Missed opportunity IMO there should totally be a piracy product or site called VHS

That one is on DVD, actually

I have a media converter made from a raspberry pi I use for all of my old consoles so I can play them on modern TVs. I bet it would work great for vhs tapes as well. Tape degradation might be a different issue though...

I started building an all-BluRay collection back in 2018. I saw the writing on the wall when I would go to watch a movie with friends on streaming and it would be gone.

Almost all of my favorite movies are mine now. I see a lot of comments talking about pirating, but for me personally, the display I get and being able to just have guests grab from the wall is a lot cooler than scrolling.

Not to mention, some of them are quite collectible. It’s neat having some movies that are really rare and I know I had to work to find them.

There are some still around believe it or not. There's one local to me that's been around forever. They don't have anything that's exclusive to streaming services, but that have loads of new movies and a massive collection of old movies. They're pretty handy to get movies that are in limbo due to rights disputes.

In the movie, Robert Downey Jr's character said...

I know you're talking about Tropic Thunder, but how many other people would?

Burn your "acquired media" to physical media now folks. The powers that be are purposely limiting physical media so the have an excuse to phase it out

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Even if the internet dies.

Sneaker net was here before . And will be here afterwards..

Sneakernet - Wikipedia

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how about fucking don't? Local Libraries are our friends!

It would be a funny comment if that were not a very real attack used against libraries.

you got Blu Rays from before Steamboat Willy?

We'll just start doing what we did before the internet: go to each other homes and copy from their source.

Many libraries have large DVD collections.

Keep a 13-inch TV around?

Meanwhile NZB will still exist and never targeted. Funny how they hate torrents so much when NZB is superior and easier.

My vcr and all old consoles actually work fine on my shitty insignia flat-screen. But I'd rather play on my crt or projector tv.

You got it backwards. The Sith are the corpos and the resistance is piracy.

I like that blu-ray looked at the DVD logo and said “we can italicize more than that”

Blu-ray still has functional DRM. DVDs only, thank you. With backup on magnetic.