Subj : Re: physical media
To   : SoDa7
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Feb 05 2024 06:47 pm

  Re: Re: physical media
  By: SoDa7 to Utopian Galt on Sun Feb 04 2024 10:33 pm

 UG>> it seems physical media is becoming harder to attain.
 UG>> stuff is becoming more expensive. :(
 UG>> stuff is more out of print now.

 So> There's a number of reasons why this is happening, I think:

 So> - People are starting to prefer to consume the stuff digitally, takes less 
space and is easier to access; - People
 So> are becoming more mobile, so that means that they tend to do more home 
transfers than the past, so when it happens
 So> they load less stuff;
 So> - For these 2 reasons there's less demand for physical stuff and therefore 
more limited runs (which costs more
 So> considering the increase of all the prime materials)

I still feel like "digitally" is an odd term for streaming.  Media such as DVD 
and blu-ray are digital mediums (as opposed to analog)..  The first time I saw 
a DVD package that said "Digital copy included", I thought, of course it is, 
it's a DVD..

I don't really like the idea of fully relying on streaming services though.  
They often remove content, and I've even heard of cases where someone bought a 
movie on a streaming service, and the movie was removed later.  Also, sometimes 
there are connectivity issues with the service, buffering issues, etc..

From what I've been seeing online, it seems people in general are getting tired 
of streaming services doing that stuff, and it looks like more people are 
starting to buy physical media again.

I do still buy what I want on physical media.  And I've opted to run my own 
media server at home, using Plex Media Server, and I'll rip my media and put it 
on my Plex server so that I can easily stream it at any time.  I feel like I 
have the best of both worlds that way.  I own it, and nobody is going to deny 
me access to it (barring good network service).  I can even stream my stuff 
outside my home if I want to.  A while ago, my wife and I went to the coast and 
stayed in a hotel, and I took one of our Roku streaming devices with us.  I 
plugged it into the hotel TV, and it was able to get onto the hotel wifi, and 
we were able to stream stuff from my Plex server without any problems.  I also 
have a TV tuner connected to my Plex server, so we were able to watch our local 
broadcast TV channels through Plex while there.

Nightfox
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