Comics and cartoons are not physical media.
what if im homeless and poor and too disabled to use a dvd player you fucking bigot chud
>>154165065I generally do, of the digital media I do possess the majority is torrents of stuff I couldn't get otherwise
>>154165065why when i get it for free online
>>154165090buy gold as well
>>154165065Disney hates you doing that
>>154165113gold is worthless.I have been stockpiling helium containers
Physical media is effective ownership.
>>154165090Get an ISO/VOB_IFO and use either VLC or MPC-HC, no disc required.
>>154165065Sure, I'll just go down to my local mom & pop video store and grab something.
>>154165090I've had to clean up an abandoned homeless camps and I can tell you, they find a way. Found a pile of ruined porn dvds.
>>154165468That is what the internet is for. Eventually I just wont bother paying for anything, except internet.
>>154165468Second hand shops exist.
>>154165079Comics are
>>154165468There are Salvation Army Stores everywhere in the US and they have multiple bookshelves filled with DVDs for dirt cheap. Once in awhile, you'll get some amazing finds, too. I found S1 of Venture Brothers on DVD there, a Roger Rabbit anniversary edition with a bunch of behind the scenes stuff, and a Seinfeld "Puffy Shirt" collectors case that I gave to a friend.
>>154165681I'm from the Midwest, but while we were on a road trip to Florida, we stopped by the Peddler's Mall in Lexington. They have all kinds of good shit there, a guy was even selling the entirety of Dilbert on DVD.
>>154165065what physical media, even the fucking simpsons stopped releasing seasons on disc over a decade agodon't you remember what it was like? stores filled with unsold Dark Knight Trilogy box sets? endless rereleases of LotR? even if physical media still existed with large enough demand to keep stores going, which it doesn't, it'd still just be box sets of shit you've already seenyou ever clear out an elderly relatives house after they died? notice how it was filled with unopened dvds they never had time to watch, or just watched on their cable subscription? yeahand that's why landfill exists, for the shit you want everybody to buy because it hasn't happened to you yet, you fuck ignorant nobody
>>154165843u must be fun at parties.
>>154165079Get better bait>>154165065I pirate it and store it all on external drives
>>154165065Okay.Start paying me for the nonphysical media I make for free then
>>154165065I just pirate everything
>>154166806I do both, usually only buying physical media when I have no other choice.
>>154166806Do you parry everything?
>>154165065Make media worth supporting enough to earn my money opposed to >>154165105
>>154168452Sadly not everything, I've had to buy the 99 Animal Farm adaptation on DVD myself just so I could get 5.1 audio. A VOB_IFO torrent existed years ago, but nobody seeds old torrents.
>>154165065Already do.
>>154165065What for?
You don't "buy" physical media. People who tell you that with a straightface are the same ones who want a collectors armarace with media. The whole point of physical media is to ensure thar even in the unlikely event a digital copy ceases to exist, you have a material backup.You don't "buy", you OWN physical media. Pirate/download your media onto a CD or print out comics. That's what the actual philosophy was meant to be about, not playing into these hyper inflated markets that have already ruined other things like gayming.
>>154165065Physical media in the context of /co/ usually means optical media, which is a scam. You should have your media backed up according to the 3-2-1 principle in ways you can more easily verify the data integrity
>>154170647The first two are good, but that last one glows. There's no way I'm letting some off-site cloud company get a hold of my nasty porn.
>>154170659Off-site just means not in the same physical location as the other two, e.g. some hard drives you keep at a family member's place. Even a hundred backups won't help if they're all in your house when it burns down
>>154170737Ohhhh, then that makes WAY more sense. That cloud icon gave me the wrong idea LMAO.
>>154170647Optical media is not a scam, you're delulu.
>>154170758It's potentially fine as a backup option if you're using bulk writeable ones - I haven't tried that. But for commercial blurays, if I have a hundred movies on a hundred different discs, I'm not gonna be inclined to check them one by one periodically for potential disc rot. A RAID array is much easier to check for issues, and it takes up way less shelf space
Wanted to buy Goat on DVD or Blu-ray. One doesn't exist other has no polish language.
>>154170822There's also the option of making your own x264 encodes so there isn't the same amount of bulk that's left from remuxes. Or hell, go with x265 if your CPU's fast enough.
Most of /co/ lives in favelas and can't afford that.
>>154170843Bro, you can just say slum or ghetto. Don't need to try and be fancy pancy about it.
>>154170647all data of value stored on cloud will be stolen
>>154170855Literally read two posts down
>>154165065I wish I could. Aside from the cash problem, they just fucking stopped selling DVDs around here.I still do try to save stuff to DVDs, though, while I can still get those.
>>154165065>Buy physical mediano
>>154165065i do and then the binding on these overpriced books fall apart
>>154171497Yes.
I store things I torrent on my physical hard drive, it seems physical enough to me.
>>154170659Put it into .rar archives with the longest possible password and you're good.
>>154170828And that sounds like no tragedy at all.
>>154171762It's annoyance, true.
>>154170828Buy the dvd/bluray in the og language.pirate/torrent the movie with your native language.???success!
