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  • @Arethusa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55•2 years ago

    Wow. This is why owning DVDs is better. And if you can’t buy, download via torrents. Imagine these bastards rolling up to your home and reclaiming a movie you physically purchased. We gave them too much power. Time to withdraw it. Convenience is not worth this shit. Get uncomfortable and get your entertainment away from these streamers who don’t give customers what they paid for.

    DVD rental stores could surely make a comeback given these new developments. Libraries still loan movies as well. Remember, Barnes & Noble didn’t run all independent bookstores out of business. And after Amazon savaged Barnes & Noble, Amazon Books suddenly came into existence (2015 - 2022). Greed driven corporations aren’t the answer.

    • @victoitor@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
      9•2 years ago

      Dvd is not better. I hate it when I pay for the content and I’m still forced to see ads for something I purchased. You might own the media, but there are other downsides as well. They actually both suck!

      • wagonerEnglish
        5•2 years ago

        You mean like a DVD movie has a trailer on it for the movie itself? Not sure what you’re saying here.

        • phillaholicEnglish
          2•2 years ago

          DVDs sometimes had trailers for other movies on them. It was more frequent on VHS though.

      • HMNEnglish
        26•2 years ago

        So you’re saying it’s relatively cheap for the privilege of being in an abusive relationship?

        • @Arethusa@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15•2 years ago

          Abusive is a perfect description. Exploitative too. I’ve always viewed store credit as a sucky refund policy. Offline. Whenever I discovered these, usually because I needed to return something, these shops lost my business.

          And the above is not even the same situation when you really look at it. This person didn’t want to return something. They made a purchase they wanted to keep. Then Amazon just said, “oh, we’re repossessing that media and keeping your money. Feel free to use this store credit on something else for which we can repeat this scenario all over again at will. Have a great day!”

          • phillaholicEnglish
            1•2 years ago

            Putting aside why the system is setup that someone’s digital purchase can even be revoked at all which is another topic all together; Every refund I’ve ever gotten from Amazon came in the form of whatever I used to pay for it. So it’s possible that OP bought the movie originally with Amazon Credit and therefore was refunded Amazon Credit.

      • @uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        Meanwhile 1080p easily can be written on dvd. And with good codecs(like AV1) such videos can be very long.

    • @klemptor@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      Digital is the way to go - who knows how long DVD will be a viable format. Hard media formats come and go.

      • @Arethusa@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        It still comes down to choosing convenience over not being taken advantage of. Building a computer, for example, has many benefits over buying one. It’s a matter of what a person places value on.

        Why follow corporations’ timelines for obsolescence? I’m sure if they could erase the technology of media players from people’s minds, corporations would. Best to keep people completely hooked up and dependent on their “services” so they can be milked of their money continuously.

        As long as the method and means to play the media is available, physical is my preference. Vinyl, CDs, DVDs. Cassettes and VHS quality over time leaves much to be desired and is the only reason why I wouldn’t add them to the list.

        These aren’t dependent on a network, internet, cloud. Own forever, build and repair.

          • @Arethusa@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1•2 years ago

            I don’t see the disagreement here.

            Digital includes digital optical or video discs (DVDs). DVDs and downloads are preferable to the situation posted by OP which is what I posted in this thread. The choice is convenience or not being taken advantage of and owning your media.

            And an aside, have you never had a portable CD player or minidisc player or mp3 player, nevermind a tape player? Are you familiar with Walkman? Sony still makes that.

              • @Arethusa@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1•2 years ago

                Right, so what is the relevance of this in the context of owning your own media versus being milked for money by corporations and having what you paid for removed at their whim? You’d have to be familiar with common usage of media players up to today to give a knowledgeable comparison on what was and is normal or impractical in that area, let alone the meaning of digital, which you don’t appear to be. My point that owning is better than allowing corporate exploitation for convenience sake still stands.