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Simon Dillon's avatar

Three points to make on this:

1) I told you so.

2) I told you so.

3) I told you so.

As far as home viewing goes, physical media is the true faith. Streaming is the Antichrist.

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Dave Baxter's avatar

I remeber the early days of Netflix streaming, where studios just dumped their whole back-catalogue of films we hadn't seen since 90's network broadcasts of them. Films that never had DVD releases, or were long OOP. It's how it all began. But then, of course, it worked, and networks took back their catalogues, made their own streamin services, and have proceeded to...not release most of what they own, once again. There's been a lot of talk about physcial media vs. digital, and somehow we're pretending that all these movies were readily avaialble on physical media back in the day, year in and year out, rather than most films disappearing, never to return, a few years later. Rental stores would have some, but it was a crap shoot. And at least you can still buy a LOVERBOY DVD on Amazon for $5-$10 or so. The digital equivalent of that being buying a VPN and seedbox service and torrenting that shit. There's even a 1080p digital rip available that way.

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