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If only modern media had soul

>>106201711 (OP)
why do (they) allow physical releases still if they wanted everyone on streaming services

>>106201764
Its "lack of soul" is only what you see in yourself, not anything to actually do with modern media.

I still don’t understand why MiniDisc didn’t happen. Not to sound crazy or anything, but I think that God needed to have the ability to scratch and damage discs. By making them unusable, he frees the human. You were actually supposed to enjoy the 90s.

>In The Matrix 1999 was the height of human civilization

>>106203632
This modded Panasonic SJ-MJ100 looks very cool.

>>106203632
expensive as fuck
CDs were way too dominant
mp3s and super piracy took off
sony being dicks and cunts
ipod

>>106203632
Wasn't minidisc a proprietary format?

>>106203632
minidisc was huge in japan because they had a huge rental market for music, so people would rent albums and record them to minidisc like tapes. americans didn’t get to do that mostly

damn, i feel like there was a missed opportunity to invent a completely superfluous physical medium that could store an album of mp3s but like required you to turn a crank to go to the next song. like a gameboy cartridge or something

>>106203632
Imagine willing subjecting yourself to lossy audio compression.

>>106204308
Its competition was the mp3 player, and most people used lossy audio on that. I’m sure that if the format became more popular they would have upgraded everything. I wonder how many GBs they could have added to this by now. And they could have made it double sided, flipping the MiniDisc would have been better than inserting a second CD, maybe that never crossed their minds.
The compact disc is an inferior product and it’s still sold today.

>>106204468
Compact discs from 30 years ago can have 16 songs and still only show up as 632MB on filesystem, nobody cares about you sour graping.

does keeping media files on hard disks you own count as physical media?

based keep raising the value of my childhood video game collection so I can sell all my nintendo games and retire

PC games should come in cool little boxes with custom USB drives inside. There, I said it.

>meanwhile physical media in reality

>>106205936
aren't games pushing 100gb these days? sounds pricey, unless the usb didn't actually contain a full playable game and just a launcher for a downloader or some garbage

>>106201711 (OP)
oh ok so when its not cool again we have to do this shit all over again?

>physical media is cool again
it never stopped being cool and desirable, people just didn't have any choice but to comply when all media went digital and you no longer owned it

>>106203632
The worst part of minidisc was you had to copy music over in real time like a cassette.

>>106201830
Because physical media has effectively been contained and they can still make money from it. In the 00s, people mass ripping DVDs and sharing the contents was common. You could crack open limewire and search for any TV show or movie and someone made an mpeg or an avi of it. That culture is totally dead. Most normies will just stream now, and those who won't, won't be ripping the DVD contents and sharing them. All the places to do that easily have been obliterated. Do you really think the average normie is going to take the time to make torrents and find some sketchy tracker in Russia to upload/download Battlestar Galactica reruns when they can just summon them on whatever slop streaming service, on demand for like $10/month and have it be on their phone inside of an app, a half second of effort away?

The culture and technology of piracy has largely been smashed, so at this point, there is no risk on selling physical media. Especially given that such media is limited in how long it can actually exist by entropy. You could, probably at this point find DVDs from the 00s, which were well cared for, and still won't work because sitting still for some number of years was sufficient for the chemicals which made up the physical object to begin breaking down and deteriorating.

>tl;dr: Because physical media is culturally amd socially irrelevant.

>>106203632
OK Computer's demos were recorded on MiniDisc

>>106206940
why are mini disc cases almost like floppy disks

>>106201711 (OP)
What this means is that hipsters will pay 400% for a song when it's on le heckin' vinyl.
No matter what you do, you get jewed.
Unless you pirate: if the Facebook case taught me anything, it's a victimless crime. If they didn't get punished for pirating millions of books, why should I?

>>106202246
soul is not some magic undefined thing
soul is simply skill * effort
there is 0 effort being put into modern trash and no skill whatsoever by the artists
and yes skill itself requires a lot of effort so it really is the most important factor of soul

>>106206999
>soul is simply skill * effort

not true. many things have skill and effort and look or feel like shit. there's an aesthetic component.

