Storing large DVD collection
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iannis
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No, the shit is kinda funny. But it really is a waste of space. This is one way that your possessions come to possess you.
If you're sitting down and rewatching Clockwork Orange for fun, something is seriously fucking wrong with you as a human being. If you own a physical copy of Nightmare on Elm Street 3, I honestly have to question why. Thereissomething hoardy about it.
I don't even keep most digital files anymore. Most people do come to terms with "worth watching again" (which many things are) and "i'll watch that again" (which very few things are) being two completely different things. But hell, collecting stuff can be fun too.
If you're sitting down and rewatching Clockwork Orange for fun, something is seriously fucking wrong with you as a human being. If you own a physical copy of Nightmare on Elm Street 3, I honestly have to question why. Thereissomething hoardy about it.
I don't even keep most digital files anymore. Most people do come to terms with "worth watching again" (which many things are) and "i'll watch that again" (which very few things are) being two completely different things. But hell, collecting stuff can be fun too.
Arbitrary
Tranny Chaser
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So I'm the only person that thinks Clockwork Orange is fun.
What. Ever.
I kept The Dream Warriors because I really like the Nightmare on Elm Street series. When I got rid of my own personal horde of DVDs it made it into the binder. I even just rewatched it a few days ago. It's with all my PS1 and PS2 games and is almost entirely horror, schlock, and some Sci Fi. I don't miss stacks of cases on shelves. Got rid of almost all of my books too. Donated those to the Salvation Army and never saw a single one at the local store. Bastards.
OneofOne
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I dunno. I have a lot of DVDs, maybe 250-325 - somewhere in there. We don't have subscription TV, and we don't get reception for basic free shit. I *always* have a movie going on in the background. Can't stand empty quiet. I rewatch 95% of my DVDs. Some I really like, but it's not a movie you can really watch a second time. American Beauty comes to mind.
Jysin
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Yep, wireless is crap for streaming HD. Add in some DTS or DTS-HD and forget it. Cat6 through my whole house and never looked back!
I'm probably the only one who does this, but I just rent movies off of iTunes for like $3-5 bucks. It's inexpensive and I'm actually supporting the people who made the movie compared to torrenting (though not as much as if I bought a digital copy off iTunes).
I hardly ever rewatch movies, so they would just sit and gather dust if I bought physical copies. I had Netflix streaming for awhile, but realized I hardly ever go back to watch old things, and there were plenty of times where they didn't have what I wanted, so I had to rent it anyways.
I hardly ever rewatch movies, so they would just sit and gather dust if I bought physical copies. I had Netflix streaming for awhile, but realized I hardly ever go back to watch old things, and there were plenty of times where they didn't have what I wanted, so I had to rent it anyways.
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Have you actually quantified that? As in, how much of the rental price goes to people that made the movie?
Adebisi
Clump of Cells
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When the movie industry produces shit likehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_Jill_(film)for 80 million dollars, I have zero issues torrenting the fuck out of almost everything.
Their system is broken.
Void
BAU BAU
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I have an IKEA bookshelf full of dvds, most of which I have only watched once. I have a stand-alone bluray player that hasn't been plugged in for over a year because I just stream to my Boxee and now my HTPC. If I want to watch something I typically just torrent it and watch it in an hour because I'm too lazy to go dig that player out of a box and plug it in. I should really just get rid of all of them, but I'm lazy. Perhaps this thread will inspire me to do so.
I do occasionally buy a bluray if I want to support the movie. I just bought Bounty Killer because it is a straight to disc release and I really enjoyed it. I'll never actually watch the bluray I'd imagine, since I have a 1080p DTS-HD torrent of it, but I want to see a sequel so I gave them my money.
And Adebisi bro, it is like I don't even know you man! I can't stand to watch something that isn't at least 720p anymore. It's like watching old porn and only having it fill up part of your monitor!
I do occasionally buy a bluray if I want to support the movie. I just bought Bounty Killer because it is a straight to disc release and I really enjoyed it. I'll never actually watch the bluray I'd imagine, since I have a 1080p DTS-HD torrent of it, but I want to see a sequel so I gave them my money.
And Adebisi bro, it is like I don't even know you man! I can't stand to watch something that isn't at least 720p anymore. It's like watching old porn and only having it fill up part of your monitor!
Okay, you got me. No, I haven't bothered to see how much of my $5 goes to Apple vs. Guillermo Del Toro vs. the team of poor schmucks who had to animate a punch gently hitting that Newton's Cradle. But in my eyes, paying SOMEONE money to watch a movie is better than not paying anyone anything to watch a movie.
