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.

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.