i'd rather be wrong with this line of thinking...lol
I do. As convenient as streaming is, if my Internet is down it can't stop me from watching my favorite movies. Plus I despise the idea of renting it for the rest of my life because in essence that's what streaming is when you consider monthly Internet provider costs and xyz specific streaming service that has the rights to your favorite content. Even then you are only able to view the version of said content they make available (no thanks Star Wars: Lucas Supercuts) with little to no extra bonus footage. Hello Team Negative One! So yeah, having physical media is important to me. The same goes for music and books too. Digital has its place but not for everything. Though I know I'm in the minority on this.
People may not realize it now but if they care about artistic integrity they'll want to ensure that film history isn't rewritten by content providers. That's a huge reason why physical media is so important.
I agree wholeheartedly with this, and at some point the streaming bubble will pop when it just becomes cable 2.0. I also agree with the point brought up about artistic integrity—case in point, in one episode of The Office, they poke fun at the archaic tradition of Black Peter and how bad blackface is. But with the modern climate, the joke could be misconstrued as an approval of blackface, and so the exact scene where the warehouse guy Nate was wearing blackface was removed from the episode on Netflix. I don’t know if it’s still absent now that it’s on Peacock, but I’d doubt that they put it back in. It seems silly, but it’s really not a good thing that little stuff like that can be tweaked and adjusted ex post facto.
It is nice to read a picture book when the power goes out
