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Not worthy of HN? How? He wants to watch old movies, now. (Not in the future.) He used to be able to but now he can't. Tech "innovation" took that away from him
by tomc1985 11y ago
Not worthy of HN? How? He wants to watch old movies, now. (Not in the future.) He used to be able to but now he can't. Tech "innovation" took that away from him. That is an opinion worthy of HN.
On another note: personally, many don't want to deal with Netflix+Amazon+Hulu+whoever. This attitude that one should have faith in the streaming market is an affront and slap-in-the-face to collectors, people with shitty internet, critics, teachers, historians, archivists, remixers, and anyone else with an interest in private use or working with the bits.
Sure, additional services can be provisioned to fill in those gaps... but those gaps never existed when data sharing was about files and not streaming services. This business model of the cloud looks more and more like windshield-repairmen walking around parking lots with baseball bats at 3 A.M.
- jim-greer 11y ago> He used to be able to but now he can't. Netflix will still send you DVDs in the mail. They just don't promote them much. If you're a digital subscriber the disc add-on starts at $5/month. You can also download Jupiter Ascending from iTunes for $15 (though you can't rent it). It does suck that there's no DRM-free way to buy a movie online. But, again, no worse than the DVD-only era.
- wiradikusuma 11y agoOnly in certain countries.
- jim-greer 11y agoYeah. The ones where he could ever have gotten a disc from Netflix.
- tomc1985 11y agoHe also mentions being unable to access the DVD queue due to a variety of very modern-society tech mishaps.
- jim-greer 11y agoI think it was just one mishap? That the mobile Netflix site doesn't expose the DVD queue. But the desktop site works fine on mobile. (edit - Yes, two. The app doesn't deal with DVDs either)
- tomc1985 11y agoI counted two, perhaps 'variety' is being facetious. Still, it should be zero.