Collecting Movie Again

I've been doing exactly this for a while now, especially with older obscure movies that might just be outright yanked from public accessibility. Sad that it has come to this, but history must be preserved from Fahrenheit 451 Firemen.

I've got about 4 300 disc holders full of movies mostly blu ray and 4k.

I have a ton of CDs and Vinyl on top of tons of movies on DVD, Blue Ray, and even a couple HD DVD. Anything that does not already exist in streaming gets ripped to our NAS as does anything we frequently rewatch (DS9, 70s Show, BSG being the main ones) which has clouded backups for our key stuff. The source media then gets sealed and stored. We have done this since the first time Netflix pulled content and have zero regrets. If any of these fucking companies collapse, we still have our content with or without the internet. With the internet we can access all of our shit through Plex whenever we go anywhere. It took a ton of time to rip it all (still converting the Vinyl to MP3), but the end result was worth it. Wife thought I was nuts for a while until Lucas started taking a correcting pen to his shit and she is completely on board now that cancel culture has been rolling for a while.

Adebisi said:

I had a heavy duty physical DVD collection that I pretty much liquidated when streaming became so prominent. But now with production companies going back and altering their works to fit CURRENT YEAR tastes, I decided it's time to get a finly curated Blu Ray collection going. Started this year and I've been on the hunt for just the stuff I consider great. Also I only buy used unless it's something I really fucking want.

ALSO ... steelbox be seeeeexxxyyyyy. Here's what I've got so far:


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It's not much but It's stuff I'd watch in a heartbeat.

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Is there a porn section?

And good call, I also got a number of blu-rays specifically because of censorship. During the Dr Seuss Debacle I picked up a few copies of all the banned books, along with a few potentially controversial movies like Pulp Fiction, Blazing Saddles (contains evil words!), Invasion of the Body Snatchers '77 (since it has a fairly un-subtle anti-communism message), The Thing (no female characters??), and a bunch of others that escape me right now.

There's a lot of things that are not online and can only be gotten on disc. Hell lots of things that are still DVD or VHS only.

Plus the quality is a ton better on a disc. I've got a 4K OLED tv and Klipsch 5.1. Why watch something in some shitty downloaded resolution and audio quality.

Chanur said:

I've got a 4K OLED tv and Klipsch 5.1. Why watch something in some shitty downloaded resolution and audio quality.

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This. If you have a higher end tv and arent acquiring physical copies or rips of them, you wasted your money.

I have a 65 inch Sony A80J so I pickup 4k movies I like when I found them on sale.

Bluray is still a respectable format to buy movies on today, and in some cases is the highest quality version of release we are ever likely to get for some titles.

That said, when remastered transfers are overseen properly and if you have decent enough equipment to view and listen on, 4K is the closest we've been to achieving that film cinema look at home without a projector reel.

Adebisi if you only ever update 1 movie in your collection to 4K, Black Hawk Down is the best choice. We're talking reference quality audio and visuals that make an already good movie even better.

Looking at these screen caps isn't the same as viewing on your TV but even here the difference stands out like dog nuts.

BHD Bluray vs 4K

Like a few of you, I just download the stuff I want, and then pretty much never delete it unless I get a better version later. I have downloaded a ton of 4k remuxes, which means they are the exact same bitrate (video and audio) as the 4k disc, although at 50GB+ each they start to fill a NAS pretty quickly. There are also complete disc rips that would include all the special features that I'd like to get instead, but I don't have a convenient way to play those anywhere (doesn't work the same way that a normal .iso does), and I don't have Bubbles levels of hard drive space to store multiple copies of the same movies.

Some stuff isn't made in higher resolutions, like for example Team America: World Police unrated version. I might only have that in 720p, and that's all it was ever in I believe.

Since we're talking about preserving shit that is being erased, if you ever find it, grab a copy of Harrison Bergeron. If there was ever a movie they don't want you to see today, that's it. I only have a downloaded copy, but I'd grab a DVD or better if I ever saw it for a reasonable price.