Blurays are better quality than streaming.
4K Bluray is the highest quality you'll ever get in your home by like, a lot.
Streaming is a regression.
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Participating in a boycott this month? You should be doing all that stuff period.
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Dang it, I'm already boycotting them because i want to actually own my media and support local businesses and a bunch of other reasons, how am I supposed to boycott them harder to include capitulation to Trump?!
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The last two years I started going to garage sales for DVDs/Blu Rays.
It's been great. You can get like 5-10 movies for the price of a month of Netflix. Then you can sell them next spring for $5-10 and buy $5-10 worth from someone else of stuff you haven't seen.
Odd choice just pirate and teach others how to aswell. Hurts in this case Netflix way more
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Discs from libraries!
Dusted off the mp3s too. Long live VLC
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although I doubt this will get much of any mainstream coverage, as someone who has been setting up/administering a number of plex servers for the last ~20 years, I have noticed a rather remarkable uptick in not only setting up new servers, but a flood of interest in membership for the handful that I administer.
This has had the interesting side-effect of renewing interest in the fact that you can borrow DVDs/BRDs for free from your local library for the purposes of ripping them. Believe me-- you may think that, in 2026, everything is available for download very easily.... no, it isn't Yes, much more is widely available at (generally) much higher quality than it used to be, but it all relies on how popular a show/film/album is (and continues to be). If you're looking to dl something new/current, you'll very likely have a 2 week - 3 month window it will very reliably be available to download. after that, whether it's available (and for how long) depends entirely on how popular it remains.
Example: The "New Trek" that most old-school Trekkies hate is less-available than, say, a mega download of all 7 seasons of DS9. DS9 is probably available (as a single download and as single seasons/episodes) much more easily than any episode of STD. Or, even, the JJ Abrahms films. Shit, even the Rifftrax commentary version of ST II has more seeders on more torrent sites than any of the 3 JJ Treks. And, to put a pin in this... Star Trek Lower Decks is even more available now than it was when it was airing.
The cool flip-side of this: I never got to see the iconic Fritz Lang film M in the pre-torrent era because I could never find a Blockbuster's that carried it in stock. But, as soon as that barrier to see it was removed (availability), I got to see the prototypical murder mystery thriller film which, still today, holds up as pretty awesome.
I’m know kids these days who are preferring a dumb phone, now physical media is making a comeback.
Has our surveillance economy finally backfired enough that people are starting to reclaim ownership? God I hope so.
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What happened to good old pirating? We used to show them middle finger for wanting single payment from us, and now we do subscriptions for stuff we barely even use?
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targeting tech companies who, they believe, are not doing enough to stand up against President Trump's aggressive immigration crackdown
Oh ffs, they're not doing enough because they've submitted to him! They literally went to his inauguration to kiss the ring!
But better to wake up late then never I suppose
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No, we don't "Believe they are not doing enough to stand against", that's slimy spineless wording.
We "KNOW that they are ACTIVELY HELPING"
The website would be better if there was also links or resources to alternate.
But also that's hard depending on where you are.
lol. I was boycotting more than I thought. Seriously though its practically a fight to do things without a cell phone now.
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TIL I am unintentionally boycotting
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