>>106206973
>If they didn't get punished for pirating millions of books, why should I?
Cause you are not in bed with the Jews

>>106207011
skill obviously means artistic skill

>>106205351
>>106206014
Yeah, actual physical media is honestly a bear.
It's nice for collectors but it feels better to build something that stores your digital media.

>>106206421
Physical media was never required, except as the original source, but after that you didn't care about the actual CD/DVD/BD, except as a backup to a backup
Even my parents where heavy napster or whatever was popular in 98/99 and all their music was digital, they never fucked with actual CDs
CDs where for burning before you had a digital player or for your car.
For me it was limewire and eventually just torrents.
As a digital native, physical media isn't super desirable. Even tried making it a point to try to buy physical copies of things I like because I quit being a poorfag but just no desire.

Most of my interaction with physical media was being annoyed when you spent so much time and space installing a game to an HDD only for the POS to ask for the CD everytime

I got a Panasonic DP-UB820 and around 50 uhd bd, and more bds/dvd too

>>106201711 (OP)
Always pirate everything, all the time.

>>106201711 (OP)
why buy when you can store?

>>106203632
The mechanism was not robust enough

>>106202246
HAHAHAHA

>>106203632
> compressed slop
> sony proprietary format
> gee really is a mystery as to why this wasn't successful
lol

>>106204468
>Its competition was the mp3 player
mp3 players were a late 90s/2000s thing. minidisc came out in '92. how the fuck were they competing against mp3 players in 1992?

>>106210001
apparently old eva DVDs are going for good money because the nu netflix dub sucked.

>>106201711 (OP)
have these people not heard of hard drives?

>>106211078
> he really is this fucking retarded

>>106209987
>how the fuck were they competing against mp3 players in 1992?
Minidisc's peak in popularity was around the time MP3 players started to come around in the very end of the 90s
During that period, both where in direct "competition"
I say competition loosely as minidisc was almost skipped entirely depending on the population.

>>106201711 (OP)
Physical media is shit, this is just a psyop by streaming services to prevent themselves from being supplanted by piracy.
Download shit onto your own drives by all means, but don't shackle yourself to discs and other snail-mail data transfer methods.
>>106201830
It's still all about convenience purchases, shelf-space and advertising.

>>106203632
>scratch and damage discs
The Memorex Mini-Disc had a broken drinking glass on the front. Maybe the marketing worked differently for people that weren’t aware of sound being able to shatter glass.

https://youtu.be/Xdx-CzIdOsw

>>106211337
>Minidisc's peak in popularity was around the time MP3 players started to come around in the very end of the 90s
never happened. that's just a reinvention of history by a fucking idiot. minidisc was never popular. it was crazy expensive. cd burners finished it off on the consumer side of minidisc. i'm sure you bought a disc player 20 years after the fact and think it's great, but to sit here and:
> gee whizz guys! we had this in 1992?! why didn't it succeed?
> *makes up a bunch of lies about it competing against other formats that didn't even exist when it was created*
>I say competition loosely
all you need now is a red nose and clown makeup.

YOU DO WANT TO BE HECKIN COOL.. DONT YOU???

Believe me, you don't want tape cassettes.

>>106203632
Many bands relied on MDs for playing backing tracks up until 2010s. Some sound engineers still refer to a background track as "MD," even though everything is on computers now.

>>106210009
>dub
>sucked
Shocking

>>106212708
Yeah but those are professionals than can find a specific use. Bands used 8 tracks for way later too.

