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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.

Skip doesn't work? Try menu, fast forward, etc

Oh look at Mr rich with his DVD burner. In our house we databurned videos to CDs and we LIKED it

Fuck the blu-ray consortium.

Good. I'm wanting to build a NAS soon.

Where is Plex on this image?

yes, it was horrible. There's like 10 minutes of ads that you PAY for. Also corruption for scratches and fiddling with the player were painful

piracy is best

Good old two disc VCDs. Man I miss those days.

I was happy to get a DVD burner though. My best friend and I had Netflix and we’d rip everything that came in the mail. A huge book full of movies and tv shows.

Good times.

We had no phone, no cable, no internet. Most creative time in my life.

I'm finally ready to embrace Blu-ray.

I was buying every season of it’s always sunny, now they don’t even make physical copies. They stopped at like season 10.

For a second, I thought Curiosity had gone enshittified lol. I don't mind paying the subscription because they are what cable documentary channels used to be.

Broadcast had its charm. I feel like I discovered more things.

Just the other day I learned about m-discs, so burn to that for archiving using your BR burner.

Never heard of them, had to look it up. Seems kinda a spotty record depending on the manufacturer.

May I interest you in the [email protected] wiki/megathread? Yo ho yo ho...

I support creators as I can, but when there's literally no other option to own it in a way it can't be just taken from you I don't feel there's any strong argument against it.

I have loads of DVDs and a lot more VHS tapes but you don't exactly keep watching the same thing over and over again, except a few favorites. Buying a mediocre movie just to watch once will have you thinking about how much it's worth the space and money.

OTOH, here at least, you are allowed to have/create a backup of your media, so having rips of those is no issue and they are more convenient.

At least that means you have the lethal weapon episodes!

hard drive costs halve every 2 years or so.

Where did you get halves from? Maybe if you're buying refurb/low-cap/shuck-drives on sale...? Not even the 2 year price projections (which are usually extremely optimistic) are anywhere near halving for higher-cap drives.

Even now, the only thing you'd get even nearing the optimal $10/TB mark would be a shuck-drive on sale as far as I can tell. Whereas the cheapest non-shuck is like $12.50/TB, but you'll most likely be wasting tons of time RMAing it within a year anyways because it's Sea*ate