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Quad @quad@akko.quad.moe
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I find it sad that it's 2026 and there's still no way for me to actually legitimately own a copy of my favorite movies and tv shows at higher qualities.

Best I can do is buy a Blu-ray, which contains DRM, so frankly I can only say I "own" it if I somehow get a hold of the VUK and rip the video data off the disc.

Alternatively there's still some DVD releases happening, but only getting 480p for purchasing a physical release in 2026 is straight up embarrassing. They technically have region locks but they're so trival to bypass that nobody cares.

Music was lucky enough for CDs to be raw PCM at 44.1 KHz, which was extremely overkill for anyone without a big HiFi setup at the time of release. But it means you can still buy CD releases today and get great audio quality with no DRM.

Thank god CDs didn't contain some digital format like 192kbit MP3 or w/e, the average consumer probably still would've bought it over cassettes because it's more practical and we'd have been stuck with it until today.
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Quad @quad@akko.quad.moe
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Of course nevermind blu-rays, today they don't even pretend and want you to pay monthly to access a constantly shrinking library of content.

The fact that I still HAVE to pirate my media to get the best experience is insane. There's no way to get a hold of recent releases at high bitrates so you can add them to a Jellyfin server or something without pirating. If you "own" a Blu-ray you can't slap it in your media collection for easy access until the VUK pops up somewhere on the internet.

I am very willing to throw some dollars at my favorite TV shows and movies, in return please actually let me own a copy of the movie. Until you give me a DRM-free file which if of higher quality than crappy internet streaming bitrates, which I can archive on my hard drive forever, you're not getting $30 out of me or whatever they're asking these days
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Norm (ノーム) CastoriceBlushing @norm@shrimp.biribiri.dev
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@quad it's a shame how uhd blu-ray basically sabotaged itself with depending on SGX, which basically locks it out of everything now since it's disabled by default on the few CPUs that have it
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Quad @quad@akko.quad.moe
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@norm The media industry really don't want us to own jack shit. Even more so than most tech companies it seems
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Norm (ノーム) CastoriceBlushing @norm@shrimp.biribiri.dev
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@quad they've been doing this for longer really
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