• Dizzy Devil Ducky
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    5 months ago

    If they’re gonna go outta business soon, I better keep an eye on this. I could get some real cheap movies, even though I doubt there will be anything I’d watch. I could relive the days where my family was able to keep a physical DVD from back in the ancient times when Netflix was not a streaming service.

    Edit: Netflix was a scam artist even back then! Brought this up with my mother and she said Netflix charges us for the price of the DVD!

      • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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        05 months ago

        If I had the space and money to buy a Redbox machine, I would just so I could have one of the coolest storage devices for all my DVDs.

        • Irremarkable
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          05 months ago

          I think the implication was they wanted the actual physical part, not just access to lots of movies

          • @[email protected]
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            Re-thinking it, I think that would be kinda cool.

            It’s not far off from people who own jukeboxes

            Burning all the DVDs would be a pain in the ass, but I do have most of a spindle that I haven’t touched since…2013?

            • @[email protected]
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              05 months ago

              No, if you’re going to have a DVD jukebox, you’re going to buy them. No burning. You can get tons of great random movies from pawn shops and other stores. That would be half the fun of it.

              • @[email protected]
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                05 months ago

                Naw, if I’m going to have a DVD jukebox, it’s gonna be as bootleg as it gets. Converting AVIs to whatever the fuck format DVD players understand was a pain in the ass then, I’m sure converting MKVs backwards to the same format is still equally annoying, but it’s the principle of the thing.

          • @[email protected]
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            5 months ago

            Jellyfin is open source, so if you have the hardware and know .NET C (? I’m guessing on this part), it could be

            Edit; I guessed wrong

      • @[email protected]
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        05 months ago

        That’s the function of my NAS, the bonus is it holds significantly more movies and doesn’t cost anything to rent 🏴‍☠️

          • @[email protected]
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            05 months ago

            Network Attached Storage. A computer on a network designed to store files people work on. It usually has several hard drives that work together for extra speed and redundancy if a hard drive fails.

          • @[email protected]OP
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            05 months ago

            A Network Attached Storage (NAS) is a storage device that is put on a computer network, so different users can access it. Think of it as your own personal cloud.

          • @[email protected]
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            5 months ago

            Yeah, I knew the point, but then I realized my NAS in the basement is basically a more convenient Redbox with more movies for free and wanted to brag about piracy. It’s just so good. It would be cool to have a Redbox machine but tbh I’d really prefer one of those Netflix CDN boxes.

    • @[email protected]
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      05 months ago

      Just check ebay, most movies that are a few years old can be found for under $5 shipped. I still go back to DVD/Bluray copies of my favorite movies sometimes since content changes so often on streaming services.

      • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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        05 months ago

        That’s how I got my favorite CD and Discman, among other things. If I ever get serious about collecting, I’m definitely going through them because I haven’t had any problems (that they could prevent) with their services since I started getting things on them this year.