seriously, I still have a bunch of DVDs from years ago before media became so easy to download. I downloaded them all already and the convience of having the whole library on your computer or external is so much better than a bunch of disks that you have to pop in and out.
I'm really basic and youtube brained for this but I like the aesthetic of a shelf filled with physical media. I'm too broke to actively try to collect but if I was reasonably well off I absolutely would have a shelf like that.
I like it for books. Maybe vinyl records. Things with an appealing ritual or physical experience to them. But honestly for CDs, movies (or god forbid TV) it's kind of just like ew, why. I don't want to interact with the clunky remote and menu system of the player, I don't want to hunt for a misplaced disk, and it's all digital anyhow so why bother when you could just have "netflix but even more convenient and I can load anything I want onto it"? And physical media heads who just rip everything and save it to a hard drive anyhow just make me think they're too lib brained to pirate.
You can just buy bootlegs really cheap. That's how 80% of people in my town know about the movies they do. I've got a huge bootleg collection alongside pirated digital media as backup.
recently torrented a foreign movie because it wasn't on streaming and the DVDs were all out of print, it came with a separate file for the subtitles and I have no idea how to add it so I haven't watched it yet
total ass process wouldn't be a problem if I could just buy a nice 4k blu-ray physical media heads still stay winning
If you get really into it and get a NAS or media server, there are scripts you can put in that automate the whole subtitle process. Little bit of work up front to do none later
most modern rips put the subs directly into the media file, and most players can handle both separate srt subs and built in sub tracks, for example on something like plex or jellyfin it would have automatically loaded that file and it would've been one click on the player to turn them on if your settings didn't have them on automatically. But ultimately whether you find physical or pirated copies more convenient is mostly just a matter of familiarity and investment into one or the other.
On one hand if you set up jellyfin or something and some fancy torrent stuff you could have whatever movie you want more or less in pretty short order, and browse the library from a variety of devices with a consistent interface, which can be pretty convenient, or with physical media you can physically peruse which has its appeal, and you presumably already own a nice dvd/bluray player that you are familiar with the interface of, so you won't have to dork with the settings each time. But both require some investment, accumulating a library of physical media takes time, as does storign and organizing it, buying a nice player costs something. But with digital you have to have a computer with a non-trivial amount of hard drive space, and spend some time setting up whatever software you want to run, learning what the options are, etc.
Sorry to hear that, I'll send you the file so you can watch it at your convenience on any device you wish
-pirated digital media enjoyer
Physical media enjoyers
pirates with a Blu-Ray burner
Paying for media AND wasting useful space in your room? No tank you.
seriously, I still have a bunch of DVDs from years ago before media became so easy to download. I downloaded them all already and the convience of having the whole library on your computer or external is so much better than a bunch of disks that you have to pop in and out.
I'm really basic and youtube brained for this but I like the aesthetic of a shelf filled with physical media. I'm too broke to actively try to collect but if I was reasonably well off I absolutely would have a shelf like that.
I like it for books. Maybe vinyl records. Things with an appealing ritual or physical experience to them. But honestly for CDs, movies (or god forbid TV) it's kind of just like ew, why. I don't want to interact with the clunky remote and menu system of the player, I don't want to hunt for a misplaced disk, and it's all digital anyhow so why bother when you could just have "netflix but even more convenient and I can load anything I want onto it"? And physical media heads who just rip everything and save it to a hard drive anyhow just make me think they're too lib brained to pirate.
You can just buy bootlegs really cheap. That's how 80% of people in my town know about the movies they do. I've got a huge bootleg collection alongside pirated digital media as backup.
there are no pirates without the physical media enjoyers, we're all friends here
I don't have any blooooorays because I'm historically poor but I need to retroactively make it sound like I'm principled.
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recently torrented a foreign movie because it wasn't on streaming and the DVDs were all out of print, it came with a separate file for the subtitles and I have no idea how to add it so I haven't watched it yet
total ass process wouldn't be a problem if I could just buy a nice 4k blu-ray physical media heads still stay winning
VLC, subtitles, add subtitle track, select file. Like literally you see it when you open the subtitle menu
OK now I find out the subtitles aren't in English so now I've got to find the right track.
But still, thank you for the tip, I appreciate it.
https://www.opensubtitles.com/
best way is to copy the full name of the video file and search "filename English subs"
If you get really into it and get a NAS or media server, there are scripts you can put in that automate the whole subtitle process. Little bit of work up front to do none later
most modern rips put the subs directly into the media file, and most players can handle both separate srt subs and built in sub tracks, for example on something like plex or jellyfin it would have automatically loaded that file and it would've been one click on the player to turn them on if your settings didn't have them on automatically. But ultimately whether you find physical or pirated copies more convenient is mostly just a matter of familiarity and investment into one or the other.
On one hand if you set up jellyfin or something and some fancy torrent stuff you could have whatever movie you want more or less in pretty short order, and browse the library from a variety of devices with a consistent interface, which can be pretty convenient, or with physical media you can physically peruse which has its appeal, and you presumably already own a nice dvd/bluray player that you are familiar with the interface of, so you won't have to dork with the settings each time. But both require some investment, accumulating a library of physical media takes time, as does storign and organizing it, buying a nice player costs something. But with digital you have to have a computer with a non-trivial amount of hard drive space, and spend some time setting up whatever software you want to run, learning what the options are, etc.