piracy is an essential service to society at this point
Like this isn’t a bad thing. Piracy is better for the planet. Physical media as a virtue campaigners are just tiresome lib dweebs when the problem has been as been solved twenty years ago.
eh, physical media is cool and has advantages over digital collections sometimes. Eliminating it entirely means more things that fall through the cracks and never get archived. It will never again be the primary way most people consume media and that’s for the best certainly, but eliminating physical media entirely is still a negative in my book, especially so long as piracy remains highly illegal.
Piracy gives access but is not the silver bullet for preservation. Hard drives can and will fail. Cloud storage is largely dependent on whoever owns that server, and those can fail too overtime. Piracy works as long as people regularly maintain their digital collection, but some collections get lost and fall under the crack. Physical media preservation should be considered to be primary and piracy secondary as it is more to give people access.
Physical media doesn’t last either. Hard disks can be replicated and replaced in a NAS.
if your goal is to keep people on netflix it’s obviously against your interest to make your content available anywhere that isn’t netflix.
why sell someone a dvd box for 40 bucks if you can instead get money from them every month? i don’t know how you can be in that industry and not understand this basic fact.
Netflix is weirdly against making money.
But I’m guessing they have weird deals for rights that would require Netflix to spend more money to print discs.
Streaming services, please use constant-quality, variable bit rade encoding for your media. Thank you.
I think Max is pretty good with their encodes but yeesh, Netflix looks like trash. They also heavily de-grain everything shot on film to keep bitrates low so old movies look weirdly smooth and washed over with no fine detail.
I can’t stand the audio mixing on so many movies. The dialogue is always so muddied or so low that I constantly have to adjust it. It’s especially worse with Dolby Atmos
yeah that happens because movies are mastered for surround sound. these studios really should create professionally mastered stereo mixes for home releases since most people are gonna be using their TV’s built in speakers. but usually they’re too cheap to do that, so they just lazily down-mix to stereo and the levels sound like crap
What’s funny is that most physical media often include a 2.0 audio mix. It may be something that has to be selected on Netflix if it is even an option.
For me, I actually have an atmos capable system but I think Atmos is itself not very good and the mixing is extremely inconsistent. I’ve noticed that atmos on Netflix is especially bad even when I compare the same movie on disc
Just watched Wonka (no comment) on Hulu and the image turned to shit when they popped confetti :pain:
lol it’s ironic that the parts of films that are supposed to be visually dazzling are what gets destroyed by compression. RIP to all the VFX artists working tirelessly on their fancy particle effects only for them to get turned to pixelated digital mush
