4K TVs are getting cheaper all the time, though (it’s hard now to even find new 1080p sets), and even if you never make the jump to Ultra-HD discs, regular Blu-Rays upscale pretty nicely. Also, if you don’t want to bother with the “smart” features, you can just turn off the Wi-Fi and use your old peripherals.

Rip. Rip everything. Enjoy and savor your physical media, replace when necessary if possible, and make digital backups of anything and everything you truly want to have access to for as long as possible. Redundant storage across multiple locations is also recommended as it’s only redundant until it’s not.

Not to sound reasonable or anything, but something went very badly somewhere, not just in the last week. It is not worth much, just being a random internet opinion, but I think I will wait until all the story comes out. As for the movie money - Hollywood accounting should be illegal. Oher is not the first or last…

It’s nice to actually OWN something. A physical thing. Streaming is so... temporary. I have records that have histories apart from the content etched on them. It’s fun to think about.

The only reason I still have my (well-hidden) CDs from high school is because I don’t ever want anyone to see them.

To be fair, the pilot for Crash Bongload: Shitkicker Ph.D. showed a lot of promise.

I’m sorry, is it common to eat fajitas with cheese in Texas? Am I eating fajitas wrong?

I had a girlfriend die unexpectedly (age 38) of heart failure. She was dancing, having a good time, then slumped down. I thought she was joking around at first but it was quickly apparent that she was not responsive. Even me doing CPR, the police there is literally a few minutes and an ambulance not far behind there…

For whatever it’s worth coming from an internet rando, my heart goes out to you.

I’m going to be 58 in March. Truer words were never spoken.

As you get older, that will only happen more often. Steel yourself.

My love for the band Primus stems from two places: 1.) Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey where they play “Tommy the Cat” at battle of the bands, and 2.) the instrumental version of “Jerry was a Racecar Driver” on Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.

These are people who lost a child two years ago. Foul play was not suspected.. He is dead, they are grieving and merely seeking closure. Can you really not understand? People mke dfferent choices ran you would, frequently. Do your best from now forward not to question how others choose to manage their grief.

Draymond IS this generation’s version of Bill Laimbeer. If he wasn’t a part of the Warriors, they wouldn’t have had the near the success the past 5 years, so I’ll trade the cuddly image they could have had with the killers they’ve actually been any time. Teams are open about being physical with Steph to knock him off…

Deadspin is not your personal erotica site!

Let’s be clear - puking in a bathroom of a gas station 7/11 off the interstate after you just spent the last of your money on meth is rock bottom.

Kelly is an objectively awful person, but expressing joy that he’ll get brutally raped in prison is pretty fucking sadistic. Sexual violence in prisons, and the enabling of it, hurts way more people than just those who you deem “deserving”. And in any case, perhaps we as a society should hope that no one is ever…

I am now. I feel way better. I’m ready to face my day with a smile on my face and a rainbow in my heart.

This sizzling hot take brought to you by someone who’s never had a smug little teenage shit disrespect him in his own home. I’ve banned one of my son’s friends from my house for a year for lying to my face about washing his hands after he used the bathroom (I can hear the bathroom sink from the kitchen you little…

Theory: Baseball is a regional sport because there’s too much damn baseball. The season is 162 games long and each game is 3 hours long, mostly during the spring and summer when people do things. That’s over 20 days of baseball. I can sort of follow one team. ONE. So I’m not going to be watching a Padres/Brewers…