The film fans who refuse to surrender to streaming: ‘One day you’ll barter bread for our DVDs’
The film fans who refuse to surrender to streaming: ‘One day you’ll barter bread for our DVDs’
As more movies vanish from streaming services, cinephiles are rallying to physical media. Can they save a seemingly dying format?
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I am thoroughly enjoying all these comments. But 4k Blu rays are visually, audibly, and aurally superior to streaming. That said, I have seen and heard some pretty darn good rips of 4k stuff, so I'm not even sure anymore. I may or may not own numerous hard drives containing a large PLEX library as well as a sizeable collection of my favorite repeat watchers on 4k Blu ray.
Shit, Id argue DVD with a good scaler is better than streaming
Have to agree. I have a PS3 still plugged in only because it can upscale DVDs really well.
In still a CRT feind for this reason. Have a nice flat 1080I CRT
Storage is so cheap these days, and especially shows are unreliable on where or even if they stay streaming.
And if you wait till they're off streaming to archive, it's hard to find good copies.
It's just a prudent choice to get your own copy just in case. Even a short term lose of internet.
You can rip and remux 4k blurays into a format plex can stream with 0 quality loss
Go on
I use a MakeMKV docker container myself
Looks good, but I can't run it on Mac, sadly
I daily drive a Mac but I keep all of my video stuff on a separate server running Linux. And I might be wrong and I’m not in a position to look it up right now, but I’d be surprised if you couldn’t run a docker container of it on a Mac. Is that not one of the big advantages of containerization?
I've honestly never attempted anything like it before
There may be some exceptions but I thought that the container at least had to have a similar if not the same OS as the base OS.
That is why containers are so efficient, because they utilize all the like files of the base OS but act like their own machine, thus saving a lot of space.
macOS is literally certified UNIX, afaik. I’d be surprised if you couldn’t.
True didn't think about it
I don’t think that’s the case, I know I can run Linux containers in windows, but docker service may be running on a Linux VM, I know it requires some of the same virtualization bios settings that VMware wants.
Streaming lowers quality/bit rate to save bandwidth
Rips play the files from the blu-ray so you shouldn’t suffer any quality differences