Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted
by rpdillon on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @10:08AM
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Totally agree. GOG for movies would get a lot of business from me!
Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted
by carlosjobim on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @10:53AM
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Maybe 0,00000001% of the general population. And 90% of posters here.
Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted
by delecti on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @12:29PM
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Are there truly that many movies which aren't released on physical media? I've also recently set up Plex, and just rip blu-ray copies to my NAS for it. Haven't failed to find any movies I've looked for.
Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted
by whycome on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @05:08PM
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Maybe they want to buy them digitally? Ripping from bluray involves a whole other process (hardware, software, os, time)
Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted
by belmead on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @01:49PM
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> I'm currently setting up a Plex in my home to play our families "most popular" movies and I genuinely want to buy these movies, pay for them, and just have them but I can't do that so I have to pirate them.
> have to
Can you elaborate, please?
Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted
by alexgaribay on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @02:20PM
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For me, I check my used bookstores for movies that aren't easy to find anymore. I've had good luck so far. Most used movies including Blu-Ray are around $6 USD.
I wonder how many others are in the same camp as me, I used to be a pirate back when I was a teenager but now I can genuinely afford this stuff and always prefer to pay versus pirate, but in the case of home movies I just can't do that.
I think the studios will be very surprised if they just opened the floodgates and let folks pay for and download movies, because I think a large chunk of us are like me, only pirating because there's no other avenue to acquire the movie.