>>106212610
they do want them they complain when album merch doesn't drop with a cassette

>>106204468
I don't really recall that, at least in the UK. Around the time HiMD came out in like 2004 it was true. It was maybe also true in 2003. But 90% of the time I'd see people with discmans. It was obvious why too. I bought a Discman from Argos in 1999 for £50 and got shit for 'being careless with money' because that was the price point for the highest end cassette Walkman - like, the full-metal super-slim models. Nobody was spending >£100 on a Minidisc player and then paying four times the price (compared to cassette), or twice the price (compared to CD-R) for blank media. Minidisc failed well before MP3 because they were super fucking expensive compared to anything else right up to the end. And I say that as someone who has a minidisc collection and did eventually buy an MDS-NT1 and MZ-EH50 from a friend that needed money to buy a PS3. I still have it all (but still use my iPod classic daily).

>>106201711 (OP)
Physical media is an antiquated medium with a finite shelf life. It has no business existing more when we have the gift of digital libraries available whenever we please. Flash memory failure + disc rot will inevitably overtake offline media, so why even bother with the whole "muh preservation" faggotry? Just get with the times. You never actually owned your CD-ROMs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, or flash carts of any kind to begin with since they all ran on a time limit anyway.

>>106213062
>Just get with the times
what are the times

>>106213103
The times I came inside your mother.

>>106213186
So zero then
got it
I'll stick with my physical media
you stick with cocks up your ass from streaming kikes

>>106203632
>In The Matrix 1999 was the height of human civilization
They got it mostly right give or take a few months, maybe a year.

>>106213197
>cocks up your ass
Is that your fetish, Billy?

>>106213062
Literally everything in existence has a finite shelf life.

>>106201711 (OP)
You own a piece of plastic.

>>106210001
Holy shit. Just thinking about the waste gives me existential dread. Think how many billions of these exist.

>>106203632
1998-2005 was hyperdrive for tech.
you bought something and 1 year later it would be obsolete.
i still regret getting the creative dvd drive with separate dxr3 card, only to have divx released 2 months later.

we need to go back

>>106203632
I lived through that era and vividly remember how fuck expensive the media was.
I liked the idea and kinda wanted them but they were WAY too expensive for me so I kept on trucking using cassette tapes to record from radio until 2002 when I got my first CDR drive which is also the time CDRs got cheap.

Sony and their retarded greed are too blame for their own failings.

Let's say the market simply refused to move away from physical media and cuck to digital only and licensing agreements. Would we still be using blurays for movies and CDs for music? What kind of tech do you think they would've developed for cost effectively distributing 100+gb video games?

>>106214140
Probably no different than what we already have, 128GB+ sd cards.

>>106214140
Obviously normal SD cards since they're big enough to get easily handled frequently.
MicroSD is too awkward to handle all the time. They're made to get stuck into some device and forgotten about.

>>106214140
everything would be sd cards, maybe shoved into an oversized cartridge for movies/games so the end user feels like they're getting more for their money

>>106214140
https://www.tomsguide.com/tvs/scientists-just-developed-a-200000gb-optical-disc-that-could-replace-blu-rays

>>106201830
Boomers still buy dvds. Boomers have a lot of money.

>>106214049
how big can we make these suckers?

>>106214712
yuuuuge

>>106202246
Get a load of this kike lmao

>>106214140
I wish we had more anime like planetarium...

>>106214140
There are ways to store 100+gb even now.
Also maybe then game devs would have some incentive to optimize their shit and we wouldn't get 100+gb games that don't even work properly without dlss and other ai slop.

>>106215057
>optimize
yeah bro, let me optimize this texture

>>106215057
Oh and about cost effectiveness.
If they used 128gb, 256gb sd cards for example the cost would go way down because they would produce more of them. Even now they are not that expensive.

>>106215077
yeah bro, there are way more things besides textures in a game

>>106215101
do... do you really think these games are 200gb of code? what exactly do you think comprises the vast majority of that data?

>>106215114
>do you really think these games are 200gb of code
yes

>>106215136
That would be at minimum several billions of lines of C++.

>>106215077
yeah? Do you think every texture in bloated modern slop games is in any way the best it can be? Do you think that when you're waiting for 10,000 shaders to compile on first launch that it isn't in fact 100 shaders duplicated 100 times each because they are just the same workflow in substance exported straight to unreal with no de-duplication? And of course all those variations of "wall" are all unique and not just different artists re-exporting the same thing over and over again because referencing a resource is so much harder than just duplicating it.

