Video rental stores
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@TimeBandit said in Video rental stores:
@accalia said in Video rental stores:
Google pushed the functionality pretty hard though, now most apps can cast natively
FYI, it's also a DLNA renderer.
open source compatibility ftw.
/me glares at airplay in a "you should know better than this" way
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@accalia said in Video rental stores:
you might need to rip the DVD first
Here's the first problem. I don't have it on DVD and neither does the last remaining rental store.
@accalia said in Video rental stores:
your hardware budget is $0?
"fix my problem of not having the right technology, but you're not allowed to buy new technology!"Well it's not that I couldn't afford it, I'm just extremely pissed off that there is a service I used to pay for (DVD rental store) that no longer exists even though I would still pay for it. The service that's supposed to replace it requires me to buy and put new shit on top of the TV, rewire the whole complicated mess of gadgets already up there (we still have the VHS player!), buy new cables, get the network cable there somehow, piss off my whole family in the process, and yes they also like to use the Internet sometimes, what a surprise. Almost forgot to mention that a Netflix subscription costs 3 times as much as my rental store membership used to.
It's the "right" technology, but they're not supporting it anymore, so it's clearly not MY problem.
Oh, and I don't go to Starbucks, nor any other coffee place, and I hate popcorn.
@accalia said in Video rental stores:
Filed under: this post is intended to be 70% helpful, 30% lighthearted snark.
And that's why I come to this place.
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@loopback0
Gotta keep those evul B*****n hackers out of the servers.
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@marczellm said in Video rental stores:
It's the "right" technology
so it's supported, right?
@marczellm said in Video rental stores:
but they're not supporting it anymore,
so it's not the right technology anymore, right?
..... waiiiiiiit.......
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@accalia said in Video rental stores:
ooof.... that's gonna make this hard.
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@dangeRuss said in Video rental stores:
@accalia said in Video rental stores:
@dangeRuss said in Video rental stores:
Does anyone actually use chromecast? I bought the first gen and found it fairly limited.
daily.
yeah it's hella limited on its own, but with a laptop or tablet (basically any one really, though iOS can get snippy sometimes.) you can cast most media to it with next to no effort.
Well from what I remember (at least from the first version) is that you can only cast a limited set of things (netflix, youtube, a browser tab minus the sound). You couldn't cast lets say a movie file over.
Yeah, I believe it's been updated to support DLNA?
Either that or my DLNA player now supports it on accident.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Video rental stores:
Yeah, I believe it's been updated to support DLNA?
indeeed it has (WILT) But it didn't at launch. current firmware for the original, the new, the HD, and the audio does support DLNA
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LOL my local public library has DVDs. I just checked and they have Die Hard 2 on DVD and available. And it costs an infinity-ith of the video rental store. Not idea if the disc is scratched beyond reading ability. (My DVD player is actually also a VHS - and hasn't been attached to the TV in years, so I probably won't bother)
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@Zemm Yep ours too, but the selection is very limited.
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Here's another question for y'all. What's the most cost effective option if I only watch a movie once in a while? Like once 2-3 months.
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@marczellm That's easy: BitTorrent
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@TimeBandit Or sponging off a friend.
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@marczellm Have we mentioned DVD recorders yet?
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@asdf said in Video rental stores:
That's racist against Dutch people!
you're saying that like it's a bad thing!
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@marczellm said in Video rental stores:
What's the most cost effective option if I only watch a movie once in a while? Like once 2-3 months
Buy the DVDs you want, then sell them on eBay?
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@marczellm Seriously, man. Around here, it's usually about £10-15 for a new DVD, less second hand or older releases. That's about £7.50 a month if you buy an expensive DVD every couple of months. That's about the cost of Netflix. You save if you're buying less often than that or getting cheaper discs. You probably won't get much selling them on eBay, but it would be a bit, reducing the net cost even more.
If you combine it with the DVD burner mentioned upthread, you can even keep the films to rewatch for a small extra cost per film
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@Jaloopa I was saying LOL because I realized it's really a good option despite how it sounds.
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Now I looked at Google Play and Microsoft Store.
Microsoft Store
- seems to let me buy or rent a movie
- but watching it is not supported in my country.
Google Play
- would charge me more for HD viewing
- and it is still possible that I could only watch in SD.
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@marczellm Oh and Amazon will only let me watch HD if I "meet HDCP and/or DRM requirements". I guess that means I need to connect my monitor with HDMI. I only have one HDMI cable at home, and its connector housing is too big so it doesn't fit in my computer.
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I'm just trying to watch some movie here and there seems to be like a dozen places the system is eager to fuck me over.
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@marczellm That's what happens when the rights holders have all the power.
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Oh and the YouTube home page started crashing my Firefox.
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@marczellm said in Video rental stores:
I guess that means I need to connect my monitor with HDMI.
HDMI, DVI, and DisplayPort all can support HDCP. If you're using a VGA connector, you're probably SOL.
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I disassembled the HDMI cable connector housing with a pocket knife so that I can now plug it into my PC. I now have HD options in the YouTube Movies player. Pity I already watched the movie yesterday in SD after purchasing it in HD.
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@marczellm watch it again... (cue Honest Trailers voice over guy) IN HD.