Also, I may or may not rip the Blu-Ray media to my external HDD, since
- the BR-enabled player software ("Cyberlink something " Windows-only) is a POS[1],
- playing BR directly on Linux is not a fun experience to get working (fucking DRM)
- not having to search through a cupboard of boxes for the disk I want to watch (convenience)
- not being arbitrarily restricted to 720p or less on streaming platforms ( because I have the audacity run Linux ) even for movies/series I would "buy in HD"
- etc. pp.
[1] From what I remember from using that software years ago: extremely laggy interface, audio volume slider does basically nothing above the "2%" setting where the sound will just be so loud it nearly blows your eardrums (even with Windows audio setting for that program at ~10%), basically no useful keybindings apart from <SPACE>, putting the popout menu on the screen to get more controls almost always locked the program up for >20 seconds, the software had giant ad banners for the other garbage made by that company, etc. pp.
But can you even buy most content anymore? Everything has gone digital to the point where I wouldn’t even know where to get said dvds outside of a few rental stores that somehow still exist in SF. Amazon? Somewhere else?
For recent movies you can often rent from RedBox. To buy DVDs, I usually go to Amazon. Sometimes something will catch my eye in the remainder pile at Walmart. Except for some straight to streaming content maybe, my experience is that most films that aren't really obscure are still available for physical purchase.
