Buy the box set, rip it to .mkv, drop in Plex, rinse and repeat.

Oh, wait, this isn’t c/piracy?

Anyone who thinks physical media on disc is a good way to preserve a work in perpetuity has never heard of disc rot.

Rip it, store it digitally, make periodic backups. Or obtain the IMAX film reel and keep it hermetically sealed for decades.

Bullshit. Piracy is the only thing preserving it. Why? Because as a PC user 4k HDR Blu-Rays are forbidden for me anyways to play legally despite owning them.

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There is still DRM on DVDs and Blu-rays. Don't think everything is perfect because you have the physical media. You still only have a license to play it.

Well, they can’t make your content disappear if you download copies of it to your own computer or server.

Since Oppenheimer was such a success, can we please get a high-budget Feynman film already? The guy was far more interesting and cooler and just generally more of a badass than Oppenheimer. And he fucked a lot more than Oppenheimer.

All we've gotten is Infinity which... it was okay, but come on. The guy got bored at Los Alamos and decided to learn how to safecrack. In the middle of the Manhattan Project. Because he was fucking bored.

If streaming anxiety is making you buy more cassette tapes instead of pirating I'd like to have a word with you.

I know it's not the point of the article but I need to express my annoyance at the fact that Christopher Nolan is encouraging dvd/bluray purchase so much. He explicitly designs shitty sound in his films supposedly to make them sound better for the theater (i question his success in that effort) and then doesn't adjust it for the bluray. So even then at home you have to adjust the sound up and down to hear the dialogue while not getting your eardrums blasted out by the action sequences.

Ok rant over. Otherwise I agree wholeheartedly, don't trust streaming services to keep your movies for you. Bluray is the way.

Torrent them onto your own storage and make backups .

This is the way.

I check the list of new physical releases regularly. I'd rather drop $30 on a disc than blow $50 in a theater and walk out with nothing.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/releasedates.php

I love DVD extras like 'The Making Of...' documentaries and creator interviews/commentaries.

There's a special edition of 'Buckaroo Banzai' with an on screen commentary that's fantastic. I found out that the briefcase Buckaroo carries with him into Dimension 8 had a tuna fish salad sandwich and Eintein's brain.

No one in their right mind that knows better has ever stored anything they truly cared to keep in the cloud only. Cloud storage like Google Drive or via streaming services where you can "buy" licenses. Maybe this will be a sign that the average person is catching on to the grift.

In any reasonable society we would have actual ownership rights over the digital media that we buy and we wouldn't be beholden to fickle services or the inevitable decay of matter.

DRM-free copies, when properly backed up, are more secure than physical media. I have ripped MP3s from music CDs that already stopped working.

Tell me again how you watch your VHS tapes

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