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I'm guessing you may be a bit older than the average demographic here, from a time when owning movies was expensive and thus the content was implied as being ve
by brk 4y ago
I'm guessing you may be a bit older than the average demographic here, from a time when owning movies was expensive and thus the content was implied as being very exclusive and valuable. In others, I have seen this lead to the digital hoarding tendencies, wanting to keep all that content on hand.
Though I am from the same era, I don't generally find many movies or TV series that I really want to watch more than once. I have no desire to keep a large library of movies, they have almost zero value after the first watch (music is an entirely different thing though).
As others have pointed out, your costs are more due to the long term retention of the content, not the initial acquisition.
Personally, I prefer the path of least resistance, but the content has to be of decent quality and value. Thus, I am not interested in 5+ ~20/mo subscriptions to get access to the maybe 10 things I watch per month.
- pmoriarty 4y ago"I don't generally find many movies or TV series that I really want to watch more than once. I have no desire to keep a large library of movies, they have almost zero value after the first watch" I used to almost never rewatch movies, but I have kept track of what my favorite movies were, and when I've made friends with someone who was interested in seeing some of the movies that I liked then I'd find myself rewatching these movies with them (especially if it's been a really long time since I saw these movies and forgotten most of the details). Also, some of my favorite movies are kind of obscure, so there's no guarantee they'd be available through streaming. Because of that it does make sense for me to archive films. Even when the movies I like are available, why pay twice (or more) to watch them again?
- pc86 4y agoI just watched Margin Call for probably the 5th or 6th time over the weekend. I love the movie, it's not particularly great in an objective sense, but Zach Quinto and Simon Baker in particular do great jobs in their roles. And some of the scenes are fantastic even in isolation.[0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elyfo1DIlzs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elyfo1DIlzs (6m 23s)
- brk 4y agoSure, there are some movies we like to re-watch, but my point is that they all fit in a relatively small amount of space, a portable SSD for example. My costs to keep them available are almost nil. Much different than storing a local copy of all content we've ever viewed just because we technically can. Also, a lot of content is online for long periods of time, if you downloaded it once, you can probably download it again. Free online storage basically ;)