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Comment on I’m Tired of Pretending Physical Media Isn’t Still Better Than Streaming Digital

the biggest flaw with streaming is the inconsistency of connection, and the very inopportune moments that the suspension of disbelief in storytelling can be marked by glitches on any platform.

Are we going to pretend disc’s can’t get scratched? I’ve had to deal with a lot more broken disc’s then glitchs with Netflix, which are essentially non-existant these days.

The biggest flaw with physical media is you have to pay 30$ for a 2 hour movie. The amount of money my parents spent buying and renting movies when I was a kid is mind boggling. A TV series was like 80$.

Streaming is insanely convenient compared to physical. It sucks we don’t have extras but jfc, physical is not better. Not to mention the pollution it brings about.

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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Yes, it is better. In the process of enshitification, lossy compression got used more and more aggressively to save bandwith and storage cost.

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zoostation@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
People remember back to scratches on DVDs, but protection from scratches is built into the bluray spec. It’s not a problem anymore.

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- Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  That’s great to hear but streaming problems have like wise been solved.
  
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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Not to mention the pollution

Have you done a study of physical media vs all the infrastructure and maintenance required for streaming?

I feel like we really don’t know which is worse/better.

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- Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  From what I understand, it’s about equivalent but only because people are able to watch a lot more.
  
  The average family before streaming would maybe buy a movie once a month. Now we can binge watch a different series every few days. If we compare 2 hours of streaming to one movie, streaming wins, but we watch much more media then we used to which makes up for the difference.
  
  Also imporrant to note that this is going down as the grid slowly drifts towards renewable. The environmental cost of Blu-ray won’t be going down in the next decade.
  
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