Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.
beefcat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
blu-rays are often as cheap or cheaper than “digital copies”, and ripping them is pretty trivial these days thanks to makemkv.
the best part is, uncle jeff cannot legally break into your house and take back the disc just because of some petty rights issue.
I just bought a big ass TV, and I’ve just started buying discs for movies I truly want to own for a few reasons.
You own it, period.
Even if you trust Amazon, do you trust your ISP to stream 4K reliably on demand? I don’t. Fuck Comcast.
A physical collection just kind of looks nice, especially if you fork out for Steelbooks and only buy your favorites. Steelbooks on eBay are like ~$30.
Hey! Don’t point that out or they’ll add it to the TOS!
Not yet, anyway
PrawoJazdy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I recently bought a 4k Blu-ray player. My brother asked me if I also bought a fax machine because streaming is “where it’s at” . Nah My 4k player cleans up DVDs really nice where streaming has artifacts and banding. Not only is it true ownership but a better quality.
beefcat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
4k streaming is also way lower quality than a 4k blu-ray
stonedemoman@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That is misinformation. The quality disparity you’re both pointing out is from streaming services compressing their media to much lower bitrates to ease bandwidth stress on their servers/clients and has nothing to do with a physical or digital medium.
beefcat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
lower bitrate == lower quality when using the same compression algorithms.
most streaming services are using h.265, same as 4k blu ray, but at substantially lower bitrates