Thankfully, you still can use an antenna to get over the air stations.
Comment on The death of ownership: Companies are taking away your ability to actually own the stuff you buy
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You used to buy an antenna TV and a VCR/DVD player. You either got it free with ads, or paid for a movie you could keep forever.
jecht360@lemmy.world 7 months ago
newDayRocks@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And most people decided that, rather than spend a lot of money to own a collection of movies in tech that will eventually be obsolete, they’d rather pay a subscription for a bigger library that meets most of their needs.
tburkhol@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Back in the day, you weren’t allowed to plug a private phone into AT&T’s network. You had to rent phones from Ma Bell, for something like $10/month, back when $10 would fill a gas tank.
Between that and Columbia Music Club, so when Netflix was still sending DVDs in the mail, I decided I’d rather buy one movie a month than rent 4. Ripping them wasn’t so easy in those days, but there was already library organizers. Now, it’s like 20 years later and I’ve got something like 250 movies I can watch any time. Mostly good ones, now spread over four different streamers, if they’re even out there. Plenty to keep me entertained.
It’s a corollary of Pratchett/Vimes “boots theory.” More expensive to buy stuff, and the first few years you go without a lot, but in the long run, you get enough for less.
llii@feddit.de 7 months ago
I do the same. Over the years I’ve accumulated a few hundred movies, that fit in half a book shelf. I have stuff to watch for years and if I’ve got less money in the future I can still watch my movies.