This Is What Bugs Me About Tech…

[ResidentEvil7Participant 9544]

This is something about tech that irritates me, and a lot. Ever had to buy the same movie or video game more than once for each format that comes out? I mean how many times did I buy all my movies (over 300) on VHS, then DVD, then Blu-Ray?! It just gets to me that I have to keep buying my movies over and over, and I don’t have a small collection to start with. Luckily, I came up with a idea to combat having to buy my collection every time they make another video format when I ripped my entire collection and imported them onto 1TB flash drives and play them from a list on my Blu-Ray player. Instead of old movies now, I’m going for new movies and doing the same thing. Save myself the trouble again. This is the same thing with my video game collection. I bought Resident Evil games over 3 times each, just because of format, and download convenience.

Like I said it’s when they want you to keep buying the same thing over and over that bugs me. I mean it’s a huge money waster when you figure $14.95 per DVD times a few hundred movies, only to do it again a few more years later.

Anyone else feel the same aggravation as I do about tech.

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[xlrsnbrgParticipant 1786]

Why are you pumping so much money into hollywood?

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[chirParticipant]

Yarp… me too. Have about a 100 dvd’s. I just said “f~~~ it”. No blue ray, just stick with the dvd’s I have. Haven’t bought many in the past 5 years. Only about 3 or 4. The quality of the movies has just gone downhill.

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[RennieParticipant]

I’m just happy to rip my DVDs into a digital format and play them off the computer.

Not that crazed about ultra HD stuff. But then again, I grew up with a TV that weighed a ton and had aerial and a few cable channels in SD.

[bobphiloParticipant 1772]

Don’t be such a slave to all the high tech which is just a way to make you dissatisfied with the stuff you are currently enjoying so they can sell you stuff that you never needed before.
When taking a marketing course I innocently invoked the idea of Edison that the way to succeed in business was to find a need and fill it. They laughed at me for my naivety. Th modern capitalist model is to make people dissatisfied with what they currently enjoy and brainwash them into thinking that they absolutely must buy the newest high tech stuff they are peddling. The sad thing is that people are such sheep that they fall for it.
It works especially well with women who are such slaves to “fashion”. Don’t be like a woman.

[Anonymous 3]

I don’t understand that. If you have the DVD and the device that can play it, why buy it in another format? I don’t even have blue ray device. I was thinking about it for archiving many gigabytes of scientific measurement data, but USB 3.0 HDDs are better bang for the buck. A few years ago I bought 4 TB HDD and USB3 + E-sata box for less than 150$.

I am only interested in ultra HD in the case it will give me extra workspace on the computer desktop. Too bad my old Quadro 5000 + Tesla C2050 GPUs do not support it. So I go with multi monitor PC.

[ResidentEvil7Participant 9544]

Like I said, instead of going forward with getting Blu-Ray discs, I’m just ripping my whole collection, importing them to large flash drives and plugging it into my Blu-Ray player where I can choose from a folder and a list. I did this because I got sick of buying the same thing over and over again, plus all those discs were taking up space. So I put the discs with a spare TV and DVD player in the basement where I workout.

You should see all the space I saved and what I did with it. I moved things around that added even more space relief.

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[JollyMisanthropeParticipant 3356]

I used Netflix a lot before they had the streaming service. Was less expensive than buying the movies and the shipping back and forth wasn’t bad.

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[narwhalParticipant]

This is something about tech that irritates me, and a lot. Ever had to buy the same movie or video game more than once for each format that comes out?

Nope, never had to. I think there are few cases where I’ve done that, but it’s very rare.

I understand that for those of us with a “collector’s” mentality, new things will lower the value of the stuff we already have. However, I do like better and more useful things in my life, and some stepping stones are unavoidable. For example, I don’t think we could have made the leap from LPs directly to mp3. We needed CDs in between.

I don’t like that industries will sometimes hold the ‘latest in greatest’ in order to milk the market first. For example, I would not be surprised to find out that ‘4k’ tvs is not the best we can do. However, marketers believe 4k is enough improvement to push people to drop their 1080p’s. So let 4k run it’s course before they bring out what’s better then 4k and already possible right now.

And while we are on the subject, it’s not uncommon for large tech companies to try and maintain the status quo, because they have favorable marketshare, instead of pushing for innovation that can really give the customer a better experience. That would be cable companies.

Ok. Then do it.

[Learn2L8Participant 86]

Planned Obsolescence is what I hate.

Designing s~~~ to break or be of no use. I like to keep my s~~~ for over 10 years, because it still works good. I learned how to fix things to make things LAST, but you can not do that for everything.

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