In Portland, Ore., Brittany Trahan started buying DVDs rather than paying for Netflix and Apple TV, while Lisa Shannon has been relying on public transit instead of taking an Uber. And in McDonough, Ga., Brian Seymour II has been embracing the cold to shop locally instead of buying through Amazon.
They’re among a growing number of Americans participating in a boycott this month, targeting tech companies who, they believe, are not doing enough to stand up against President Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown.
Blurays are better quality than streaming.
4K Bluray is the highest quality you’ll ever get in your home by like, a lot.
Streaming is a regression.
Doesn’t blue ray suck at archiving because their data is more prone to corruption? The only advantage they have is larger storage space.
They, like DVDs, have a lifespan of ~20 years but can last a lot longer if kept in a cool and dry spot.
But also you can rip the discs and store them digitally on hard drives or whatever :)
Streaming is progress in terms of convenience, but the trade-off is a lower image quality and forgoing ownership of the media you buy/consume.
These days I buy Blurays and rip them to my Jellyfin server. Worth it for me, but I would hardly call that process convenient.
Do you ever use any of the Bluray “connected” features where your disc wants internet access to fulfill the function? I must say, that’s a major turnoff for me.
your also foregoing the special commentary and otber BTS content.
Now it’s expensive to even build one of those servers. I just play my discs and rip them to a hdd collection. I just do it the ghetto way by having a usb hub hooked up to an nvidia shield with some hdds.
It’s not. I have a server with dozens of TBs of storage which is a 2011 Lenovo tower I got for free out of someone’s garage. It doesn’t take a whole lot to store things.
Not really, Jellyfin will run just fine on old hardware. You don’t need a lot of power to do it. That said, if a USB HDD works for you, that’s fine too.
The cool thing about USB HDDs - when one dies, you just plug in another one - no issues with funky formatting, windows/linux compatibility or whatever. I had the power supply die on a QNAP NAS once… only once because even though the HDDs inside the NAS were fine, QNAP basically made the data on them inaccessible from any other system - no more proprietary NAS systems for me, thanks.
I assumed that they didn’t have old hardware lying around, in which case they are not incorrect as they will need at the very least 8gb to run the server effectively which by itself is approx $100 unless your looking at the second hand market.