Subj : When everything is digital.. this happens..
To   : Ogg
From : Nightfox
Date : Sat Feb 25 2023 15:12:32

  Re: When everything is digital.. this happens..
  By: Ogg to All on Fri Feb 24 2023 07:14 pm

 Og> "When everything is digital, why we long for media we can hold 
 Og> in our hands"

 Og> "People are rediscovering the value of DVDs, records after 
 Og> years of digitizing everything.

I've often thought "digital" was a poor term for streamed media, since physical formats such as CD, DVD, etc. are digital media..  The first time I saw a DVD movie in the store that said "digital copy included", I thought, of course it includes a digital copy, DVD is a digital medium..  I didn't yet know "digital" was referring to an online streaming version.
And by extension, "digitizing" doesn't really make much sense in the context above, as CDs, DVDs, etc. are already digital.

But anyway, rant aside, I've never bought any movies only from an online streaming service.  I've heard a couple stories where someone bought a movie from an online streaming service, and that movie later was removed, so they weren't able to access & watch it anymore.  If I buy something, I expect to have it around at any time.

Aside from that, there can be other issues with streaming services, such as bufering, and the occasional outage from the service and/or your internet provider.

I'm not entirely surprised to hear people are rediscovering the value of owning physical media.

Nightfox
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