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Discussion (2 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews

ricardobeat•about 2 hours ago
Tangential to this, I've always felt like this was a bit whacky, but I've caved in and started renting and buying DVDs recently. Paying nearly 100 dollars a month for streaming services and unable to watch a popular comedy movie from the 90s my daughter wanted to see. Got the DVD for €1.

Will keep buying physical game copies, thank you - thought not even that is entirely safe, see Driveclub.

dangus•20 minutes ago
I know it’s not really full ownership in the same way but I’d also remind folks that digital movie purchases still exist and are often a very good value. My library is full of movies that cost me $5 or less. One example is Lawrence of Arabia in a beautiful 4K transfer. I’d recommend Apple for this as their streaming quality is top notch: they are cinephiles over there.

Also, you really don’t need a blu ray player investment to just buy blu rays, rip them with a USB blu ray reader, toss them on self-hosted jellyfin. It’s really better than the blu-ray player experience especially since you can rip 4K blu-rays without having to invest in the rather limited selection of expensive players.

My third suggestion is to just skip all this and sail the seas.

xvxvx•about 4 hours ago
Earlier this year 2 Xbox games I own started forcing an Xbox live subscription to work. WWZ used to let me play offline alongside bots, but no more. And COD:MWII went behind the same paywall. I refuse to pay the ransom and my 2 Xboxes have been unplugged and gathering dust for months while I migrated to Steam.
h4kunamata•23 minutes ago
I really hoped Microsoft was gonna fix COD, they just destroyed it all.

I have an XSX, GamePass has been cancelled for years, X360 physical media has never been so fun.

XSX will only play single player game with physical media, everything else moved to Steam even tho I never liked much playing on PC.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend"