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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.worldS
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    Virtual Home Streaming

  • R
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    Works, yes.

    that 480x(520)480 resolution tho...

  • dmmacniel@feddit.orgD
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    missing the point.

  • R
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    Even the fresh tapes don't hold up well to digital. That phosphor blur, small screen size and insane brightness made that picture look so much better than it really was. you spread that out to the large screen it looks rough.

    Video games with a lot of solid colors work well, but everything else is a horror show

  • P
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    Wow... an OG Disney fan...

  • burntwits@sh.itjust.worksB
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    I have a decent dvd/blu-ray collection and was hoping to rip them and put them on Jellyfin. I haven’t ever ripped video before, only CDs and that was a long time ago. I also would have to pick up a usb disc reader or similar since I don’t have one in my machine. Any suggestions on applications to use or external disc readers to look out for? I’m running Linux not windows.

  • S
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    Welcome to the land of mkv! Get your hand brake ready.

  • S
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    My Spotify playlists get greyed-out sections in them with disturbing regularity. As soon as I figure out how to download them without installing software that gives me a million viruses, I'll be deleting my account...

  • S
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    I started doing that a while back, but quickly realized that it's both faster and less effort to torrent those same movies than to fanny about ripping the discs...

  • O
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    I wonder how tough it would be for someone to start a DVD cottage industry, replicating the old Netflix model, where you mail hard copies of pirated movies upon request? I already order hard copies of movies from Amazon if I know I want them in my collection permanently, but damn, sometimes those are pricey as hell

  • O
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    Someone will figure out a way to allow micro-transactions where you pay a small fee to piggyback on existing subscriptions, so you don't have to pay for everything, you can just drop three bucks to use part of an account that a subscriber isn't using

  • S
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    I think I did, what is it?

  • remembertheapollo_@lemmy.worldR
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    Or save them redundantly to several archive-quality hdds. Why have 20 blu-ray dvds for one copy of a collection when you could have 3 complete copies on 3 hdd. Both are life limited media, both will eventually require re-archiving. One has potential for mechanical failure, the other more likely to physically degrade. Pick your poison, or do one of each.

  • blackmist@feddit.ukB
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    Yeah, but that's not some massive conspiracy to remove them. They just don't sell, like CDs before them. Blu-ray never really won its format war. It just staved off the execution of discs for a few years.

    £25 for one movie is a hard sell when it will come to Disney+ in a month. Even more so when it can get you a VPN for 6 months and you can have it now.

  • O
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    The extended DVD for 40 Year Old Virgin features all the "how I know you're gay" that didn't make the movie itself. I giggled extensively.

  • blackmist@feddit.ukB
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    Probably the same software tbh. Handbrake. Whatever you choose, it's nearly all ffmpeg under the hood.

    Downloading might still be better, depending if you're in the subtitles gang or not. Disc subtitles are ugly af, and might not play without transcoding on some devices.

  • T
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    What's wrong with Curiosity?

  • D
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    Does it require a subscription? If it does they will make it worse and worse as they try to squeeze out every last penny they can from it. Maybe not today or tomorrow but eventually. Or they'll close shop and you'll have nothing to show for it. Unless they let you download videos that are drm free . Which I doubt