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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darkshadows38" data-source="post: 338870" data-attributes="member: 19">in the 80's i dunno if anyone remembers this when VHS was really starting to became a thing even though it came out in the 70's i forget which studio it was that refused to for ages to let their movies go to VHS and the reason? he believed you had to pay each time you watched a film he saw no future  in it at all and that's how we got many of the low budget movies in really any Genre that made a shit ton of money back than. streaming is pretty much the same thinking, what made me laugh my ass off though many were no doubt pissed was Sony a month or two ago maybe longer? at some point this year lost the rights to a ton of their movies on the P4/PS5.  so anyone who bought any of the films/tv shows etc.. were screwed yet if i want to watch say Dallas or my Dark Shadows i have the entire series on Dark Shadows on dvd i can go to my shelf and put it in.  yeah i do watch movies on you tube sometimes that i want to see if i don't own them but watching movies and if i fall in love with them makes me want to buy them and i do. i will never stop buying physical medium, i still buy cd's sometimes, books, video games as well. i buy movies on 4K, bluray sometimes and dvd.  the dvd is mainly for my tv shows, or i get them on bluray. i dunno there are people who still buy them, i do not want physical media to ever go away, but who knows maybe it won't, they've been making LP's for years long before i was even born and they really never stopped you had to go to certain places or order them but i never would have thought those would have come back in style. so who knows maybe cd's or really any physical medium might, sure i download some books to read on my tablet but i still buy plenty of books in fact i bought some just this past wed.  yes i'm optimistic i do not want streaming to take over we should always have a choice,  in the past couple years they were putting new movies on streaming over the big stream cuz of covid well i'm not even sure if they are still doing it but  if they have i think it's not as much cause they maybe realized i dunno that if they are gonna spend however much money on films the big money isn't just in streaming but in the theaters.  so who knows i dunno?</blockquote>

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