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> No, it's a Netflix subscription, so when they drop your kids' favourite shows you have fun explaining corporate politics as the reason they can't watch Bob th
by dekz 13y ago
> No, it's a Netflix subscription, so when they drop your kids' favourite shows you have fun explaining corporate politics as the reason they can't watch Bob the Builder any more.
Mate, the 'future' you're suggesting here and the related straw man argument is one of your choosing. Netflix or some known current company isn't a future to a medium. I'll assume you're suggesting online streaming as a service as opposed to other potential digital medium schemes. Physical disks provide no advantages in this scenario either, what happens when (not if) this favourite disk becomes scratched and unreadable?
> Very little of my Steam library is available with Linux versions.
Very few of mine don't have Linux versions. This might not be the norm for most people of course, because it's linux that is gaining in the field of gaming platforms over windows. Sure, I can't play the same amount of AAA games as if I ran windows. With the Half-Life engine now running on Linux and many indie games having ports, I don't _need_ to run windows to game.
I'd love to throw in some data, but alas many a site related to numbers are classified as 'games' and blocked on this connection.
- yaeger 13y ago>what happens when (not if) this favourite disk becomes scratched and unreadable? Wow, really? I have you know I still own DVDs from 1997! and they work just fine so you might want to dial down the "when not if" argument. On the flipside, I do have some trouble finding streaming sites that offer their services for that long. Not to mention the fact that these services have recurring payments to use. So excuse me if I and many many others opt to buy our media to own and to be in control of it rather than trusting some company with offering it for god know how little time. And here is the real kicker: If you own a disk, you have ways to digitize it yourself if you can't be arsed to put a disk in the drive. So it seems to me that I have the better end of the deal compared to someone who just streams everything. Not to mention the fact that not everybody has internet connections that lend itself to stream blu ray quality.
- eirikm 13y ago>Wow, really? I have you know I still own DVDs from 1997! and they work just fine I have you know I still own a horse-drawn cart, and the wheels work just fine! It really is more of a "Where we are going, we wont need wheels" situation. Sure there are some edge cases for physical media today, but they will slowly fade.
- rodgerd 13y ago> Mate, the 'future' you're suggesting here and the related straw man argument is one of your choosing. It's a thing that actually happened. I'm sorry facts don't accord with the world in your head, but there you are. > Very few of mine don't have Linux versions. This might not be the norm for most people of course, because it's linux that is gaining in the field of gaming platforms over windows. "You shouldn't want to do that" is rarely a compelling argument to customers.
- dekz 13y ago> It's a thing that actually happened. Just like HD-DVD is the future? Netflix cannot obviously in the point in time be a future for most citizens on the internet. You may be screaming in an echo chamber if you're located in the US. Netflix certainly isn't a solution elsewhere.