The film fans who refuse to surrender to streaming: ‘One day you’ll barter bread for our DVDs’
The film fans who refuse to surrender to streaming: ‘One day you’ll barter bread for our DVDs’
As more movies vanish from streaming services, cinephiles are rallying to physical media. Can they save a seemingly dying format?
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As more movies vanish from streaming services, cinephiles are rallying to physical media. Can they save a seemingly dying format?
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but, why?
dvds have a shelf life of ~25-40 years on average. they won't magically contain all future releases as well (digital only releases, etc)
Now VHS... that's a physical medium. lol kidding. they all suck and it's dumb to stick to a physical anything.
also screw vinyl.
12 14 ReplyBecause streaming services discard shows once they aren’t “new” anymore. There’s a lot of content you simply cannot stream on any streaming service.
2 2 Replyyou can digitize your own collections and store everything you watch...
sure you can augment with a streaming svc.
6 0 ReplyThat starts with buying physical media. Except music since a lot (but not all) music is sold for DRM-free download on various sites.
2 3 ReplyThat starts with buying physical media.
"Lol" said Sonarr and Radarr, "LMAO"
4 1 ReplyNo, it starts with downloading a torrent client
2 0 Reply