Do you buy physical media anymore? Do you mostly just download or stream and buy what you can't? Do you only buy what you love?
If you do buy do you prefer to buy collection sets a la LotR and Harry Potter or those triple feature releases (ie. the bd that has 2001, A Clockwork Orange, and the Shining or the one with all 1980s and 90s Batman movies) or do you spend the extra cash to buy singles?
Is there any point to buying, your eyes, when streaming and downloads exist, physical media degrades and becomes obsolete quickly, discs go out of print and become expensive or unobtainable, studios push out rereleases every few years that always advertise themselves as "definitive" (Disney) and home video and theater technology is always improving (ie. the quick shift from full hd to 2k).
I pay for Netflix
>>62915218
I stopped buying DVDs 10 years ago. Don't own any Blurays.
>>62915218
I actually sold my entire DVD collection for a couple bucks after ripping the gems I still wanted to watch to my PC
Owning and collecting physical media is autistic as fuck
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>>62915218
I've never bought visual media in my lifeI'm 31 btw
why would you own physical media like some autistic teenager?
imagine if you brought your gf home and she saw your proud shelving of 'flicks', gah
>>62915295
this
>Do you buy physical media anymore?
I actually have flashdrives for a certain director/actor I like, and have all of their movies on said drive
For instance you can buy a 32 gb flashdrive that will last 10 years for $7. I have every Clint Eastwood acted and directed film on there (except a few rares) in 720-1080p and its in a box with my other thumb drives
Just for posterity sake, it's not worth it to own 40-50 boxes of media that will degrade faster than a drive, and you have to lug around
What hershlag movie is this?
>>62915491
Closer
I don't pirate anything (except porn and that doesn't could because only retards pay for porn)
I buy all my media through legit sources.
I buy movies on Blu Ray.
TV shows not available on Streaming sites like Netflix I will buy on Amazon Digital.(GoT)
All my games I buy digital.
>>62915572
>implying you wouldn't be her goy toy
>>62915674
I'd kill some mudslimes to fuck her. Then again, I'd kill some mudslimes to kill some mudslimes.
>>62915674
I find her pretty fucking annoying now bit I can't deny that she was hot as FUCK when her and Anakin were chilling together fucking each others brains out in Attack of the Clones.
She literally looked perfect in those scenes. ...a perfect representation of a woman.
>>62915821
>I find her pretty fucking annoying now
Mad Zionist detected
>>62915218
I don't buy anything that can be downloaded for free, period. I don't understand the people who do either. And I don't do it because it's my way of sticking it to the Man, or freedom, or some other ridiculous shit. It's simple, it's available for free, why would I fucking waste money on it?
>Inb4 I'm supporting the artist.
Go fuck yourself.
>>62915218
I'd buy her physical media
>>62915218
>Do you buy physical media anymore?
no
>>62915295
This. Physical media is completely dated and only takes up space. Meanwhile you can fit a few thousand movies in the same space that 2 DVD cases take up.
>>62915990
Why didn't she bleach her asshole bros?
>>62915901
You're that guy who will steal apples from the sidewalk fruit stand because there is no armed guard standing there watching you amirite?
>>62915990
WIPE
I would prefer to buy physical media if it's easily available, but I'm poor right now so I almost always download or stream stuff. In a few years when I hopefully have a good job and a bit more money I plan on getting physical releases of my favorite movies.
>>62916143
this is my current excuse too. we'll see if I actually change
Post more webms.
>>62915295
Same.
I bought my first Blu-Ray this year.
I buy blu rays all the time still, I'm too lazy to get into private tracking and all that shit.
The only problem is whenever I'm in the mood to watch a movie I can never decide which one to watch (not to mention Netflix's movie selection is abysmal).
>>62916068
Yes I would. But that's besides the point. Stealing apples isn't the same as downloading pirated media. And I really hope I don't have to explain the difference.
I only buy movies that I really liked. The rest are seen in theaters or torrented
I buy Blu rays because I want the absolute best fidelity for films whether my Internet is working or not. Plus sometimes I will pop one in a watch subtitled while streaming music and doing something else like working out.
For TV shows its a bit different. Fidelity is a high priority but not the top priority. Convenience and the ability to watch multiple episodes easily on demand is the top priority. That's why I buy from Amazon Digital if I do buy a season of a show.
That's what I did with Mr. Robot and it was worth every penny.
