I remember playing that one in my AMC Pacer!
Posted on 04/22/2023 11:31:15 AM PDT by upchuck
I still see them at Walgreens. But that’s really it. Physical media is dead, only old people like it. Which means I’m old.
Probably more reminded that most of those books are under active copyright and if they want it to distribute they need to pay.
I remember DVDs.
But she'll have none of it. She wants the physical media.
“Physical media is dead, only old people like it. Which means I’m old.”
I still think of automobile 8-track players as hi-tech. And I don’t care what anyone says about 8-track, ‘Get Yer Ya-Yas Out’ blasing out of my 8-track in my ‘69 Roadrunner sounded dadgum good (even if there was a track change in the middle of ‘Midnight Rambler’).
I still buy stuff. And then rip it, and probably never touch the CD again. But I like ownership. Also the streaming world isn’t as universal as we think. Especially if you’re into obscure stuff. Or people with big catalogs that have switched record labels in their career. But yeah, I know that marks me as old.
“Netflix is planning to increase revenue by introducing adverts, as well as cracking down on password sharing – though this has been delayed until June.”
This will have greater impact than discontinuing DVD rentals.
Mostly price. For $9 a month you get one DVD at a time unlimited for a month. Mail, watch, mail back. You could squeeze in 5 or 6 a month.
Streaming is around $4 to $15 or more each depending on release date.
I remember playing that one in my AMC Pacer!
The big thing I like is the “fire and forget” nature of the DVD queue. See a trailer, hear about a movie, just throw it in my queue and it’ll show up in a couple years (kept my queue pretty stacked) without me even having to remember anything about it. While I can add things to my streaming accounts, there isn’t that eventuality of it showing up in the mail. I still have to decide to watch it, and if I look at it and can’t remember why I put it there, I won’t watch it.
I read somewhere that Blockbuster is planning a comeback. I think I read that they are opening 5 stores in Los Angeles to start.
“I still buy stuff. And then rip it, and probably never touch the CD again.”
Me, too. I bought a Synology Network Attached Storage (NAS) home server and all my music and videos go onto it. I run Plex to watch content. It’s just like the Netflix, Kanopy, Amazon Prime, Hulu, et al services only it’s on my own home server. I still buy obscure movies on eBay and Amazon for a few bucks to rip onto my own server.
I am listening much less to my own music collection, though, because Spotify is so good at creating “Daily Mixes” for me that are a blend of songs I’ve “liked” plus other music they think I will like. This is by far the most outstanding AI experience I’ve had.
I see them at any and every store that sells general merchandise, including grocery stores. Large sections, just as big as ever. No change. Could be a regional thing, though - who knows.
There were signs that it may be making a comeback with people purchasing copies of movies, only to have the service housing it shut down, or change to require a subscription to watch the copies of the movies you *purchased*.
There are tons of movies that are not on Netflix streaming. The movie offerings are pretty weak. It’s mostly their TV shows.
With advertising, why pay for crap you can get on tv?
Don’t need the atoms, just the bits.
I do that because every song or album I have purchased and downloaded has been compressed until all the depth is gone. I still have a top-line stereo setup and at least CD quality is better than compressed downloads.
Even our local Walmart has brought back the vinyl album section and I also go to other music and used book stores and find they are also selling new vinyl albums so I buy them.
I have really good stereo gear, but I was never a fanatic about lossless recording. I tried Tidal for a while, but couldn’t notice a difference. I’ve suffered constant tinnitus for over 50 years (stupidity in my teens and 20s) and have some serious high frequency response roll-off. Plus, I’m turning 72 and the ears just aren’t getting any younger. So streaming quality suits me just fine. I find the huge variety of music more than offsets any possible loss of fidelity (that I can’t hear anyway).
I tried ripping music from YouTube about five years ago, but I found the quality of recordings that people were posting were mostly garbage, so I quit that.
With my personal playlists and enhanced playlists on Spotify, I don’t find much need anymore to listen to my good-sized collection. I can’t even remember its size anymore!
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