I hate that everything now is a subscription service instead of buying it and do whatever you want.

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      This. My only media expense monthly is my VPN at $10. Everything is pirated.

      Even that though - I just download only my favorites for the collection. Everything else is available on stand alone websites these days (multiple) so if you’re paying for a streaming service or really even using bittorrent then you’re living in the past as far as movies go.

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      1 year ago

      Blurays exist and they’re pretty cheap from thrift stores (often just $3)

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        1 year ago

        DVD isn’t very good quality. I don’t really care and I have a tiny TV, and DVDs still don’t look very good on it.

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        The video quality is shit and it’s extremely obvious in my opinion. Even the sound is inferior to a good torrent with Dolby TrueHD/DTS HD sound.

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            Why isn’t it fair? No reason you can’t just torrent a 10GB Blu-Ray rip of the movie. It’s free, easy and probably takes less time than going out and buying a DVD.

            I would say that side-to-side the quality of Netflix-like streaming is A LOT better, at least when it comes to video. Audio is probably comparable since both DVD’s and streaming services usually use Dolby Digital or Dolby Digital Plus.