Commentary, behind-the-scenes features, bloopers: What did we lose when we said goodbye to DVDs? - eviltoast
  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    3 months ago

    There’s automation for doing it the legal way, too.

    You can have a disk drive you just put a disk in and the media will automatically get imported all the way to whatever media server you prefer.

    Combine that with disks being small enough to just show up through your mail-slot, and it can be pretty painless, as well.

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      3 months ago

      ha, but you skipped the part where you attempt to obtain a disk! the ‘disk level’ automation has existed for decades and is much more work than typing a name in a list.

      not to mention, shit just isnt all on disk anymore.

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        3 months ago

        And?

        Don’t pretend like there are no parallels between trying to figure out a source for something that has long since stopped being seeded, and where to order a disk.

        Or that putting in an online order is any more complex that making a request on ombi.

        Or that there are no disks out there with content no one has ever ripped.

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          3 months ago

          youre seriously saying that working through the process of finding, purchasing, obtaining via shipping and then finally ripping the disk is ‘just as easy’ as typing a name into an automation system??

          youre just flat out wrong. i have volumes of material that have never been on disk ever, and never will be

          • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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            3 months ago

            No. Where did you get that idea from? When did I say it was more better?

            I said it could be convenient, in some cases the best option, and sometimes rarely the only option.

            Find me an automated system that can find and download a copy of finnish TV series “Pakanamaan Kartta” that I have on my Jellyfin server, and we’ll talk.

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              3 months ago

              ahh i see

              ive put shit on my torrenting list that were there for years before it popped up again was downloaded. and then, ive purchased home made vhs copies of shit that just doesnt exist anymore. so i get where youre comin from