Plenty will take this as an excuse to pirate, and I understand completely. I think it sends a stronger signal to spend your money where you actually get to own stuff. In this case, in a world where there is no DRM-free movie/TV show store, that means buying the discs. And for what it’s worth, having recently gone back to Blu Rays, it’s been a nice reminder of how much better the quality is off of the disc compared to the compressed image they send you.
I’ve been collecting CDs, DVDs, and BRs for 30 years. They fill a closet. Thank fuck for rippers, though, so I can play them all from one HD with a little sort through menu and a click.
It’s hard to keep up with all the new hotness on disks, though. If you want to know what the guys at work are talking about with Ted Lasso, or The Boys, then it’s streaming or high seas.
Drive-by spoilers haven’t been a struggle for me to avoid for about a decade now. There’s just too much to watch, and hardly anything gets that groundswell of people I know all watching the same thing. The last time it happened was probably Game of Thrones.
I had one friend recommend Ted Lasso to the rest of us; most didn’t bother checking it out, but it does in fact rule. I’m still waiting on season 5 of The Boys. The Boys, btw, was one of the starkest differences in quality between streaming and disc. I’m not even on HDR or anything, but the blacks are so much deeper than whatever Amazon is doing to wash out the image. They did kind of half-ass the subtitles though, so the defaults aren’t set properly when Kimiko starts doing sign language.
And it’s nice that I can rip my discs, but whose idea was it to make ripping them this much of a pain in the ass? MakeMKV feels like a hack, probably because it is. It’s only Blu Rays made in the past few years that even bother to put labels on the tracks so that you know what each file is, and even then, it’s probably only because it fits some standard with LCD readouts on modern 4K players meant for the living room.
Stocking up on Blu-rays can’t happen soon enough - once sales drop too low for too long, they’ll never come back. Studios will move on, manufacturing will dry up and what’s left become more expensive, the customer base will get used to them not being available, and every factor in this sentence will accelerate the other factors.
Plenty will take this as an excuse to pirate, and I understand completely. I think it sends a stronger signal to spend your money where you actually get to own stuff. In this case, in a world where there is no DRM-free movie/TV show store, that means buying the discs. And for what it’s worth, having recently gone back to Blu Rays, it’s been a nice reminder of how much better the quality is off of the disc compared to the compressed image they send you.
I’ve been collecting CDs, DVDs, and BRs for 30 years. They fill a closet. Thank fuck for rippers, though, so I can play them all from one HD with a little sort through menu and a click.
It’s hard to keep up with all the new hotness on disks, though. If you want to know what the guys at work are talking about with Ted Lasso, or The Boys, then it’s streaming or high seas.
Drive-by spoilers haven’t been a struggle for me to avoid for about a decade now. There’s just too much to watch, and hardly anything gets that groundswell of people I know all watching the same thing. The last time it happened was probably Game of Thrones.
I had one friend recommend Ted Lasso to the rest of us; most didn’t bother checking it out, but it does in fact rule. I’m still waiting on season 5 of The Boys. The Boys, btw, was one of the starkest differences in quality between streaming and disc. I’m not even on HDR or anything, but the blacks are so much deeper than whatever Amazon is doing to wash out the image. They did kind of half-ass the subtitles though, so the defaults aren’t set properly when Kimiko starts doing sign language.
And it’s nice that I can rip my discs, but whose idea was it to make ripping them this much of a pain in the ass? MakeMKV feels like a hack, probably because it is. It’s only Blu Rays made in the past few years that even bother to put labels on the tracks so that you know what each file is, and even then, it’s probably only because it fits some standard with LCD readouts on modern 4K players meant for the living room.
Stocking up on Blu-rays can’t happen soon enough - once sales drop too low for too long, they’ll never come back. Studios will move on, manufacturing will dry up and what’s left become more expensive, the customer base will get used to them not being available, and every factor in this sentence will accelerate the other factors.