I bought a blu ray on the cheap, but all i have is a dvd player and my ps3 just broke. So I have to install a dvd disk drive on my shitty gay computer to watch it. Apparently , due to the prevalence of "streaming media" and "the cloud"(2 shitty marketing buzzwords) optical disk drives are going to become instinct. Isn't it funny ? In ten years from now, the only access to media most will have will be completely digital. The powers that be can take down or alter anything they don't like. They'll say "Well anything you have on your dvd/vhs you can just access online" Yeah fucking right
You're kidding right ? Think of all the things that will be lost on dvd and vhs after players are no longer available.
Yeah, no. Hard copies. I've worked in a number of industries where techno-gurus loose their shit when the power goes off. After the event, they become much more concerned about low-tech back-up plans. Power outages these days (especially ones that last a week) really scare the shit out of people and teach them just how boned they'd be without electricity. Even worse, and EMP would render almost everything not running on tubes or not caged completely useless. Technology and sophistication has its advantages, but it's all designed for a world with ideal conditions. We're making the assumption that things will always be as they are now. I for one think our technological progress is masking the growing barbarism in our societies, at least in the West. In time we might just be mental apes wiping our asses with iPhones.
They'd be riots in the streets if the internet goes down in an area and everyone had switched to digital a decade before.
Based on the OP, I blame capitalism as the root of the conspiracy. This technology shift would happen regardless, but the evil is resulting from the materialism and greed. The topic of the thread leads to a different kind of conversation, which is what got me excited at first before I read the OP. To that thread I created in my mind: obviously! It is just the digital "bread and circuses."
It's rather dismissive to think that this is just the march of progress. Even if it is just VHS and DVD becoming outdated, it's ridiculous to NOT(loledit) think that, at least in part, this is being done to prevent piracy, or to just control info in general. Hell, lookit a lot of the games that come out nowadays. Like when Diablo III launched and everyone was butthurt over not being able to play because the servers were down, which was ridiculous to people who just wanted the single player experience. It's my understanding that the new Sim City experienced similar problems. In a future where all of our tech becomes inoperable, the digital record keeping of the interwebs becomes a useless thing, and any form of media not tied to the broken apparatus of the web will therefore become all the more valuable.
I'll use wikipedia as an example. Because it is online, it can be changed to suit the tastes of the people writing it. Case in point, wikipedia has been pretty much taken over by rabid gay/feminist activists who considered expecting men to act like men wrong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genderism. But if I were to buy an encyclopedia in print, they can't do shit. If there was info in there the govt didn't want people to know about,they would have to track down everyone who had a copy of the book.
In your case, your preference for physical copies is really just poorly based on this: I prefer digital distribution, mostly because I would be charged money for having to replace a physical copy, rather than just owning access to the unlimited download. The best part is that many digital distribution services have an offline mode(steam and vudu, just to name two), just in case the internet goes out. You don't have to stream in many cases.
There's just something satisfying about owning a hard copy. https://encyclopediadramatica.es/Steam#Online_requirement
your the reason op is a faggot button exists. also no, "the powers that be" do not give a shit about your life.that's nothing new. i'm sorry the world is not hugs and pony's. I know that's hard to hear but try to solder on.
The problem is that you assume that physical copies in of themselves are immortal. If not taken care of properly, CDs and DVDs can become damaged and unusable, and DVD players and the like do not last forever and are at the whim of manufacturers being willing to supply new means of playing that media. Digital media, excluding ones that use overtly strict DRM policies, can actual be more reliable than physical media, as you are able to backup the files on a flash drive and such.
you shouldn't believe everything that ED says, you can play all your games without an internet connection as a matter of fact steam has an offline mode and when Steam went offline on new years eve because LFD2 was for free and the servers got saturated you could actually download all the games you have purchased.
This. I'm the kind of person that's careful about not scratching or smudging discs so digital distribution, possibilities of draconian DRM aside, is something I want to see become more prevalent in the entertainment industry.
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