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The era of cheap streaming is officially over (www.cnn.com)
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[–] 44 points 3 years ago (13 children)

I've found a DVD rental place close to me with quite a collection. Honestly thinking about just unsubscribing from all streaming and going all in on DVD rental. I watched one recently for the first time ... you forget how consistently good the qualilty is compared to streaming (YMMV). But, in true hipster fashion, being more deliberate about what I watch, more openly exploratory, making more of an event of it, all seems attractive. If streaming were actually convenient, fine, but with the way things are now ... they can go to hell.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Plus you get commentary and behind the scenes and such, not sure why most of the streaming services don't offer that.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Yep ... I forgot to mention that. Overall, when I watched a DVD for the first time in ages, it was somewhat eye opening ... like we've truly gone backwards on what the home viewing experience can be apart from the somewhat minor convenience of being not needing to store the DVDs at home.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    this is a rose tinted glass tbh. maybe if you’re watching a dvd on an iphone screen, but DVDs were limited to 720p, and a bad one too. You need modern bluerays to really get up to par with HD streaming services.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    DVDs are 480p, 720p wasn't introduced until the Blu-ray/HD DVD wars

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    There was also the forgotten format, D-VHS which was a specialized VHS tape tape which the recordings could be at 720p or 1080i resolutions. Or the same resolution as DVD but at a higher bitrate so there are less noticeable digital compression artifacts than DVD. The introduction of HD-DVD and Blu-ray disc formats kept the D-VHS format from ever becoming widely adopted.

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  • [+] 16 points 3 years ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    One of the many things that drove me away from physical media to streaming. Big companies were always pulling the "you will watch what I want you to see" approach. It's also what killed cable and satellite.

    That being said, I've found myself checking out more and more DVDs from the library simply because it's reliable, and I find it enjoyable in a way. I don't really care about HD quality or whatever -- DVD quality is fine.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Yep, Get those for like 2 bucks at goodwill. Hell, even entire box sets.

    Almost got the entire collectors edition band of brothers box set for 2 bucks at goodwill once.. only reason I didnt is cause it was missing like 3 of the disks, and I didnt want to spend the rest of my life trying to hunt those 3 down.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    The place has plenty of Blu-Rays too ... I'm grouping them in with DVD for convenience ... also you shouldn't presume the quality of my internet and streaming subscriptions or even my TV.

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