Why does anyone bother with streaming services when you can buy DVDs cheaper and own the media forever and the collection only accumulates over time? Kodi is awesome.
The price of one dvd is more than a month of streaming. So I guess this works if you only watch one movie a month, or one season of a series every six months.
Also, depending on how you define a “recent” movie. You can get them for as little as $0.25 or as much as $300. Heck the most expensive movie that my husband bought was old not new.
The movie you shared is 13$ on Walmart’s website. Regardless, you’re talking about reducing the choice by a lot to stay under a fixed budget, not really the same as having access to a whole database and recent movies/series. All that goes out the window for series anyways, those are usually stupid expensive.
More power to you though. Personally, I would rip the CDs and put them on a hardrive with jellyfin just out of convenience.
The other aspect of this, for me, is that streaming is high definition and I have functional eyeballs.
Even the most highly compressed HD content that’s been served up to me is orders of magnitude better looking than low-def DVD potato quality video. So at a minimum, if it were going to be a remotely accurate comparison between paid physical versus paid streaming, DVD shouldn’t even be in the discussion for many/most of us.
It’s obvious though that bacon_pdp is not a serious person nor trying to have an honest discussion with you, but hopefully you already recognize that.
DVDs don’t last forever. I have a ton of dvds that are no longer good. Is actually so bad there are people trying to find still working copies of shows from the 90’s so they can digitize them before they are lost forever.
Why does anyone bother with streaming services when you can buy DVDs cheaper and own the media forever and the collection only accumulates over time? Kodi is awesome.
I don’t want to re-watch things much. It’s plastic waste the instant I watch it.
I mean one requires a few clicks, the other requires effort, time and more steps.
I also don’t rewatch stuff frequently, there’s no point in keeping it after other than taking up space or data.
I don’t rewatch much. A collection of discs just takes up space and collects dust.
The price of one dvd is more than a month of streaming. So I guess this works if you only watch one movie a month, or one season of a series every six months.
$0.99 is more than a month of streaming?
The bargain bin usually doesn’t have anything interesting. How much is an actual recent movie?
Disagree. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118214/
Also, depending on how you define a “recent” movie. You can get them for as little as $0.25 or as much as $300. Heck the most expensive movie that my husband bought was old not new.
The movie you shared is 13$ on Walmart’s website. Regardless, you’re talking about reducing the choice by a lot to stay under a fixed budget, not really the same as having access to a whole database and recent movies/series. All that goes out the window for series anyways, those are usually stupid expensive.
More power to you though. Personally, I would rip the CDs and put them on a hardrive with jellyfin just out of convenience.
The other aspect of this, for me, is that streaming is high definition and I have functional eyeballs.
Even the most highly compressed HD content that’s been served up to me is orders of magnitude better looking than low-def DVD potato quality video. So at a minimum, if it were going to be a remotely accurate comparison between paid physical versus paid streaming, DVD shouldn’t even be in the discussion for many/most of us.
It’s obvious though that bacon_pdp is not a serious person nor trying to have an honest discussion with you, but hopefully you already recognize that.
DVDs don’t last forever. I have a ton of dvds that are no longer good. Is actually so bad there are people trying to find still working copies of shows from the 90’s so they can digitize them before they are lost forever.
This is why I went through and ripped all of mine. As soon as the second one died I went full “Fuck this, I’m backing them up.”
Jellyfin and offline streaming was just an extra bonus.
OOC, what do you mean by “no longer good”? Did they de-laminate, did the plastic break down, or did they just stop working?
If it helps, you can get kits to polish CDs and DVDs in case they’re too scratched up.
I think it can happen a couple different ways.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
It’s called dvd rot.