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doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

You keep repeating the same things that I’ve already invalidated.

All ads are skippable and with the right player will skip automatically
You can digitize your movie collection. No need to insert any disc if that’s what you prefer
Blu-rays have much better video and sound quality. If you do find a Blue-ray rip you’ll quickly run out of storage unless you spend a thousand dollars on harddrives. Each Blue-ray rip takes between 50 and 100 GB of storage. No, don’t even start with shitty compression. I don’t want that.
Some people want the Blue-ray menu. They are actually really nice sometimes. There are even movies with director commentary, recording functionality or other fun gimmicks. You don’t have to use it. But you have it as sold and intended.
But all of the points above are irrelevant when you consider that pircary does not support the creators at all and ensures that companies make even shittier content and services. They need the money to produce the content so they will squeeze everyone else even more if they don’t get anything from you. Piracy makes everything worse.

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CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You keep repeating the same things that I’ve already invalidated.

Ditto

All ads are skippable and with the right player will skip automatically

Not on mine. Buying a different player isn’t exactly “easier”, they sure as fuck try to make is difficult for me to avoid the ads on the media I paid for, and I shouldn’t have to.

You can digitize your movie collection. No need to insert any disc if that’s what you prefer

So once again, piracy is easier (My entire thesis here). I can acquire it already digitized for me.

Blu-rays have much better video and sound quality. If you do find a Blue-ray rip you’ll quickly run out of storage unless you spend a thousand dollars on harddrives. Each Blue-ray rip takes between 50 and 100 GB of storage. No, don’t even start with shitty compression. I don’t want that.

I frequently spend time looking for torrents of lower quality because the most popular, easy to acquire files, and higher quality than my system is capable of.
The easiest to acquire file will have identical quality to a Blu-ray for me because the source is not what is limiting the quality.

Some people want the Blue-ray menu. They are actually really nice sometimes. There are even movies with director commentary, recording functionality or other fun gimmicks. You don’t have to use it. But you have it as sold and intended.

Bully for them, I don’t. Most torrents include all sorts of special features, from multiple sources, that sometimes you wouldn’t be able to get them all on a single Blu-ray. Different audio tracks exist for files, it doesn’t require a disk to have the commentary track.

But all of the points above are irrelevant when you consider that pircary does not support the creators at all and ensures that companies make even shittier content and services. They need the money to produce the content so they will squeeze everyone else even more if they don’t get anything from you.

I’ve already agreed that the only reason to buy a Blu-ray is to support the creators. The fact that companies apparently need you to purchase Blu-rays or they will go out of business is all the more reason for the companies to not enshittify the Blu-rays with ads.

Piracy makes everything worse.

Capitalism makes everything worse. That’s why ads are on the Blu-ray in the first place. It’s not enough for the company to make money from the sale, they have to make more money selling ads, which makes my experience as the purchaser of the product worse.

If companies allowed me to pay them directly for a digital download of a video file, without any ads included in it, I’d be happy to do so. But that’s never going to happen because of [see meme above].
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