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"I cant see the movie I want because Netflix removed it" (media.scored.co)
posted 11 months ago by redneonglow PRO 11 months ago by redneonglow PRO +62 / -1
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– Lurker404 27 points 11 months ago +27 / -0

3 Terabyte? That's like 5 movies.

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– JustHereForTheSalmon 11 points 11 months ago +11 / -0

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)

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– useruser123 8 points 11 months ago +8 / -0

Limewire, div-X, CDR

Good times

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– GloboHomoErectus 6 points 11 months ago +6 / -0

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.

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– Elitch 5 points 11 months ago +5 / -0

Agreed.

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– cccpneveragain 5 points 11 months ago +5 / -0

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.

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– deleted 4 points 11 months ago +4 / -0
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– zakat 2 points 11 months ago +2 / -0

Not everything needs to be UHD BD100.

I honstly don't see a big difference when you reduce the bitrate.

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– Lurker404 2 points 11 months ago +2 / -0

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.

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– deleted 3 points 11 months ago +3 / -0
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– Lurker404 2 points 11 months ago +2 / -0

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.

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– cccpneveragain 2 points 11 months ago +2 / -0

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?

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– MargarineMongoose 19 points 11 months ago +19 / -0

I want that kind of local storage but I don't want to build a whole goddamn server rack.

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– MassivePecorino 8 points 11 months ago +8 / -0

Do it. It is your destiny.

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– Vebent 2 points 11 months ago +2 / -0

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.

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– MargarineMongoose 3 points 11 months ago +3 / -0

I still don't want to deal with blade servers. They are noisy and cumbersome.

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– Assassin47 1 point 11 months ago +1 / -0

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.

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– deleted -4 points 11 months ago +3 / -7

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