its a figure of speech, but that's not important right now.

Local Libraries allows us to lend media in a social way, and just like the Internet Archive are an important pillar to our society. But thats not how Media Companies see it that way and compares the Internet Archive with Piracy.

Torrenting is fine and dandy though, so is Soulseeking.

I've never cared about visual quality myself. I regularly play atari 2600 games so graphics are no where in my realm of care

I guess that's the point I'm trying to make. Not giving the name of the movie means either the comment wasn't for you (because you already know it), or that it doesn't actually help you.

Not the publishers fault, for the vast majority it's by choice and not necessity that they don't buy physical media anymore.

VHS? No thanks!

No, I ain't going back to VHS. The quality was horrible. I don't want to fiddle the with tracking.

The best thing about it was that you could easily record what was on the TV.

No you can still watch it, it hasn't been altered or removed...but they have also made a live action lilo & stitch, but watching it is optional so who the fuck cares.

People got lazy and threw away their stuff thinking streaming was the future. Some of us knew better because we know how capitalism works.

Own your media folks!

Digital Video Download

a fair and subjective opinion

Libraries are not pirates, and both being our friends doesn't make them the same thing.

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I just don't have nearly the amount of places to get them anymore. Still, I have a small wall worth of DVDs and Blu-ray.

A hand full of VHS as well.

I'm sure there's other "old" people here that never stopped sailing the seas. I started to use a computer in the mid 90ies and internet a few years later. From the start, there has been attempts at streaming. I remember using RealPlayer trying to stream some video while on dial-up, only to be just a bunch of pixels in a very tiny window. So you downloaded everything, and kept it because you didn't want to spend 45 minutes to download the very same song once again.

And I never stopped this practise. I still have my MP3 collection that I started 25 years ago. I still have .rm files from movies that I captured myself. I can't believe how much bandwidth we just waste on streaming stuff again and again.

Once, the zoomer trying to sell my a data plan for my phone couldn't believe I didn't need more than a few gigs a month. No, I don't stream music. No, I don't stream movies nor series. I download them once, store them, and enjoy them whenever I want. No censored episodes, no missing episodes, no ads, just the content.

Although I do buy some of my MP3s now if possible. If I can straight up pay to download MP3 files, like on Bandcamp, I will. I wish we could do the same for series and movies, but since we're absolutely not there, I'll just continue to sail the seas and fill up my hard drives.

I’d still rather have on demand streaming over broadcast. Having to time-shift by recording live shows was super annoying.

The live-action redo is terribly tropified and shockingly bad in comparison.

There was auto tracking towards the end. It was the rewind that done it for me.

Nebula isn't really even in the same ballpark, super weird to include it there. Not sure when YouTubers started minting blu-rays and DVDs...

While some of the cited services have done some egregious stuff all on there own, I was taking it as mostly about how you have just so many of them and you have to keep track of what content is available via what service and how that changes over time.

Curiosity isn't part of the content shuffling part of it, but it is still a reminder of just how fractured the general experience is.