• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    7 months ago

    this is why I still buy discs

    Uh... I would simply pirate the content wholesale.

    • laziestflagellant [they/them]
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      7 months ago

      Buy discs, rip the contents, seed torrents to share with comrades worldwide (please do this, I just want a HQ copy of Footfalls from the Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker soundtrack but I can't find it anywhere)

      • LeZero [he/him]
        ·
        7 months ago

        Here you go comrade

        https://file.io/zcYWOkckRyM4

          • LeZero [he/him]
            ·
            7 months ago

            Look up Soulseek if you wish to get high quality music files, best P2P network for those

            • SeducingCamel [he/him]
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              7 months ago

              Need to do this, been fiending for music files after they shut down whatever subreddit that was popular for music sharing

    • edge [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      Somebody has to buy them to get the best quality rips.

      I worry that if they stop selling Blu-Rays, there will be literally no way to get media in full uncompressed (minimally compressed? idk, just whatever makes Blu-Rays need like 50 GB) quality. No more BD Remuxes, just shitty WEBRips and maybe some WEB-DLs

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        do purchased digital movies have high quality? Like the ones in the screenshot? Or on iTunes? zdon't they have 4k digital movies?

        • BountifulEggnog [she/her, they/them]
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          7 months ago

          They might be 4k, but they don't have the quality of Blu ray. They get compressed more to be easier to stream. Blu ray is usually the best quality the public gets to see (unless tapes or something leaks).

      • Quexotic [none/use name]
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        7 months ago

        https://tidal.com/sound-quality

        That's just one place to get HQ music. It's not exactly what you're looking for, but it's part of the solution.

        • edge [he/him]
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          7 months ago

          I doubt they'd ever do something like that for movies and tv. Blu-Ray quality can't really be streamed and a download would be 20-50 GB which they probably just don't want to offer or else they would have by now.

          • AlicePraxis [any]
            ·
            7 months ago

            Max has really good streaming quality, I'm sure it's not quite as good as blu-ray but it seems to be very high bitrate. Netflix on the other hand is absolute trash.

            • edge [he/him]
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              7 months ago

              All the streaming services constantly adjust quality based on your connection, with no option to turn that off and let it buffer instead. I've had HBO Max go from looking fine to utter dogshit in the middle of a show. I pirated it after that. I was paying for the service (well, someone else was and I was using it) but still got a better experience from pirating a BDRip.