At least Chromecast for TV basically does this. I can search for something and it will tell me all the ways I can watch for any installed app even unsubscribed.

Still, the issue of paying multiple monthly fees to see what you want is ludicrous. It’s as if the media companies maliciously complied with consumers’ desire to pick and choose what they watch rather than pay $200 a month for 1000 stations they don’t watch.

Now, you have to pay $200 to get all the services that have what you want to watch - and you still have to sift through the drek.

Much better, that. /s

Well, I just ripped a few of my old DVDs with handbrake, and I upscaled by setting the resolution to 720p and ensuring the “upscale” cjljeckbox is ticked.

Tovmy eye, it looks pretty good on my 55" 1080p TV, and I noticed in my voddeo player it scaled to my display size appropriately. If I imply ripped it, the video would have a hugee black box around it ony high red display.

I’d say using handbrake is fairly effective once you get it off the disk, for which I used a rip to mkv app in Linux.

Well, lookingvatvthe advertisements, interviews with the producers, and articles by people who saw it, I’m not convinced.

And, for good measure, this one from Time praising it for exposing “male fragility”.

Um… Non_sequitur much?

Wow. This is what makes Lemmy different from Reddit. On reddit, I’d be baited to rage-post repeatedly.

Anyway, apology gladly accepted, and I’m glad you aren’t the person I feared you to be. I’m willing to keep my mind open on the Barbie movie, though everything I know so far points to anti-male themes.

Did you read the tagline on this very thread? That’s enough for me to make my conclusions, but add the statements made by the creators, and various reviews by people who’ve seen it, and I can comfortably live with my conclusion.

Oh, and your comment dripping with derision and insults to someone you don’t know at all reveals your true nature. Go spend some quality time with yourself, if you can stand it.

You forgotvto mention the serious misandry of that movie. Another double standard. Women do it, it’s all good fum. Men do it - canceled.

It doesn’t, so I use OpenVPN ony DSM when I remote connect, and use ExpressVPN on the devices that need it for anonymousness.

Wow. You mean people might gave to read actual books for entertainment?

If by some miracle the legal establishment takes this schmuck seriously, it is the end of the entertainment industry.

Tubi has one. I think it is called The Final Days of Planet Earth, and is about an insect-like alien accidentally brought here from a moon landing.

I agree that if it is already AAC, it should not be changed as it has the highest fidelity and best compression.

While AC-3 is not the best, it and AC-4 are the only formats i know that can encode TrueHD and Atmos metadata, so that should be kept it it is there.

Any transcode will lose fidelity unless the target codec is lossless, and I don’t think AAC has a lossless mode.

Why is AC-3 bad? It’s pretty much compatible with everything, holds Dolby Digital and atmos. Especially if the source is already encoded in AC-3, would it be wise to re-encode it?

I have found a library that had equipment to transfer to DVD, however if the tape has copy protection it won’t work. I’ll find out. Plus, I can buy a DVD version - I found it in searches - but I already own this and don’t want to buy it again.

I went the easy route and bought synology, set up a raid 6, and it saved me within 1 year.

Raid 6 spreads data wide enough to survive 2 concurrent drive failures. I had one drive fail enough to degrade the raid, and while I was awaiting a replacement (warrenty replacememt), a second drive started to fail. I bought a replacement for that, inserted it, then got the first replacement and inserted that. No losses, and I now have a drive in stock waiting for the next failure. It’s been at least 5 years without failure, so I am due.

Schedule an integrity check once a quarter or month to protect against bit rot. The danger with bit rot is you won’t know you have it until drives fail. If integrity is compromised, the shit hits the fan when you are syncing up the new drive, the system cannot recover, and you lose everything. That is when you start over with your verified backup. If that’s bad, goodbye data.

Any word on where lemmy.one stands on this? For the moment, I’m still getting this, but I’ll create another account elsewhere if necessary.

That won’t help when you must use it for any online access to (for example) your bank, any loan application, school enrollment, car maintenance, online shopping, tax filing, airline tickets, passport renewal, license3 renewal, mortgage payment, etc., etc .

… Until all the sites you absolutely need to use in order to *function in society *require approved devices with proper tracking.