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[+] 25 points 6 months ago (14 children)
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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    OOC, what do you mean by "no longer good"? Did they de-laminate, did the plastic break down, or did they just stop working?

    If it helps, you can get kits to polish CDs and DVDs in case they're too scratched up.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I don't want to re-watch things much. It's plastic waste the instant I watch it.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The bargain bin usually doesn't have anything interesting. How much is an actual recent movie?

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  • [+] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)
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    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    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.

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