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EL BROMANCE posted:https://www.insigniaproducts.com/pdp/NS-HZ308/4947028 Oh nice. I’ll check that out. Might be cool to throw an NES on it or something.
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Mantle posted:My uncle had one of these to use with rotary phones: It looked exactly like this except with rj-11 in/out instead of acoustic coupling. I'm just glad I wasn't imagining it.
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Nov 23, 2021 23:53
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Dip Viscous posted:I only recently found out that Netflix still does DVD rentals, they just don't really advertise it. It's probably pretty useful for the people around here that live outside of town and are still stuck on dial-up. I ditched the DVDs years ago, but I got an email from them last year asking me if I wanted to go back to it.
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Dip Viscous posted:I only recently found out that Netflix still does DVD rentals, they just don't really advertise it. It's probably pretty useful for the people around here that live outside of town and are still stuck on dial-up. I was a member until I lost my job in late 2017. It was extremely useful for rent-and-rip.
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Dip Viscous posted:I only recently found out that Netflix still does DVD rentals, they just don't really advertise it. It's probably pretty useful for the people around here that live outside of town and are still stuck on dial-up. I have that service. And it's not because of poor internet connections but because their DVD library is deeper than anyone's streaming catalog. I would go deep diving as a film nerd to see what things I had heard of but never thought I'd see. And they had most of it.
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Neito posted:Also IDK if they still do but Bell used to charge extra for "Touch Tone" phones. My mom was so pissed that grandma had been renting the rotary phone from the phone company for ~20 years, when a new touch tone cost as much as the monthly fee.
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I was pissed when Netflix split the service. The disc service had pretty much everything in existence. I think the first thing I ever watched on the actual streaming side was Battlefield Earth after all those articles came out saying it was the worst movie of the decade.
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my homie would rent gamefly games and his xbox could rip/store them, it was so next level.
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For real, when Netflix was new I thought their entire premise of existence was literally "we have every movie". Like yeah video rental stores might go out of business, but they never have what you want. Netflix you have to wait for the discs to arrive, but in exchange for that inconvenience you have access to every movie ever created on planet Earth. (This might not have been true but it sure seemed like it.) Then streaming started and it was like "welp, search if you want, maybe we have it, maybe someone else does. Have fun learning about who has the rights to what studios' distribution libraries lol"
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LifeSunDeath posted:my homie would rent gamefly games and his xbox could rip/store them, it was so next level. i worked at a video store and got like two things to rent free nightly, really worked out that gamecube ripping homebrew
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LifeSunDeath posted:my homie would rent gamefly games and his xbox could rip/store them, it was so next level. my OG Xbox is loaded down with Gamefly rent and rips, some of which I've never played
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A the first few years of Netflix streaming, the library was actually pretty good and kept improving. it almost seemed like their goal was to try and get everything in their dvd library on streaming, but that fell apart pretty quickly.
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Data Graham posted:Then streaming started and it was like "welp, search if you want, maybe we have it, maybe someone else does. Have fun learning about who has the rights to what studios' distribution libraries lol" I admit if I did not exist solely on free trials it might be less of a hassle but I honestly hope all of them go out of business
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Last Chance posted:A the first few years of Netflix streaming, the library was actually pretty good and kept improving. it almost seemed like their goal was to try and get everything in their dvd library on streaming, but that fell apart pretty quickly. Then it turns out it's more convenient than waiting for disks (cheaper, too) and everyone loved it. Then the studios went "hey wait why did we let them have this for so cheap!"
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Speaking of ancient tech, I picked this up today at goodwill, based on its aesthetics alone. Initially, based on the screen I thought it was a small portable oscilloscope, which still would have been cool. What it actually is, is a Sony TV-511 black and white CRT TV from the late 70's. I really like its faux military aesthetic, and while it does work, its RF input only and black and white, so there isn't a ton I can do with it. You could hook it up to a gaming PC and make some LGR-style videos, in the vein of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY7olqQF8iM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPcYW9dTAUw
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FilthyImp posted:Yep. I still remember when the general public was like "watch TV or movies ON A COMPUTER/YOUR XBOX?!" I remember when paying for Netflix seemed like a good deal, the kind of basic utility for streaming video that Spotify is for music around here. A friend asked me if I had checked out a show lately and I asked that which of the six/seven streaming platforms was it on, then told him I no longer can be bothered with that bullshit and just watch stuff on Youtube when I need to zonk out in front of a screen for a while. Streaming basically killed watching television for me and I'm not sure if that was such a bad thing, really.
