#dvd duplication

[sooptea]

What do you mean I have to alphabetize these bitches

[rowanthestrange]

Rusty can it be this copy of Spearhead From Space?

Because I kid you not, out of my entire collection, it’s one of the only two full duplicates I own, and daddy would like to make bank

(for the curious)

[dramatic-dolphin]

I was reading r/glitch_in_the_matrix and one story reminded me of a time a DVD duplicated on me. Well, either that, or two primary schoolers brought the same random film about haunted castles in Scotland to school on the same day, and one of them left it in an empty classroom. Which is also unlikely, but maybe likelier than one just spawning from the ether.

[candyfloss-kittens]

Finally got a new shelf in to replace an older one!

Definitely won't be staying like this (will have to rearrange the top shelf once I get the rest of the Outlander books), but for now, it's fine. I need to go through all my shelves and do a big rearrange. And I still need to replace this big metal shelf that I've got with something better. But! I've finally got a better one for this spot!

And yes, bloody Warrior Cats taking up so much room....

And once I've finally put together those other kit cars that are just sitting in their boxes on the bottom shelf there'll be a bit more room.

[thelegendofmrrager]

RUN DON'T WALK to your local library neeeow!! I'm telling y'all they've got heat. Mine has a biweekly sale where they sell all sorts of things, DVDs, CDs, every kinda book you can imagine, hardcovers, coffee table books, old out of print books. Even newer titles or popular authors' works are being sold for half of what you'd pay going to a mainstream book store.

They also had a sale last month where all of their CDs were 50 cents each. I'm not an inside guy or anything but I'm assuming a lot of libraries are just begging to give physical media away bc there's probably less of a demand for stuff like that rn with digital streaming services. You should take advantage of this! Especially when some TV shows get bounced between streaming services and it's never certain whether or not you'll have easy access to it. It's easier than you think to start building a collection of all your favorite shows and music.

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[severalowls]

This isn't about duplicating tapes, its about how you could buy a blank VHS, and when something was on the TV you could hit the 'record' button and have a copy of it forever. Most of my childhood movies were TV recordings.

Same with audio cassettes, "mix tapes" were traditionally made by requesting a song on the radio and then feverishly pressing the record button on a cassette recorder plugged in to the radio the moment they played it.

And all this absolutely was something that distributors sneered and fought against when home media recording became a thing, and factored into the prices they made tv and radio pay to broadcast their stuff, and why they wouldn't allow it (especially movies) until months after they put the videos on sale.

“To protect their copyright, streaming sites do not allow for screenshotting of any kind.”

Hey remember VHS where you bought a box to plug into your tv and you could legally record whatever was playing and then own it for free forever

[theredtours]

MASSIVE TAYLOR SWIFT CD SALE! INCLUDES NEW ITEMS

Hello, and happy holidays! I'm Chloe, a big Swiftie, and even bigger CD collector. I've been collecting for the better part of thirteen (!!) years now, and in that time, have managed to end up with a... few... duplicates in my hoard. It's time that those repeats go to new Swiftie homes, where they will hopefully bring as much joy to you as they once did to me, and what better time than right before the holidays? So before I post everything (which will be under the cut) I just kind of want to give an overview of how this will work. A sort of FAQ, if you will.

1. To claim an item, you will need to message me. And yes, I do mean mean "message," not "ask." This way ensures not only that Tumblr won't eat your request, as it loves to eat inbox mail, but also so that I can then have a conversation with you about where to send the item(s). 2. I will only accept Venmo/PayPal as forms of payment. Venmo is the preferred method, because they don't charge any sort of fees, but I am aware that Venmo is not available internationally, and PayPal is the safest alternative. Shipping for one single item across the US is about $5, so that's all I'll ask for it. 3. I will ship internationally, but you must prepare for delayed delivery. Since it is the holiday season, I cannot guarantee that anything sent overseas will arrive before Christmas. Please keep this in mind before ordering. Furthermore, in this case, I will ask for the cost of postage in a second payment, and then will provide you with a tracking number in return. 4. If you are buying more than one item, I will combine shipping. Because I cannot possibly guess the cost of shipping for multiple items, I will send a second invoice for the cost of shipping, along with a tracking number for your package. 5. No returns/refunds are allowed. All sales are final, as the whole idea behind this is for me to lighten the load. I have multiple pictures of each item (most of which will not be posted here to avoid making this post even longer), and will send them your way upon request.

