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.
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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.
I don't want to re-watch things much. It's plastic waste the instant I watch it.
Yeah, while I agree with many points people make about physical media I rarely re-watch movies/shows and re-play games. I do everything I can to lessen the environmental impact I have, and a plastic disc with some other stuff from who knows where transported to me for mostly one time use goes very much against that. And yes, companies are the biggest criminals when it comes to humanity's destruction of the climate but they couldn't do that if no one was giving them money. So I do and tell others to stop doing that, to make intelligent and researched choices in everything they do.
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I don't rewatch much. A collection of discs just takes up space and collects dust.
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.
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I had a conversation, recently, about how some of the practical skills makers (like knitting and crochet) are offering more lessons on DVD, so that they can actually monetize their work, rather than letting YouTube feed them a drip. At one point, the per-publication video delivery platforms were fantastic, but I find myself wanting to get those lessons on DVD, and then rip them to my own media server. As people point out DVD's aren't "forever," but honestly, nothing is. At least with the content on DVD, I have a chance of keeping the media.
If you buy DVDs new and store them well, they’ll last nearly forever. I buy mostly used and while I’ve seen my fair share of disc rot, my copy of Se7en is so old, the back is basically an ad for the concept of DVD and it plays fine.
I didn't think about the topic of storing them well. Like so many things, they just exist in the same space that I do (in the house), and that's probably better than a shed or the garage.
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They do this shit every year around Christmas for Christmas movies.