• VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Ha no I’m not an iPhone user but regardless a phone is useful as it allows me to live more efficiently - not traveling to have every important conversation saves resources on its own and there’s thousands of other practical uses – wasting resources needlessly just to be a hipster is totally different.

    I just find it funny that lemmy on one hand clmaours to cheer on terrorism in the name of the climate and all that stuff but simultaneous gets super mad any time anyone suggests the slightest lifestyle change for the sake of the environment - even if it’s objectively better.

    DVD is a digital format so if you want to watch it in that lowered quality then you can download it in that codec and get literally exactly the same experience - but no, you need an entire wastful industry making short lived plastic disks just to make you feel superior to everyone using the objectively better technology.

    Let the DVD factories close, stop making chemical coated plastic needlessly and grow up.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      No, DVDs/Blurays are the only way the average consumer can get perpetual access to content. If companies stop making DVDs/Blurays, they’re not going to suddenly offer DRM-free downloads, they’ll just force people to use their streaming service.

      If you pirate, you’re not helping to solve the problem for the average person. Buy physical media to show companies that permanent access to content is still wanted.

      Also, even if you’re okay with streaming services, the only way to reliably get 4k content is to buy 4k Blurays. Streaming services frequently downgrade you to 1080p or worse, and you’ll need consistent internet for it to work reliably.

      The economic impact of DVDs/Blurays is minimal and IMO well worth the value it provides to consumers.

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      4 months ago

      You know there are still a lot of people in North America alone that don’t have good enough internet to stream movies, right?

      Are they just supposed to sit and stare at the wall? Railing about DVD trash in a landfill seems… pointless, compared to all the other ways we’re poisoning the planet. Weird battle to fight and especially cast stones at someone else for.