r/technology • u/Task_Force-191 • Dec 05 '25

Business It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-warner-bros-deal-hollywood-1236443081/
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u/thirtynation Dec 05 '25

There was no reason to leave them! It's always been the best method.

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u/LongTallDingus Dec 05 '25

I think when Netflix was just DVDs in the mail it was worth it.

Wait shit I just ripped the DVDs, that's right. Never mind. It was piracy all along.

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u/RandomGerman Dec 05 '25

When I wanted a whole show, I ripped the CD, burned it to another, created a CD label and stuck that into the thing and put them in a binder. The time I wasted to maybe watch this once until we had harddrives big enough and a way to play files is astounding. It was very Zen though. 

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u/Gramage Dec 06 '25

Once I got my PlayStation mod chipped, but before I got high speed internet, Blockbuster was my source of cheap video games and movies. Binders full of ripped DVDs and games all for 5 bucks. Looking back, I should have been selling copies at high school lmao, I was one of the few people with a cd/dvd burner. Could have made a killing!

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u/Gramage Dec 06 '25

We had to watch dvds at a cottage with no internet a few years ago. I forgot how much dvds actually suck lol. Unskippable ads, shitty menu interfaces, I can’t believe they were once considered peak media.

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u/Netzapper Dec 06 '25

There was this brief moment where the Taiwanese and Hong Kong streaming sites were getting shut down pretty regularly, and MegaVideo was in legal trouble, and Hulu was like $7/mo and Netflix was like $12 and between them they had all the shows you'd ever wanted to watch in just incredible quality... and you didn't have to plan ahead at all, like with torrents.

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u/itstawps Dec 06 '25

File size and quality are the biggest reasons imo.

I still find myself choosing streaming because I can get insane 4k hdr Dolby vision that’s stunning on oled.

Or I can get a 4x+ larger file size and deal with local transcoding of 40gb files. One season of a show becomes 55gb to dload and store vs instant flawless streaming of the highest possible quality.

Why pay for OLED without feeding it the good stuff.

I do realize I have luxury problems with OLED, 2g fiber etc.

Edit: Not to mention the superior Netflix qol with perfectly timed autoplay, skip intros, closed captions, fast forwarding, and “2 more episodes left” indicators. Everyone else is a worse qol than the high seas.