The answer for me is large hard drives. I have never used disks before but it can't be easier than opening a file
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What do you use to rip your collection? Or are you on the high seas? I've tried various ways to rip my collection but so far nothing really works for newer Blu rays.
I only sail. My go to target is Atmos HDR 2160p Remux or Web-DL.
Or was always told web rips were poor quality...guess streaming changed that.
So far so good using makemkv with my collection.
I use MakeMKV and an Asus BW-16D1HT in an external enclosure. Run into very few disks that I have trouble ripping, but eventually an update comes out and solves it. Or cleaning the disc and trying again, cleaning again and retrying, on and on until it works.
I'll have to give that a try if I can find a suitable drive. Tried a different one but it's fw must have been updated to prevent ripping.
+1 for make MKV. After that Handbrake for h265 encoding
You could create NFC cards with the cover of each movie and scan them to trigger the start of a movie on your collection.
This sounds really cool, like some wall art that has a qr code or something.
How would it integrate with plex?
You could try to use home assistant which has plugins for both plex and NFC. You may need to fool around with an ESP32 or arduino board to get it all working together.
Agreed. Also, I don't need full BluRay quality. A 3GB H265 is good enough that I can't tell the difference unless I really pay attention.
But even a 30GB rip costs under 50¢ to store on the margin (1.4¢/GB CAD is the current for 3.5" HDDs.) (Or 75¢ if you want to RAID it in case of drive failure.)
I can understand liking physically browsing through a shelf and the tactile feeling of putting a disc into a player. I still prefer file storage, but at least I can understand
Ugh. Forget that. I need to know what movie I want to watch BEFORE I want to watch it AND I need to come up with $20 and somewhere to keep it.
And yes, I am old enough to have had a blockbuster card. Still might, actually.
either i get to download a mkv or i pirate shamelessly
Anything I value now, I download at best possible resolution then keep on a mammoth 16Tb drive, streamed through Plex. And I'm glad because, over the years, so much great TV especially has been lost forever (not even available on DVD). Because hard drives aren't infallible, I also back it all up to iDrive.
So glad to see others here that understand the importance and advantages of owning physical media. All the best to you all.
The streaming situation has always sucked.
Yay Plex and discs
The digital world, I’m realising, is a bit of a racket.
I love how this is the first of only a few sentences before getting paywalled in the link
I've recently gone back to dvd, every couple weeks look through goodwill/an estate sale. eBay titles I'm thinking of. I just wonder if any new stuff can still be found in dvd or is that just not part of the deal anymore?
Also be sure to check local libraries.
You're right, they're awesome. Also, there's still a RedBox by the supermarket
My household has stopped most streaming services and went back to physical media. Aside from getting up to change disks, we haven't missed much. Plus finding used media is a fun hobby now. This may sound dumb but the task of getting up to swap a disk has helped me from just sitting all day watching . I feel like I get a bit more chores done. Still would like to set up a good media server though
We need one of them 5 disc media player back.