• Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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      If I had the space and money to buy a Redbox machine, I would just so I could have one of the coolest storage devices for all my DVDs.

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      That’s the function of my NAS, the bonus is it holds significantly more movies and doesn’t cost anything to rent 🏴‍☠️

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          Yeah, I knew the point, but then I realized my NAS in the basement is basically a more convenient Redbox with more movies for free and wanted to brag about piracy. It’s just so good. It would be cool to have a Redbox machine but tbh I’d really prefer one of those Netflix CDN boxes.

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          Network Attached Storage. A computer on a network designed to store files people work on. It usually has several hard drives that work together for extra speed and redundancy if a hard drive fails.

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          A Network Attached Storage (NAS) is a storage device that is put on a computer network, so different users can access it. Think of it as your own personal cloud.

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        I think the implication was they wanted the actual physical part, not just access to lots of movies

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          Re-thinking it, I think that would be kinda cool.

          It’s not far off from people who own jukeboxes

          Burning all the DVDs would be a pain in the ass, but I do have most of a spindle that I haven’t touched since…2013?

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              Naw, if I’m going to have a DVD jukebox, it’s gonna be as bootleg as it gets. Converting AVIs to whatever the fuck format DVD players understand was a pain in the ass then, I’m sure converting MKVs backwards to the same format is still equally annoying, but it’s the principle of the thing.

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          Jellyfin is open source, so if you have the hardware and know .NET C (? I’m guessing on this part), it could be

          Edit; I guessed wrong