I'm not going to disagree that physical media is better - as long as you have a player, and aren't blocked by faulty DRM, then you (sort of in a non-technical way) 'own' the media, and can play it at a higher quality than streaming services whenever you want. Of course, people forget how much physical costs. Each movie or album will cost you as much as a month of streaming, which means you get to 'own' a tiny fraction of what's out there. To entertain yourself for even a couple of hours a day with physical media would cost, I don't know, $600 a month? Don't get me wrong - I think we are being ripped off by streaming media companies. But no more than we were being ripped off by traditional media companies. What would be best is fully downloadable media we can store on our own physical media. But this, of course, is the one option no company wants to support. Via Ben Werdmuller.
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