I was talking about blu-rays

Bluray was always luxury.

Laserdisk, I had this friend who collected all sorts of junk and this was impressive Tek from decades ago.

I agree - if they stop piracy, i will start selling copies of my stash for the cost of the Hdds to clone to and the time it took me to copy the files, under the pretense that they do the same for others. free delivery!

hmmm somewhat of an offline torrent lol

and fill up my hard drives.

This is the real cost of your method. Luckily hard drive costs halve every 2 years or so.

Why not talk about floppy discs?

Just because Blu-Rays are going away, does not mean physical media is going away. We have better physical media options, use them.

oh man I used to have (way long ago, the statue of limitations has crumbled) the most extensive collection of early simpsons. then my family started buying me plastic simpson head collections for birthdays and holidays, so I stopped downloading. still have a great collection.

now instead my hard drive is filled with so much music. more music than games, which my wife refuses to believe (but half of it is hers).

and we have an entire cd collection, and vinyl collection to rip if I ever get bored.

there was this old blues program on the local npr station that I'd listen to religiously in high school. I was trying to learn sax. I kind of did, but I've got a stack of those tapes taller than me. I just right now found out the guy who ran the program died last month so I'm trying to dig out a cassette deck. here's a song i got off his program.

While we do have floppy disks, the storage capacity limitations do not make them practical in today's era

I wouldn't consider floppies superior to Blu-ray.

Perhaps even a crime.

And, pray tell, where does the material on your hdds come from? Would it happen to be peers kind enough to host the material for your consumption?

Thats why you grab a lifetime of stuff now

I was in a car with one of them there blu-ray players, and it turned out there was actually disc in, so we tried to use it. After 15 minutes of unskippable content, we finally got to the start of the film and wanted to select language/subtitles - and it wouldn't let us. 20 mins wasted.

DVDs and BlueRay were crap, we just forgot.

The corpo sold ones were.
The ones you could DIY, on the other hand...

I keep bards and othersuch minstrels in the back yard (don't worry, they're fenced in) and have them play for me whenever I clap my hands. I can clap them off too

They look okay on CRTs hooked up with composite. I tried watching one on a modern LCD and yeah it was awful.

I watched my first anime, Tenchi Muyo, by streaming it on Real Player at like 90p.

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This post made me realize something.

Up until blu ray, the value proposition for buying electronics was always an absolute upgrade over the old tech.

You could do everything you wanted with DVDs that you could do with VHS and more (rewind, commentary).

Same thing with blue ray, sure the price might not have been worth the quality bump, but it was superior technology.

Ever since fucking Netflix it’s the opposite, the quality is lower and no extras + you lose access.

Seriously, Netflix introduced the idea of treating digital customers like shit by giving less for more and it worked so everyone is following it

Exactly just like CD's huge, unpractical and fragile.
While you could have mp3's and movie files at about the same time.
I don't understand people's choices sometimes, and now I can't get how everyone pays for this ridiculous Spotify, with it's scummy practices and worse, when you're at some houseparty and the host asks what I want to hear it doesn't have my music since it's not mainstream enough.
Glad I'm old and don't have to deal with this BS where consumers can choose from the same multinational corporate pushed garbage they hear everywhere and nothing else.
And they're OK with it too since it's all they know.

Some players/remotes are more helpful than others.

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