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Commentary, behind-the-scenes features, bloopers: What did we lose when we said goodbye to DVDs? (english.elpais.com)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

I really miss video rental stores.

walking in to the smell of fresh popcorn, getting an enormous bag of it for like 99 cents, walking up and down the aisles browsing the latest releases for something that non-algorythmically catches your eye to watch over the weekend.

Maybe even swinging through the game aisle to pick up the new game that just came out.

It was an experience that is lost and will never be replicated by streaming/rental boxes/etc/etc.

Worse, the loss of physical ownership. You do not own anything you buy on a streaming service. Sony as proven that on more than one occasion. You are also stuck to the whims of your internet connection.

But physical media? You can play that anywhere, any when, any how. WIth no worry for stable internet connections and other bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, it's definitely a vibe. I took a wormhole (time travel) to 1991, walked into a blockbuster and keeled over from nostalgia.

Nostalgia is such a complex/convoluted feeling -- you can't have it if you didn't have a past to draw the experience from, but when you do have it, it's almost like a religious or philosophical experience both acknowledging and becrying (or grieving) the passage of time.

Unfortunately, even with a "time machine", we the people who walk through the portals are ever changed. We won't ever live in the past again. We can see those places and experience them in our present states, but...

Just like a glass shattering on the ground and the pieces scattering: Entropy cannot be undone.

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