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What's something that's seen as Obsolete, but isn't? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by VirusMaster3073@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 1 week ago (4 children)

CDs/DVDs/BluRays

I don't want to support Spotify, which is owned by tencent. I don't want to spend a fortune on streaming services. I don't want to sell my data to google by using YouTube, and I want to be able to listen to music/ watch movies when offline.

[–] DrainKikoLake@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago

I love all of those things! Whenever I hit up a thrift store, the media section is my first stop. I've gotten so many great CDs and movies for next to nothing that way.

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Spotify is not owned by Tencent. It’s publicly traded, and tencent owns part of it.

There are a lot of reasons to hate Spotify (and Daniel Ek) but this is not one of it.

The short version: Tencent Holdings is about to own 10 percent of Universal, which in turns owns around 3.5 percent in Spotify, which in turn owns around nine percent in Tencent Music Entertainment, which in turn is part-owned by Universal’s two main rivals (Warner and Sony), but remains majority owned by Tencent Holdings, which in turn owns 9.1 percent of Spotify. (And, yes, no kidding, that’s the short version.)

https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/who-really-owns-spotify-955388/

[–] VirusMaster3073@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I collect all them. Want to get into Laserdisc as well

[–] dRLY@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

I want a new Blu-ray format but with the size of Laserdisc. Vinyl coming back into style shows that a large disc doesn't matter if playing at home. Would be fun to have the Laserdisc vibe for movies and even whole seasons of TV using the tech of Blu-ray. Just think of how much uncompressed media could fit on something that size! It has no chance of happening of course, but Laserdiscs look sick. I loved when teachers would show educational stuff on them and see the size of those things. I plan to get a player sometime if I have the spare funds, but I did get Aliens on LD just to have and show off.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is that a recent development?

[–] KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For me personally? I have been steadily changing the way I source media over the past 2-3 years. Also I lately read more of other ppl going back to physical media for the same-ish reasons.

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Just pirate it after you have subscribed to it a few times. The author has got their share. The only party you're harming by doing this is the streaming platform. Illegal, but not immoral.