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I've gone back to physical media. Vinyl, CDs, Blu Rays and DVDs. I just buy what I like. I don't need a huge library, that actually gives me "choice paralysis"

I've gone back to physical media. Vinyl, CDs, Blu Rays and DVDs. I just buy what I like. I don't need a huge library, that actually gives me "choice paralysis" and I end up not watching/listening to anything. I still use Internet based services, for example I might find a new band because someone on Instagram posted about them. Or maybe I listen to an album on streaming before deciding if I'm buying it. Oh and some live music venues have Youtube live streaming (e.g. Smalls jazz club). With movies, of course I might watch a movie trailer or a review on YouTube. Speaking of movies, the situation is different because unlike music, I can't actually find most of my favourites on streaming services. However more often than not, you can rent them online, so I might rent (but never buy!) a movie through Apple, YouTube etc., then if I like it and think I want to watch it again, I will buy a Blu-ray. But I kinda gave up on pure streaming services such as Netflix etc. since their catalogue is so shallow. This obviously doesn't work for everyone, if your way of listening to music is just "Hey Alexa play a smooth jazz playlist while I cook" then of course streaming is the right thing for you. Same if you just like to watch movies casually and you're not a film buff, in that case Netflix & co. are OK.

cyberax 1y ago
I'm buying BluRays and then just ripping them. This also is the only real way to get 3D videos. None of the streaming services support them.
- robertlagrant 1y ago
  Where do you put the rips?
  - nekusar 1y ago
    Is a storage server that far fetched these days? Im seeing prices now around $10/TB for storage. Not fast, sure, but with 8 x 16TB disks, you get 128TB storage, and with RAID6 96TB. And thats only $1300 And if you architect the storage server right, you can use NFS on that and do all your exports to various docker containers and VMs. Proxmox makes setting this up pretty painless. And if you have money to burn and want screaming fast, go with some of the NVME drives and combined cards. Then you can do this near-solid state and also reduce your form factor a LOT. We're in the middle of basically every major "service company" enshittifying or already done so. Services are getting worse, costs are going up, and they're slow-boiling everyone to extract as much money from both customers and businesses. So, running this stuff yourself is the only way to retain your freedom and control.
    - robertlagrant 1y ago
      Sorry, I think there's been a misunderstanding. I'm just asking where the OP stores the rips.
      - chucksta 1y ago
        That answer means a local NAS of some sort
  - cyberax 1y ago
    A local NAS, I have 40Tb of storage and I barely watch 10-20 movies a year. I also started transcoding them into 4k H.265 files.
ChuckMcM 1y ago
This. I had ripped a bunch of DVDs and had them on my NAS, sort of like NetFlix where the movies are all ones you like and they are never "leaving soon" :-).

cyberax 1y ago

I'm buying BluRays and then just ripping them. This also is the only real way to get 3D videos. None of the streaming services support them.

robertlagrant 1y ago
Where do you put the rips?
- nekusar 1y ago
  Is a storage server that far fetched these days? Im seeing prices now around $10/TB for storage. Not fast, sure, but with 8 x 16TB disks, you get 128TB storage, and with RAID6 96TB. And thats only $1300 And if you architect the storage server right, you can use NFS on that and do all your exports to various docker containers and VMs. Proxmox makes setting this up pretty painless. And if you have money to burn and want screaming fast, go with some of the NVME drives and combined cards. Then you can do this near-solid state and also reduce your form factor a LOT. We're in the middle of basically every major "service company" enshittifying or already done so. Services are getting worse, costs are going up, and they're slow-boiling everyone to extract as much money from both customers and businesses. So, running this stuff yourself is the only way to retain your freedom and control.
  - robertlagrant 1y ago
    Sorry, I think there's been a misunderstanding. I'm just asking where the OP stores the rips.
    - chucksta 1y ago
      That answer means a local NAS of some sort
- cyberax 1y ago
  A local NAS, I have 40Tb of storage and I barely watch 10-20 movies a year. I also started transcoding them into 4k H.265 files.

ChuckMcM 1y ago

This. I had ripped a bunch of DVDs and had them on my NAS, sort of like NetFlix where the movies are all ones you like and they are never "leaving soon" :-).