Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it?::<em>What should I watch? </em>is now a much easier question than <em>How do I watch it?</em>
Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it?::<em>What should I watch? </em>is now a much easier question than <em>How do I watch it?</em>
Piracy
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The sad thing is that people would pay if it just wasn’t so frustrating. I remember coming home from a NYE 10yrs ago or so, and had made up my mind to watch the latest season of Vikings. I was ready to pay for it, and there literally was no legal way for me to get it. So I sailed the high seas.
Wait… You’re telling me people will pay for quality service and convenience? That’s crazy! My earth is shattered.
The streaming services have managed to completely forget their business model of being marginally more convenient than piracy.
As for me, though, I’ll start ripping my DVDs. I’ll sail the high seas when I have to, but I’d may as well get hard copies of my favourite films and TV shows.
Curious as someone who’s never watched an actual physical blu ray, but finding myself with a player (ps5) and a decent home theater setup for the first time - is there a noticeable increase in quality watching a real disc compared to streaming or your average plundered h265 rip? I was thinking about picking up hard copies a few of my all time favorites, but if it doesn’t offer a noticeable benefit I’d probably end up playing them from Jellyfin anyway just because it’s more convenient.
Depends on the quality of the rip. As far as streaming goes, yes the Blu-ray will always look and sound better due to the huge bitrate difference. Netflix says “oh it’s 4k!” Okay great, but resolution has little to do with quality. It’s all how much information is available per second (bitrate).
My SamsungTV + native Netflix App could show the bitrate when pressing info on the remote.
If you paid $500~ for your TV, no probably not. If you’ve got a $2k OLED yes (4k Bluray though)
Until Disney decides it better to quit the physical market (they did it already in one region)
And that’s where the piracy comes in. How do you think I’ve been watching The Owl House?
By subscribing to D+, surrendering your soul, finding out that it’s unavailable in your region, trying to import the BD/DVD, failing because of import tax or shipping not offered to that region and then dusting of the good black hat and saying Arrr matey?
Almost. I tried t’ get it on DVD, but one o’ th’ sellers were bein’ based in China, and th’ other were bein’ a “large retailer” operatin’ out o’ a garage in London, and not th’ nice part. I had already been piratin’, but I thought I’d try t’ get it legitimately t’ support th’ people who worked on th’ show. Aarrr! Few movies and series be good enough t’ earn that, in me book.
'They could not live with their own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me." – Piracy