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I’ve been ripping Blu-ray and dvd for 15 years or so and have hundreds of movies. Watching all of LOTR each year without switching discs is nice. Having kids
by prepend 5y ago
I’ve been ripping Blu-ray and dvd for 15 years or so and have hundreds of movies.
Watching all of LOTR each year without switching discs is nice.
Having kids watch their stuff over and over without ads is nice.
- sumtechguy 5y agoI have a large collection of DVD/bluray/CDs. The real issue is management and storage of the physical medium. I had this ridiculous setup with DVD/CD carousels. Ripped it all and it is now some files on a share on a NAS. Wildly easier to use, also instead of 5 remotes I have 1. Before I bought the movies I was going to the theater a lot. The cost ratio was clearly in advantage of just buying the movie. With the advent of streaming that cost ratio shifted significantly towards renting/streaming again. However, the fragmentation and region lockouts of which service a show/movie is on that may switch back to discs again. Also some studios are starting to like the idea of re-editing the movies on the fly. You may be better off just buying again. I am already invested in 'buying' but if I were starting today I probably would not bother and just go all in on streaming. The GP basically is like a lot of people. They watch a movie and they are perfectly good never seeing it again or maybe a few years later. Renting is a perfectly good option for someone like that.