If I have the money, which isn't likely because broke college student, then I'll buy the special edition set of something I really love. I enjoy all the bonus features: commentary tracks, bloopers, various BTS featurettes, etc. Otherwise I'll just torrent it. Sometimes I'll torrent something I already own because it's easier to do that than to rip it myself.
>>62916348
If I ever saw you stealing a motherfucking apple I'd cut your goddamn hand off
You filthy lecherous thieving cunt
>that said
I still think pirating is acceptable because it's "copies" of virtual media that doesn't actually exist
For movies/games/shows I really enjoy, I'll buy the physical media.
There's just something nice about owning physical.
>>62916348
>implying I would continue a conversation on civililized, ethical behavior with a confessed degenerate.
>>62915218
I don't. I download everything that I find interesting because I don't feel like spending money on stuff that isn't strictly necessary.
Mind you, I don't excuse myself for it. It's illegal to pirate movies under federal law and I don't steal physical stuff in real life. I just don't care about the negative impact piracy has on the economy, etc., because none of the repercussions have ever affected me directly, and it's unlikely that they ever will.
Would I buy modern video games? Sure, if they're on a new console I can't emulate. Movies? Music? Never.
Only if its a movie I really like, or I see something worthwhile on the used DVD rack at the corner store (in Bruges for a buck fifty, why not).
Also, I've lost way more hard drives in my life than physical copies of anything. I mean I still have my parents old vinyl albums, and CD's I bought 20 years ago. I don't have a single piece of functioning electronics that is that old (except maybe the original gameboy I got for christmas as a kid).
But I'm a dinosaur that still has books.
>>62916538
Oh, fuck off. You know you're arguing a losing case. So you throw this ad hominem faggotry at me to try and salvage some dignity.
>>62915218
>buy physical media
No. Shit my parents think it's crazy people pay for 1s and 0s. These days I only pay for experiences like theatre, cinema, concerts shit that actually forces me to leave the house.
If not, those 1s and 0s are getting downloaded.
>>62916424
>Bourne identity is on Netflix
>I also have the blu ray, sitting right next to my tv
>stream lower quality rather than walk 6 feet to put the disk in
>BWREEEEE
I buy books and blu Ray copies of movies I like. That's it. I buy all my music from iTunes.
>>62916064
Because her dirty, naturally-colored butthole is the gate to Heaven.
I can't remember when I bought a movie last time. Probably Return of the King on DVD back in the early 00s
>>62915218
I don't but that's because I don't have money. I love the idea of physical media and hate my life every time I download a movie. I quite literally started to watch fewer and fewer movies because it disgusts me so much the idea of pirating. Needing to turn on my whole fucking computer just for watching a movie or listenting to an album? Absolutely fucking cancer.
Not paying for the movie/book/album diminishes any sense of value and respect I can have for the work. Stolen shit or won for free means nothing to me. Unfortunately. I wish I could enjoy all those million of movies I can find for free online but I can't because I don't sacrifice anything for it, its like fucking prostitutes. It also mean a lot to me feeling the physical object in my hands before consuming it. Buying it, unwrapping the package, puting the disc in the player... on the computer all of this is lost and its like having sex without first date and foreplay.
I buy my favorite things as a way to promote those things in the world.
>>62916632
You already lost. You have already acknowledged that you have no moral center therfore your opinions on the matter are invalid.
So with that being said, any further conversation on the matter would be futile. Like throwing a rock in outer space and expecting it to hit something, but it won't because there is nothing there.
You are what you are, a degenerate. I accept that. It is what it is.
>>62916784
you sound awfully flustered, friendo
>>62915821
>a perfect representation of a woman.
too bad she has a subhuman eyecolor. but i bet you jerk it to monkeys/niggers too.
>>62915476
You are a moron, you can get many more GB per $ with a hard drive. All you are doing is just making physical media.
>>62916789
This. Among other things.
>>62915476
This is the most retarded thing I've heard anyone do.
This is a bigger waste of money than buying the blurays and I just know it's nothing but YIFY shit on those drives.
>>62915218
iTunes got me buying digital media for a while and then again it's what made me stop. Transferring between multiple devices was such a pain and it seemed like with each update the program got worse and worse.
I don't have a ton of experience with Amazon but Audible wasn't all that great, the desktop player was especially shit.
I bought a TV series on DVD that I couldn't find on public trackers or DDL, I'm going to rip it and use it digitally though.
