I've been buying DVDs of my favorite movies and shows slowly to build up a physical collection so I can stop being subject to the whims of streamers and syndicated versions of episodes.
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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men who profit from physical media want you to buy physical media, more news at 11
I prefer physical units, but.. I'm actually worried about my games. Like ok, I have many games I never put in drive, because I have no time to play, but.. Will it mean I won't be able to install them if disc has only key to online storage? There's so many problems with current devices and releases I can't even name them all
I'd buy downloads too, if they came without drm
Ditto.
DRM only harms legitimate consumers. Pirates take it out.
legitimate consumers don't care about DRM lol
They do when you can't watch the Blu-ray you just bought because it requires online validation each playback and your player isn't internet connected.
Or when Uplay interferes with your games and even installs malware that damages machines.
Or perhaps it's not being able to access software because it's now a subscription racket and they've conned you into thinking it's a service, but it's just DRM, but oh no, their account severs have been down all week and you're gonna miss the deadline.
All of these examples harm lawful consumers, piracy us, and always will be unaffected.
This! Sell me MKVs and produce a little less plastic.
I would and have at appropriate prices.
There's even a great sale right now on physical media, 18TB Easystores for $199!
just got some a few days ago. sweet sweet storage
Physical media? Arrrr' Arrr Captain!
If you can't bury it under the sand it's not physical media.
it's weird that they don't even mention that streaming quality is crap compared to physical media.
Like when Amazon converted their entire catalogue to HEVC... From their AVC catalogue. It looked atrocious. they even capped bandwidth. Any snow, or trees, or even asphalt and it became a blocky mess.
4K bluray tends to be very expensive in my country.
On the other hand, some stuff only exists as digital that will never have an (official) physical release: Star Wars Despecialized comes to mind.
Then stop making steelbooks shitty best buy exclusive with 4 copies made total.
They don't realize that those blue rays, and CDs, etc. aren't physical mediums either, but the sentiment is nice. It's much better to promote data storage in a library. Almost as if we should be able to trump IP laws in the case of digital preservation, but that only works until the librarian has a problem with what's being preserved.
Obviously they must be unaware of the situation here in Australia which I guess will be progressively rolled out around the entire planet. You'll be unable to "physically own" something that's never going to exist in the first instance.
Disney has decided to cease the sale of DVDs and Blu-rays in Australia.
Import them. They're just proving that region coding is anti-consumer ;)
In Australia you can also buy Multi Region bluray players.
No, because it cost too much. With them putting out edition after edition. I torrent both of their stuff. No shame in my torrent game. And who really thinks that blu-rays and the Blu-ray player will exist in generations to come? Incase you haven't noticed blu-ray player sales are a fraction of what they were 10, even 5 years ago. No one wants one. Thats why no one buys them. Only collectors have them in any meaningful numbers.
I was looking for “Love Rollercoaster” today on Apple Music, and it’s not available to stream (that I could tell?), so I’ll be off to Discogs at some point to track down that soundtrack.
Physical media is the only way to make sure you can listen to or watch what you want to when you want to.
id love to own a blue ray collection if blue ray wasnt DRM hell on PC i have a HD-DVD/BR player in my HTPC running linux and i could never ever play a blue ray due to DRM issues
I'd love to buy but they can be too expensive and it's not that straight forward to digitalize them.
I hate when people mix the physical media aspect with the control issue. No, you do NOT need to waste resources for a company to copy the data onto a disc, then transport that disc to your home, only for you to copy it to your drive. You have a high speed data connection to the world, use it! The thing that matters is that you control the media in an open format that nobody else can revoke or alter.
That claim to be making a stand against media vanishing but they're suggesting people avoid that risk by buying DRM-riddled physical discs that WILL eventually succumb to bit rot long before "generations to come".
They're either being disingenuous or they are so far removed from the reality of how their works exist in the context of the end viewer as too render their views valueless.
If they actually cared they would be insisting that their works were released on physical discs AND downloads presented with zero DRM and then encourage viewers to understand about backing up their media. They're probably some of the few directors with enough clout to try to make that happen.
In short they are taking out of their SCART sockets.
Streaming volume is always subpar compared to the real thing.
I'm not going back to buy Blu-Ray or DVDs. Now, if they start selling the 60-80GB Blu-Ray file and let me play it wherever I want, why not?