Your thoughts on buying vs streaming?

[tfocosta]

Digital has its own advantages: it's cheaper, quicker to get/available instantly and portable (in smaller devices).

But if you are an avid collector or a fan of a certain band, movie director, TV show, videogame, etc., you gotta get the real thing. And this is where the physical enters the game. And the quality is usually better too (e.g.: vinyl vs MP3/streaming).

 

[m3inard]

streaming is much more fun because you can search whatever you like.

 

[Deleted User]

Streaming can vanish at any moment while buying remains there for you.

 

[Little_Anonymous_Hacker]

Streaming can vanish at any moment

Unless there's a special downloader available that removes the DRM from the service you use.

 

[Deleted User]

music: services like spotify rarely have what i like, closest has been youtube, but i have to bare shit quality, might start a cd collection of my favorites though
movies and shows: services like netflix rarely have what i like, i often pirate due to never having seen a steam equivalent for movies, i might start a dvd collection of my favorites though
games: i already have a fairly big steam catalog, if i try streaming (my internet is kinda shit, contract says itrs 120/60 mb/s, more like 60/10 and often less) its not gonna be my only source of games, there are some games i havent even touched

 

[Deleted User]

Unless there's a special downloader available that removes the DRM from the service you use.

That's jumping through hoops to get to it.

 

[Deleted member 506316]

Unless there's a special downloader available that removes the DRM from the service you use.

Looks illegal to me

 

[Deleted User]

Looks illegal to me

its available on the ms store, i dont think they's allow such a thing, ms has been very anti piracy

 

[Deleted User]

Flixgrab is kind of shit (in terms of quality), but those who know the better way of ripping won't say how either.

 

[Little_Anonymous_Hacker]

Looks illegal to me

You have to sign in with your streaming accounts in order for it to work. Legally, it's not all that different from ripping a DVD you bought.

honestly, streaming services already have kind of a shit quality, unless its an exclusive i'd go for BRripping

I mainly use it for downloading HD content that never got released on BluRay.

 

[Deleted User]

Flixgrab is kind of shit (in terms of quality), but those who know the better way of ripping won't say how either.

honestly, streaming services already have kind of a shit quality, unless its an exclusive i'd go for BRripping

 

[Deleted User]

honestly, streaming services already have kind of a shit quality, unless its an exclusive i'd go for BRripping

Yes, but you can get the best quality out of AMZN and NF with the right tools.

Of course, if available then it's better to rip the DVD, BD or 4K UHD BD although the quality may vary (better or worse — there's been a few instances AMZN had better quality than the Blu-rays).

 

[MohammedQ8]

Buy new games.
Stream all old gens games.

I think sony and Nintendo should only stream their -all old games.

Like if you didn’t buy the game today digital or physical you can stream it later when that console dies (after 8 years ago which maybe will get better internet speed)

 

[Deleted User]

Buy new games.
Stream all old gens games.

I think sony and Nintendo should only stream their -all old games.

Like if you didn’t buy the game today digital or physical you can stream it later when that console dies (after 8 years ago which maybe will get better internet speed)

maybe sony, but, with nintendo stuff, the amount of bandwith streaming nes or snes games takes is more than just downloading the rom+emulator, hell, maybe even n64 and ps1, if you play something like an rpg, you spend more on data that you would have downloading the game+emulator

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Yes, but you can get the best quality out of AMZN and NF with the right tools.

Of course, if available then it's better to rip the DVD, BD or 4K UHD BD although the quality may vary (better or worse — there's been a few instances AMZN had better quality than the Blu-rays).

oh, totally agree here

 

[vincentx77]

I used to be adamant about buying all my music on CD. In a perfect world I would always choose lossless over lossy, even for casual listening. The issue is, I just recently got a new iPhone, and with it a trial of Apple Music (which has lapsed and now I'm paying for it). The whole 'mastered for iTunes' thing sounds like a gimmick, but in truth, it's basically a mix of the recordings before dynamic range compression is applied. For newer music especially, the Apple Music tracks sound better than CDs. For stuff that was made before the 'loudness wars' the CDs are going to edge out the AAC tracks. Tidal has something similar, though Tidal's lossless tracks won't sound as good as Apple's unless they're the 'MQA' tracks, I just wish record companies would stop that bullshit. It really does hurt the quality of music.

 

[Deleted User]

I used to be adamant about buying all my music on CD. In a perfect world I would always choose lossless over lossy, even for casual listening. The issue is, I just recently got a new iPhone, and with it a trial of Apple Music (which has lapsed and now I'm paying for it). The whole 'mastered for iTunes' thing sounds like a gimmick, but in truth, it's basically a mix of the recordings before dynamic range compression is applied. For newer music especially, the Apple Music tracks sound better than CDs. For stuff that was made before the 'loudness wars' the CDs are going to edge out the AAC tracks. Tidal has something similar, though Tidal's lossless tracks won't sound as good as Apple's unless they're the 'MQA' tracks, I just wish record companies would stop that bullshit. It really does hurt the quality of music.

we need something like Steam but for music, Steam already offers videogame soundtracks and is probably the only digital music i've ever bought, weird no one ever did something like it though

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

Stream music, it’s just overall more convenient for me, but I do have a collection of flac and mp3 files for my favorite songs

 

[luigirockz]

Mostly do all to streaming for music and movies. Streaming helps find things I wouldn't have otherwise since I would have not purchased