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

Host? Sounds like a problem I'm too "several large HDDs" to understand.

Check out the makemkv forums on drive advice. The gui makemkv should work as well, not so much anything relying on the command line tools (arm ripper, etc).

Handbrake is encoding software that works pretty well and can encode straight from disc.

VLC can also do it.

I have personally started dd'ing to iso then encoding the main feature from that for my server, and saving the iso separately just in case I really want to play those dumb dvd extra features and fbi warnings.

Ripping can be a pain, there's all kinds of encryption hoops to jump through, and I have come across a few dvds that I just couldn't rip no matter what I tried.

Wait, did they mess with lilo and stitch?

Anybody who has seen Tropic Thunder.

its a figure of speech, but that's not important right now.

Local Libraries allows us to lend media in a social way, and just like the Internet Archive are an important pillar to our society. But thats not how Media Companies see it that way and compares the Internet Archive with Piracy.

Torrenting is fine and dandy though, so is Soulseeking.

I've never cared about visual quality myself. I regularly play atari 2600 games so graphics are no where in my realm of care

I guess that's the point I'm trying to make. Not giving the name of the movie means either the comment wasn't for you (because you already know it), or that it doesn't actually help you.

Not the publishers fault, for the vast majority it's by choice and not necessity that they don't buy physical media anymore.

VHS? No thanks!

No, I ain't going back to VHS. The quality was horrible. I don't want to fiddle the with tracking.

The best thing about it was that you could easily record what was on the TV.

No you can still watch it, it hasn't been altered or removed...but they have also made a live action lilo & stitch, but watching it is optional so who the fuck cares.

People got lazy and threw away their stuff thinking streaming was the future. Some of us knew better because we know how capitalism works.

Own your media folks!

Digital Video Download

a fair and subjective opinion

Libraries are not pirates, and both being our friends doesn't make them the same thing.

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I just don't have nearly the amount of places to get them anymore. Still, I have a small wall worth of DVDs and Blu-ray.

A hand full of VHS as well.

I'm sure there's other "old" people here that never stopped sailing the seas. I started to use a computer in the mid 90ies and internet a few years later. From the start, there has been attempts at streaming. I remember using RealPlayer trying to stream some video while on dial-up, only to be just a bunch of pixels in a very tiny window. So you downloaded everything, and kept it because you didn't want to spend 45 minutes to download the very same song once again.

And I never stopped this practise. I still have my MP3 collection that I started 25 years ago. I still have .rm files from movies that I captured myself. I can't believe how much bandwidth we just waste on streaming stuff again and again.

Once, the zoomer trying to sell my a data plan for my phone couldn't believe I didn't need more than a few gigs a month. No, I don't stream music. No, I don't stream movies nor series. I download them once, store them, and enjoy them whenever I want. No censored episodes, no missing episodes, no ads, just the content.

Although I do buy some of my MP3s now if possible. If I can straight up pay to download MP3 files, like on Bandcamp, I will. I wish we could do the same for series and movies, but since we're absolutely not there, I'll just continue to sail the seas and fill up my hard drives.