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Aubrey Plaza Never Watched ‘White Lotus’ Because ‘I Had Trouble Opening My Max Account’ and ‘Couldn’t Figure Out the Password … I’d Love a DVD’

variety.com Aubrey Plaza Never Watched ‘White Lotus’ Because ‘I Had Trouble Opening My Max Account’ and ‘Couldn’t Figure Out the Password … I’d Love a DVD’

Aubrey Plaza could not log into her Max account or remember her password so she just hasn't watched an episode of "The White Lotus" yet.

Home Video (VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, 4k) @feddit.uk Aubrey Plaza Never Watched ‘White Lotus’ Because ‘I Had Trouble Opening My Max Account’ and ‘Couldn’t Figure Out the Password … I’d Love a DVD’

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Honestly, this is legend behavior

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Whatever. She was better in Legion anyway

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- Fantastic work all around on that show.
  
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  Really. Hats off to everyone.
  
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- Explain to me, in small words, why that show isn't as widely known/quoted/beloved as 'Rick and Morty?'
  
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  Probably because Legion is a show that's harder to get into, and people might not find it as interesting as some other shows. But truly, I don't really know.
  
  Edit: Or if you want it in a simple way. Weird show.
  
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- gifted and legion were both amazing shows that could have been great had fox bothered to actually promote them.
  
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Sounds like somebody needs to hear of our lord and saviour, Jellyfin.

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- Probably can't talk about that stuff if you're in the industry like her right?
  
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- Do you know of a good guide? I want to get into high-sea streaming but I’ve been out of the privateer game for years and between all the different aspects of it like Stremio, Debrid, Radarr, (I don’t even know what any of those even are) I really don’t know where to start. I hear there’s a way you can use it to browse shows like would a streaming service and just stream them to your device without torrenting them beforehand? I just feel lost every time I try to find out more information
  
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  Check here https://trash-guides.info and here https://wiki.servarr.com/
  
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- Praise be
  
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- Jellyfin is so great. I switched over from Kodi & emby about a year ago now due to a combination of kodi's mobile apps being way too resource intensive and emby locking to much behind paywalls.
  
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Well... That sucks, we've all been there au at some point

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- My thing is though that the DVDs actually are out there and she can buy them whenever she wants lol
  
  S01: https://www.amazon.com/White-Lotus-Complete-First-Season/dp/B0B6D11WCP/ref=sr_1_2
  
  S02: https://www.amazon.com/White-Lotus-Complete-Second-Season/dp/B0CGJW1276/ref=sr_1_1
  
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  Not having read the article, assuming this is just watching the ordinary program on the same streaming service the general public has access to, this feels more like she doesn’t want to for whatever reason. She certainly seems like she’s smart enough to figure out how to reset her password if she wanted to. Maybe there was some odd code she needed to use to get free access or something, but again that seems like something she could get resolved if she wanted to.
  
  Similarly, she can surely afford to buy the show on disc. I’m guessing she wants free discs but hasn’t received them from the production. I feel like that would be a fair request for a production she worked on. If I was heavily involved in a show or movie I would like a copy on physical media that I could keep in my collection for the rest of my life, not some discount code for a streaming service that will inevitably disappear someday.
  
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  TIL
  
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- What does Australia have to do with this ?
  
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  Everything mwhahahah (honestly autocorrect decided to be evil today)
  
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- No, I know how to do account recoveries.
  
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I feel this. I used to make software features for mortgage appraisers and I never even once got to use it to appraise a home!

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Personally I'm hoping Microsoft's project silica takes off and replaces blurays. Having worked in a movie theater, I can tell you the files on blurays aren't the same ones that get played at a theater. Same resolution and framerate (probably), but dramatically higher bit depth (though I dunno if you could tell the difference normally). This could be a way of releasing master quality recordings for home use.

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- IDK what Project Silica is, but I don't want Microsoft in charge of the future of physical media. That experimental multi terabyte disc standard should be where physical media goes next.
  
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  I mean, iirc, Blu-ray was originally Sony's thing; VHS was JVC. Most formats were something a company came up with and then became so widely used that people thought they just sprung out of the ether.
  
  The multi-terabyte disc thing sounds neat. Project Silica is the sci-fi crystal data cube thing, where they vaporize tiny bits of crystal with a laser to write data, and then read it back with a laser as well. I like the idea of project silica more just because "muh sci-fi data cubes", but discs capable of holding terabytes of storage would be sweet.
  
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- I mean a 4k blurays can already hold like 100GB of data. How much more can you push through home connections like HDMI?
  
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  A lot more. A 4k disc has a bitrate of 128Mbps. Right now there are HDMI cables that can push 8Gbps and can be bought at Walmart.
  
  The returns definitely are diminishing though. I am really struggling to see differences between 4k and 8k on an 80" screen at 6ft away – granted, I was looking at a floor model.
  
  I think the real value is in archival though. If you have the true copy then you'll know you're not suffering any generational loss whenever you transcode the file. It'd also be nice to get the IMAX versions of movies with no loss of detail.
  
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  The most recent HDMI versions are limited to 48Gbit/s, so you could fit almost 17s of a movie on a 100GB disk!
  
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  For archival purposes, you want a lossless master so that new copies can be made from the original using any new codec that is later developed, whether that codec prioritizes quality, file size/bitrate, encoding/decoding cost, certain hardware optimizations, etc.
  
  That way a 1995 film can be shown using a 2035 codec when the time is right, rather than relying on a 2035 encoding of a 2020 encoding of a 2000 digitization of a 1995 analog master.
  
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  Afaik HDMI hasn't been a bottleneck for movies in a long time. The 4k masters I had when I was working at a theater averaged around 100-200 megabits per second, which translated into movies that averaged around 200-300gb. Larger WORM (write-once, read-many) storage would potentially allow for master quality recordings to be produced for cinemaphiles.
  
  While you might think there isn't enough demand for it, you might also not be aware that movies from back-catalogs come on hard drives. When your company has an outing to a movie theater where you all watch Elf together, that movie was likely originally on a hard drive (afaik only new releases get the luxury of being transferred via satellite). Instead of shipping spinning drives, they could ship data crystals (project silica) instead. This would have the side effect of potentially making the crystals reasonably priced for collectors and enthusiasts, allowing them to get the master quality version of their favorite movie(s).
  
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- though I dunno if you could tell the difference normally
  
  yeah, that. given the infinitesimal amount of people with the equipment and eyes to discern that difference, i doubt that will be a financially viable business. already most people are fine with streaming which is worse quality than 4k discs.
  
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  On a Blu-ray 1:1 remux, I definitely notice choppy gradients on my Sony bravia, and I'm not much of a snob for video as long as it's HD.
  
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Okay boomer

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So edgy

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