Items will be marked as SOLD as they are purchased, so make sure you are checking the post on my blog and not just via reblogs before inquiring! All purchases will be mailed out within three business days of receiving payment. I will also message you to let you know exactly when they go out!

Thank you for taking the time to read this; merry Swiftmas!!

ITEMS FOR SALE

Taylor Swift (Promo Version) SOLD

Beautiful Eyes EP (Walmart Exclusive) SOLD

Fearless Platinum Edition (Target Exclusive) - $25 - TWO AVAILABLE This version of the album comes with additional DVD content--specifically, it's two of the songs she performed at Clear Channel Stripped! The case has some minor cracks and the "sticker" is just a reprint for identification purposes, but both discs and all inserts are in really good condition! The second copy is basically identical, but I can send pictures if you're interested in seeing it specifically.

Speak Now (Starbucks Exclusive) - $30 Nothing on the CD is different from other US versions of this album, but this one, sold exclusively at Starbucks back in the day, comes with a fancy "O-ring" slipcover! Not many were made, so it's considered to be on the rarer side.

Speak Now (Walmart Exclusive) - $15 This version was sold exclusively to Walmart and contained a cute little coupon for Covergirl products! Unfortunately, this copy did not come with the insert, which is why I'm selling it off. The only notable differences between it and any other standard copy of Speak Now are the catalogue number and UPC. All the songs are the same.

Red SOLD

Red (Starbucks Exclusive) - $30 This Starbucks exclusive "digipak" version of Red folds in the middle, much like a vinyl record! It does have a small fold in the cover (see the first photo), but the CD and booklet are in perfect condition. This copy was sent to me with the second disc from the Target version of Red, so it will also be included with this purchase. You're basically getting the deluxe version in a cool, rare case haha. :)

Red (Costco Exclusive) - $30 Yes, there are a few minor case cracks on the front side (thanks, kitties), but the album is still sealed and comes with its insert! What sets this rare version aside from its peers is the hype sticker on the front, and the inclusion of a flyer that, while no longer valid, once allowed you to download 3 additional Taylor Swift songs for free!

Red (Deluxe Edition) (Target Exclusive) SOLD folklore: "meet me behind the mall" edition - $15 This version was sold exclusively on Taylor's website! Though it's no different than the one you can get at Target content-wise, it does have a different catalogue number and UPC, so if you're into that sort of thing, this is a steal. Plus, it's brand new!

folklore: "in the weeds" edition - $20 I'm only charging a little extra for this one for two reasons. One, it is a little more sought-after, so if it doesn't sell here, it's going to eBay. Two, it's the EU version (which means nothing content-wise, just catalogue number and UPC-wise), so it cost a little more to get it to me. This one also was a website exclusive, and it's sealed!

TTPD: Down Bad (Acoustic Version) - $10 Back in June, this was one of two versions of TTPD posted exclusively to Taylor's website. My post office lost my order, so I ended up contacting the store to get a new one sent out. Months later, the package mysteriously arrives! Here's your chance to own that surprise CD!

TTPD: Guilty as Sin? (Acoustic Version) - $10 This CD was also part of the lost package! It too likely has mysterious teleportation powers*, and for the fine price of ten bucks, could also magically show up at your house soon! *This statement has not been proven as fact by the author.

TTPD: The Manuscript (Collector's Edition) - $30 This one was sent to me by mistake when ordering another item from the webstore. They let me keep it, but I don't need it. Again, their loss is your gain! It's also sealed!

More to come in the following days as I downsize, but this is a good place to start, yeah? Please reblog so this reaches as many genuine Swifties as possible! Thank you in advance!!

[maniacwatchestheworld]

The Mark of the Blind Eye

Here is my second post about the Society of the Blind Eye in order to make sure that we are all on the same page with where my ideas and thoughts about it come from. A third one will be coming! (This series was originally only going to be 2 posts, but then this one got too long and I hadn't even gotten to the main point that I wanted to discuss lol.) But for this one, I want to point out a thing that I don't think that anyone's really discussed before even though indications of it do pretty clearly exist within canon... The Society of the Blind Eye seems to exist in opposition to Bill Cipher himself. And the symbol of the Society of the Blind Eye is a very good example of this relationship!

Is this observation too obvious? Or do I just sound entirely insane right now? Because I swear that I'm right! But I've never seen anyone discuss it before! I just think that if you think about the Society with the idea that they exist to oppose Bill Cipher in mind, it explains a number of things about how and why they operate as well as their aesthetics. But let's discuss the symbol itself first!

So first of all, I think that it's really neat how the Society- from its very first hints of existing to the series finale- it associates itself with graffiti.

