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You got it backwards. The Sith are the corpos and the resistance is piracy.
I’m not really sure what you mean. Yoda is responding to Obi-Wan who had just said “That boy is our last hope”. Yoda was referring to the fact that there is another Skywalker (Leia). So in this context, Luke would be physical media, Leia would be piracy, and the streaming services would be the Sith/Empire.
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I like that blu-ray looked at the DVD logo and said “we can italicize more than that”
This meme would be more accurate if you replace the girl he’s with with Fat Bastard from Austin Powers feasting from a trough of IP.
It’s just a shame that DVDs and Blu-Rays for new movies aren’t really made anymore. They’re just leaving money on the table at this point that bootleggers in Malaysia are getting instead.
But still, absolutely. DVD all the way. I fixed the cord I cut back in 2015 and I’m much better off for it.
There are still DVDs and Blurays being made for new movies. Some movies are 100% digital, but in my experience they tend to be the ones that the streaming platforms produce themselves and they have an interest in keeping people on their service.
But most other movies still get dvds and blurays made and are still sold in stores.
They come out with new releases all the time. Brick and mortar stores just don’t always carry them. In the past year Target and Best Buy stopped. Here’s a list of physical media that came out this week: https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=36930
Everyone seems to be telling me that there’s still new releases, but seemingly not for anything I’m interested in. The last Blu-Ray I’ve been able to pick up was WandaVision. There was a time where basically 100% of movies got physical releases and, acknowledging confirmation bias, it does feel like those times are gone.
What are the movies that haven’t gotten releases you’ve wanted? For me anything I’ve wanted has gotten a release lately, but I don’t watch the most niche movies. So perhaps that’s my confirmation bias
I guess it’s not technically a new movie, but I just bought the 4k blu ray rerelease of Dark City that came out this year. So there are still some new releases in the format.
#BackToThePast
I don’t really think men look back anymore nowadays
Burn your “acquired media” to physical media now folks. The powers that be are purposely limiting physical media so the have an excuse to phase it out
“The powers that be” aren’t doing some kind of nefarious thing here. Physical media is only worth producing if they’re doing it at incredibly high volumes. The smaller the run, the more expensive it is for each individual unit. Fewer and fewer people are buying, and there are fewer and fewer physical devices out there capable of playing the media.
For them, it’s a simple calculation of the cost of producing physical media, getting it from the factory to stores, paying the stores to shelve it, etc. vs. simply having a website with media files on it.
While there are some people who still prefer physical media, for the most part consumers also prefer just going to a website and clicking a button vs. driving to a store, parking, searching the shelves in the hope they have what they’re looking for, and so-on. In addition, as fewer companies put out physical media, it’s harder to find the physical media you want in the stores, so more people prefer to go online, which leads to less demand for physical media, fewer choices on the shelves, and more demand for streaming.
I’m sure the bonus of consumers rarely having a way to view a movie or listen to a song an unlimited number of times without paying is something the media companies also enjoy. But, the main reason physical media is disappearing isn’t some kind of conspiracy by the mysterious “powers that be”, it’s a simple profit calculation by accountants at Sony and Disney.
Or save them redundantly to several archive-quality hdds. Why have 20 blu-ray dvds for one copy of a collection when you could have 3 complete copies on 3 hdd. Both are life limited media, both will eventually require re-archiving. One has potential for mechanical failure, the other more likely to physically degrade. Pick your poison, or do one of each.
Just the other day I learned about m-discs, so burn to that for archiving using your BR burner.
Never heard of them, had to look it up. Seems kinda a spotty record depending on the manufacturer.
instructions unclear, set fire to my entire DVD collection
No they’re not, hard drives are for sale everywhere and not being phased out any time soon.
I was talking about blu-rays
Why not talk about floppy discs?
Just because Blu-Rays are going away, does not mean physical media is going away. We have better physical media options, use them.
While we do have floppy disks, the storage capacity limitations do not make them practical in today’s era
I wouldn’t consider floppies superior to Blu-ray.
Genuinely curious how are publishers limiting physical media? I haven’t bought a blu-ray in a long while.
I haven’t bought a blu-ray in a long while.
Exactly!
Not the publishers fault, for the vast majority it’s by choice and not necessity that they don’t buy physical media anymore.
Almost all big box stores are significantly limiting or completely removing physical media from their stores
Yeah, but that’s not some massive conspiracy to remove them. They just don’t sell, like CDs before them. Blu-ray never really won its format war. It just staved off the execution of discs for a few years.
£25 for one movie is a hard sell when it will come to Disney+ in a month. Even more so when it can get you a VPN for 6 months and you can have it now.
You should go to the flea market. No recent things but lots of choice for maximum 3€ the DVD.
this makes Greggs Turkington and the boys at the VFA very happy.
use libraries! they are great.
Just use jellyfish or kodi
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I could not get jellyfish to work
All these one size fits all media servers are aweful, i use rygel for now but it chokes on larger collections.
Try Jellyfin instead.
Maybe because its supposed to just be the jelly"fin" and not the whole fish. Might have complicated things for you.
People got lazy and threw away their stuff thinking streaming was the future. Some of us knew better because we know how capitalism works.
Own your media folks!
I just don’t have nearly the amount of places to get them anymore. Still, I have a small wall worth of DVDs and Blu-ray.
A hand full of VHS as well.
I’d still rather have on demand streaming over broadcast. Having to time-shift by recording live shows was super annoying.
Broadcast had its charm. I feel like I discovered more things.
I feel ya. There was nice to have a forcing function to give something new a chance for a bit.
It was also nice to not have everyone watching their own little micro-targeted version of reality.
Nah I don’t miss having to deal with region zones, they are such a pain… sure you can rip the disk, but you’re still left with a disk you bought yet can’t use because your players are deliberately sabotaged to not work.
I don’t miss using physical media either, they take up so much space… I’d need a mansion if I wanted to replace the content of my media server with physical media.
Region zones do indeed suck, but I installed custom firmware on my PS3 to remove the DVD/Blu-Ray region lock, and now it’s a non-issue.
And I use disc binders for most of my collection, unless it’s something I really want to display. Long-term, once my collection is complete, I do plan to rip everything.
VHS? No thanks!
