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Wow. This is why owning DVDs is better. And if you can't buy, download via torrents. Imagine these bastards rolling up to your home and reclaiming a movie you physically purchased. We gave them too much power. Time to withdraw it. Convenience is not worth this shit. Get uncomfortable and get your entertainment away from these streamers who don't give customers what they paid for.
DVD rental stores could surely make a comeback given these new developments. Libraries still loan movies as well. Remember, Barnes & Noble didn't run all independent bookstores out of business. And after Amazon savaged Barnes & Noble, Amazon Books suddenly came into existence (2015 - 2022). Greed driven corporations aren't the answer.
Dvd is not better. I hate it when I pay for the content and I'm still forced to see ads for something I purchased. You might own the media, but there are other downsides as well. They actually both suck!
You mean like a DVD movie has a trailer on it for the movie itself? Not sure what you're saying here.
DVDs sometimes had trailers for other movies on them. It was more frequent on VHS though.
This. Trailers are ads for other movies. Some DVDs had unskippable trailers.
Never heard of it.
You can
ddentire disk to your HDD.I love standard definition video
Meanwhile 1080p easily can be written on dvd. And with good codecs(like AV1) such videos can be very long.
Another DVD plus is never having it go pixelated or buffering while watching due to some streamer error or widespread cloud downtime or other issue. That one time purchase and watching it whenever I like for as long as I like, and not some corporation, is an impeccable experience.
Or you can simply dump DVD on your hard drive and put it on a shelf. DVD, but hard drive works too.
Owning my media is what's significant and I do in multiple ways that have been listed. It's not an issue which one I use. What's important is that media not being locked up by a corporation after I've "bought" it.
Digital is the way to go - who knows how long DVD will be a viable format. Hard media formats come and go.
It still comes down to choosing convenience over not being taken advantage of. Building a computer, for example, has many benefits over buying one. It's a matter of what a person places value on.
Why follow corporations' timelines for obsolescence? I'm sure if they could erase the technology of media players from people's minds, corporations would. Best to keep people completely hooked up and dependent on their "services" so they can be milked of their money continuously.
As long as the method and means to play the media is available, physical is my preference. Vinyl, CDs, DVDs. Cassettes and VHS quality over time leaves much to be desired and is the only reason why I wouldn't add them to the list.
These aren't dependent on a network, internet, cloud. Own forever, build and repair.
I prefer digital out of convenience, sure (especially with music - you can't really listen to CDs on your walks). But that doesn't mean "being kept hooked on a service". It is all DRM-less on my hard drives, no company is taking that away. I DO own it forever.
I don't see the disagreement here.
Digital includes digital optical or video discs (DVDs). DVDs and downloads are preferable to the situation posted by OP which is what I posted in this thread. The choice is convenience or not being taken advantage of and owning your media.
And an aside, have you never had a portable CD player or minidisc player or mp3 player, nevermind a tape player? Are you familiar with Walkman? Sony still makes that.
Nope, I am too young for a player like this) And even if I wasn't, it would be impractical compared to a normal player. Imagine carrying several disks with you. Not to mention the podcasts...
Right, so what is the relevance of this in the context of owning your own media versus being milked for money by corporations and having what you paid for removed at their whim? You'd have to be familiar with common usage of media players up to today to give a knowledgeable comparison on what was and is normal or impractical in that area, let alone the meaning of digital, which you don't appear to be. My point that owning is better than allowing corporate exploitation for convenience sake still stands.
The relevance is that between subscriptions/DRM and physical media I'd rather choose DRM-less digital media.
So... you prefer owning your media, as was said many times here. Great.
DVD is digital, lol. And nothing stops you from dumping entire DVD.
He got his money back and a 5dollar gift code. Shit happens
So you're saying it's relatively cheap for the privilege of being in an abusive relationship?
Abusive is a perfect description. Exploitative too. I've always viewed store credit as a sucky ~~refund~~ policy. Offline. Whenever I discovered these, usually because I needed to return something, these shops lost my business.
And the above is not even the same situation when you really look at it. This person didn't want to return something. They made a purchase they wanted to keep. Then Amazon just said, "oh, we're repossessing that media and keeping your money. Feel free to use this store credit on something else for which we can repeat this scenario all over again at will. Have a great day!"
Putting aside why the system is setup that someone's digital purchase can even be revoked at all which is another topic all together; Every refund I've ever gotten from Amazon came in the form of whatever I used to pay for it. So it's possible that OP bought the movie originally with Amazon Credit and therefore was refunded Amazon Credit.
I did miss the refund? It's just an in-store credit