Fuck all that shit.
Buy a low cost media server hook it to your tv.
Install plex
Torrent your collection
Call it a day.
Buy a low cost media server hook it to your tv.
Install plex
Torrent your collection
Call it a day.
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It wasn't meant as an insult towards your intent, I was genuinely interested if anyone has broken down proceeds from sales and rentals. The pessimist in me says that very little goes to the people that actually deserve it.
As for your thought that paying anything is better than torrenting, you may be right. But I also feel like it's one of those arguments that's a "feel good" on the surface, but once you really dig into it, buying the movie is supporting something different than you think it is. But I'll admit I don't have the data for that, and in 5 minutes, Lithose or someone else will stop by to explain it all anyway.
As for your thought that paying anything is better than torrenting, you may be right. But I also feel like it's one of those arguments that's a "feel good" on the surface, but once you really dig into it, buying the movie is supporting something different than you think it is. But I'll admit I don't have the data for that, and in 5 minutes, Lithose or someone else will stop by to explain it all anyway.
My bad. With all the pro-torrenters around these forums, I tend to take to the defensive on this topic.
Anyways, I figured there would be a chart or infograph somewhere on digital rentals and royalties and all that, but apparently my Google-Fu is weak. On the scale of digital streaming, I imagine that digital movie rentals have to do better for the movie makers than Spotify or Pandora does for music makers.
Anyways, I figured there would be a chart or infograph somewhere on digital rentals and royalties and all that, but apparently my Google-Fu is weak. On the scale of digital streaming, I imagine that digital movie rentals have to do better for the movie makers than Spotify or Pandora does for music makers.
It's not the aspect ratio, it's the compression Netflix uses.Only thing that gets me hopping mad is how not a single other person in real life will acknowledge how 1080p is clearly superior to 1080i or 720p from streaming sources/DVR, but its all of them who are wrong and not me I KNOW THE TRUTH. "NOOOOOO LETS NOT WATCH THIS ON NETFLIX GIVE ME AN HOUR TO TORRENT THE 1080P RIP ITS SO MUCH BETTER" but nobody listens
McCheese
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I stopped buying DVDs when they started putting unskippable advertisements and previews at the beginning of them. That was years and years ago and it pissed me off, so I began downloading and not a fuck was given. Do they still do that shit?
Famm
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Most of the people who actually deserve to be rewarded in Hollywood are probably seeing the lowest pay no matter how you watch. Just a hunch.
Jysin
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Hah! That's a good point. What made it even more annoying was when you actually did decide to rewatch and old film and here you are forced to watch trailers for some shit movie you have already seen. Cant say I recall seeing that forced on the few BluRay titles I own.
Gravel
Mr. Poopybutthole
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I don't know, but Universal blu rays are the fucking worst. Whenever we pause them, we end up having to start over from the beginning. Then there's also some fucking thing they put on a few where it tries to download previews instead of just having static ones. Well, shit doesn't work right and just comes up as a black screen and so we had to disable our internet connection to watch the god damn movie.
The history of studios giving royalties to actors/directors/writers (i.e., the creative people who actually make the shows and movies) is pretty screwy. Back when VHS was first introduced people wanted royalties on each sale and the studios were like "Nah, this is a questionable technology that probably won't succeed if we overprice it, you should take a lower or zero royalty so that it succeeds and we'll renegotiate in a few years when it has established itself. No? But we have competition! Betamax! Sky is falling! Glad you agree." Two decades later after a strike, that general contract got renegotiated (also part of what the writer's strike a couple of years back was mostly about). The studios, at every turn, try and give the bare minimum on royalties. For the most part they succeed, only well-known actors/directors/writers can make sure they get a reasonable amount in their contracts (reasonable given how much extra revenue their name brings).
So... yeah, very little of anything you pay goes to the people who make the thing you're watching. That is standard in all creative industries for some bizarre reason.
Not saying spending money on things you like won't encourage more of the thing you like from being made, of course. That money is still going to the people who funded the project and rather like making money, so if a project makes money they'll make more of etc. But then these are the guys putting the unskippable ads on the thing you just bought and now theoretically own.
So... yeah, very little of anything you pay goes to the people who make the thing you're watching. That is standard in all creative industries for some bizarre reason.
Not saying spending money on things you like won't encourage more of the thing you like from being made, of course. That money is still going to the people who funded the project and rather like making money, so if a project makes money they'll make more of etc. But then these are the guys putting the unskippable ads on the thing you just bought and now theoretically own.