>>106215784
I don't think you understand modern shaders.

>>106212550
Minidisc was extremely popular outside of the US. Europe/Japan/UK have a large population of people walking, cycling and taking public transport. CDs were bulky, minidiscs were not. In the US you were putting CD-Rs into your car's CD player and going from your driveway to the office. We weren't so the smaller, more convenient device won out.
And of course, when you get your information from commercial sources with a vested interest in capitalism, they are only going to be interested in how many copies of pre-pressed albums are sold and that's not where minidisc found its niche.
Naturally it died off when MP3 players got good because solid state is better than moving parts and in the case of the ipod even moving parts are fine when the software is itunes and not fucking sonicstage.

>>106215791
Modern shaders are basically an uber shader that's baked into hardcoded versions for an individual material. When you export said materials from software that makes them you get a subset of that ubershader. There's no reasons you need all those baked copies, but avoiding them would require you have more hands on in the nitty gritty of the shader code. And that's not how modern slop devs work.

>>106215823
This was certainly not true for the UK

>>106201711 (OP)
fuck yes.
we need to go back to Laserdisc.

>>106206999
you forgot genuine desire to create, as well.
a lot of people just do it for the paycheck, they don't give a shit whatever mandates corporate hands down. they had their soul sucked out by the machine and nothing left to do except count the days until they keel over.

>>106214049
>>106215950
>huge
>scratches everywhere
>double sided
You couldn’t trust people to use a disc that’s double-sided, they are going to set it on a table and fuck it up. MiniDisc would have been easy to make double-sided because the caddy helps protect the disc, they just needed to put the opening of the disc in a place that allowed flipping.

>>106214712
It's not really feasible to make them larger on account of them being unable to spin fast or getting too wobbly on the sides.

Just check MUSE discs, they spin far faster than normal laserdiscs on account of storing 1125i resolution signal. They sound like a helicopter and the players are built like industrial machines to be able to keep it up without damage.

>>106216202
>You couldn’t trust people to use a disc that’s double-sided, they are going to set it on a table and fuck it up.
How is that a problem? They can just buy another disc. Twice the sales baby. Besides it's only a problem for people too unintelligent to take care of their stuff.

the reason minidisc failed is cause sony tried to cuck the world whereas rca and whoever did something else, idk it was like an IP issue not one being better than the other.

>>106206055
my usb sticks of 128gb cost 8 euros

>>106216202
people already set single sided discs on the table to photograph them

>>106216286
It was Sony being a dick like they always are. Nothing else. The format got some popularity in the 90s because Sony was not yet a joke by then, but MP3 players killed it fast, and then Sony started shitting on its consumers in the early 00s (PS2 lawsuits, burning laptops, rootkits on CDs as copy protection, PS3 launch, etc).

>>106214140
LaserDisc sized Blu-Rays

physical only makes sense when its analogue, when you can hear/see the medium itself. arbitrarily tying digital media to a physical form factor is silly.

>>106210001
retvrn

>>106213622
Relax spacky, it's carbon capture.

>>106214347
backup holy grail

>>106202246
Soul is just the longing of those with no soul for redemption

>>106214347
they've been saying things like this for decades, you know

Cassette tapes are so satisfying to use. It's a pity they're basically the worst format for everyday use.

>>106218387
damn scientists and their love of shiny data discs

Physical media was at its peak in the 80 and 90s on video game cartridges that could new hardware to allow superior games to function on the same console. It really was crazy to think that such things were possible, and normal.

>>106201711 (OP)
mpv retards.

>>106204102
>sony being dicks and cunts
>nodders

>>106204126
mp3 or whatever media you wanted.

>>106215924
i live in england and had a minidisc player. you only needed that and the cable to put songs from your pc onto a disc. im sure there were other ways but its been so long. i loved my minidisc player. felt louder than everything else i had, like my AIWA cassette player which was replaced by aiwa.

