“On September 29th, 2023, we will ship out our final red envelope. It has been an honor to share movie nights with you. …We sincerely thank you for joining us on this amazing journey of 25 years.” -The Netflix DVD Team
With Netflix discs closing its doors on the 29th, where will you get your DVD’s, Blu Rays and UHDs?
This raises a few questions for discussion:
- What services do you use?
- Whats your experience with any of these services?
- What do you do with your physical media?
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I know, I know, yes, its 2023 and people still get physical media. A physical disc can have many advantages over a streaming service, such as:
- Control Over Content
- Quality
- Sound Profiles
- Extras
- Back Ups
Here is a list of popular Rental and Buy services:
Rent:
Buy (New):
- https://www.amazon.com
- https://www.hamiltonbook.com
- https://shoutfactory.com
- https://grindhousevideo.com
Buy (Used):
Because tons of media that was never properly digitized for the streaming era and only ever ended up on discs.
Doing it now will prevent a loss of history, much like early BBC recordings are lost because they would just tape over old broadcasts to save money.
For example, there was recently unearthed a single episode of a sketch comedy show made by Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams.
Problem was, the tape it was on was from the formats before VHS and Betamax. While the tape existed, no players to play back the tape existed anymore. It took a several year effort to build a new player from scratch. Finally, after all that, they were able to record the show to digital media and now it lives on YouTube for people to see. It’s not the funniest material ever produced by either man, but it’s definitely a piece of history worth looking at if you’ve ever enjoyed Monty Python or The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Attempts to digitize things that are currently available on disc but not available in digital file formats/streaming is absolutely a process of maintaining historical documents that would otherwise be lost to time. Building a new DVD or Bluray player from scratch when none exist anymore is a much bigger effort than making a tape video player, because it involves proprietary codecs, compression, and DRM.
So, I let others archive those and have digital versions of content I want. I get the appeal of discs, but I also get appeal of no discs (I’m in the latter camp)
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
a single episode of a sketch comedy show made by Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams.
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Cool and all, but that also has nothing to do with this. If these services are renting/selling CDs, they’ve already been digitalized.
It, quite literally, has everything to do with this.
But keep pretending it doesn’t and like you know better without actually presenting any argument of your own.
I’m sure that will work out for you. /s
You just replied to an argument of my own, nor did you say why it’s wrong. It literally has nothing to do with it, and it still doesn’t. If they sell it, it’s already digitalized. That’s all you need to realize that what you’re saying completely falls flat. Reread that simple comment again, and apparently this one as well.
They’re digitized to very specific formats that are proprietary, and once the devices that play them cease to exist, so does the data contained on them.
Digitizing them into a file format (which if you actually read the initial comment, would have noticed that I specified this) that is open, available, and easily transferable between a multitude of digital devices is a different issue.
EDIT: I went back and bolded it for you, since you seem to struggle with reading comprehension.
elaborate on how these sites sell CDs that are apparently impossible to digitalize as standard video formats, because that doesn’t sound true at all
edit: yeah that’s what I thought, maybe he realized on the third reply he completely misread the entire chain. Blocks me then continues to reply and edit all his comments lol. Very sane and definitely not emotional.
Because I didn’t say that. Once again, your lack of reading comprehension rears its ugly head.
EDIT: it’s interesting that they think I blocked them. Is that what they wanted?
I’m gonna go with projection here. It’s not like they can’t see when I made my edits.