DVD swapping

[wagoneer]

Take one leave one, How many people have dvd's that perhaps will be watched in a year or so. CAUSE YE JUST WATCHED IT. Sort of a lending library. With a bumper crop of RTR 'ers should be plenty to choose from.

 

[WheelEstate USA]

We have some to trade.
Like trading books too.

 

[TMG51]

Optical media is dead. But if anyone wants to bring along a large flash storage device (thumb drive, external disk) I can copy you around 500gb of movies, TV and weird sci-fi....

 

[buckwilk]

DVD sale were $7.78 billion last year, must have come back to life. *!*

 

[TMG51]

Obviously there are people who use them and will continue to use them. There are even larger capacity disks still being developed. But as a leading standard of information transfer yes it is in the past. I'm 28, and I've never bought a CD or DVD in my life. I've also never gone without any music or movie I desired.

 

[rvpopeye]

Grrreat Idea

and another good idea on the flash /SD drive sharing....however that would be "pirating arrrrrrgggggghhhhhhh" unless you share home made vids.

I carry a 2TB portable drive with all my videos/movies and a 500GB with all my music.
But , I do have a bunch of optical DVDs in a box at my mom's. Maybe will find room for them on my next trip to the desert.

DVDs may be dead but I know people that still use VHS !
It's true , I tell ya !

 

[VJG1977]

Obviously there are people who use them and will continue to use them. There are even larger capacity disks still being developed. But as a leading standard of information transfer yes it is in the past. I'm 28, and I've never bought a CD or DVD in my life. I've also never gone without any music or movie I desired.

I'll be 62 in April and I have 1,819 movies on DVD.  I've had hard drives and flash drives fail, never had a disc fail.

 

[B and C]

I grabbed some discs we won't be watching anymore.  If anyone is bringing kids, I have a few for them too.  My entire collection is now on my server.  I have converted a lot of them to M4V format (Handbrake) and copied them to a 2 Tb drive.  Some music is on there too.  I will have to look through the stack to see if there are any I want to watch.

Are these just going to be thrown in the free pile or is somebody setting up a table/box for this?  I don't have space to bring a spare table :dodgy:

On the road, Redbox will be my friend.

 

[rvpopeye]

My 1981 class C has a Panasonic 8 track installed at the factory ,,, I don't have any tapes . I would be afraid to put one in , it would probably eat it ! The FM sounds good though. I hear FM is going the way of the dinosaurs soon too.....

All my LP records were recorded (downsized) to 7" reel to reel tapes on the first time they were played . When I moved to Tucson in '82.I transferred all the reels to cassettes.
Then I sold all those albums , reels and my turntable and 3 R-R decks off.

I carried around those 400 cassettes that I used as break music in the 80s and 90s , I recorded them all (downsized) onto the audio tracks on 60 DVDs when I got my first DVR in '07 .
Then I gave all the cassettes away.

I converted those DVDs to MP3s in 2013 and put them on my small 500GB portable HDD along with over 100 of my ripped CDs.
Those are in storage along with my audio and video DVDs as a backup to my HDDs.

I agree that HDDs can fail and also think that eventually those CDs and DVDs will start to fail too . Oh well , I might not live that long !

Anyway....
All those audio and video DVDs and CDs will fit in a small backpack now , the HDDs fit in the pocket of my jacket !

If anyone finds my rig parked nearby , Id be happy to provide some entertainment..... I bet between everybody in the tribe that there would be a pretty decent library of good stuff.

 

[akrvbob]

I'm not a person who feels like slavish devotion to the law is required. In fact, there are numerous laws I feel morally obligated to break.

I live my life by a very simple code of ethics that says do the very least amount of harm you can while also doing all the good whenever you can.

Stealing electronic art does harm to the creators, to the industry they are in, and to society as a whole. It's wrong and immoral in my understanding of what that means.

What you do in your private life is none of my business, but what's promoted on this forum is my business and any further promotion of stealing and hurting others will be deleted.
Bob

 

[wagoneer]

OK lets drop this idea and everyone just keep your dvd's to yourself please forgive me for bringing this up. Make sure your alone while watching YOUR DVD that you bought from the ARTIST, or company or wherever you found it. And by the way all you people that recorded our band in the various live free and paid for shows we played please send me 50 cents. Even the lawyers that are trying to have me sign artistic release to the "Behind the Green Door" "Deep Throat" sound tracks are giving up because I will sue them for "artistic theft and infringement " so EF you legal system. My 2 CENTS

 

[wagoneer]

Hey it was a paid gig and ( without fringe benefits) but hanging out in North Beach was memorable

 

[WriterMs]

Wagoneer -- I don't "think" Bob was talking about swapping the DVDs... that is not ripping off the artist because the DVD was paid for. You are not making additional copies and distributing them for free (which IS ripping off the artist).

I'm sure Bob will clarify his intent, but again I "think" he was referring to simply copying artistic content with no payment going to the artist.

Bob???

 

[TMG51]

I don't think anyone (even here) was applying the label of piracy to DVD swapping, wagoneer. That's more of a "copying" sort of term. But I empathize with your sentiment.

 

[wagoneer]

Thank you, being "for Hire" is a sticky subject. being a local union musician was not without cost.

 

[buckwilk]

Optical media is dead. But if anyone wants to bring along a large flash storage device (thumb drive, external disk) I can copy you around 500gb of movies, TV and weird sci-fi....

Unless I miss my guess, this is what Bob was referring to. *!*

 

[wagoneer]

But,,,, let us end this thread, been ripped off enough, people will learn

 

[Chancebond]

In two to three years (because of my age), I will be at the Van Dwellers Annual meeting wherever it may be. I will have some DVD's to trade if anyone would like to. I think that this is a pretty good idea.

 

[Chancebond]

Ya see, for me, if I have a 1TB Drive it is easy for me to carry. However, if it becomes corrupted, or unusable, then I lose ALL of my stuff. That is why, I have Dvd's (burned or professionally made), because if 1 gets corrupted, I only lose what is on that DVD. I have done away with "cases", and now use DVD Binders, and DVD/CD "Boxes".

 

[JT646]

Some campgrounds have small "open Libraries"  where books and dvds can be borrowed--or exchanged with something you want to pass on.  The CG in Organ Pipe National Monument (southern AZ) for example has one of these.   It's in a small kiosk near the first camping loop.  I've left a few dvds there myself on previous excursions.  Just remember these should be original (purchased ones)--not copies, as mentioned previously.