We’ve gotten to a place where people are paying for the chance that the thing they want is still on the service when they want it. Literally paying to throw the dice.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 months ago
Will do! I’m so happy he’s coming out and saying this, because it’s become ridiculous that you never know where the movie you want to watch is. There’s zero guarantee anymore that the thing you love will still be there.
I buy them myself now, and will own them forever. (Plus the quality of a 4k disc is just so much better)
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
UnspecificGravity@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Let’s just apply fucking loot box mechanics to everything in our lives.
hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 7 months ago
The quality of a regular bluray is much better than streaming for the most part! Bitstarved content sucks and I really hope discs don’t die out.
Overzeetop@beehaw.org 7 months ago
That’s why I download all my movies and tv shows. My personal server never removes movies and always streams to my devices without restriction.
MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 7 months ago
It’s all just bits. It doesn’t matter if they’re stored on a BluRay or on a hard drive. There’s nothing stopping you from ripping your BluRays and dumping the bookshelf of media onto one disk.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 months ago
didn’t say I don’t do that
HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 months ago
The only moral screaming service is tubi because they don’t charge
Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I had forgotten how much worse streaming quality was after being stuck on it for a while.
Popped in an old DVD and was surprised how much better stuff looked. Not to mention BR…
I always knew it, but actually seeing it in front of me made me sad for how much I’ve missed, and now I can’t go back.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 months ago
audio especially is just so heavily compressed. Once you notice the video compression in the skies and in dark scenes and audio compression missing the “full body”-ness you just can’t go back. You can tell where compression clips out the bits it can.
_number8_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
plus it just feels so much better knowing you have the whole movie right there, playing off of something sitting in your den and not some shitty malignant corporation’s servers
UnspecificGravity@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
It’s amusing since that audio compression is the reason why my pirated copy of interstellar is actually watchable as opposed to the streaming version which leaves your eardrums bleeding.
Eheran@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not sure what you are streaming that a DVD looks better. Any 720p stream is better, let alone higher resolution ones.
Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No. It’s not. The bit rates tend to be lower.
Glowstick@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I would bet that a 720-upscaled dvd will look better than a low bitrate 720 stream. Hell, a 720-upscaled dvd probably looks better than a low bitrate 1080 or 4k stream. In many aspects a lower resolution video with a high bitrate will always look better than a video at higher resolution with a bitrate that’s too low. Excess compression makes visual quality turn to ugly garbage. Even just a little bit of additional compression quickly starts to cause color banding, blocky artifacts, and visual noise in motion sequences.
Eheran@lemmy.world 7 months ago
DVDs have a maximum Bitrate of 10 Mb/s. This is like 5 Mb/s with H264 or 2.5 Mb/s with H265, since the compression back then was MPEG2. Feel free to look up Bitrates of streaming services. YouTube is at roughly 15x that with 4K videos. 720p uses about the same.
holycrapwtfatheism@kbin.social 7 months ago
Depending on how you watch audio is way better on bluray vs streaming, as well. 5.1 or any good aftermarket receiver + speaker combo will sound much better.