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[–] thedrizzle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Wow that's old.

Frankly, as shitty is a lot of that stuff was, DVDs were like the last form of media distribution that I would actually call tolerable in terms of consumer friendliness. You still got a physical disk with the actual movie that was easy to rip and share, no internet required. If it weren't for the quality limitations, I'd still collect them as the primary physical backup to my media server.

[–] 100@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

4k Blu Rays exist. Aside from the pain of having to get a special cracked drive to rip them they are my primary backup for my movie server.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You just made me realize I could probably do this myself with a library card

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the only big shortcoming to DVDs was the region locking …

[–] monstoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

That's why we had a market for region-free DVD players!