3DS copy of Yokai Watch now crashes at random points so I had to homebrew my 3DS just to play it again. Retro game stores also sell their product for $35+ unless it's garbage shovelware or Madden, so that's not really a reasonable option.
Physical media ain't all that it's cracked up to be. At least not for gaming.
>kinda want to see some random movie
>look on the streaming apps Im currently subscribed to
>its not there
>”meh, I guess I watch something else…”
If no one else has DVDs or Blu Rays, then they likely won't have a disc player, so why would they want a physical disc? Can't play it.
Also, if they have electricity to power a TV and DVD player, then just collect a ton of digital movies and play them on your laptop or tv. They act like streaming movies via the internet are the ONLY kinds of digital movies you can have.
if the economy is gets the point where we're bartering with bread then wtf am i gonna do with a dvd? i pirate all of my shit onto a hard drive anyway
>he doesn't copy his discs every other year
these DVD cucks will subsist on bread while i eat steak. when they ask to trade their plastic discs for a cut of meat i will laugh in their faces
wow, that's quite a little scene you got going in your head there, guy
gay response
*Cd rot intensifies*
Physical media is only good for preserving copies against censorship. Hard drives are just as good at this.
Does your download come with the cover art, and any inserts that wouldve been included with the release?
>umm excuse me how am I going to show reddit my collection without cover art?
Doesnt answer the question.
Every physical vhs cassette and laserdisc i bought has.
Does your downloads have them or do you just get a "file"?
Why would you want cover art if it's just going to sit on the shelf 99.99999 percent of the time and you only see the spine? Are you moronic?
You see the cover on plex when you pick what to watch.
So i can look at it, even if its only for 0.001% of the time i have it.
Its amazing that the same kind of people that brag about their downloaded video quality like its all thats worth mentioning about it would find it weird for someone to want the physical cover or even just the art they came in.
Why wouldnt i want it, who the hell wouldnt want that?
so you pay 50 dollars to look at a piece of paper?
>who the hell wouldnt want that?
people who find validation outside posting their physical media collection or funko pops on reddit
I dont pay 50 dollars.
And i pay to have something interesting to look at with my movie or show.
You downloaders wouldnt get it, its a physical thing.
No I actually do understand, you're an uninteresting person with no skills or hobbies worth talking about so your surrogate hobby is just buying things to put on a shelf for a sense of progress, which you then photograph to send to other sad c**ts so you can upvote each other, without this you would have no identity so you cling to it and pretend there's some special value in mass produced plastic vessels for mass produced dvds with stickers on them
The literal first sign of not understanding is becoming irrational and combative.
I didnt mean to rustle your jimmies over this.
Its just that i get these nice covers that sometimes are basically works of art themselves with my physical media and all you get to look at with your downloads are the serial numbers on your hard drive.
>all you get to do is uhh download and watch the movie you wanted to watch while I look at some stickers I paid for at an insane markup
the "rational" mind of the physicalcuck
There is no need to be upset.
Always remember, that hard drive also came in a box with pictures on it.
Yeah and I threw the box out because I'm not a moronic redditor who compulsively collects packaging to fill up his empty life.
>uh, what if there was a house fire??
Then your hard drives would be toast too you fricking moron
>I'll just retorrent
Yeah that works great for normalgay films that are easily found. Finding a torrent for some movies is harder than just finding a VHS/DVD
>Then your hard drives would be toast too you fricking moron
Yes and you could buy a new hard drive and restore your collection in less than a day if you had a good collection and a laptop
>Finding a torrent for some movies is harder than just finding a VHS/DVD
Please name one(1) movie that you can find a DVD for that you can't find a torrent for, just one
>Please name one(1) movie that you can find a DVD for that you can't find a torrent for, just one
you can but it will be a heavily compressed piece of shit. this is one of the downsides of downloading films
sure it's free but you will most likely find shit rips of the films you want
you did not answer, I accept your concession
Okay, I concede, you can find butt ugly rips of movies if you want to. Now you must concede that you can often find higher quality versions of movies on disc than through digital piracy.
What movies are you watching where you can only find 360p torrents but you can easily find the physical media? The shit you're talking about literally does not exist.
feh. Yify rips are just as good as your shitty corporate dvds. I reject your evil capitalist consumer products and embrace the socialist uprising of free downlaods for all.
they are not. true dvd quality is better than yiffy 1080p rips
true dvd quality isn't pixelated like yiffy 1080p rips are
i would rather watch a dvd than watch a yiffy rip
are you telling me to yiff in hell?
Which is why the government should provide computer hard drives to people and subsidize films based on hard drive sales instead of this evil capitalist plot of buying films on dvd. They should provide free high quality hard drives for movies just like they provide free high quality healthcare. You know. Unless you live in a shitty red state without socialist healrhcare in place. Good films are just as important to life as a doctor visit.
you buy 10tb hdds(that cost like 200 dollars) and pretend to be anti-consumerist
if you put like 10 movies on it it's already paid itself back compared to physical before you've even factored in the price of the dvd player
>heh, kid there's torrents for everything
>Seeders: 0
>Listings: 0
Oh please. I literally just went to ebay and bought a DVD of The Mission because I couldn't find any torrents. Oh but thank god, someone uploaded it to youtube where it looks like total fricking dogshit. No thanks.
why are you so smug about being moronic
I'm talking about The Mission from 1999 by Johnnie To
oh shit you're right that one's off the map
I know we're in an epic Cinemaphile argument but thanks for posting this, I don't know how I didn't find it before, even uses the French scan of the film and corrects grammar errors in the subtitles, of which there were a ton of. I kneel piratechads
bullshit, there is ALWAYS some autist that is seeding even the most obscure thing in the world. you probably have a bad torrent link that everyone abandoned
Thank you for paying for new releases/transfers/restorations so that I may continue to watch them for free.
