"I cant see the movie I want because Netflix removed it"
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HAHA You said DOODY!
I sail a sloop up and down the high seas myself.
3 Terabyte? That's like 5 movies.
I'm not going to back to re-rip the movies I burned to 700MB CDs that I would enjoy on a CRT monitor that was just blurry enough to make them look good. Not every movie needs 4K to be enjoyed.
(that's my cope and I'm sticking to it)
Limewire, div-X, CDR
Good times
It's not a cope and the successor of CRT technology was stuck in patent purgatory. Essentially flat screen CRTs were only a couple of years away from production but fucking patent holders had to screw us over so we were stuck with LCDs with no native motion blurring for almost two decades, not even going to get into the horrid ghosting.
Agreed.
A lot of TV was never recorded higher than at-the-time broadcast quality, I've got some of that on DVD. There's no reason to have better.
I've argued with some streaming service advocates that streaming 4K looks no better than 1080p Blu-Ray anyway. At a certain point bitrate wins. I guess that's my cope, I have a lot of 1080p Blu-Ray.
Not everything needs to be UHD BD100.
I honstly don't see a big difference when you reduce the bitrate.
I usually watch on a 30 inch monitor. The difference is pretty significant IMHO. If I were to spend time and storage space on something it would have to be at least 1080p.
That said, I can't really be arsed to torrent high quality rips anymore, so I just watch 720p or 1080 with shitty compression on "totally legit" streaming sites.
On the other hand, I archive video games that I've played and they tend to make movies look tiny im comparison. Although I'm starting to question that too. Am I really ever going to replay them? Probably going to weed out everything but the most memorable ones.
I'm from that era, too. Computer CRTs were already pretty high res. The limiting factor was mostly the terrible TV signal and crappy DVD rips in Divx compression.
Like old games it's nostalgia that's best left unrevisited because it doesn't stand the test of time IMHO. These days even uncompressed DVDs look kinda sad and I wonder if I should upgrade the few DVDs I have to Blurays or high quality rips, assuming they've remastered that stuff in a higher resolution.
I guess YMMV. I still watch DVDs and they look fine on my 110" 1080p projection setup.
Do HD sources look better? Yes. Is it a distraction when things are 480p? No.
I just stick with discs. No one likes them anymore I guess, but I could easily store 200 movies in a small space. I don't really expect player/drive availability to go to zero anytime even nearly soon. Yeah, they degrade, but if I'm talking about the remainder of my lifetime, what percentage will I lose from discs stored in a cool, dry place?
I want that kind of local storage but I don't want to build a whole goddamn server rack.
Do it. It is your destiny.
You don't have to build one. I bought a refurbished Dell Poweredge on ebay for $500 about 2 years ago and it's been running non-stop since then.
I still don't want to deal with blade servers. They are noisy and cumbersome.
Cumbersome, yes. Noisy? Only if you plan on having hundreds of people connect to it at once. Only my family and I use it and the only time it's been noisy is when it restarts after an update.
I consider a standard tower with stock cooling fans noisy and in my experience servers are noisier than that by a fair margin. You and I have different thresholds for what we're willing to put up with in terms of acoustics.
Same. I have B2 storage and seedboxes though. I once calculated that being subscribed to multiple services for nearly a decade will still be cheaper than trying to set up my own NAS+drives for my storage needs. (>10tb) That's with good RAID. Without redundancy it still came out even at 5 years. That's not even getting into noise, heat, maintenance, power consumption, etc. Anyway I love being 100% self-sufficient but at some point it's not rational.
Only 3 TB? Well, it's a start.
Seriously, you can get new storage at under ten bucks a terabyte, three terabytes costs less than a family outing to fucking taco bell right now.
Here is a tool I use to watch for new disks for my own array. I mostly buy used at sub 8 dollars a terabyte.
Great links, thanks for sharing!
3tb is kinda low
If you don't have the money or knowhow to setup a NAS or a secondary drive for your PC, there are other ways to find movies2watch.
Off-topic, since it is in the image: I tried watching one of the more recent Super Sentai series in the past (Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger (王様戦隊キングオージャー)), but the way the Japanese dialogue was being spoken sounded more in line with what you would hear from a Shonen anime. In isolation, that is not much of an issue, the show is rated for younger audiences anyway. But combined with the fact that it was live-action, and that the actors were essentially LARPing Shonen character mannerisms IRL (as well as bad CGI), it just took me out of it and I bailed out after the first episode, regardless of whether the rest of the plot was good or not.
On the other hand, I have better things to say about an older Super Sentai series (Chojin Sentai Jetman (鳥人戦隊ジェットマン)), even if I didn't get far there either. Long story short, all the problems listed above are nowhere to be found, or minimized.
I've enjoyed the more modern ones. The Train Sentai were hilarious.
3 TB? LMAO 🤣 thats cute.
Okay, but why is the guy on the right giving us the shocker?