>>154171710Exactly, as long as you upload your data in some kind of encrypted archive, the worries of >>154170659 and >>154170855 are nonexistent. Unless you're on a level of paranoia to believe that companies can break AES256, but at that point you definitely shouldn't be using 4chan.
>>154165065Of course!Once you have it, NOBODY can stop you from viewing it.No "rights" issue.No streamer who decides to take it offline.Nobody who wants to mess with the product, like publishing it at 1.3 speed.No targeted adsNo accounts
>>154165065What physical media?
>>154165124Enjoy your censored streaming versions!
>>154165681Thanks for the snitch! Now to make YouTube videos to drive up the prices! Fucktards.>>154165681Back in the 2000s.
>>154170831Most encodes look compressed as fuck and kill off the film grain.
>>154175581It's always been a trade off between size and image quality.Right now, I'd vote for the quality as storage is still affordable.
>>154165065I would, too many publishers are ginormous cocksuckers.Why the FUCK did Janus films do a 4K restoration of "The Time Masters", and then limit it to extremely limited theatrical showings in New York? What the fuck is Criterion doing not releasing it? All that's available are dogshit pirate sites. And most of those are for the shitty british dub, it took me ages to find the original french audio.I swear I'd be violent by this point if we didn't have Deaf Crocodile and Warner home archive.
>>154175899Chances are that 4k is literally a YELLOW SKIES, TEAL N ORANGE restoration like they did with their Bruce Lee films, even the Arrow Restorations were better in color!The thing is, something shady happened at Janus Films around the time they announced their Godzilla Box set, they got subverted and their new people at charge are a bunch of postmodernists destroyers.
>>154165065no. I can't think of a single piece of physical media available to me for purchase that ones autist won't buy and upload on the internet
>>154165065sure. get me a job and then ill buy whatever you want me to
>>154175899>it took me ages to find the original french audioI found it in under a minute on rutracker
>>154165124Man this was the biggest "fuck you" i have seen to physical media lovers
Release complete box sets and not on DVD I need AT LEAST 1080p bluray. And please stop scrubbing away all the detail with DNR or cutting/changing the music of cartoons.I bought the Tom and Jerry boxset, the Samurai Jack boxset, the complete Star Trek TAS and the thunderbean flip the frog set immediately and I’m happy to buy stuff like that.I will not buy smeary dnr sword and the stone or daria without the original music, or random ass episodes on a dvd family pack.
>>154176347On a shit quality Dvix Palspeed
>>154176062Asian companies tend to just do straight film transfers, only America bothers to restore old films.>>154177063You need Blu-Ray for 1080p, DVDs cap off at 480p.>>154175508The stuff released by Warner Archive and Thunderbeen.
>>154177147It appears to be a rip of https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%AB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3/dp/B0CBPQ7KPT along with some added audio tracks (russian dub, French 5.1)The one weird thing is the amazon description says it's a 4k restoration but the specs say it's only 1080p
you will own nothing and be happy
>>154178659We're seeing about that
>>154165065BUY? Pay money for things? Nah.
>>154178081Blu-Ray caps off at 1080p, you need 4K Blu-Ray for 4K.Plus down sampling exists.
>>154177855>You need Blu-Ray for 1080p, DVDs cap off at 480pThat’s what I said yeah
>>154178081Mastered in 4K/4K restoration is not the same as a 4K release.It’s kind’ve there just for marketing but technically mastering at a higher resolution and then downsampling should provide a slightly better preservation of fine detail than mastering at the target resolution. The biggest benefit is to the studios who futureproof their scans at a higher resolution for a new format instead of needing to rescan.tl;dr if you have a 4K TV you want a 4K UHD over a 1080p Bluray that has the mastered in 4K blurb (most of the time, unless the 4K fucks up the color timing or something retarded).
>>154165124That is wild.
>>154180651Luckily Sony's still putting out physical media for Disney. It's a lot like the MGM/Fox situation where Fox was putting out a majority of MGM films on DVD.
>>154165124Can't have people owning uncensored DVD copies of Peter Pan. It'd make Tinkerbell merch reeeal awkward knowing it's at the expense of injuns.
>>154176062>The thing is, something shady happened at Janus Films around the time they announced their Godzilla Box set, they got subverted and their new people at charge are a bunch of postmodernists destroyers.Really? How so?
>>154165065I agree
you dont need anything higher than 720p
>>154165065I don't buy DVDs too much anymore, I like wasting my money on comic floppies.
>>154170822Why doesn't everyone build their own datacenter?They want a collection that reflects their tastes covers and everything
>>154170647I want to get a UHD M disc compatible drive to rip my rare movies, it's hard drives to store them that's fucking expensive.
>>154165065>buy physical media>digitalize it>endlessly back it up till you die>resell physical media for profit
>>154183356What will you do when the poles reverse?
>>154165468They literally sell DVD's and shit at walmart, wtf is you doing at a mom and pop store?
>>154165468>what's Amazon?
