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Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it? (www.theatlantic.com)
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Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it?::What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Use your local library! Thousands of Blu-ray/DVD titles for free you can check out and rip freely. And then you don’t have to worry about any nasty letters from your ISP.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I honestly didn't even include a DVD/BluRay drive in my PC build, so can't really use those. And I tunnel all that traffic through Proton VPN, so ISP isn't an issue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you have a spare USB 3 port and a spare power outlet, then you can get an external 4K Bluray drive for $100 or less.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It may be cheaper to just buy an old PC for this purpose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

An old, sub-$100 PC isn’t going to be able to read 4K blurays, and if you only want a regular bluray reader then those drives are even cheaper.

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