Comment on Commentary, behind-the-scenes features, bloopers: What did we lose when we said goodbye to DVDs?
VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoHa no I’m not an iPhone user but regardless a phone is useful as it allows me to live more efficiently - not traveling to have every important conversation saves resources on its own and there’s thousands of other practical uses – wasting resources needlessly just to be a hipster is totally different.
I just find it funny that lemmy on one hand clmaours to cheer on terrorism in the name of the climate and all that stuff but simultaneous gets super mad any time anyone suggests the slightest lifestyle change for the sake of the environment - even if it’s objectively better.
DVD is a digital format so if you want to watch it in that lowered quality then you can download it in that codec and get literally exactly the same experience - but no, you need an entire wastful industry making short lived plastic disks just to make you feel superior to everyone using the objectively better technology.
Let the DVD factories close, stop making chemical coated plastic needlessly and grow up.
You know there are still a lot of people in North America alone that don’t have good enough internet to stream movies, right?
Are they just supposed to sit and stare at the wall? Railing about DVD trash in a landfill seems… pointless, compared to all the other ways we’re poisoning the planet. Weird battle to fight and especially cast stones at someone else for.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
No, DVDs/Blurays are the only way the average consumer can get perpetual access to content. If companies stop making DVDs/Blurays, they’re not going to suddenly offer DRM-free downloads, they’ll just force people to use their streaming service.
If you pirate, you’re not helping to solve the problem for the average person. Buy physical media to show companies that permanent access to content is still wanted.
VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Dvd is 480p so let’s not cry about only getting over twice the pixels through a stream, dvd also has jank compression compared to most streaming codex.
And I don’t pirate, I just watch higher quality content that isn’t proprietary by focusing on small creators especially those making under copy left licensing or cc0 like Jago Hazard
Why would I care what a billion or trillion dollar corporation wants to brainwash me with? You’re never going to see honest opinions in a Marvel movie or accurate social commentary, how many times do I need a film with the moral message ‘rich people are good actually’
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yes, DVD quality does suck, which is why I also included Bluray, which is 1080p for standard, or 4k for the Ultra HD. I get DVDs of animated kids shows (e.g. Bluey), and Blurays of feature-length movies.
And I don’t get movies for the moral, I get them for the cinematography, acting, storytelling, and special effects, all of which are way higher quality than what smaller creators can manage. I also watch content from smaller creators, and perhaps more from them vs the big studios, but I do like watching a full-length film from a major studio.
The key, IMO, is to not fall into the trap of thinking you own content you “bought” digitally. Digital licenses can be and have been revoked (see RedBox closure, and Sony’s attempted revocation of content). It doesn’t really matter what you choose to watch, just understand when you actually own content, and when you’re just renting it.