>>154165843
>>154182782Yes you do retard
>>154180890You see, in 2011, Criterion bought the rights for the first Godzilla movie and it's American recut by sublicensing from Classic Media who in 2006 they released the original Gojira in the US, the print used back then was a crappy worny print struck by toho that was also used to make theatrical English subbed prints by Rialto pictures in the US during 2004 on Art theaters, the print was horrible looking, filled with scratches, dirt, dust and even a couple of mini bugs! Plus it had video false outs to hide heavy scratches during transitions on the original print, and even so, the too of the print was de damaged through the whole print, so they tried to hide it with a black bar on top.Back to Criterion, they got the camera negative from Toho which was an Interpositive which at the time was tough to be the best source for the japanese cut, and made their own Scan out of that in 2k, the they did their restoration that rivaled TOHO's crappy soft looking HD Blu-ray from 2009, that one was a telecine made for 720p broadcast in Japan, this one was a frame by frame scan at 2K, then they got their hands on a 35mm fine grain print of the American cut but was incomplete and had an alternate title card that just said Godzilla which oddly enough was meant to be the original title.https://youtu.be/tEvm2zA1fuo?si=dC1hbkc_WwCB_VGsThe original KotM title card and end credits were sourced from a 16mm print provided by a Godzilla Fan, same as with the Classic Media DVD (which got rereleased in 2014 with new cover and cheaper but by the time, the Criterion Blu-ray /DVD was out still, CM had release a crappy interleaced video upscale on Blu-ray in 2009 as well)
>>154185194(Cont)... Around the release of Godzilla 2014, Criterion got streaming rights for all the showa films on their website and then some other streaming services but those used the atrocious Hi-Vision telecine transfers with their horrid yellow brown and orange colors, heck toho at the time just out out a crappy upscale of their ancient blurry and murky laserdisc transfer of King Kong vs Godzilla for broadcast with some parts patched in form a Matsuri Print, for years fans have been begging Criterion to release all the Godzilla films on a single box set because the rights were spread around Classic Media, Criterion, Media Blasters, Sony, and even fucking Disney (with Miramax still owned at the time, but they did released that label to a cheaper buyer which Echo Bridge got, they originally were gonna use the same crummy HBO toho master that was darkened as hell, but thanks to the Toho Kingdom guys, they got the Hi-Vision transfer, not that one being great tough but could been a lot worse), I don't remember anymore when they release their box set, but Criterion had intentions to make new in house transfers and restorations of all of the Showa movies and even restore the alternate US English cuts of Raids Again, Mothra vs Godzilla, Ghidrah, Monster Zero, Destroy all Monsters, Godzilla's Revenge, and Smog Monster, as well as the TV US dubs of Sea Monster and Son of Godzilla, but Toho fucked with them HARDER, they forced to use only the crappy Hi-Vision transfers and ONLY the japanese cuts of each movie and only their own Export dubs recorded in Frontier Enterprises (Japan) and Omni Productions (Hong Kong), banned most of the US cuts, only allowed the US cuts of Gojira and King Kong vs Godzilla, the latter was presented as the main version by default, while the japanese version was included as an extra with forced English subtitles and very little in terms of extras, because Toho had already been fucking scummy and pedantic with supplementals....cont..........
>>154185316since then, Criterion hanst been the same.
>>154186372>>154185316>>154185194This just sounds like Japan being autistic retarded fucks about their media like they've always been autistic retarded fucks about their media. And you didn't mention a single word about Janus films in your manifesto length essay. What does this have to do with Janus films?
>>154166081>Start paying me for the nonphysical media I make for free thenDid this actually make sense in your head before you typed it?
>>154165065Make physical media as cheap and convenient as digital and I'll consider it.
>>154180688https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
>>154165124I guess we will never get a Blu-ray version of Walt Disney Treasures. Also, Paramount gets a shout-out for allowing a pic related to be made.>>154186873When you consider the long-term costs, physical media is cheaper in the long run than relying on streaming services. And it is more convenient because you don't have to worry about a movie or TV show being removed or moved to a different streaming service.
>>154185316US cut being the default for Kong was a Universal mandate
>>154186455It's all about mitigating reverse importing since Japanese home video pricing has always been high with standards being unchanged since the Laserdisc era when the bubble economy was still going on.
>>154165681Thrift stores but especially Salvation Army and Goodwill have become complete dogshit in the last 10 years or so man. They basically have become fronts for selling just the absolute worst crap they cant put on their online storefronts or ebay and even the stuff that does actually make it to the brick&mortar stores isnt really thrift store cheap anymore
>>154187796>Paramount gets a shout-out for allowing a pic related to be madeThis bodes well for the upcoming Warner Bros merger. Maybe they'll put even more money into the Warner Archive Looney Tunes releases.
>>154187796They're just outsourcing their disc production to Sony, Blu-Ray isn't dead.
>>154187405Do you think it happened with DVD as well?
>>154187405Nowadays you'd get a UAC prompt asking you "uhhhhh, do you WANT to get infected by digital aids?" Plus, those discs are a non-issue now that proper CD ripping software exists.
>>154191128Well, it was about twenty years ago.
>>154188024They have to make do with what they get.GIGO, my dear Anon
>>154180831True, they don't want a couple busybodies to kill their Disney Fairies li-...Oh. :/