Domo.
If the nuclear bombs fell I might trade bread for a physical copy of my favorite kino depending on how much food I had
I do wish I had a VHS or dvd from when the matrix was a normal movie and not some green lurid jean pierre jeunet looking nonsense. I want to rewatch it but I refuse to rewatch it in Lucas special edition green wash
There’s nothing stopping you from getting an old snapper case DVD copy from eBay. It is literally dirt cheap and easy to obtain.
Matrix was one of the first films I had on VHS and dvd.
If in 2024 you still don’t have at least a 32TB NAS with all the shows and films you enjoy, you have officially failed at life.
Do you organize via genre, director or boutique label (like Arrow, Scream Factory, Vinegar Syndrome etc)? I do genre, but I order them by director as a sub-category (like Carpenter, Cronenberg under horror.) I can't be bothered sorting by year
nah i'm not that autistic
Label -> director -> very loosely by country of origin or genre. If a label does numbered spines I ignore it completely.
I organise by the aesthetic of the cases sitting next to each other and just memorize what is where.
No one cares that you pirate things, every single soul that has ever passed through this website pirates things, even the people with giant collections. You are not special.
I can get a load of bread for 70p at Aldi, your DVDs must be worth less than a 2 year old Xbox copy of FIFA.
These homosexuals seem to not own hard drives
but where will you find the dvd players
Can you convert a non-anamorphic DVD to anamorphic?
Dvds and Blu-rays only last a couple of decades, not a lifetime. You would have to repeat buying them all over again every 20-30 years. Unless you intend to rip that content to an external hard drive or burn another copy, which both are illegal, so might as well just pirate them or stream them illegally.
Black person, no. are you fricking serious? there is absolutely nothing to back up what you're saying, there are plenty of DVDs around from 20+ years ago that are still in circulation and there's nothing wrong with them at all, other than scratches and that's an owner/player error
discs last longer than hdds
you have to keep buying 200 dollar hdds to store those films
>Unless you intend to rip that content to an external hard drive or burn another copy, which both are illegal
My country is wack in that copying another copy of DVD or Blu-ray isn't illegal for personal use or as a backup, but somehow the corps managed to weasel their way of out this by making the extraction method illegal because that somehow violates copyright.
It's like saying you own all the pictures in your camera that you bought, but extracting it to another format is prohibited and against the law.
you not only have to pay for a hdd but you have to pay for a vpn to download these films uncompressed unless you want dmca notifications in your email
the only films have seeds are popular ones
if you try to torrent an unpopular film it's going to have no seeds
torrenting fricking sucks
the only film that have seeds are popular ones*
>arrogant physcuck doesn't know about piracy
hope his shit burns down
people who download their movies are pay cucks too. They have to buy 200 dollar hdds to store their movies on
and they have to pay for a vpn
It's also why cash will always be superior to cashless. Enjoy not being able to pay for anything once anything happens. Ships are already crashing into our bridges, all it takes is 1 guy to disrupt any cities electricity network
i would rather buy 200 dollars worth of blurays than buy a 200 dollar 10tb hdd. the 10gb hdd won't last a decade
This, and 10 years is a long time for torrents. Many of the ones up now will be gone with no substitute, so when the hard drive goes you better hope most of the data is retrievable
$200 of blu rays is like 20 movies
Yeah sure dude I'd rather that than infinite free movies
>dvds
get on my level
you are not actually wasting money if you buy the films you like
stop blind-buying and ruining your film collections by filling them full of crap you don't watch
A lot of these collectors haven't seen most of the films they own
watch a shitty rip of a film online first and if you like it buy it(cheaply if you can).
i never blind-buy
You heard it folks. People that like physical media are far right end-times believing prepper kooks.
>one day you¨ll bargain bread for my moldy old copies of dunston checks in
>*laughter*
For me, it's finding copies of lost films on 35mm and keeping them all for myself.
I love how the solution physicalgays suggest to combat disc rot is "just record your dvds in an external HDD" lmao
disc rot only affects certain discs from (dvd hd, laserdiscs and sega saturns discs)
i watched some of my dvds i got 20 years ago and they still work
a guy at a game store said Sega used outdated / cheap cds for their Saturn and Dreamcast games. Sadly they are not long for this world.
Is it possible to do both? Am I allowed?
It is what smart people do.
Downloads inform what I buy and I try to download what I own. Not to mention out of print shit. Even if I own it,nInwould rather give someone a digital copy.
So all the dvds I stole from Winn dixie might be something some day? I got like 4 copies of dude where's my car I'd trade for some focaccia
pfft. if everything goes down and rolls back, people will just do shows for eachother, like in the good old days. just four (five) lonely cowboys around a fire, performing shows they came up with when they were out riding all day. every night would be a new episode, and every cowboy would get to watch three (four) other shows after performing his own, as god intended.
Cave paintings are the new 4k Blu-rays.
>me starving and down to my last loaf ration
>I come across a settlement
>Im saved
>Hey smoothskin, you look tired, can I interest you in Maid in Manhatten starring Jennifer Lopez on DVD?
I rather keep my bread in that situation.