Why does anyone bother with streaming services when you can buy DVDs cheaper and own the media forever and the collection only accumulates over time? Kodi is awesome.
Yeah, while I agree with many points people make about physical media I rarely re-watch movies/shows and re-play games. I do everything I can to lessen the environmental impact I have, and a plastic disc with some other stuff from who knows where transported to me for mostly one time use goes very much against that. And yes, companies are the biggest criminals when it comes to humanity’s destruction of the climate but they couldn’t do that if no one was giving them money. So I do and tell others to stop doing that, to make intelligent and researched choices in everything they do.
The price of one dvd is more than a month of streaming. So I guess this works if you only watch one movie a month, or one season of a series every six months.
Also, depending on how you define a “recent” movie. You can get them for as little as $0.25 or as much as $300. Heck the most expensive movie that my husband bought was old not new.
The movie you shared is 13$ on Walmart’s website. Regardless, you’re talking about reducing the choice by a lot to stay under a fixed budget, not really the same as having access to a whole database and recent movies/series. All that goes out the window for series anyways, those are usually stupid expensive.
More power to you though. Personally, I would rip the CDs and put them on a hardrive with jellyfin just out of convenience.
The other aspect of this, for me, is that streaming is high definition and I have functional eyeballs.
Even the most highly compressed HD content that’s been served up to me is orders of magnitude better looking than low-def DVD potato quality video. So at a minimum, if it were going to be a remotely accurate comparison between paid physical versus paid streaming, DVD shouldn’t even be in the discussion for many/most of us.
It’s obvious though that bacon_pdp is not a serious person nor trying to have an honest discussion with you, but hopefully you already recognize that.
Why does anyone bother with streaming services when you can buy DVDs cheaper and own the media forever and the collection only accumulates over time? Kodi is awesome.
I don’t want to re-watch things much. It’s plastic waste the instant I watch it.
Yeah, while I agree with many points people make about physical media I rarely re-watch movies/shows and re-play games. I do everything I can to lessen the environmental impact I have, and a plastic disc with some other stuff from who knows where transported to me for mostly one time use goes very much against that. And yes, companies are the biggest criminals when it comes to humanity’s destruction of the climate but they couldn’t do that if no one was giving them money. So I do and tell others to stop doing that, to make intelligent and researched choices in everything they do.
Have you looked into what you can get through your local library? You can usually get several at once, and interlibrary loans are a thing
The price of one dvd is more than a month of streaming. So I guess this works if you only watch one movie a month, or one season of a series every six months.
$0.99 is more than a month of streaming?
The bargain bin usually doesn’t have anything interesting. How much is an actual recent movie?
Disagree. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118214/
Also, depending on how you define a “recent” movie. You can get them for as little as $0.25 or as much as $300. Heck the most expensive movie that my husband bought was old not new.
The movie you shared is 13$ on Walmart’s website. Regardless, you’re talking about reducing the choice by a lot to stay under a fixed budget, not really the same as having access to a whole database and recent movies/series. All that goes out the window for series anyways, those are usually stupid expensive.
More power to you though. Personally, I would rip the CDs and put them on a hardrive with jellyfin just out of convenience.
The other aspect of this, for me, is that streaming is high definition and I have functional eyeballs.
Even the most highly compressed HD content that’s been served up to me is orders of magnitude better looking than low-def DVD potato quality video. So at a minimum, if it were going to be a remotely accurate comparison between paid physical versus paid streaming, DVD shouldn’t even be in the discussion for many/most of us.
It’s obvious though that bacon_pdp is not a serious person nor trying to have an honest discussion with you, but hopefully you already recognize that.
I mean one requires a few clicks, the other requires effort, time and more steps.
I also don’t rewatch stuff frequently, there’s no point in keeping it after other than taking up space or data.
I don’t rewatch much. A collection of discs just takes up space and collects dust.