Why haven't you taken the physical media pill yet?
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Why haven't you taken the physical media pill yet?
Why haven't you taken the physical media pill yet?
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I take it every fricking day, tbh. I get all my favorite flicks in physical form whenever I can. That includes buying a shit ton of physical copies of games too. We're a dying breed. Funnily enough, I'm watching this YT video on physical media at the exact same time as I saw this thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR0C2K9fgNk
Just wait till it's back on Netflix or some other streaming service. It's not like you're ever going to watch a movie twice anyway
>Just wait till it's back on Netflix or some other streaming service.
Imagine being an unironic paypig.
Who's the real paypig? Someone who spends like 8 dollars a month, or the fatass hoarding $50 DVDs lmao
Both are equally moronic
dumbass moron idiot
I've watched The Fountain like 24 times. What now?
Zoomer moment
>googles "[name of movie] online stream"
>pirates it to my phone then casts it to the TV
I have one of those projectors that hooks up to your laptop. Only thing is I'm usually in bed by the time it gets dark enough to use it.
>physical
nah I'll take the 200 terabyte array in my closet with the entire catalog of every streaming service in 4k streamed to the tv in a second
because it's just consoomerism.
1) you will never watch a vast majority of those movies more than once
2) even if you do need to watch one again digitally it's not a big deal
3) just pirate it if it's removed from streaming services
4) if society has collapsed far enough that you can't get digital movies anymore then there's better shit to worry about than a room full of discs
5) the gays who do this are obese and childless and won't be handing down a house with movies in it, or anything
there's no reason to have all that shit, i can watch any movie i want right now and if SHTF i'm going to be hunting not watching The Office
>4) if society has collapsed far enough that you can't get digital movies anymore then there's better shit to worry about than a room full of discs
The risk isn't that society collapses. There is a precedent that you should set by owning the movies you own. When you "buy" a digital copy, you're not buying anything, you're renting some data which will be revoked at some point in the future. Servers go down, piracy websites go down, streaming services fail. These are inevitable. Preserving physical media is important for the longevity of an idea.
Problem solved by a handful of drives you can stuff in a go-bag if they mean that much to you.
Wait until you find out about disc rot
Disk rot is bullshit, I've had game CDs I got back when I was a kid in the 90s like Descent, Diablo 1, Baldurs Gate that still all work fine when I put them in a drive. The only times they don't work is if I scratched the shit out of them from endlessly taking them out of their tray, installing them, then swapping disks and leaving them laying around.
I'm convinced "disk rot" only applies for media that's left out in a bright exposed are where it can get optically damaged and that if you leave it in a tray or sleeve somewhere dark its likely fine for many decades.
However I will admit, that they last longer than some people believe doesn't mean they'll last *that* long without some method of long term archival. I'm pretty sure 99% of the cultural output since the 1980s will be lost to history as nobody is going to endlessly transfer it to newer formats. Or if shit hits the fan it'll truly just be lost forever and nobody will know anything about this era sans the few hardback books still printed. Most of those at this point just political dickwagging.
Disk rot is a binary thing, if the disk was improperly sealed when it was manufactured, or it was contaminated before it was sealed, then it might eventually rot depending on how you store it. If it wasn't then it will outlive us all.
>4) if society has collapsed far enough that you can't get digital movies anymore then there's better shit to worry about than a room full of discs
you'll never be the guy in the village who is known as the "The Preserver of Forgotten Media" with that attitude.
I did, but I'm running out of space so I've started ripping less treasured discs to an external hard drive and getting rid of them.
>rarbg
>free uTorrent that hasn't been updated since 2015
>720p yify rip
>VLC
let me guess, you "need" more?
bump
it's back
I've got an export of every magnet link from rarbg and I use 1337x for everything new.
>rarbg
Anon...
I own a physical copy of almost everyone of my favorite films. The biggest reason isn't just because I like owning them in case they're removed or whatever, but die to censorship. The French Connection seems like just the start of that bullshit.
Is it true that Dave Caruso is an irredeemable douche rag?
Utorrent and Pirate Sites exist
>he pays for physical media in the year of our lord 2023
Yes, and I don't pay for an internet connection to let spies into my home. The price you're paying for your downloads is much higher than can be represented in any standard currency.
