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I pulled out of all clouds when it comes to my personal stuff recently (including streaming stuff, I just store music, movies and shows locally like I did 15 ye
by nehal3m 2y ago
I pulled out of all clouds when it comes to my personal stuff recently (including streaming stuff, I just store music, movies and shows locally like I did 15 years ago). I didn't realize I missed the simplicity so much. Just back up your stuff every now and again and you're fine, no fees, no syncing, no requirement for a connection. Offline first. Storage is cheap as chips now so there's not much of a barrier for I imagine most people.
- dogma1138 2y agoThe problem is that it’s very hard to do so either legally or affordable and often both.
- nehal3m 2y agoI disagree, 192kpbs music and DVD quality movies and shows are fine with me and the disk space requirements are low. Classics are dirt cheap and ripping them is trivial.
- dogma1138 2y agoGetting hard copy content is getting quite difficult and very expensive, that may work for “classics” especially if you can get them 2nd hand. But the amount of new content that isn’t released on anything but digital media is very significant. DVDs of new movies are £10-15 in the UK still, shows are much more than that if they even get a DVD or a non-digital release to begin with. Unless your content consumption is low it’s going to cost many multiples than what even paying for 2-3 streaming services does per year.
- nehal3m 2y agoI get music and DVD's from thrift stores and my local eBay equivalent. So yeah there's definitely a cutoff. You're right, the newer stuff is difficult if not impossible to get a physical copy of. I just don't bother. I go see a movie in theaters every now and again but I'm 500% done with modern streaming platforms.
- dogma1138 2y agoThat’s perfectly fine but when a monthly streaming charge is the same as a single DVD movie it’s poses a very different calculation for most households. When you are looking to get content for children it becomes even harder and more expensive.
- beej71 2y agoThe library is also a great source of DVDs.
- dogma1138 2y agoTechnically illegal to rip from a library DVD and having movies in a library is very much as US thing.
- acka 2y agoHaving movies in a library is definitely not a US only thing. Here in my European country, most if not all libraries carry movies on DVD and Blu-Ray, including the very latest releases. I'm pretty sure the same goes for most European countries.
- histories 2y agoThen do it illegally. And having storage is cheaper than having subscriptions.
- dogma1138 2y agoThat’s fine, point still holds if you aren’t going to contribute to a discussion consider if it’s worth replying in the first place.
- WWWMMMWWW 2y agoThey made a very valid contribution. On the prior point of is it affordable, local storage is not just affordable, but is now cheaper than a subscription.
- shrimp_emoji 2y agoI never stopped. ;D Renting nerfed media forever always sounded like a bad deal to me. I'll own everything and be happy.
- dogma1138 2y agoWhilst not owning isn’t ideal before streaming most people still rented movies at blockbuster et al rather than buying. And for TV we had reruns either on primary channels or for older content on the various basic cable “syndication” channels.
- xylol 2y agoWell, now renting can cost more than buying the actual physical movie :)
- dogma1138 2y agoEh… unless you are subbing to every streaming service out there it’s not. A new BluRay release is circa £20-30, DVDs are cheaper and also get actual discounted. When it gets really expensive is when you have kids at which point Disney+ which is £7.99 pays for itself in about a day.
- xylol 2y agoOh I meant cinema movies before they end up on streaming sites. The Dune 2 BluRay had cost 1 less than to borrow and stream it. Might be different from country to country but that was really an eye opener for me. Okay the stream was 4k the BluRay not, thats maybe the only point for the stream, but really that price, incredible.