Physical Media Is Cheaper Than Streaming

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  @valiantparagonvideos2383 · 2 years ago · pinned

  The point at the end is really the big thing. Intentionality. People lose so much money because they aren&apos;t aware of their money. It&apos;s on a subscription that&apos;s tied to a credit card that you just make a payment on at the end of every month. This is gaming and not movie related, but I subscribe to Xbox Game Pass in one month intervals only when there&apos;s a game coming out I want to play on it. &nbsp;So I played Starfield for 10 dollars instead of 70. If I had kept that subscription, it wouldn&apos;t work out in my favor, but I don&apos;t, so it does.<br><br>That&apos;s the real trick. Paying attention to what you&apos;re doing and being intentional in what you&apos;re doing.

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  @Erik_604 · 2 years ago

  Another benefit of physical media is that some films on streaming services are edited or censored, and not the full version that was originally released.

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  @Jessevancoller · 2 years ago

  I would also argue that you get your time back by using physical media. You’re not just watching things for the sake of filling your time because you’re bored. You’re more interested in what you’re watching and intentional about when you are watching it.

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  @robderiche · 2 years ago

  3 more reasons to get physical:<br>1) extra features<br>2) content can’t be retroactively re-edited (/as was recently done with The French Connection)<br>3) with TV show, you get all the episodes, unlike streaming that suppresses “controversial” content such as Community DnD episodes

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  @TheDeceptiveHero · 2 years ago

  If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing. You cannot steal what you cannot own.

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  @StarvinMartian-l6t · 2 years ago

  Supernatural on streaming didn&apos;t have music rights to AC/DC and switched it with generic stock rock music. Physical media is the way to see the pure intended original

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  @lolgod1695 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m most annoyed by tools that are subscription services (especially Adobe products)

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  @logan317b · 2 years ago

  &quot;Unlimited movies&quot; meanwhile more and more movies are being taken down and moved to an ever-increasing amount of streaming services

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  @nickydee569 · 2 years ago

  Its def the buffet fallacy. People are sold on the idea they&apos;re renting millions of albums but really they only listen to like a few dozen throughout the year. Whatever they paid for that they could&apos;ve bought the CDs for

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  @brandimate · 2 years ago

  Def by design. The corporations purposely phased out the physical media/DVD era, to convince consumers to subscribe monthly to streaming. With almost everything being a subscription service is so dystopian.

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  @spencerblaiklock · 2 years ago

  Remembering that libraries exist has been a huge game changer for me. Mine has almost the entire Criterion Collection and an interesting selection of CDs, like compilations and soundtracks that aren’t on streaming services. I have a branch on my way home from work and I’m overflowing with interesting things to watch, listen to, and read.

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  @themancoat · 2 years ago

  A coworker and I have been talking about this and recently decided to collect physical media and use ebay a lot. Blu rays are so cheap.

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