Re: "Highly profitable" Bay Street Video store n Toronto thrives
By: Nightfox to Arelor on Tue Jul 12 2022 12:29 pm
> Re: "Highly profitable" Bay Street Video store n Toronto thrives
> By: Arelor to Nightfox on Tue Jul 12 2022 12:54 pm
>
> >> I'm not sure I'd call optical formats unnecessary.. You can't always
> >> rely on your internet always working 100%, s being available to watch
> >> there. Those are a few of the reasons I still like to buy movies on
> >> physical formats
>
> Ar> The idea that everybody has fibre and therefore DVDs are not needed is
> Ar> very first worlder.
>
> Ar> It takes me hours to download a Linux or BSD iso image from home.
> Ar> Meanwhile, picking a DVD I got from Linux Magazine takes virtually no
> Ar> time.
>
> You're preaching to the chior. I agree.
> What sucks is, the majority of people not buying optical media as much as
> they used to means that optical media isn't produced nearly as much as it
> used to be. There have been a couple movies released on 4K blu-ray that
> seem to be available in other countries but not where I live (I've purchased
> a couple from Amazon that were shipped from the UK).
> Also, some stores in my area have completely removed their DVD and blu-ray
> movie shelves.
> Although I do have high-speed internet, I don't want to rely on streaming
> services all the time to watch movies.
>
I don't mind buying digital if I get to keep the file. I've bought music off Ba
ndcap. When you buy an album off bandcamp, you get to just download a FLAC or MP
3 or OGG, which you can then burn to CD if need be, or simply play off whatever
computer/player you can put the file on.
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