r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 I voted • Jul 18 '25

Soft Paywall Stephen Colbert’s Cancellation Is Exactly What It Looks Like | Mock a Trump bribe on Monday, get canceled by Thursday. The Late Show’s death reveals how billionaires and presidents are reshaping American media.

https://newrepublic.com/article/198120/stephen-colbert-cancellation-ellison-trump
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u/Lanerlan Jul 19 '25

You can still watch physical if the internet goes down, not to mention that an uncompressed rip of a bluray or 4k are huge in filesize. There are benefits of physical media.

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u/ApplicationRoyal865 Jul 19 '25

Or just store it on your hard drive? I have a 14 tb hard drive filled with movies and tv shows. rough math that is 560 blu ray disks.

I use plex to stream it to my computers, phones tv etc. And I use additional software (radarr, sonarr) to auto download shows/movies as they come up.

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u/Lanerlan Jul 19 '25

I mean yes, that's a viable setup. But then you run into the problem that there are, in some cases, just no good rips for certain things. I'm sensitive to poor encodes and so with all the other benefits of physical, I only opt for digital if I can't source a disc. I'm not poo-poo-ing your choice to go digital only, I'm just saying people have their reasons for preferring physical.

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u/ApplicationRoyal865 Jul 19 '25

I got lost in the sauce geeking over tech. I had meant to say that you can still watch it offline if your plex server is on the same network as the devices you are trying to watch. And in theory anything that was recorded to blu-ray is available for download too.