>>106214049
>45 minutes in
>please turn to side 2
lmao nah bro that shit was gay and i had an audiophile cinema enjoyer as a best friend. till my ex accused him of rape and i believed her for 12 years and now i have no friends.

>>106218834
It's a shame they didn't do it well though. Only 8 games used SuperFX on the SNES and maybe 2 or 3 of them were actually good.

Don't get me started on the Sega tower of power. Sega CD and 32X had good games you could count on each hand.

>>106218944
>he doesn't have an auto-reverse tape player
look at him and laugh
>till my ex accused him of rape and i believed her for 12 years
believing a woman
believing your /ex/
now that's gay

>>106201711 (OP)
Look at that AI image...lol
VHS tapes smaller than CD's.

>>106214140
128 exabytes
>too small, into the trash it goes

>>106205318
archival discs can have even more space and more quality, cared enough to reply and low hanging fruit

>just sold my old laser disc player last year
man
at least I keot the MJ disc

>>106218310
>backup holy grail
That's LTO. Unfortunately the drives are too fucking expensive.

>>106218944
>45 minutes in
>please turn to side 2

Any half decent player had an auto reverse mechanism, so at worst you got a 2-3 sec pause in the movie between two scenes. Most movies fit on one disc since one side was 60 minutes.

The only time you had to remove the disc was if you were watching a 2+ hour long movie, or a CAV special edition (which were fucking awesome).

>>106219697
>VHS tapes smaller than CD's.
Fucking zoomers I swear. That's either a mini DV or a DAT or a Betamax tape or some other bullshit sony format I forgot about.

>>106211854
Sounds like cope from someone who sold their dvd collection or worse their cd collection.
Never sell or throw out your cds, everyone eventually regrets it.

>>106211078
What's a hard drive?

>>106201711 (OP)
How does everyone feel about sheet music?

>>106209284
I got tired of managing my media server and lost drives a few times which was a pain. Mostly i just like the experience of physical better.

>>106210001
Comfy but dvd + crt is peak imo.
>>106210009
Old anime is nice on dvd. Got ninja scroll, vampire hunter d, ad police and patlabor. Wouldnt mind getting evangelion and a few others.

>>106213062
My dvds and cds have long outlived many hard drives and will outlive more. I have zero functioning drives from pre 4k blu ray era.
Do zoomers thing their hard drives last forever?

>>106213622
Thats amazing. I actually have some doubles from thrifting.

>>106218482
One thing i like about vhs and dvd got wrong was chapters. Movies shouldn't have arbitrary chapters. Lynch was right.

>>106218387
>>106214347
with the rise of server cost for storage these could end up being the alternative, but again I cant see this being on the cheap side or even in the consumer side of things any time soon

>>106220116
you aren't intended to use them during an initial playback. it's for quickly skipping to key sections to easily find parts later for referencing and the like

>>106212610
I love cassettes. They only suck if you don't maintain your player or let the tape bake in the sun.

I still have tapes from the 80s that play perfectly and sound great.

>>106203632
>I still don’t understand why MiniDisc didn’t happen
holds less than a cd
costs more
awful sony ATRAC3 proprietary codec
locked into awful sony software

it's a fucking mystery

>>106220015
lol this
I still have my 50-60 CDs, 400+ DVDs, 60 laserdiscs.
the special edition DVDs make for a very nice looking shelf (james bond with the large 007 on the spine, alien quadrology, etc).

>>106220438
None of those were really a factor except maybe ATRAC3 quality, since the only way you could write to it was through Sony decks or hifi towers. It was just another compact cassette like format, but smaller, rewriteable, and could skip tracks/rewind/fast forward like a CD.

Back in 1995 this was all pretty fucking cool.

