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Jen is loading DVD’s into a donation box. Admiral: Stop!! You can’t get rid of our DVD’s! What if the streaming sites go down?! - Admiral: What’ll we watch if there’s an apocalypse? The NEWS?! Jen: You’re right! DVD’s are essential for survival! - Admiral: We still have a DVD player, right? Jen: I mean… probably
Rip your DVDs.
You can even just straight rip them to .iso and enjoy full quality with menus and all. I think Jellyfin supports that at least.
Useful website: https://b3n.org/automatic-ripping-machine/
For other usefull resources check your public library. Lots of overlap between Librarians and archivists.
Libraries are awesome. Also, I think a lot of people don’t realize that DVDs are pretty good quality. They’re used to YouTube 480p, with the bitrate of a slug and heavy artifacts that have been converted 20 times to different formats. Actual 480p ripped directly from a DVD is pretty damn good.
The ripping of your personal DVDs and libraries also having DVDs is just a coincidence, of course.
and feel free to share the rarer ones with the torrent community