Comment on Hollywood Keeps Reminding Us Why We Need Physical Media More Than Ever - IGN

Rediphile@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did you store your content on physical hard drives? That follows the spirit of the statement.

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  • Sheeple@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This so much this. A file is physical media. Streaming isn’t

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    • imecth@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That's just redefining what physical media is. It's used specifically to contrast digital media, like hard drives.
      These headlines just want you to buy dvds/blurays. Which they specifically tell you to do at the end of the article.

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  • Rediphile@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No I just memorize all the ones and zeros. /s

    But yes, you are correct. I still feel it’s important to remind people that the only alternative to streaming isn’t like DVDs or vinyl records or something.

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  • ech@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To be frank, any mention of “physical media” almost exclusively means DVDs/blu-rays/etc. But people really should talk more about hard drives as physical storage. It’s essentially the same concept as those mediums anyhow. The only physical difference is storage size and the practical differences (no ads, locked content, quality limits, etc) are huge.

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    • quams69@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Except it doesn’t though

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  • GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Huh… [GardenVarietyAnxiety leveled up! Gained a new perspective]

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    • probablynaked@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I really like this take. Flexible mindset ftw!

      Also pirating this turn of phrase

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  • quams69@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Shhh he doesn’t know drives are physical devices

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• notaviking@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why the hate on your post. Physical media has its downsides as well, like polution you mentioned but others such as degradation over time, region locking, especially optical disks. There isn’t a best solution since I believe the preservation of media should be a mixture, I like having physical copies of my favourite media and then soft copies of the rest

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