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Idk, I think physical media always only appealed, and still only appeals to a few people. I used to use Redbox when I visited my parents since they had no stre
by hombre_fatal 2y ago
Idk, I think physical media always only appealed, and still only appeals to a few people.
I used to use Redbox when I visited my parents since they had no streaming services. But now they do. And I'm sure that having to pick a physical movie from whatever wasn't already consumed by someone else, and then having to remember to return it, isn't an experience that's making many people think "man physical media is truly valuable" compared to scrolling hundreds of shows at home.
It seems just like an HN pipedream. In reality there are more shows than I will ever care to watch.
- mingus88 2y agoMy daughter loves a show that was put out on Disney+. It had superb production value, wonderfully casted and was based on a series of books that we read together over the course of a few years. It disappeared from the service. They never released it on Blu-ray. It’s gone forever. That’s a part of her childhood which we can never revisit. It’s tragic, really.
- jauntywundrkind 2y agoPart of what was so good about Red Box was it's already at the places you go anyways. It felt logical to me that my supermarket had a small self contained but sizable-catalog of media. I'm all in on this connected age, but it still seems not great that we centralized and consolidate this world ever upwards into massive virtual services. Having local options is something I want my world to have.