Comment on I’m sick of streaming. Films were better on Blu-ray
squirmy_wormy@lemmy.world 7 months agoI’m going to assume youre on the younger side of things based on your view. If I’m wrong here, my apologies.
But having a physical copy of media that you control is very useful. You can view it whenever you want or need. Power is out? Generator, TV, media player. Soaks up a lot less juice than a PC. Internet goes out? Still got entertainment to pass the time.
From an economic system point of view, it used to be you’d pay for something and then it was yours. That system was quietly abused and without “consent”, it’s now you pay for something you rent. So from that perspective, fuck the system. Owning is better. I bought it. I didn’t rent it. And I certainly didn’t rent it pending 6 other subsystems being able to function and some arbitrary usage agreement between corporations, who more often than not, are working together against me to just make money.
Carighan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I am sadly quite old already, but no worries.
But to me, modern home consumption media is like going to the cinema. I don’t own a movie if I paid for a ticket to the movies. I just watched it once. Streaming is a monthly less-than-one-ticket and of course the quality of the presentation is lesser, but in return I also get some upsides: A selection multiple orders of magnitude than at the cinema, ability to select the time I watch, and freely pause and resume.
Neither is a way of oncsuming movies in a way where ownership is relevant to my consumption, and long before home media was a big thing going to the movies worked perfectly fine. Plus let’s not delude ourselves here (and now apologies if I assume you’re older than you are 😛): In the times of VHS, we owned very few actual movies on tape. We copied them all, and of course re-used the tapes when we no longer needed the movie around, tapes were costly. Our library was - mostly - ephemeral then as it is now.