I’m a firm believer in having physical copies of what TV, movies, and music I like.
Most of that is vintage stuff from 69s, 70s, and 80s.
for fun, check out ok.ru, the Russian tik tok or Russian Youtube. I found old forgotten films and tv episodes there that were literally unavailable anywhere here on youtube, amazon, Netflix, Prime, Hulu, Tubitv, etc.
I made sure to get a DVD of Blazing Saddles a few years ago, anyway.
I agree. I have hard copy DVDs/Blurays of all movies and TV I like, as well as CDs of the music I love. Could never trust streaming enough to give that up.
This line from the article made me laugh, though: “Users have realized they don’t really own their digital purchases.” We truly do live among idiots if there were a bunch of people out there who didn’t already realize this.
Ditto. I don’t trust the studios and the streamers to keep my favorite movies available, and I finally rebelled when they started editing classic films. And it’s not just the garbagemeisters; even TCM and The Criterion Collection have been caught editing. So I’m back to physical media, not for everything but for movies that I think are keepers.
Many of the studios and streamers have pulled back on issuing a DVD or BluRay at all. Or in some cases, they’ll stream something in 4K but only issue an HD disc.
I always took pride in respecting intellectual property, never pirating, never going black or gray market, and paying the legitimate owner fair market price for a copy made in China and available on eBay.
Now, if it’s on eBay ....