>>106220048
>Old anime is nice on dvd.

peak old anime is laserdiscs. Unfortunately they only had a handful of releases that had og audio + dub + eng subtitles (and subs were in the horrible closed caption format).
If FLCL had gotten an LD release I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

>>106218964
Looking back, I actually admire Sega for taking upgradeability into consideration, nowadays the idea of adding components to an existing console is ridiculous, you're just expected to buy an entirely new one every single time.

>>106220899
I owned one and I can tell you it was a shit format. sony discmans were much more successful simply because they played cds. the entire reason minidiscs exist is because sony wanted a smaller format for smaller devices, but also to force their proprietary standards. because the disc was so small it required the compression which made it worse. the blank discs were expensive which made them worse. because the user had to convert their cds to minidisc on their pc it was worse. you might think its a cute little format but it was a shit idea and that's why it failed. I could buy an entire spindle of 50 blank cds for less than a pack of 5 minidiscs. when a blank cd costs 50c I don't care that its write once. plus nobody you knew owned one, you couldnt just share minidiscs between friends. you coudn't buy music on them in stores. this format was dead on arrival.

>>106207085
>Most of my interaction with physical media was being annoyed when you spent so much time and space installing a game to an HDD only for the POS to ask for the CD everytime

kek I bought a physical copy of MSFS 2020 because I thought it was cool that it got a physical release. I thought it's just some store key with a bunch of disks to speed up getting the data.
Turns out it's not the digital version, it's completely separate, it needs all its fucking 12 DVDs to install BUT it also needs online to update its shit and nowadays it just replaces the installed content almost entirely due to years of updates and fixes.
Then after getting like 95% of itself from the internet it still demands the DVD to be in the drive to launch. I just made an image with deamon tools because fuck that.
Worst of all the bundled premium edition guide is just a bunch of fucking pics of in-game airplanes with their stats. Also obsolete now.

Streaming was never cool.
>oh boy I want to see if they have my fav movies
>barrage of nigger faggot adverts for terrible shit you will never watch
>they dont have the movies you like

>>106219697
Are you being serious?

>>106221473
>the user had to convert their cds to minidisc on their pc
>I could buy an entire spindle of 50 blank cds for less than a pack of 5 minidiscs

You owned one in 2000. Not in 1995. We had one in 1995 and it was the tits. In 2000 you could indeed get a discman and a cheap enough burner and some blanks, but a year later you could get MP3 players with enough memory so the point was moot.

>>106222125
>You owned one in 2000. Not in 1995
no I had one in the 90s and it was a frustrating mistake. it was great when they became obsolete

>>106220906
Laserdisc is cool and something about the analog picture is nice. It's just too expensive.

I had a Sony TCD-D3 portable DAT-Recorder which i bough pretty much on release date in the nineties.
From this, i directly went to .mp3 players (Creative Muvo2) with 1 GB mini HDD built in.
I totally skipped the MiniDisc Train. Mainly because of the ATRAC desaster and my DAT Recorder sounded better anyway.

>>106214049
We are going back, anon.

>>106201764
underground metal never lost its soul

>>106201711 (OP)
Normgroids are so oversocialized, they can't even grasp not buying subscriptions for netflix or spotify because... because they just HAVE to OKAY?! everyone else is fucking doing it!!! It's literally impossible for a normgroid brain to even realize it's okay to do things others don't approve of and that the only person deciding what's moral or not is you. Just pirate and use everything offline. Who gives a fuck? Or actually don't, don't hoard because someone is telling you to because le Trump or some other imaginative foe will hecking destroy the interwebz. Stop caring alltogether and only watch spotify/youtube in a web browser with ublock origin blocking the ads, or watch movies on piracy sites from fmhy. Fuck I hate oversocialized normgroids wanting to appeal to others so much.

>>106225851
Same reason physical media scares them. It's not as social proof as streaming.

>>106221295
NEC did it first though, with their super system cards and later arcade card.

Here's a thought: what if instead of all this physical media bullshit, we were able to download the media file and play it on mpv/vlc/whatever without the need of a streaming service or proprietary media applications?
What a novel thought. It's almost as if every other form of media has been doing this for decades now (music, art, comics, maybe also books).

