Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again

Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• _number8_@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  extras, commentaries, it’s nice seeing your favorite films on a shelf

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  • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I really don’t understand why they don’t include this stuff on streaming services.

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• jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Rip your own DVDs and you can have both, with redundancy

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or store them on a portable hdd and have redundancy without hoarding shiny plastic discs.

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• t_berium@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Physical media cannot be altered afterwards. That’s a thing Disney likes to do, for example.

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nobody is altering the movie file on my computer except me.

    Digital rips likewise can be lossless, so there’s no quality differences.

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  • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All of that can be achieved with digital media.

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• 0x0@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because the current trend is to ensure the consumer owns less and less and just pays monthly for access rights.

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, the current trend is piracy.

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    • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The current user trend may be piracy, the current corporate trend is You don’t own anything, pay a subscription.

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• RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because the discs will safely store that data for decades longer than any of your hard drives will likely work.

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