This exists in contrast to Bill who- while his iconography also tends to be found in the backgrounds and little details of shots- tends to be found in more structural ways.

Windows and carpets. On dollar bills and commercial products from makeup to DVDs to children's costume props all alike. These differences in how they appear speaks to how the Blind Eye exists in opposition to Bill Cipher. Bill Cipher is larger than any individual on Earth. His existence transcends space and time. He has existed since before humanity and he has had his hand in countless human social movements. From the Egyptian pyramids to the foundation of America, even having a hand in early computer technology. Bill Cipher is more than just a character. He exists within the very structures of human civilization within the show.

Meanwhile the Society by contrast has only existed for ~30ish years by the series' start. And the most significant way that it exists is in opposition to Bill Cipher. In a way, Bill Cipher's existence is cultural... Meanwhile the Blind Eye's existence is countercultural.

I don't think that the modern iteration of the Society ever realized it, but its primary form of iconography- the crossed out eye- is actually simultaneously just a GREAT aesthetic symbol (easy to recognize and duplicate but also looking fantastic to boot) but that it's also rather clever in how pragmatic it is for the Society's unmentioned but inherent secondary purpose. That secondary purpose being to oppose Bill Cipher and to wipe his influence from Gravity Falls.

We all know how Bill is able to look through symbols of himself depicted in the real world. He also seems to be able to look through images of eyes in general (given how he also tends to watch the world through the eye-like patterns on Birch trees). We also know why and how Fiddleford came to found the Society, that he was distressed by the supernatural things he saw- what was beyond the portal especially- and so sought to erase the memories of those distressing things from his mind... Only to realize that others could "benefit" from this as well. The memory gun at the center of this cult would eventually become the very same object that would kill Bill Cipher in the series finale. It was only because of the Society of the Blind Eye that Bill was ultimately able to be defeated! But it's not that much of a stretch to think that Fiddleford may have been using the Society of the Blind Eye to protect Stanford from Bill Cipher from the organization's outset, right? Not only do they use and were the protectors of the weapon that would eventually kill Bill Cipher, but we learn in the Book of Bill that Fiddleford's repeated use of the Memory Gun actually entirely inoculated him from Bill's manipulations! Fiddleford's mind was so damaged, that merely existing within it was physically able to harm Bill! The Blind Eye could easily drive Bill from the mind of anyone he possessed so long as they knew it was him. And given how Bill treats the bodies of anyone he possesses, certainly that would fall under the scope of the kinds of experiences the Blind Eye seeks to allow people to forget. Additionally, the mere symbol of the Society- if applied to already existing images of eyes and of Bill Cipher himself- would keep Bill from being able to look through those symbols, thus limiting his vision! Perhaps this is why in many depictions of the Blind Eye symbol, the X over the eye is emphasized and shown in a different color than the rest of the symbol and the eye itself.

Whether the Society knows it or not, their existence and activity in Gravity Falls puts limits on Bill's power and influence there. (If anyone in town can just kinda randomly get their memory wiped at a moment's notice, it makes it much much more dangerous for Bill to possess ANYONE in town.) And given who founded the Society and when and why he did, I have doubts that fact is a mere coincidence!

[binomist]

Spent 30 minutes sifting through DVDs to clear out duplicates and better use the shelf space 👍 next up I'm gonna organise by either colour, genre, or director

[fishmech]

sure feels like a lot of people miss that your average blockbuster didn't actually have a huge selection, because a lot of the actual videos/dvds/blu-rays on the shelves were duplicates, in order to account for multiple people wanting to rent the same popular movies.

like yea you would have 7,000 to 10,000 to even 20,000 distinct titles available to a particular location to stock... but that was like "what's in the regional distribution network" not "what's actually on the shelves at any one particular store, especially in the more common small-format stores". it would be more common that there were like, 2000 titles in a location and a few hundred had 2-5 copies, and then a few dozen had a few dozen copies because they were the most in demand.

blockbuster and the other big chains were also fairly aggressive about cycling out the duplicate copies and then any copies at all over time, typically via selling the used media. just because they had a certain movie at your local store a year prior wouldn't mean they still had it! independent video stores were less likely to completely ditch old titles but especially on tape they did need to dump things once they got too worn out and physically deteriorated.

honestly the best time for blockbuster selection? the like 10 years they operated their own netflix service. as in the original netflix service, you place a request from the catalog and a dvd/blu-ray gets mailed to you. you see to operate this service they didn't just use their central distribution facilities but also would send you a disc from any store in the country that might have it, and there'd be lots of shit that was only actually present at 2 or 3 physical stores.

i used that service to rip thousands of discs lmao. lots of out of print stuff that actually buying it could be hundreds of dollars but was basically free in the blockbuster subscription.

