CP wrote --

Right, one movie to one DVD at one time, eh? My wife started doing that, luckily I had found a great source for brand new blank DVDRs. So, with 5 movies to a disk, each movie, playable on our DVR, cost 3.5c!

I average about 10 3-8 KB .mp4 films per DVD, using data with Nero.

I can put the shows/movies into folders

My movies are listed by year on a DVD.
That is a DVD with movies from the whatever decade, in order.
I'll have a disc from 1900, a disc of films of the 1910's, '20s, etc.
Once those are viewed the disc is erased and ready for the next round of
that era.
TV shows though, for the most part, are one series per disc, by date.
I get my shows from YT, https://www.solie.org/alibrary/updates.html, and https://tubitv.com.
I once used a site called Let Me Watch This (or something similar) along
with Gorilla and something else but those kept disappearing, re-named, etc
and gave up on them.

I prefer free for my books, movies, & TV shows.

You and me both.
Free is good. :)
Joe
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Aug wrote --

I discovered FreeMake. It allows multiple video
files to be coded as a proper playable DVD + a menu to pick
each video. The more you stash onto the DVD, the lower the
quality, but I've never noticed a quality change until I exceed
the 6hr point.

My movies/show are in .mp4 and no problem, so long as the original is a
good print.

I just used DVD/RW discs at the time.

Same here.
I have stacks of DVD-RW's. A few DVD-R if something I want to really
save. That is often rare, unless some special film I want to watch again.
I use CD-RW's as well, and CD-R if I want a permanent record. I could
put a lot more .mp3's on a DVD, but if one fails they are all lost. (This if is for my old time radio collection).

Mine handles MKV files ok, but they can't be the 11-bit
variety. One way I found out how to "test" a MKV to be
compatible for my player is with Freemake.

I use the Windows media player as a rule for .mp4's with Real Player sometimes. I also use VLC from time to time if one others can't read the file.
RP is used mostly for old radio shows.

2.99 to 14.99 seems to be the standard for many ppv solutions:
ApplePay, AmazonTV, etc.. even for a short film. They call it
"renting", and you get about 14 days to watch it as many times
as you want.

My problem is getting around to watching something I might rent.
I have movies I'll collect over the years and watch whenever I want or
have time, etc.
I prefer watching movies in order over the years. I'll start in say
1940, then 1941, 1942, etc. I might find a film from previous years later on that are saved and it might a year or two before I get back to that time.
Joe
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CP wrote --

Right, one movie to one DVD at one time, eh? My wife started doing that, >luckily I had found a great source for brand new blank DVDRs. So, with 5 movie

to a disk, each movie, playable on our DVR, cost 3.5c!
I average about 10 3-8 KB .mp4 films per DVD, using data with Nero.

My RV shows are running about 160-250Mb per 30-min episode, & that size ratio is same for 2-hour movies with variations, depending on sourece filetype. (MKVs seem to be smallest); so that was about 10 hours HD video on a 3.5Gb DVDR. (the RWs were $5 more, in the same stacks of 100)

I get my shows from YT, https://www.solie.org/alibrary/updates.html, and https://tubitv.com.
I once used a site called Let Me Watch This (or something similar) along
with Gorilla and something else but those kept disappearing, re-named, etc and gave up on them.

I had a site in Brazil whjich kept up with nerw episodes for free, to pplay, ad-free, on their site -0 they probably got bnought out by Hulu or Netflix, as they've been gone a while.

Also had a link to watch any sport, any hour, from any perspective (home station's commentator, ESPN, et al); live. I'm not into sports; I justy shared it with mastes who were. . .it seemsd to be gone, too. . . no doubt ESPN bought
'em, grabbed anything of tech worthwhile, & buried the rest in the giant bit bucket in the sky. . .

I prefer free for my books, movies, & TV shows.

You and me both.
Free is good.

100% Best price, as it's rare(not never, though -- I enjoy some good stuff as a profuct tester/reviewer) they pay you to buy things!

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My movies/show are in .mp4 and no problem, so long as the original is a
good print.

My problem is if the originals are MKVs, my converter uses the current codecs to convert to MP4 & those are not playable on my tv.

Ditto if I convert to .AVI or .MPG (size/space not a consideration unless I'm trying to be greedy/lazy)

put a lot more .mp3's on a DVD, but if one fails they are all lost. (This if is for my old time radio collection).

I lost all my old time radio files (had some good ones -- several seasons of the Bickersons, & lots of Laurel & Hardy's full radio shows)

I use the Windows media player as a rule for .mp4's with Real Player
sometimes. I also use VLC from time to time if one others can't read the file
RP is used mostly for old radio shows.

I use KMPlayer for pretty much everything.

My problem is getting around to watching something I might rent.
I have movies I'll collect over the years and watch whenever I want or
have time, etc.

Same. I can't commit myself to watching X in a Y time frame.

I'll be watching a movie in KMP, & be done for a while (real life things arise) so I just close the player & when I open that movie file next time, it resumes at timepoint.

I prefer watching movies in order over the years. I'll start in say

I only insist on ewatching all in a franchise in order & usually in close time to each (I'll spend a week watching one a day maybe, or binge for a weekend)

YV sderies, I'll start one & watch whenever I feel like spending the time in gtont of my computer, until I'm caught up to current (I love finding a show I like & binging a whole series (like I did for "Small Wonder")

Lots of good stuff out there I've not found yet. Can't find any free online sources for older(pre-1980) TV series. I want to binge watch MASH from s01e01 to the end, then the movie. . . & possibly same for "Hogan's Heroes."

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