Unfortunately this. I got a cheap net connection with Three and then found out I need to show them ID to even use adult content like Cinemaphile. I later found out DVLA can tip off debt collectors to where I now live. Feel like the Matrix fricked me over on this one.
Rarbg is the sound that guy makes every time he stands up
BOO we should not support creativity that we like, we should lower the standards and refuse to give them any money at all.
If you're poor and we're never gonna buy it anyway what's the harm
I just pirate everything
Besides internet i only pay for food and that's because i can't download it yet
you wouldn't download a pizza
Took that pill in 1981.
$40 for a VHS tape.
For me it's
>wireless mouse
>HDMI cord around the walls of the room from the PC to TV
>9anime, fmovies, kimcartoon, youtube with ublock
It's comfy tbh
Wcostream is a great one
>Wow, after going to my dedicated room that means I've lost 20% of my house, selected a dvd after searching for 5 minutes, popped it in, watched 3 minutes of anti piracy warnings, I can watch this movie at 480p!
It certainly sounds to me that there's no better alternative
>5 minutes
Have zoomers really not been taught how to order things alphabetically?
people who watch movie over and over again are fricked in the head (AKA autistic idiots).
physical media?
oh, like the thousands of movies i keep on my hard drives that cost me next to nothing to buy and then acquire?
of course i take the physical media pill, anon.
I can't afford to pay 10 bucks or more for every single movie I watch, even if I was a paycuck
>I can't afford to pay 10 bucks or more for every single movie I watch
You don’t make 0 dollars a year?
*blocks you are path*
can't you just transfer the contents to a fresh one before it goes that bad...
Thankfully I live in a romanian salt mine so my room has 0% humidity
Writable discs are far more vulnerable to disc rot than commercially written discs.
The only times its happened to me is cheap CR-Rs and budget range discs, which are ruined. This despite living in a cool climate and keeping them in boxes at all times
This only happens if you live in a humid area or keep your physical media in a flooded basement
t. all my discs still work after nearly 2 decades
I have 40 year old laserdiscs that play perfectly fine.
That seems to be entirely an early dvd/cdr problem thats blown completely out of proportion to justify nerd taxes on certain media.
disc rot is a bad meme made to scare idiots like you into dropping all of your physical items and going full digital.
The only time I have ever seen disc rot in my 30 years of collecting cds, dvds, blurays and disc based video games was once with an origjnal pressed early 80s cd that someone left in their car since they bought it back then.
Nowadays, the material used for every single medium and even cds maded after 80s are completely different than those disc rot "susceptible" cds.
TL;DR Never post this shit again
>house burns down
>movies stolen
Oh no no no no HAHAHAHAHA
fat man too stupid to use a search engine
I can buy a cheap used computer, a couple of storage drives, and turn it into a media server for the same price as ~10 new blu-ray releases or 18 months of Netflix.
Or you could buy 20 two year old blu rays with spare change.
Why would I want all that crap taking up space? I can download any movie I want for free, and watch it from any device in my house instantly. Once fiber internet gets run to my house in late 2024, I'll set up wireguard and a VLAN so it can even be accessed remotely. I'll have my own streaming service I can access from anywhere in the world.
The internet isn't your friend. It's a tool for higher powers. Never ever hook up a home service.
You cant download my movie, so there goes your arguement.
Just pull put your laptop and wifi next time you have a lady over and watch her look right at the door and say she has to get up for work early tomorrow.
Nobody cares for or wants your movie, so that's not an argument.
And the headcanon of virgins what happens when a woman comes over are always amusing. Sad, but amusing.
Hey ladies, wanna watch a movie at my house from my sweet hard drive collection.
I look like this sound like this do this and am this tbhfampai
>or you could turn your living space into a warehouse for tacky pieces of plastic
no thanks
>Pirate movie
>Add to Plex server
Simple as
waste of space. Buy a fricking NAS and l2 private torrent b***h homosexuals
I want to burn all of it and make him watch. I want to look into his eyes as sheer dread comes into it from a wasted life.
kino
Arent those DVDs like 480p?