>>62916831
Kek
>>62916831
blue is a meme eye colour
>>62916831
Reported to the ADL
>>62916802
a) We're not debating fucking morals here.
b) We're especially not debating my morals.
c) We're not even debating the morality/amorality of piracy.
d) Even if we were, my view on isn't amoral, it's pragmatical.
now pack up your pseudo-intellectual shit and fuck off from that moral highground before I call in an airstrike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0PgPK67jwc
>>62917113
quit taking the bait, you idiot
>>62917137
I'm not. Well at least, not in a way he wants me to.
>>62917184
please stop
I can only take so much retardation
>Netflixâ„¢, Amazon Digitalâ„¢, iTunesâ„¢... the list could go on!
>>62915218
I buy DVDs still. Can't afford Blu-Ray and my internet isn't reliable enough for streaming. Pisses me off how they're trying to force the format out of existence by putting all but one of the special features of each movie only on the Blu-Ray.
I don't buy new stuff anymore but I do enjoy picking up used DVD/Bluray stuff on the cheap. Goodwill outlet sometimes gets in DVDs they sell for 25cents each. That's more or less free..
Last trip to the goodwill outlet I got dvds of:Eraser, The Signal, Simpsons Movie, Seven, Risky Business, 8 Mile and The Original Animated Transformers movie all for $1.25 total
>>62915218
I can't remember the last time I actually bought a movie, apart from Christmas gifts for others. I find my way out to the movie theater 20+ times a year, though.
>>62915218
I buy Criterion BluRays and cheap used BluRays/DVDs of films I love or want to see.
buyfags = moralfags
surprise surprise
>>62919187
DUDE MORALS ARE FOR PUSSIES NOW EXCUSE ME WHILE I RAPE THIS TODDLER LMAO
>>62916068
>magic apple tree on public property that grows infinite apples from nothing
>s-stop taking the apples, support the guys that planted the tree, even though its probably not going to them
>want to watch movie
>have to wait 18 months for it to come out
>have to spend $40 on a Blu-Ray/DVD/Lightspeed super deluxe unrated combo pack
This is why I pirate still.
>>62915218
I buy BluRays, but I'm very selective in what I pick. Still it easily grew into a 100+ disc collection.
I guess I get a warm fuzzy feeling from paying for stuff I enjoyed, and being 30+ I grew up in times when owning something physically (records, VHS, what have you) used to be cool.
I do agree digital is more convenient, but the quality of digital releases is still too shit to pay a cent for it. And buying a digital release only to download a BD-ISO to be able to watch it is just silly. So I may as well just buy it.
>>62921417
Don't most blue rays come with the disc and a download code anyways?
>>62915295
This.
I think one person gave me some random movie on Blu-ray for xmas several years ago. I don't even have any kind of optical drive in my PC anymore. Everything is HDD/SSD and USB/eSATA. Or, streamed in HD.
>>62921908
>Don't most blue rays come with the disc and a download code anyways?
1. Hardly any.
2. Most are "sorry this offer is only available in countries other than yours".
3. The one I've seen were YIFY-tier quality, which goes back to my original point.
>>62915342
>imagine if you brought your gf home and she saw you fiddling around trying to connect a hdd to your bluray player just to play a pirated copy of the avengers
>>62915476
thats....really autistic
>>62915218
I haven't purchased any physical media in over 10 years.
>>62915218
I mostly stream a movie when I feel watching it but if it's a really good movie that's worth it, I'll buy the blu-ray.
So far I've only brought one this year
>>62915218
Downloading and streaming is ILLEGAL.
I don't want to risk going to prison just because I couldn't be bothered to save up and buy the DvD or CD. Better to be safe than sorry.
>>62916995
good anon......good
>>62915218
I never had DVDs so I started buying essential stuff on BD
I kinda regret buying throwaway single releases, I still buy stuff like full series / filmography collections, limited editions, etc.
but I always pirate everything first
also netflix shit looks a thousand times worse than BD
I Download and if i like it I'll buy it. simple as that, 10 years ago i would have bought it and if i didn't like it take it back or re-sell it.
people who don't buy physical media are pleb as fuck.
if i could buy film/digital prints and a projector then i watch movies like that, DVD/Blu-Ray exist for a reason even though they are extremely outdated and that's simply because they're better than any streaming or download
i still buy dvds and bluray. sell what i don't want to keep.
I buy blurays every now and then when they are on sale, like 2 for $10
>>62915342
yeah I'm sure a woman is more turned off by a movie collection than a collection of tagged reaction images :˘)
be honest family, do you even own a home or are you just memeposting from your parents house on a saturday night yet again?
