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There's a simple solution to this: stop watching TV Consume media that you own. Buy physical copies. Pirate. Read. Play! We gave up control of our media and n

There's a simple solution to this: stop watching TV Consume media that you own. Buy physical copies. Pirate. Read. Play! We gave up control of our media and now we pikachu_sad_face.gif when it turns against us. This is what we get for being lazy consumers. Meanwhile those of us with hoardes of media files, DVDs, and Blu-Rays can sit atop our pile of entertainment and laugh at the peasants that gave it up

dudul 4y ago
Couldn't agree more. In my house, Han shoots first.
scarface74 4y ago
Waiting for the old Slashdot meme: “I haven’t owned a TV for 20 years. Do people still watch TV?” Yes how much have you spent for your “hoards” of DVDs?
- pdntspa 4y ago
  For some of us, a lot, but at the end of the day... it's paid for and ours in perpetuity. The will and greed of adversarial publishers means nothing to us. Can you say that about the cloud? Now that I think about it... I've probably spent less on my physical media than you've paid in subscription fees, in total. And again, I can do what I want with it.
  - scarface74 4y ago
    I’m slowly getting through all of the Star Trek series right now. The box sets for TNG, DS9 and Voyager alone are $135 each. I didn’t bother to look to see the cost of the box sets for TOS, ENT, and the movies. Let’s say around $900 in all. Paramount+ has all of those available for $9.99 a month and I can watch them while I’m traveling on my phone, my iPad, the hotel TV using the Roku stick I bring with me. Yes I know I can set up a Plex server and spend the time to rip all of those DVDs. Been there done that. I had a Mac Mini connected to my TV running Front Row from 2006-2012 and then a Plex server from 2012-2020. And that doesn’t take into account all of the new series that are only available for streaming - Discovery, Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks. If you’re not a ST fan, substitute whatever you are a fan of.
    - pdntspa 4y ago
      I've picked up the ST:TNG Blu-Rays and most of the movies for far less than MSRP. I mean if you want to pay retail price for everything than go right ahead... But the whole time-share cornucopia argument doesn't work for me because the video quality for most streaming is ass. Some of these shows it's like watching web videos in the 90s through RealPlayer Meanwhile AnyDVD HD and Plex licenses are cheap, and also perpetual!
      - scarface74 4y ago
        How much is your entire collection compared to $9.99 a month for Paramount+?
        pdntspa 4y ago
        I don't know (I get everything on sale or bargain bins, maybe a couple hundred bucks in total?) It's also unfair to not include Netflix, Disney+, a portion of Amazon Prime, and whatever else, multiplied times however many months you've been using them (so likely 50+) If you factor in the cash spent on computer hardware, software, and storage media, we're still sitting on maybe a thousand or two over a 10+ year period. But that gets murky as nearly all these things have other uses. I'd bet that still costs less than most households' cable/streaming bills over time Being extremely picky with your media consumption helps a ton!
        scarface74 4y ago
        I don’t need but one service to get all of the Star Trek episodes. Also, I used Star Trek as an example because it had by far the largest library of any franchise and the most box sets. Disney franchises are basically movies and streaming only TV series so it wasn’t as extreme as Star Trek. Besides, there are still a couple of gaps in their Marvel Universe library. Netflix really doesn’t have much worth paying for anymore. The only reason I keep it is because T-mobile gives me a $14 discount. Amazon Prime Video by itself wouldn’t even be something making it worth keeping Prime. I also get HBO Max free (for now) by having AT&T fiber for internet.

dudul 4y ago

Couldn't agree more. In my house, Han shoots first.

scarface74 4y ago

Waiting for the old Slashdot meme: “I haven’t owned a TV for 20 years. Do people still watch TV?” Yes how much have you spent for your “hoards” of DVDs?

pdntspa 4y ago
For some of us, a lot, but at the end of the day... it's paid for and ours in perpetuity. The will and greed of adversarial publishers means nothing to us. Can you say that about the cloud? Now that I think about it... I've probably spent less on my physical media than you've paid in subscription fees, in total. And again, I can do what I want with it.
- scarface74 4y ago
  I’m slowly getting through all of the Star Trek series right now. The box sets for TNG, DS9 and Voyager alone are $135 each. I didn’t bother to look to see the cost of the box sets for TOS, ENT, and the movies. Let’s say around $900 in all. Paramount+ has all of those available for $9.99 a month and I can watch them while I’m traveling on my phone, my iPad, the hotel TV using the Roku stick I bring with me. Yes I know I can set up a Plex server and spend the time to rip all of those DVDs. Been there done that. I had a Mac Mini connected to my TV running Front Row from 2006-2012 and then a Plex server from 2012-2020. And that doesn’t take into account all of the new series that are only available for streaming - Discovery, Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks. If you’re not a ST fan, substitute whatever you are a fan of.
  - pdntspa 4y ago
    I've picked up the ST:TNG Blu-Rays and most of the movies for far less than MSRP. I mean if you want to pay retail price for everything than go right ahead... But the whole time-share cornucopia argument doesn't work for me because the video quality for most streaming is ass. Some of these shows it's like watching web videos in the 90s through RealPlayer Meanwhile AnyDVD HD and Plex licenses are cheap, and also perpetual!
    - scarface74 4y ago
      How much is your entire collection compared to $9.99 a month for Paramount+?
      - pdntspa 4y ago
        I don't know (I get everything on sale or bargain bins, maybe a couple hundred bucks in total?) It's also unfair to not include Netflix, Disney+, a portion of Amazon Prime, and whatever else, multiplied times however many months you've been using them (so likely 50+) If you factor in the cash spent on computer hardware, software, and storage media, we're still sitting on maybe a thousand or two over a 10+ year period. But that gets murky as nearly all these things have other uses. I'd bet that still costs less than most households' cable/streaming bills over time Being extremely picky with your media consumption helps a ton!
        scarface74 4y ago
        I don’t need but one service to get all of the Star Trek episodes. Also, I used Star Trek as an example because it had by far the largest library of any franchise and the most box sets. Disney franchises are basically movies and streaming only TV series so it wasn’t as extreme as Star Trek. Besides, there are still a couple of gaps in their Marvel Universe library. Netflix really doesn’t have much worth paying for anymore. The only reason I keep it is because T-mobile gives me a $14 discount. Amazon Prime Video by itself wouldn’t even be something making it worth keeping Prime. I also get HBO Max free (for now) by having AT&T fiber for internet.