Streaming services

[FayetheAspie]

I will buy a dvd if I really like something or really expect to, but when it comes to streaming services I just deal with the ads. They might be annoying but it saves money. Besides ads provide a convenient restroom break.

 

[Judge]

I will buy a dvd if I really like something or really expect to, but when it comes to streaming services I just deal with the ads. They might be annoying but it saves money. Besides ads provide a convenient restroom break.

I suspect I'm now at the point where if I know something is on streaming media, I may pass on buying the dvd set. One big difference between the two medias is screen resolution.

Basic DVDs put out progressive scan resolution of 480p. Which with an upscaling DVD player can be interpolated to 720 to 1080p resolution. Not quite as good as streaming media that displays at a native resolution of 1080p. Especially if it is digitally remastered.

In other words, streaming usually beats DVD in picture quality, unless it's an old production and not remastered. Then again as I posted earlier, there is still a great deal of DVD material out there that has yet to show up on streaming media with or without commercials.

 

[FayetheAspie]

My streaming is on a cellphone and I usually rely on subtitles so the sound doesn't upset my dad so better quality or no the dvd player playing a larger image with sound during family movie time shows the show a bit better. Also even when he's not home and I could have the sound on, I just feel self conscious for anyone to hear me watching anything even if I know for a fact that they would not mind. Some limitations to stay out of trouble with him become consistent habits that I feel to awkward and nervous to deviate from.

 

[Judge]

My streaming is on a cellphone

I can't imagine doing that. But then I'm more than twice your age with probably half your eyesight.

Plus living alone allows me to see what I want how I want.

LOL..though I wouldn't mind a somewhat bigger widescreen tv. But larger tvs now are almost all exclusively well beyond 1080p too. Which for most people don't render DVD well at all. Which for me remains a dilemma of sorts. The diminishing availability of widescreen tvs (40") that default to 1080p resolution.

It also doesn't help that I'm both an audiophile and a videophile (to a degree) with OCD.

Now it's all "4K"....blah-blah-blah. With a market that insists you toss out all your DVDs. Kind of like Microsoft telling you to toss out your computers that still run Windows 10 just fine just to make room for Windows 11.

 

[FayetheAspie]

I have myopia so my distance vision is terrible without corrective lenses, however my near vision very good almost like a low powered magnifying glass or something. When I was a child, the eye doctor said that I did not even need time to focus on near things. I can see really small details such as the individual ink dot from which an image in the newspaper is comprised. If someone needs a tiny inscription on something or anything really small written like that read they call for me.

 

[Judge]

I have myopia so my distance vision is terrible without corrective lenses, however my near vision very good almost like a low powered magnifying glass or something. When I was a child, the eye doctor said that I did not even need time to focus on near things. I can see really small details such as the individual ink dot from which an image in the newspaper is comprised. If someone needs a tiny inscription on something or anything really small written like that read they call for me.

Historically I'm literally a medical textbook case of one in a ten-thousand who achieved vision correction (muscle imbalance) through lenses rather than surgery back in the early 60s.

Though these days my main issue is trying to move closer to my tv to see better. Which had involved moving my incredibly heavy dual-recliner closer, as well as sliding my tv a little closer to the edge of the surface it sits on. Amounting to about 7.5 feet away...which I think is still considered a bit further away than I should be. One of those things that keeps me thinking about a larger tv, but at the cost of not being able to display on DVDs any more, other than playing them on the computer with a 27" monitor at only 480p resolution.

 

[FilterFreq]

I just threw out a whole bunch of DVDs recently. Don't hurt me, physical media fans

Why, you ask? Well, Tubi, Plex (the streaming service), and Youtube's movies and TV have filled the void! No money to spend, just an endless supply of the finest trash on the planet, rotating on an infinite carousel. I'm not really picky, and all I ever want to do is flip through trash movies and TV, so I'm in heaven. It's basically like having infinite access to a movie store's bargain bin, so again, heaven.

Also, I haven't seen an ad in years. That always helps seal the deal!

 

[AGXStarseed]

I just threw out a whole bunch of DVDs recently. Don't hurt me, physical media fans

Why, you ask? Well, Tubi, Plex (the streaming service), and Youtube's movies and TV have filled the void! No money to spend, just an endless supply of the finest trash on the planet, rotating on an infinite carousel. I'm not really picky, and all I ever want to do is flip through trash movies and TV, so I'm in heaven. It's basically like having infinite access to a movie store's bargain bin, so again, heaven.

Also, I haven't seen an ad in years. That always helps seal the deal!

Just fingers crossed the streaming services don't shut down or start getting rid of content.

 

[Jumpinbare]

Just fingers crossed the streaming services don't shut down or start getting rid of content.

They may not get  rid of them, but they do take them out of circulation. They might put them back later, but I have missed out after hearing something was on whichever provider by waiting too long to watch it. Also, I have rewatched an older movie I had had on VHS, and and the streaming version had deleted scenes!

 

[Lemon Zing]

I'm just glad Youtube is a thing.

Well, Youtube when used with adblockers anyway.

I tried CleanTube on my TV, and the large black borders are just so horrible. It looks like a little square window. LOL.

 

[FilterFreq]

Just fingers crossed the streaming services don't shut down or start getting rid of content.

Yeah, weirdly I've noticed that the free ones do tend to shuffle their library around quite a lot, but I kind of like the 'mystery box' vibes, because you never know what might get added when everything else disappears. I do see ads from time to time that say, "Watch this one thing -- this weekend only" and that seems kind of like a tease (especially if it's a show or something), but otherwise I think a lot of the indies and public domain ones are there to stay

 

[Misery]

I tried CleanTube on my TV, and the large black borders are just so horrible. It looks like a little square window. LOL.

Yeah the whole thing just doesnt really work with TVs (at least from what I've seen anyway, I dont use them myself at all, but my father does, and Youtube never quite works right) gotta be an actual PC or perhaps an Android device.

Also I looked up CleanTube, I'd never heard of that before. If you are using a browser for Youtube I'd also recommend the extension Unhook. It removes a LOT of things that could otherwise get you sucked into the "constant watch and refresh" process.

It's much, much harder to fall into that addictive cycle when 75% of the site's functionality is just outright missing.