Subj : game consoles
To   : Accession
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Dec 17 2025 12:37:02

  Re: game consoles
  By: Accession to Nightfox on Tue Dec 16 2025 07:26 pm

 >> I still buy physical media..  I've never bought anything on a streaming
 >> service, as I don't trust them.  They remove content fairly frequently, and
 >> I've even heard of cases where someone purchased a movie on a streaming
 >> service and the movie was removed later.

 Ac> Most of the time when you "purchase" a movie from a streaming service,
 Ac> you're not actually purchasing the movie forever, you're renting it (just
 Ac> like you would from Blockbuster, back in the day). That's why it's usually
 Ac> only around $5 or so, and you're told before you make said purchase that
 Ac> you are able to "access" or "view" the movie for a certain timeframe..
 Ac> 24-48 hours, maybe.

I've seen streaming services allow you to rent a movie for about that price and give you a time frame to watch it..  But in my experience, when I've seen streaming services allow customers to purchase movies, the price is more than that (often close to a physical media disc), and supposedly the movie should be available to the customer to stream any time.  I've also seen a lot of movies on physical media come with a code to redeem a digital version on a streaming platform, which allows them to stream the movie any time.

 Ac> The fact that said movie may have been removed at a later time, had
 Ac> absolutely nothing to do with someone's movie rental.

I was thinking of purchases, not rentals.

Nightfox

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