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I borrow movies from the library and pay nothing.
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Check the txt under my avatar for sneaker-net shenanigans.
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Thomamelas posted:I have that service. And it's not because of poor internet connections but because their DVD library is deeper than anyone's streaming catalog. I would go deep diving as a film nerd to see what things I had heard of but never thought I'd see. And they had most of it.
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Data Graham posted:Then streaming started and it was like "welp, search if you want, maybe we have it, maybe someone else does. Have fun learning about who has the rights to what studios' distribution libraries lol" My wife and I were talking the other night about how annoying it is to try and search through all the streaming services. We figure it's only another couple years before someone starts offering package services where you e.g. pick 6 streaming providers for $50/mo (cheaper than buying them separately at $11.99 each!) and maybe it provides some unified way to search across them all. Or maybe such a thing already exists and it's just not big yet?
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Just a few days ago I learned the old TV show I'd been pirating (and laboriously renaming each episode file so that the Plex server would get all the titles right)... is available on one of the streaming services we actually pay for.  There's a lot to complain about in the balkanized chaos of the current streaming world, but it still beats the crap out of the old days of cable TV.
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Pham Nuwen posted:My wife and I were talking the other night about how annoying it is to try and search through all the streaming services. We figure it's only another couple years before someone starts offering package services where you e.g. pick 6 streaming providers for $50/mo (cheaper than buying them separately at $11.99 each!) and maybe it provides some unified way to search across them all. Or maybe such a thing already exists and it's just not big yet? Already happening here, it's called Strim
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I usually just google the name of a show or movie and the search results usually list what streaming platforms it is available on. But it often doesn't specify that you need a certain package on a streaming platform, and it also links directly to the movie instead of going to the page so you can see if it's available. I don't want to watch it now, I just want to see if I can watch it.
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Mantle posted:My uncle had one of these to use with rotary phones: In like 1999 I made a red box with a later model one and felt like I hacked the gibson.
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Pham Nuwen posted:My wife and I were talking the other night about how annoying it is to try and search through all the streaming services. We figure it's only another couple years before someone starts offering package services where you e.g. pick 6 streaming providers for $50/mo (cheaper than buying them separately at $11.99 each!) and maybe it provides some unified way to search across them all. Or maybe such a thing already exists and it's just not big yet? roku lets you do a search across a bunch of services
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I look in the paper to see what's on tonight on the 12+ channels that everyone gets for free. If there's nothing on I want to watch, I don't watch anything.
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Strong "I don't even own a TV  " energy last page or two.Which, I must confess, I also have a fair amount of regarding the proliferation of streaming services.
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I definitely have not owned a television for 20 years, but I also have five monitors between my two desktops right now, in no small part thanks to wanting dedicated Watchin' Thangz screens, so I think if anything that is worse
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I couldn’t imagine watching movies and sports stuff exclusively on a computer screen. That stuff is so much better on bigger screens IMO.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I couldn’t imagine watching movies and sports stuff exclusively on a computer screen. That stuff is so much better on bigger screens IMO. 
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I couldn’t imagine watching movies and sports stuff exclusively on a computer screen. That stuff is so much better on bigger screens IMO.
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E.T. Use Chrome
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I use https://www.justwatch.com/ to find out what is on what service.
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bro, how did you get into my office?
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It bugs me that the selection of games "revealed" so far for the The A500 Mini makes it not at all worth buying. (I have three actual Amigas 500.) So no-one will buy it and a full-size The A500 won't get made. Still need to figure out how to hook up my The VIC20 to a CRT.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I use https://www.justwatch.com/ to find out what is on what service. For others outside the US, if you scroll to the bottom they likely have a site for your country too.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I couldn’t imagine watching movies and sports stuff exclusively on a computer screen. That stuff is so much better on bigger screens IMO. I watch most movies and shows from my laptop lying in bed. If you're watching alone it's fine. The screen is bigger than a huge tv watched from a couch relative to your distance anyway. A big TV with a good sound system is great, but I'm not enough of a film/tv watcher anymore that it would make sense.
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lobsterminator posted:I watch most movies and shows from my laptop lying in bed. If you're watching alone it's fine. The screen is bigger than a huge tv watched from a couch relative to your distance anyway. E: I'm also extremely nearsighted so without glasses or contacts, my phone screen is 3" away from my face so it's pretty much like a cinema experience with good headphones.
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I just stream all my TV through my laptop anyway so I bought a nice second monitor instead of dealing with a modern "smart" TV. Looks just as good AND I don't have to deal with "smart" bullshit.
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