love to be film faculty at a university whose tech office deems dvd-bluray obsolete +unilaterally removes all such equipment from classrooms with no notice to nor consult w instructors. def true that nothing worth teaching in film history is unavailable on streaming def they do this to bio labs
Your teachers union needs an armed paramilitary formation.
Do they not have PS4/5s?
External DVD to usb-C adapter to laptop to usb-C adapter to HDMI 4EVAH
all that in backpack every day, next to the mop and windex i carry around as lady admin
What the HELL. So sorry this happened to you.
I carry a Blu Ray player with me and the projector in the classroom does not read it 🤡
how terrible
this is so ass. deans coded
we need that account resurrected over here sincerely, ass head
I don’t understand. So how are you supposed to show films in your classes?
this is a question for his highness the head of tech but his email announcing the change, after school has started and syllabi made, suggests that everything is streaming
It's a terrible idea regardless but also does the school pay for streaming services? So many streamers have IP address "no sharing" nonsense now I would imagine it's a ridiculous complication. Are faculty expected to have a campus specific account?
“Well it’s on internet so yeah”
I lectured a class at a CUNY school in which all the films available to show in classes were stored locally on the school’s server. It was an absurd system.
But using commercial streaming services is even worse.
yup! bad for buffering, bad for captioning and accessibility, bad for catalog
A huge problem as the streamers feel no obligation to maintain catalog
Many people told him that and that only olds use discs anymore.
Put Blu-ray Disc in Blu-ray player. Press play. Short of a power cut, this is painless, near-infallible, and importantly will remain so for years to come. Meanwhile, streaming…
Love to teach seminar style courses in classrooms where the university decided, without consultation, to remove all seminar tables!
Ugh, they did this to us too and while I'm not film faculty, I'm history faculty and we like to show old/weird movies (this is how I found out that even big name labor movement movies are not on streaming...an interesting pattern)
love 2 have this exact fight with estates every single year
I made an ARM (automatic ripping machine) with 8 DVD and 2 BluRay drives. I can rip about 30 movies a day. I've been ripping all of the discarded media, then personally archive them.
Where did you source your rippers? I haven't been able to find one that can ignore drm.
All I have to do is insert the DVD, it rips, fetches meta data, does DRM, compresses to format of my choice, then ejects when done.
I experimented with using a docker image and a installing on Ubuntu. I settled on Ubuntu. github.com/automatic-ri...
Ugh I feel your pain
Another solution is to rip from streaming sites and use usb or hdmi to laptop. Can be an issue w foreign films as subs don’t always rip etc …
Keep circulating the tapes, as it were.
We have this same ongoing issue. Have figured out workarounds in terms of streaming but v ad hoc. Often bad quality.
Yep. Been there. 🤬
I have a $20 plug in USB dvd player after running into this during spring semester. It's tiny and light
University IT departments enjoy a freedom of action and absence of accountability such as the average DOGE staffer could only dream of.
Like three years back at our institution one IT person (ONE PERSON) decided that renewing the uni Qualtrics license was too expensive and unilaterally terminated it. No investigation as to what impact that would have for uni research or business, just ended.
Part of the formula for obsolescence/surplus is cost to maintain. Disc players rarely fail and are dirt cheap. 🤦🏽
This is war
reminded of how one of my high school friends said "biology is a humanities subject" (derisively).
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Gah!
(grabs a quick selection off the shelf behind me) Good luck streaming these, let alone any of the documentaries/interviews/commentaries included. Would they allow the tech department to curate the pieces displayed in an art gallery?
Sympathies. I spend quite a bit of time explaining that just because something is available through a commercial streaming site, doesn't mean the Library can get access to it. And even with a good range of academic streaming suppliers, there are just some things you can't get.
Timely. We just had some faculty wanting to show some film that was on YouTube, except YT yanked it out (likely copyright owner complained). We had to fork out few hundred bucks to get them the streaming for their class. But that is another story.
same. plus we don’t even have robust streaming subscriptions. our dept bought a portable dvd-bluray player for us to schlep to classrooms
Exactly! But our portable dvd players usually fail too. We just stream thru … well … some sites …
For a film class I taught not even 6 years ago I still even needed VHS conversion!
Does your university or public library have a Kanopy account? It has The Criterion Collection and a "Film School classics" line up.
it only "has" these if your school has the expensive Kanopy license. Our school buys individual streaming films on Kanopy.
At Clemson, we dealt with that by having all the DVD/BluRays on open shelves, so they all got stolen.
fer crissakes ugh. I'm sorry!
Been there. The number of films that I own, that I then had to buy on Amazon Prime or whatever in order to stream (because Netflix and Disney won't project, so that's fun)...