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Let’s revolt. Let’s burn down every store in town. Do it like the french.
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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.
Certainly not. I just insert the disc and it starts playing. How can it be easier than that? It’s also really hard to get the best possible quality of every movie and all the extras with piracy. It’s not very convenient.
Besides, you don’t support the artists in any way doing that. I want more movies to be produced that I like. The only way to incentivize that is with my wallet. Blue-rays is probably the best way to do it.
Up to 100MBit/s video. Audio bitrate is usually lossless and has a higher bitrate than the entire video + audio stream of most streaming services.
You’re talking about writable discs. Normal blue-ray discs have a much longer life expectancy than most other mediums including HDDs. Standards and manufacturing have improved too. Modern discs have a life expectancy for at least 50-150 years.
I have a collection of over 300 discs. 100 of them are 10 years or older. None of them have failed on me. And I don’t have a temperature controlled room or anything like that. A lot of HDDs have failed on me during that time.
You can always skip the movie trailers if you have the right player. I have 300+ blue-rays and not a single one has unskippable trailers. There are also players that’ll skip them automatically. Besides, you can just rip the disc and remove the ads.
Buy Blu-rays. Highly underrated.
- The sound and video quality is the best you’ll get anywhere.
- It selectively supports the movies and artists you like.
- You get amazing extras and documentaries about the movie.
- Nobody can take the movie away from you.
- You can rip the disc with MakeMKV to view digitally with Jellyfin.
Yes, I’m tired of the same old America stuff. It’s not even interesting. Just the same old drama like every election.
This is a phenomenon that’s literally thousands of years old. It’s just basic economics. If there was good competition, there wouldn’t be any price gauging. And that’s the regulator’s fault not the company’s. Americans want their free market, they get their free market. So stop complaining.