I would have no problem paying for the media I digest but it's all American and I'd rather not wait months for it to come out here
if there was a Steam-style service for movies and tv shows I would have no issue paying for literally every single thing I watch to avoid all the fake files and fucking around involved in piracy, but the jews can't get their act together to provide such a service, so I HAVE to pirate if I want to see the new episode of my favorite show when it's released
>>62922967
but do you eventually buy it when it does come out there? because otherwise you're just talking bullshit
Maybe if I find cheap lazerdisc flicks in good condition. It's like vinyl when it comes to the covers as its like a mini movie poster.
>>62923114
>lazerdisc
I know it's the most autistic reddit behavior ever but I do tend to buy "collectible" shit, like limited editions, artbooks, etc. of stuff I really like
but at first I just watch in the cinema or download, no yify shit tho, legit 720p at least.
I'm not memerican so I have to resort to pirating more because TV shows come out here later. usually it's less than a week but /tv/ spoils it by then
I bought what I thought was official dvds of a show and it was just the episodes burned onto a dvd. This was off amazon as well.
Fuck buying.
>>62923241
>Im too retarded to know what im doing
>>62923241
wow you must be a huge retard
>>62915218
I'm not exaggerating in the least...it's been so long since I've bought physical media that I honestly couldn't tell you when it was. No clue even of what year it was.
yarr, i love the pirate life.
>>62923309
>>62923318
If I'm so retarded, how come I got my money back?
>>62915218
>tfw natnat will never give you a private dance
>>62915476
If that's what tickles your pickle, I agree it's more convenient than a bunch of DVDs that will scratch and shit.
>how i imagine your average /tv/ users room to look
>>62923550
Or you know, people could actually look after their shit
>>62923566
pretty much spot on except I'm not as well dressed or as handsome. and my fuckhuge desktop PC is old as balls.
but I don't pay for shit so fuck yeaaaaaaahhhh
>>62923566
Wrong! i also have a mattress and i don't wear clothes
Blu Ray bitrate: 20-40mbps
Netflix HD bitrate: 6mbps
/thread
>>62915218
butt double
>>62923393
You sucked some dick?
>>62923241
Hah! I didn't know that happened on Amazon as well. Kind of glad I didn't order the cheapo sets of The O.C. I wanted the other day. The Buffy/Angel set I ordered from Ebay was from China so I knew what to expect.
>>62924498
>her face and butt in same shot
>double
>>62924498
proof it. proove that isnt her delicious jewey booty.
>>62923566Smells like balls
>>62922613
>implying I don't just have a PC hooked up to my TV which I use to watch movies and TV shows stored on my media server
>>62924498
>literally blind
>>62923404
>she will never laugh at you at a crowded restaurant after you bought her an expensive bottle of champagne trying to impress her
I like to have physical media from stuff i enjoy, but far to many releases are shit; trailers and anti-piracy warnings in the beginning, best scenes/spoilers shown in the menu and some German DVDs here don't even have the original audio, but instead the dub version....
So most of the time I only buy from companies I know they care for their product and I am sure of getting a good disc.
I buy the classics and favorites (which are a lot). Blu-ray.
I rent discs of recent movies that interest me.
I download if I couldn't go to the movie store by the weekend. But still, I download 3gbs of film (not 800mb yify). It can get slow; so it's not really like, you know, "instant gratification". Free is great though.
I like Blu-ray because it's the original format from the studios with the best video/audio data you can get right now. Even DVDs are a good value for me, specially the ones from the early-mid 2000s, when DVD mastering was in top form.
>>62915218
>Do you buy physical media anymore
one nobody produces "physical media anymore." if you go to the store and buy something "physical" all it is is a storage medium for a digital copy. so your question is pretty fucking retarded.
two it doesnt fucking matter the medium apart from the the quality.
>>62927339
>one nobody produces "physical media anymore." if you go to the store and buy something "physical" all it is is a storage medium for a digital copy. so your question is pretty fucking retarded.
>hurr before DVDs stores used to sell the master film reels
>>62927339
Laffo. Holy shit, you're stupid.
>>62927430
>>62928465
lmao please enlightenment why i am wrong
>>62915218
I'd buy her physical media, if you catch my drift
I still buy movies occasionally, but then I never actually watch the physical dvd because I already have it downloaded illegally on my computer and it's easier to just watch it on that.
>>62915218
I still buy DVD's and Blu Rays because I like to look at the backs of the boxes and get special features and stuff
