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Welp, we're one step closer to the "you will own nothing and be happy" future tech companies want for us.
Not owning just means you don't have to pay anything. Have at it. World's free now
You wouldn't download a car? Well maybe yes.
Yeah, I would download a car.
You'd have to be a special kind of stupid not to download a car and instead pay the thousands of dollars + dealing with scumbag dealerships.
Or just your average American.
I've been actively avoiding it forever, but my peers are all-to-eager to give up any control or ownership of anything.
It's really a cultural problem, and most of the people receiving the short end of the stick aren't realizing it.
There's a lot of stuff that isn't really efficient to own individually. I need a power drill one day a year or less, it's just gathering dust in my closet the rest of the time. I bet most of my neighborhood does the same.
I often dream of a local community center of sorts that lends out tools, and other such things, maybe for a small yearly fee. They could spend to get something robust, good quality that lasts for a long while. And the whole neighborhood could benefit. Sort of an expanded version of a library? I guess none of that is very profitable.
And in all that time I never once owned a Blu-ray device.
At the beginning I was pissed at the DRM. And by the time that was solved streaming was good enough.
Edit: i found the website www.3Donlinefilms.com and they have many native 3D movies and 2D movies that they made into 3D and it's great!
There's still no streaming for 3D movies yet tho :,( i still need to rip the 3D blue rays to my PC if i want to watch them in VR... fandangonow had a quest app to stream 3D movies but it doesn't work anymore and it was a US only option. Hopefully the apple vision pro stuff makes it happen faster globally!
Streaming will never be a satisfying model for me - I need ownership and lack of DRM.
That said, I don't see much of a point in DVD or Blu-Ray either, hard drives are smaller than one DVD's case while fitting orders of magnitude more.
One of the points of DVD and Blu-ray is the additional material. I don't see a lot of streaming movies with commentary tracks and the like and sometimes commentary tracks are as good as the movies themselves.
The DVD commentary track for Spinal Tap is done by Spinal Tap as if they were re-watching the documentary about their lives, complaining about how everything was distorted by Marty DiBergi, and spending a lot of time debating whether or not virtually everyone you see in the movie is dead now.
The DVD commentary track for Cannibal: The Musical was recorded while they were getting drunk. Matt Stone accidentally turns off the recorder at one point and they don't realize it for a while.
The DVD commentary track for UHF is virtually indescribable, but involves Weird Al knowing the exact address of every location where they filmed (in Tulsa) and cold-calling a very confused Victoria Jackson to interview her about the movie.
Additionally, the DVD for The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension treats the movie like it was a docudrama and talks about the "facts" behind the film in all different sorts of ways.
There are lots of others that are just interesting, but those four alone make the extra things on DVDs worth it.
You can sound the real warnings when Panasonic and Sony stop making them.
But the writing is already on the wall. You used to be able to go into any supermarket and have a whole aisle for DVDs and Blu-rays, and now it's like a single rack of things that came out recently. People have spoken with their wallets, and these things will go the same way as CDs before them.
Now we just need to get back to a streaming service that doesn't suck.
NOT a streaming service. Rather - DRMless purchases. GOG did it, Bandcamp did it, now we need it for films. If not available, I would rather buy a DRMed version to correspond to the one I downloaded.
But yeah, sad for those who are into collecting, the physical experience and extras.
DRMless. Purchases.
Seems to be an either/or situation right now. I'll happily take the first one though.
Yeah, exactly - I specified that. Back when I had some money for media, I bought games on Steam (because they weren't on GOG, sadly) and had pirated copies correspond to this. That seems about as fair as a rip corresponding to a DVD but without clutter and inconvenience.
On one hand I'm happy less plastic shit will be produced and consumed. On the other hand, this is leading more towards dystopian timelines where we can never own anything anymore.
A nas is your friend.
And there is plenty is space in the Caribbean Sea
This is all preventable with basic digital ownership laws, but governments are instead bending the knee.
I just pay the iron price and download everything
Never really bought into bluray. DVD was still good enough on early HD TVs, and at the time where the really good ones became affordable, you could buy decently sized HDDs and later SSDs for little money. Ever since my video library has been entirely digital.
Never had a BR disk of mine
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