[radkindoffeminist]

Every now and then, I feel like a bad environmentalist. I’ve never considered myself an avid environmentalist, but sustainability is something I’ve considered more over the past 2-3 years and I have been trying to ensure that I am more considerate with my purchases, only buying something to replace items which have run out/can no longer be used or items which I am going to use. I look after what I have and sew up clothes until I basically can’t get a single wear without it falling apart. But I’m not a perfect person. I probably have more clothes than I realistically need/items I should probably get rid of, I do still buy most of my clothes from Shien so I do end up sewing up some pieces quite a lot (though others have been really good!), I have duplicates of some items which I probably didn’t need duplicates of, I have a couple of items I just collect for fun and have no ‘practical’ use in my life, and I still go on holidays which people would consider to be unsustainable/damaging (a few flights, one cruise, etc).

But then I go on TikTok and I see people clearing out the stuff from periods in their life when they over consumed.

I saw one woman who cleared out her purses of which she had like two dozen and decided that 6 was enough. I think I’ve had 3 in the past decade? I replaced one because I thought that I lost it, had another one I think all through university, and then my current one I replaced when I started my new job because that old purchase was falling apart.

I saw the same women and another clearing out their collections of hand sanitiser key rings/holders. One had maybe 30; one over a hundred with lots of duplicate. One cleared out to 8; one to around 60 if not more. I think I had two at my peak - one for my uni/laptop bag; one for my backpack which I mainly used for going to the shops.

I saw another clear out their makeup bags. Must have been like 50 and she kept half of them, justifying that some are pretty and some do get use when she travels. I think I have like 4 and all of them were gifted to me.

I see people with shelves full of bags like loungflies or other name brands. One woman was showing off the collection of about a dozen bags she had just for the Halloween season! Meanwhile, I felt bad buying a tote bag from one of my favourite theatre shows (which I now use whenever I go to the theatre) because I have other tote bags (all given to me, mostly from uni taster days and have started to clear out a little) and felt weird having to get a new laptop bag because my work laptop didn’t fit into my work bag or uni laptop bag.

I’ve been trying to look after my curly hair properly and gotten a little into perfume too. I watch all of these content creators have a dozen types of shampoos, conditioners, curl creams, gels, and foams. Meanwhile, I am just trying to use what I currently have, only order to replace what I have, and felt a little odd having two different gels which I alternate between now and then.

I’ve also been getting more into perfume/smelling nice. I saw multiple TikTokers with walls full of full-sized perfume bottles, with one saying that their collection was like 1000 bottles. Meanwhile, I’m wondering if I’d be consuming too much if I have one perfume which is work-place safe and one or two perfumes which I use at weekends/going out because I like them.

I could go on and on about the masses of collections that people have vs how I’ve felt to have more than one of the items. As I said, I do have a couple of collections where I admit that I consumed more than average, though one is DVDs which I’ve purchased almost exclusively second hand. I am not a perfect person and I do often feel bad for not being the perfect environmentalist. But it is so difficult to actively try to be better (not just continue at my normal consumption which is typically replace when required anyway) when you’ve got one side pushing you to try to be perfect and constantly telling you to be better, if not just attacking you for failing and then on the other side having people consuming more than you possibly can within a lifetime as a collection so it’s difficult to see how your extra item here or small collection there is a problem compared to that level of hyper consumerism.

[foone]

Trick or treat :)!

Enjoy your DVD duplicator!

[donnerpartyofone]

Movie pals! If you are local to the Other Half on Centre Street go there and pick up these DVDs. No losers in the bunch, I just got duplicates and whatnot now.

[johnnycashhistorian]

On this day: October 14, 2008

The documentary Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison was released alongside the legacy edition re-release of Cash's 1968 live album by the same name. The documentary follows Cash's performance at Folsom State Prison in January 1968, which Cash considered to be the most important day of his career. Additionally, the film includes never-before-seen footage and photographs, as well as exclusive interviews with those close to Cash including Merle Haggard, Roseanne Cash, Marty Stuart, and former inmates who attended Cash's performance. The film was released on DVD as part of a box set with two CDs, which include both Folsom Prison performances in full, as well as 44 additional tracks not present on the original 1968 album--many of which are duplicates to reflect two separate performances.