540p actually
>itt: autistic anons not understanding what a hobby is
Collecting movies and then watching it later with all the special features that you couldn't get with a simple download is fun. You can just say you dont get it and move on.
I do own physical media
I took the pill, but not in the sense that you mean..
>Just pirate bro
>no comfy DVD menus
>no commentaries
>no outtakes
>no making of documentaries
Couldn't be me
That is the only reason to want physical media. However, let's not fricking pretend that DVDs and Blurays in the last decade or more have been nothing more than ad riddled messes on buggy menus that just want you to use a code so you can also watch their movie on a service that no longer exists.
There is no problem with that line of logic but when you start saying its better than that's where it falls apart. If you just want a hobby and you like those aspect of physical media then it is fine. On a logistics, price, and preservation then going digital will always be superior.
>On a logistics, price, and preservation then going digital will always be superior.
untrue. false you will own nothing propaganda. you will have to buy new hdd's. if youre really serious of collecting them you must run all your hdd's in raid. large capacity hdd's aren't cheap you will also have to x2 the price of one hdd everytime. that also means you will have to have a server for them. downloading high quality blu-rays fills it very fast, you will have to buy new hdd x2. you will have to buy a larger server rack or take away the old hdd's before inserting new ones, this would mean you must do unnecessary work before you can watch your kinos. running that server will consume a lot of electricity. it will close down the gap where you saved money by pirating the movies instead of just buying the physical media for it.
Anon, I literally have an old thinkcentre from like 2018 running two 16tb hard drives in my closet. 32tb of storage space. I have over 100 shows, multiple seasons. I have over 500 movies. They are all 265x encodes which take about 1gb per episode, 2-3gb per movie. I also have over 400 anime shows, literally over 10k episodes on that alone. At the moment its taking 19tb. I also have another 16tb external that I use to keep anything that's extremely rare just in case. I don't know about other anons but for me it wasn't even 1k that it cost me to get that setup and I'm running it with Plex. Literally the most basic b***h setup that anyone that bothers to watch a couple of youtube tutorials can do. I'm not running a whole closet full of hard drives and some company grade server here. But just with that, I can watch anything I want, whenever I want across multiple devices. If I want something that isn't there then it is less than an hour searching for it and downloading it. No having to drive anywhere, order anything online and having to wait till it gets there.
>>no commentaries
>>no outtakes
>>no making of documentaries
Download from QxR, Sartre, HevK, or the like.
>Le wacky quirky clever anti-physical media post!
Physical media is kino and based
unironically a:10 v:10 thanks yify
>Wall has 7 shelves, most likely holding around 120-150 DVDs per shelf. Let's say 120 minimum.
>That's about 840 on that wall alone.
>If the other two walls are just as big that's 840 per wall.
>That's around 2,520 DVDs. Let's even it out at 2.5k then.
>Let's say each DVD was around 2 dollars, bargain bin walmart type shit at the minimum.
>That's at least 5k worth of physical media.
5k is more than enough to turn that room in to a media center with a computer set up on the network as a server and you can at least get 50tb of storage. Hell, you can set up a Plex Server and give your family access to it so they can stop using streaming services. You'd probably have enough money to set up an on and off site backup too.
I'd rather have a space in my house dedicated to make it cozy and nice rather than wasting a whole room to a huge plastic fire hazzard death trap.
>rents it on YouTube for $2
My bro is a physical media guy. I'm a digital hoarder. My collection:
>mogs the shit out of his
>A fraction of the cost
>A fraction of the storage
you also forgot
>fraction of his quality
It’s digital data either way unless he has fricking laserdisc or filmreels
I dont want random shit cluttering my house. I just rip movies to hard drives.
>open jackett+qbit
>search weird taiwanese movie from the 80s
>find Remux
>watch movie in highest quality available
Theguy on the bottom looks like he takes a lot of pills. Blood pressure, depression, weight loss, hair loss, impotence (obesity lowers testosterone which increases impotence) really just anything he can stuff in his mouth.
And I have physical media, but for movies and shows I just pirate and put it all on an external hard drive which then connects to my plex account. That way it costs me nothing to perpetually update whenever a 2160p release pops up. You know I just checked and I have something like 750 movies in 2160p? Out of around 2200.