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backSaturday 25th January 2025
We should not left physical formats behind. Here is why.
Because you find it when you want it.
When it comes to movies sometimes I felt that I've watch most decent movies around from the early 80's to the present.
I have my DVD collection and some Blurays that never fail. If it where for streaming movies come and goes and you don't have an actual chance to choose THAT movie that you have in mind because it's probably not there or it was but for a limited time.. A big meh.
I started to collect my favorite movies and ended up with a huge collection. I started on my 20's I've been growing that collection for a consistent amount of time. I don't complain about the results.
I use KODI - Formerly, XBMC- as media center and a server to be able to watch them anywhere on my house.
It works like a charm.
People asks me if it's legal. Of course it is! If you got a movie on DVD or Bluray you can rip it if you own the movie and still use the digital 1:1 copy for personal use.
With that in mind I rip every movie I purchase, use the same codecs that tech industry use to have my movies in a small size, and serve them to my devices, TV and home theatre.
All of them, with included cover and movie metadata to allow KODI to show me the plot, director, actors and movie info in general.
I've actually been purchasing movies since I was a small kid to have them and watch them again. There's not much difference. I want to watch the day after tomorrow anytime, when I want, no restrictions. Solution: Purchase it. It'll probablñy be cheaper than purchasing a digital copy of it and you will have the right to use it as your property rater than be the owner of the right to watch it online over and over and logging in to google, Apple...
There's a slight yet huge difference. You can rip a physical product because you own a legit copy. The same applies to digital copies. You paid for them and it's not a rent or "right to use it" but straight as a purchase. If it's so, then you should have the right to get the movie on your PC and not on the seller server and watch it with whatever player you want.
That can be done too and if you purchase a movie from Google play movies or Apple you should be able to download it. Sure, it's a digital copy but if you purchase any digital good around you'll be able to download it. Why then you can't do the same with a movie? It's not a legal issue. You own it.
I'll not explain the method to get your movie on your computer or burn it into a DVD because it's not the case. You can find plenty of info on how to do that on the web. And again, you are not breaking any law if you purchased it.
The reason why the industry is progressively replacing paper with CDR, Epub, PDF and digital formats instead of a comic book or a novel is because they manged to get people selling digital copies with DRM -Digital rights management- That should not apply to a person who purchased the movie, book or whatever you paid for. DRM is used to be sure that you won't rip any streaming material which is illegal. and that should be it.
If you won't get any of what you purchase, is because instead of paying the physical media you pay bandwidth to downloads it -good bye distribution costs. Now you pay for them-
I'm against the people who wish physical products as a comic book, a game, or a movie became 100% digital with no turn back.
Games are the nutcracker. Sure, pay $40 -Or $100 for GTA VI as far as I know and rockstar say- then download more than 60gb, and then play.
If it's a movie, get a fast internet connection, pay for the movie, par for the internet, -just pay- and again, stream it with your bandwidth.
Most streaming services use a mix between a server delivering the content and a form of P2P format that saves them bandwidth. Thievery...
On the other hand, if you can't store them on a HDD they'll stay "on the cloud" and you'll be able to watch them. But you will never be able to pass the movie to another as a present and same goes for games. I've gifted a lot of PS2 games to my nephew and nobody called me pirate. That's because I owned a physical product.
Now that the industry standart is so adorable, they always win.
As many non regulated technologies, leaving behind printed media and physical stored entertainment is yet another greedy fuck idea from an industry that used the opportunity to purchase studios and create their own one while we where on the covid outbreak.
As a person, I like to BE FREE and do what the fuck I want with the things I puchase and I think that is not only me. If you plug your PS3/4 you'll be able to play your Bluray games, but sadly, that's coming to an end with Playstation 6 and most consoles with the same idea that steam have in mind: You'll play it, but if you want to remove the dust from it a few years later you don't even know if the product you've got will be downloadable anymore.
Same goes for movies. Are you sure of being able to watch it after a few years? will still be there?
The entire idea is to encourage people to avoid loosing THEIR PROPERTY the thinks you paid for. There's no turning back in some cases but you can still have an HDD with your movie collection and if you please serve them the same way you'd stream from Netflix using open source software.
mind that if you purchase a product, is yours. There's no "you can't have the file" argument because your money was charged in concept of purchase not rent or free stream.
If you care about music there are good news you can still get the album you want either the same way if you got a digital copy or just going for a CD.
I know this sound like an 80 Y/o complain but is an observation. I sincerely don't want to pay for a regionalized catalogue that is mostly crap content outside the US and some other countries.
If you feel that the guy with a movie collection haves a great time and you are rolling over a lot of BS on streaming having a hard time to find something that would be normally easy to find because in spite of being old is a great blockbuster, a great song or a great game, then you probably understand what "leave my disks alone" means.