CB2001
Master Member
It does suck that there is this big movement toward making a ton of stuff digital only.
It's forced obsolescence. Hollywood has been doing it for years.
It does suck that there is this big movement toward making a ton of stuff digital only.
True although you get labelled as one of Jack Sparrow's men riding the high seas lol.Not for me. I just burn shows to physical media until they decide to come out with it officially. If they don't, that's their problem, not mine.
True. Im feeling the sting more in terms of video games. For PC gaming, everything is digital now and the majority is connected to steam which means your library of games you bought for are dependent on a platform remaining active. Consoles still provide discs but with the updates, multiplayer features which require servers which will inevitably shut down, and propensity for developers to lose game files, its will be easier to play older (PS2 or earlier) games as they were originally intended to be played than more modern games after a couple years have passed.It's forced obsolescence. Hollywood has been doing it for years.
It's not forced obsolescence, it's an attempt at perpetual control. If you have to keep crawling back to Hollywood to see the content, they get to keep making money without doing any additional work. It's why everything is moving toward a subscription model these days.It's forced obsolescence. Hollywood has been doing it for years.
Let's not kid ourselves, they spend a lot of money getting those subscription apps up and running them to get your monthly payment.It's not forced obsolescence, it's an attempt at perpetual control. If you have to keep crawling back to Hollywood to see the content, they get to keep making money without doing any additional work. It's why everything is moving toward a subscription model these days.
Screw that.
It’s forced obsolescence. By making DVD and Blu-Ray obsolete, it does what you just said, forces people to keep coming back to Hollywood to see the content.It's not forced obsolescence, it's an attempt at perpetual control. If you have to keep crawling back to Hollywood to see the content, they get to keep making money without doing any additional work. It's why everything is moving toward a subscription model these days.
Screw that.
...or a monopoly; viewers have no choices They have to feed at the same through and eat the same slopIt’s forced obsolescence. By making DVD and Blu-Ray obsolete, it does what you just said, forces people to keep coming back to Hollywood to see the content.
I've been looking over some of my burned series in the last couple of days, deciding what I wanted to get on physical media. This morning, for some reason, I really wanted to get John Doe, a one-season wonder from the early 2000s. I went to Amazon and found that it's never been released. Hey, I tried, right? But at least if I wanted to, I could watch it, not have to find someone streaming it. I never lose out and Hollywood did by not providing it in a format I could purchase.I’ve had two movies and an entire TV series disappear from my Apple library over the years, because you don’t really own copies of media you download—you’re paying basically for a revocable license. On the other hand, the studios can’t come into your home and take a disk off your shelf. Plus with physical media, there’s the first sale doctrine—you can sell the disk down the road, because that copy is your physical property. Just like you can sell an old book, or your CD collection.
Having said that, I really like the convenience of downloads, I like being able to watch them on any device, and I like not having an ever-expanding collection of disks cluttering my life. It’s a tradeoff. For certain titles that are particularly important to me, I’ll always have physical media as backups. But my days of collecting hordes of disks are over, I’m afraid.
I just wish I could find someone to burn out the ones I've downloaded to bluray. I don't have the knowhow to do it.I can't wait until 4K80 comes out! I bought the bootlegs blurays that were being sold on ebay a few years ago. I'm hoping those become available for 4K80 when that gets finished too. Gotta have my physical media. Especially for 3 of my all time favorite films!