eee@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Piracy
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The streaming services have managed to completely forget their business model of being marginally more convenient than piracy.
As for me, though, I’ll start ripping my DVDs. I’ll sail the high seas when I have to, but I’d may as well get hard copies of my favourite films and TV shows.
Until Disney decides it better to quit the physical market (they did it already in one region)
And that’s where the piracy comes in. How do you think I’ve been watching The Owl House?
By subscribing to D+, surrendering your soul, finding out that it’s unavailable in your region, trying to import the BD/DVD, failing because of import tax or shipping not offered to that region and then dusting of the good black hat and saying Arrr matey?
Depends on the quality of the rip. As far as streaming goes, yes the Blu-ray will always look and sound better due to the huge bitrate difference. Netflix says “oh it’s 4k!” Okay great, but resolution has little to do with quality. It’s all how much information is available per second (bitrate).
My SamsungTV + native Netflix App could show the bitrate when pressing info on the remote.
If you paid $500~ for your TV, not probably not. If you’ve got a $2k OLED yes (4k Bluray though)
kambusha@feddit.ch 1 year ago
The sad thing is that people would pay if it just wasn’t so frustrating. I remember coming home from a NYE 10yrs ago or so, and had made up my mind to watch the latest season of Vikings. I was ready to pay for it, and there literally was no legal way for me to get it. So I sailed the high seas.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wait… You’re telling me people will pay for quality service and convenience? That’s crazy!