Physical Media

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Welcome to Physical Media!

This is the spot for anyone who loves collecting and talking about physical media. From DVDs and Blu-rays to VHS tapes, game discs, vinyl records, and even old-school cassettes—if it’s something you can hold in your hands and enjoy, it belongs here.

Show off your collection, share your favorite finds, or just join in on conversations about why physical media still matters. Whether it’s for the artwork, the nostalgia, or just the love of owning something real, we’re here to celebrate it all.

Let’s keep the love for physical media going!

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Rules: Physical Media (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hey! dvdr here.

I wasn’t expecting the community to get this many subscribers so fast. I made this in the middle of the night and woke up to 30 subs instantly. I don’t want this to be a place where people feel like they can’t share their genuine opinions, so I’ll do my best to keep the rules fair. I’m also open to your suggestions.

Rules:

  • No Politics: Keep political conversations in communities made for that.
  • No Reddit vs. Lemmy Posts: It’s getting repetitive and isn’t what this community is about. Shouldn't even have to explain this but I see these posts in some of the most random communities
  • No Hate Speech or Slurs: Keep it respectful. Ordinary swears are fine. Just don't overuse it.
  • No Linking to Piracy Sites or Trackers. Generic talk about Piracy is fine just no promoting it.

You’re free to call someone’s opinion dumb or even really stupid. just try to explain why you think that.

If you got any questions feel free to hit me up with a PM.

Rules might change as needed.

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My collection of Longest Johns CDs (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Not long ago the band was kickstarting their latest album, Voyage (bottom-right) and offering a bundle of their older albums as a bonus add-on, so I took the opportunity to pick them up. My overall favorite is Cures What Ails Ya (top-right) though they all have songs I quite like.

Even though I ripped them to FLAC and mostly listen to them on my phone that way, I'm quite happy to have these. I paid some musicians and got a bunch of music!

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Blu Rays are actually kind of garbage (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I decided to connect with my inner 13 year old and bought Army of Darkness on Blu-Ray. Like the rest of my video collection, my goal was to rip it to my NAS so it's available on my Kodi box; I don't own a blu-ray player, only Blu-ray optical drives for computers. But, I decided I wanted to just pop the movie in and play it on my PC, should look pretty good on my gaming monitor.

No machine in my inventory would play it from the disc. VLC and the one or two other media players in Fedora's pathetic excuse for a repository would play it. VLC would throw an error and tell you to look in the log for details...wherever the log is. Side note: I'm not going to see log for details if you don't give me a link or path to that log. We hold up VLC as the best media player but it can barely play mp3 and mp4 files from the local machine, it doesn't work across a network, it doesn't read optical discs, it doesn't give useful errors and I'm not looking up how to read its logs for more details.

So, several rounds of troubleshooting across a few computers later, I finally get a setup where MakeMKV will rip it from the goddamn disc. And what does the 1080p version of the movie get you? Film grain. Noisy hideous distracting film grain. Exporting it as a 720p video made it look better because crushing the resolution evened out the film grain.

Is this what liking movies is like these days? I don't think I want to like movies anymore.