> We got scammed.
Personally, I had movies I had purchased years ago automatically upgraded to 4K HDR versions.
That's certainly one advantage over physical disks.
Personally, I had movies I had purchased years ago automatically upgraded to 4K HDR versions.
That's certainly one advantage over physical disks.
I also don't have to physically store the discs, which is a bigger deal than it sounds like. I really don't want shelves and shelves of books and movies in my house. I have a few bookcases of our favorites, and that's it.
Even better is monthly streaming services, though. Then I don't pay nearly as much and get almost all the convenience, but with the risk that any particular movie might no longer be streaming.
I for one only pull dvds out of the box once ever.
It is easy enough to rip DVDs or Blu-rays to a NAS and use Kodi.
Sadly that option is becoming less and less possible as many shows become streaming platform exclusives.
Accept the monthly fees, tracking, and proprietary devices/apps or no entertainment for you.
The problem here is when you buy a movie, show, book, album ect. that you suddenly do not have access to. That is problematic.
In the last few years I've spent more than ever on cds through discogs.com.
"Sadly that option is becoming less and less possible as many shows become streaming platform exclusives."
Certain websites say otherwise. Luckily my main focus is music, where nearly everything I want is already in the used market, so the original artist won't see any money.
I had a decent blu ray collection, DVD collection before that, I'm not that old and now they are all essentially outdated tech when I could upgrade to 4k.
I love the idea of saving the space that any decent film/tv collection would take up, especially living in a 1BR place. Then again usually when you watch "4k" on Netflix or whatever it's still not up to the same quality of an ACTUAL 4k disk would be played through a PS5 or whatever. That is unless you have crazy fast broadband. And even then I'd bet it's a degraded quality compared to a lossless 4k source.
That's it for me. If I buy something now I'm looking for a DRM free version (even though are Blu Rays even DRM fee? I'm sure there's a day when the certs or licenses will expire), otherwise it's streaming services. If I never buy something from a digital store I'm not sad when it disappears.
Wait until they get downgraded to error screens because the company you bought them from went out of business, got bought by another company, pivoted to something else, forgot to renew a domain, or a thousand other things.