@ifixcoinops yeah I hear you. Aliens is one of my favorite films. so I think I made a pure digital file backup somewhere, years ago

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@ifixcoinops Howdy. Not to sound too inept, but software recommendations to use specifically for DVD rips? Thanks.

@ifixcoinops can’t say I did this for DVDs, but I buy all my music on CD, rip a copy for my truck, and burn another copy to multiple hard drives.

Yeah, I lost entire music collections in the age of Napster. I fucking remember the old magic.

Oh, and my vinyl cuts still play great.

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Yes yes, rip your DVDs while you're thinking of them. But also: polite reminder that thrift stores are an EXCELLENT source for cheap vintage DVDs. I've found un-remastered Alien discs for $1 each, in pristine condition.

Also, a good source for $9 DVD/BluRay players if you want a dedicated machine to do that.

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We buy and rip 1-2 DVD/Blu-rays a month instead of streaming. Well over 200 titles at last count, so the problem is still "what should we watch"

Edit: if.MPAA ever came round they can play match the title to the disc

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Wait the green thing was on purpose? I thought my TV was busted. 🤦‍♂️

@ifixcoinops I have all my DVD collection on Plex on a my server. The DVDs are packed in boxes, as backup, probably more than 1000 so far.

@ifixcoinops a friend of mine shared a 35 mm scan with me recently and while I haven't watched ALIENS in a very long time, I'm grateful that *somewhere* a copy that hasn't been deliberately ruined exists, for the time being

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@ifixcoinops protip: search for the original lasedisc rip. You get the original cut in the best available quality (better than DVD for anything that originally came out before bluray).

You can tune your indexer to filter by format and file size to weed out fakes and lossy repacks.

Proper piratin' is an art these days.

@ifixcoinops i have my DVDs backed up as raw ISOs. can burn them again as needed. but my player can read the ISOs just fine

@ifixcoinops It's probably possible to find a 1:1 replacement for the actual DVD? (And then rip it.)

Lools like there are some on eBay for cheap

@ifixcoinops Aye done most of mine, especially the Stargate box sets, with this in mind.

@ifixcoinops How do I get out of this chicken shit outfit?

@ifixcoinops Is there a list of movies that have shitty or controversial Blu-Rays? Surely many if not most are fine

@ifixcoinops I liked the remaster. It's easier to see. #oldppl

@ifixcoinops I've ripped most of my DVDs for safekeeping and convenience.

I haven't done most of the Blu-Ray discs due to extra storage and steps required. There's also the painful decision regarding whether to save the rips as DVD quality to save space. In that case, you lose much of the benefit of the format.

@ifixcoinops @Lambo What is a DVD?

@ifixcoinops Its not that easy finding something to play them on either ,neither of our two new laptops have a dvd drive and I know you can get plug in ones but I have used those in the past and they arent great ,you usually need extra speakers for some reason .I have a big stock of DVDs because our winter internet isnt always great and we get pwoer cuts so laptops are perfect for passing a few hours without huddling over torches to read

@ifixcoinops I rip and i agree. I rip to MKV container format because you can get the closed captions in a stored/optional format. You don’t HAVE to see them, but you can turn them on if you want to. You won’t always be as young as you are now, and you might want those subtitles one day.