[Admiral Wonderboat] Physical Media Forever

webghost0101@sopuli.xyz

Useful website: https://b3n.org/automatic-ripping-machine/

For other usefull resources check your public library. Lots of overlap between
Librarians and archivists.

kolanaki@pawb.social

In the future when we can become cyborgs, Imma get lasers in my eyes so I can just watch DVDs by looking at the bottom of the disc.

ramble81@lemm.ee

MakeMKV ftw

natanox@discuss.tchncs.de

Let's do a laser-engraving into glass. Would be hard to beat that.

rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com

or just download better quality files for your NAS

rumschlumpel@feddit.org

I did specify common medium. How many people have a tape drive at home? And IMO that article is missing information about how long those magnetic spinning disks last if you keep them powered off most of the time, like tapes.

slaacaa@lemmy.world

That’s why a PS5 (or another console) is very useful. Sometimes a movie is not available on any streaming, so I get it it cheaply on blu ray or dvd to watch it. We don’t have any other disc player in the house, despite having a few laptops.

atlien51@lemm.ee

Bruh shut with the DVD player. Literally anything can play a dvd; pc, laptop, Xbox, PlayStation..

prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works

There is a reason tape storage was used for archival backup over traditional spinny disks.

lorips@lemmy.world

I have two 5 1/4" drives in a PC, one doing Bluray XL and the other Bluray and HD-DVD (altough I couldn't test that feature because nothing supports them anymore and a lot of HD-DVDs are dead from disc rot)

icastfist@programming.dev

Warner bros has entered the chat

ilikeboobies@lemmy.ca

Assuming it has an optical drive

rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee

Those don't come with disc drives anymore unless you're willing to pay extra.

andros_rex@lemmy.world

I picked up a season 1 Metalocalypse from a thrift shop and it was dead. It’s such a gamble. Goodwill is getting really precious on their DVDs too - only really good deals if you find a season/box set that they haven’t broken up.

VHS seems more dependable, and VHS is dirt cheap. I got a pre-special edition Star Wars box set for $5, I got a season of MASH and Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy for $1 each. Lots of my local shops have $0.49 VHS bins.

Finding a VHS player can be a challenge. DVD players are super available, but I spent a month or so hunting for my current player. (The rewinders though - everywhere.)

Vinyl can also be found for pennies, but most of the good stuff is picked up quickly. If you are okay with mid jazz, classical music, and “greatest hits” compilations, the vinyl stacks are good to poke through.

I do like that all of my analog media is mine. No worries about it being pulled from streaming or altered or copyright weirdness - I can go back to 1998 and watch my Star Wars.

remembertheapollo_@lemmy.world

If there’s an apocalypse you can try eating the CDs. Being able to use them will likely never be on the radar.

monkdervierte@lemmy.ml

Can't play that on a FOSS OS without circumventing some shitty DRM mechanisms. Better get that DVD on a disk subito. Even worse on bluray.

monkdervierte@lemmy.ml

Too brittle. Fused quartz might work. Has high Mohs and doesn't degrade for billions of years.

ptsf@lemmy.world

Something that people are missing with the whole physical media situation is that it being physical does not preclude it from internet connected DRM, server requirements, etc. It just so happens that around the turn of this century DVDs came along and lacked sophisticated/connected DRM implementations, but it is not inherent to their physical nature. Physical media also decays. DVDs generally have around 20-25 years before bitrot starts to set in. I love the concept, but you're better served by a hard drive than a DVD.

monkdervierte@lemmy.ml

VHS, like video casettes? You might have forgotten about ghosting due to overwriting from adjacent layers.

monkdervierte@lemmy.ml

Not in my language and streams are compressed dead.

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[Admiral Wonderboat] Physical Media Forever