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To: Swordmaker

Valid concern regarding physical media versus digital. I love my kindle books, but worry about potentially losing access to them some day. Same for video. I know I should download the “physical” copies and save them to have some guarantee of access should things go wonky.


3 posted on 09/18/2018 4:24:58 PM PDT by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: Chipper

I won’t buy digital movies from Comcast. We may move someday and who knows if Comcast will have a cable presence where move to? If they don’t i will have lost all those purchased movies.


5 posted on 09/18/2018 4:49:54 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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To: Chipper
Not really a valid concern. Pretty much all media is available all the time. Physical media is dead. I've got cartons and cartons of physical media (DVDs, compact discs, tapes, etc.) gathering dust because I can just stream those on demand. Earlier today, I was streaming an obscure Gerry Rafferty album. I have access to millions of songs for just $10 a month. If I lived to be a million years old, I'd never have time for them all. Then you have billions of videos on YouTube, Netflix, etc.

We are drowning in content.

6 posted on 09/18/2018 4:57:31 PM PDT by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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