>>106204126
sony licensed out rights for other companies to make their own players, not sure about the discs. but regardless it was expensive.

>>106218964
It was an awkward time because iirc they were all developing their next gen shit like Saturn, "Ultra 64" etc, so there wasn't much point in going all in on 32X/CD or SuperFX.
My timeline might be off a bit since I don't know their exact R and D cycle, but I bought a Saturn, and by the time I got it on the first day here it had been out in Japan for at least a year.
And the Killer Instinct arcade was out for a long time and advertised "Ultra 64" coming soon, year(s) before N64 came out.

>>106227087
i don't know of any legal storefronts that give you drm-free video files to download. except maybe porn sites. it is weird, since those exist for vidya and music.

>>106223045
The first minidisc player that allowed you to transfer files from PC came out in 2001, and CDs didn't even come in spindles of 50 in the 1990s (in 2000 a spindle of 50 discs would cost as much as a cd burner).

>>106229221
I don't think it really exists for music anymore. The last place I remember offering paid downloads was Tidal and they don't do it anymore.

Based. I never paid for a subscription service in my life. Give me a disc to buy or I will pirate it.

>>106230300
Everything from Bandcamp is drm free. Pretty sure amazon too, but I'm not 100% sure. I don't bother with Google or Apple music stores since I don't wamt to give them any money than I have in the past.

>>106229762
and cd burners are cheap, I have a DVD burner that cost me $10

>>106227087
Artists often send you a jpg instead of a png. Unless you're paying and explicitly ask. And then they will likely uniquely watermark it anyway.

>>106225884
The reason is that my SD card can fit so many freshly ripped CDs in flac form, that I couldn't physically lift them all up in real life.
All of this fits in my phone and can actually be played without having to find the disc, open it, risk scratching it, insert it, and then wait 5 seconds for it to spin up.

I don't give a fuck what the fuck hipsters are doing, I'm never using a VHS ever again in my life.

>>106232483
Sure, but there's nothing stopping me from viewing it how I wish, where I wish, or much I wish. I can copy the picture as many times as I want and do what the fuck ever with it within reasonable bounds.
Meanwhile, what are your rights to a movie or series? At absolute best you can view it using a corporate managed application or via the browser *IF* you have an active subscription. And even then they put limits on how much stuff you're allowed to carry around with you for "offline viewing". Last I remember, the Amazon app only lets you have like 2-3 things stored for offline? This shit is fucking retarded.

>>106232616
I don't know where all this is officially listed with updated terms, but here's some examples of what I'm talking about https://techbii.com/download-amazon-prime-videos-for-offline-viewing-guide/#are-there-any-shortcomings-in-downloading-videos-on-amazon-prime

>>106232471
Yeah, today. But not in 2000.

>>106210009
Old ADV steel case is a collectors item

>>106232877
was there even any dvd burners in 2000? 2000 was the first time i watched a dvd, at my rich auntie's place

>>106232952
>was there even any dvd burners in 2000? 2000 was the first time i watched a dvd, at my rich auntie's place

Not sure if they existed in 2000. Around 2001 they still cost $1000, and it was by 2002 that they got under $700 but blank media still cost $15.

The first burner we got in 2004 was around the same price as a midrange GPU or a decent monitor.

>>106201711 (OP)
>don't identify with that type of consumption goy, identify with THIS kind of consumption instead!
shan't

>>106232492
That's cool but arent sdcards highly volatile?

>>106226117
Could be mistaken on the time line here, but Sega Master System came out first and had a slot for similar card based games. It also had a standard cartridge slot.

>>106226117
>>106235101
I missed the context of the post. I don't think Master System did anything to expand functionality with those cards. Maaaybe there was something related to the 3d glasses? I think they were pretty much just games on the cards. Sorry about that.

>>106235261
afaik master system cards were just games, they were for budget titles/smaller games

>>106201711 (OP)
Already have physical media, all old movies, TV shows and anime. Nothing new i want