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Re:The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar by Symbiote on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:58AM (#25444100)
Do DVDs in the last (~10?) few years still have non-skippable adverts at the start? That could be one potential benefit.

But otherwise, I don't see any real plus. Unless you have such a large collection that the search/recommend features are useful. You still have to take the DVD out, put it in the computer, run some program, etc.

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Re:The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar by cgriswald on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @11:48AM (#25444748)
> Do DVDs in the last (~10?) few years still have non-skippable adverts at the start?

I honestly don't know, because I rip all my content and play it on Plex. :)

This could be the answer and once you're ripping content anyway, Plex is a decent way to stream it to whichever devices.

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