• ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
      6·
      11 days ago

      Because I’m uncreative, I’m just going to steal the joke from Sseth.

      Because the vehicle in From Software’s game, Elden Ring, is called “Torrent”, I can’t wait for the next From Soft character “Punjabi Codex Denuvo, pre-cracked Novirus [MeGusta]”.

  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    34·
    11 days ago

    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

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
      13·
      11 days ago

      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.

    • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
      6·
      11 days ago

      No they’re not, hard drives are for sale everywhere and not being phased out any time soon.

    • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
      6·
      11 days ago

      Genuinely curious how are publishers limiting physical media? I haven’t bought a blu-ray in a long while.

        • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          5·
          11 days ago

          Not the publishers fault, for the vast majority it’s by choice and not necessity that they don’t buy physical media anymore.

        • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
          8·
          11 days ago

          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.

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      9 days ago

      “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.

    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      Workin’ on it! Got me a used laptop that’s about as recent as possible to still have a slim bluray slot built in. Learning all the things.

  • jaxxed@lemmy.ml
    21·
    11 days ago

    I was in a car with one of them there blu-ray players, and it turned out there was actually disc in, so we tried to use it. After 15 minutes of unskippable content, we finally got to the start of the film and wanted to select language/subtitles - and it wouldn’t let us. 20 mins wasted.

    DVDs and BlueRay were crap, we just forgot.

        • theangryseal@lemmy.world
          5·
          11 days ago

          Good old two disc VCDs. Man I miss those days.

          I was happy to get a DVD burner though. My best friend and I had Netflix and we’d rip everything that came in the mail. A huge book full of movies and tv shows.

          Good times.

          We had no phone, no cable, no internet. Most creative time in my life.

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 days ago

      Man if there was only a convenient program that can be used to make mkv’s from optical media

    • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 days ago

      Exactly just like CD’s huge, unpractical and fragile.
      While you could have mp3’s and movie files at about the same time.
      I don’t understand people’s choices sometimes, and now I can’t get how everyone pays for this ridiculous Spotify, with it’s scummy practices and worse, when you’re at some houseparty and the host asks what I want to hear it doesn’t have my music since it’s not mainstream enough.
      Glad I’m old and don’t have to deal with this BS where consumers can choose from the same multinational corporate pushed garbage they hear everywhere and nothing else.
      And they’re OK with it too since it’s all they know.

  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    11 days ago

    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!

    • Jesus@lemmy.world
      6·
      11 days ago

      I’d still rather have on demand streaming over broadcast. Having to time-shift by recording live shows was super annoying.

        • Jesus@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 days ago

          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.

    • Jerb322@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 days ago

      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.

  • otacon239@lemmy.world
    18·
    11 days ago

    I started building an all-BluRay collection back in 2018. I saw the writing on the wall when I would go to watch a movie with friends on streaming and it would be gone.

    Almost all of my favorite movies are mine now. I see a lot of comments talking about pirating, but for me personally, the display I get and being able to just have guests grab from the wall is a lot cooler than scrolling.

    Not to mention, some of them are quite collectible. It’s neat having some movies that are really rare and I know I had to work to find them.

    • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
      7·
      11 days ago

      I highly suggest that you make ripped backups. I learned the hard way, I digitised my grandfather’s CD collection and some of his DVDs, some of which were already damaged beyond repair. Some of his broken DVDs are less than 20 years old. They are not scratched, they are in mint condition.

      • otacon239@lemmy.world
        8·
        11 days ago

        Yeah. Was thinking of starting that this year. Getting ready to switch my last Windows machine to Linux and it’s the one running the BluRay drive. Linux is way easier to rip with.

        • BurntWits@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          11 days ago

          I have a decent dvd/blu-ray collection and was hoping to rip them and put them on Jellyfin. I haven’t ever ripped video before, only CDs and that was a long time ago. I also would have to pick up a usb disc reader or similar since I don’t have one in my machine. Any suggestions on applications to use or external disc readers to look out for? I’m running Linux not windows.

          • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
            5·
            11 days ago

            Probably the same software tbh. Handbrake. Whatever you choose, it’s nearly all ffmpeg under the hood.

            Downloading might still be better, depending if you’re in the subtitles gang or not. Disc subtitles are ugly af, and might not play without transcoding on some devices.

            • BurntWits@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              11 days ago

              Good to know. I’m not picky on subtitles but my wife needs them. A friend of mine is very familiar with the high seas so I may consider getting his help instead.

          • Cenzorrll@lemmy.world
            3·
            11 days ago

            Check out the makemkv forums on drive advice. The gui makemkv should work as well, not so much anything relying on the command line tools (arm ripper, etc).

            Handbrake is encoding software that works pretty well and can encode straight from disc.

            VLC can also do it.

            I have personally started dd’ing to iso then encoding the main feature from that for my server, and saving the iso separately just in case I really want to play those dumb dvd extra features and fbi warnings.

            Ripping can be a pain, there’s all kinds of encryption hoops to jump through, and I have come across a few dvds that I just couldn’t rip no matter what I tried.

  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
    17·
    11 days ago

    Luckily I saved all of my blu-rays. And, bonus: they’re all good movies from before Disney went to shit

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
      4·
      11 days ago

      I just got mine set up with a custom domain name and CloudFlare tunnel, it seems to work a treat. Now to start selling user accounts… 🤔

      • GenChadT@programming.dev
        1·
        11 days ago

        Gods I could never figure out how in the hell to get Tunnels working, though I’d like to try it again someday and use one of my domains. For now Tailscale works.

        • Agent641@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 days ago

          I actually tried for two days to figure it out, and failed, and gave up. Then I came back monthly later and tried again, and it worked in 20 minutes. The CloudFlare UX is atrocious and exceptionally confusing. I still don’t know what I did differently to make it work.

  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
    15·
    11 days ago

    Casual reminder, Sony and Intel tried to tether Blu-ray discs to SGX DRM, which was killed just a few years after they introduced the standard, rendering all of your SGX DRM Blu-rays unplayable on PC. They disabled it so quickly, because people could use Intel SGX DRM for remote code execution in your machine, below the operating system and kernel level.

    Also, if you have one of the CPUs which still has SGX DRM, congratulations, you have a hardware Trojan! Digital restrictions management is a cancer because look at what it does in reality, vs. what they say. Who came up with this?

  • MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    13·
    10 days ago

    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.

      • MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        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.

        • JabbaTheThott@lemmy.world
          1·
          9 days ago

          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