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Has streaming made physical movies/music obsolete and will it happen to games?

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bigonanime:
Given streams don't last as long as physical media, the quality is generally worse (Ex: Netflix vs. BD for the anime Expelled From Paradise), and the selection leaves much to be desired, no. Physical media has more value overall as you have more control, meanwhile a stream can go poof, many times without warning, or many things simply never get streamed. A large number of the anime in my DVD/BD collection can't be found on legal streaming sites, additionally many shows that are streaming have the TV version rather than the home video release with the animation corrections/no censors. I use streams to check out content, I buy the physical media for the stuff I care enough about, that's where any rewatches will come from.

tripredacus:
They are not obsolete because they are still used.

rayne315:
No streaming has not made anything obsolete. music, movies, or games. you forget that those streaming sites only have access to certain things and not 100% of everything that has ever released. on top of that they also only have access to what they have for limited time frames. music movies and games all can be added or removed from streaming at will making it impossible for you as a consumer to watch, play, or listen to your perfered form of media.

but you know what media can never be removed from your ability to consume it? physical releases of it. once you buy it, it is yours to do with as you please (aside from selling or giving away copies you have made).

kamikazekeeg:
"Obsolete"? Probably not.  There will always probably be some sort of physical media for those that really want it to some degree.  It will of course mostly go away, there's no reason it wouldn't, but the thing holding it back now is infrastructure as the USA has pretty shitty infrastructure that is WAY behind a lot of other countries right now because of terrible ISP's.  They've been fighting tooth and nail to keep people from having affordable and better internet because it's more profitable for them as it is right now.

oldgamerz:
Streaming is good for some quick entertainment that you currently do not own or cannot afford, and it's often cheaper on the user then owning the physical media itself, not to mention that most people likely have limited space. However I think music too ("date of post") is rapidly now getting harder and harder to obtain in physical form, since Walmart now only has a limited selection online for both music and games. Movies however are dying too, with both music and videos often replaced with YouTube videos.

However I am currently a paid sponsor for a 3rd party streaming website that helps artists sell amazon MP3 files. However I am not an admin of that streaming site or an amazon seller, but only a paying sponsor for a 3rd party middle man site.

 leaving me no access to exactly who clicks on the amazon buy links or how much of the music I play on my own stream actually sells. As many of you might know I have been streaming every single day 24/7 with my own server for about 2 1/2 years now. and I've picked up quite a VPN following going by an advanced data calculation app.

all I know  (in music streaming alone" that beside Sirius and Napster, Pandora (etc) there is ICECAST and apps free 3rd party apps like VLC and Clementine that connect to 1000's of other free FM AM and Internet Radio Stations world wide including mine if you want 1000's of free radio stations for your phone or PC or Laptop follow this thread o  the VLC forum I created for everyone seeking 1000's of free music playlists for free including mine in a bulk download

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=161630

I am against live video game streaming I think that everyone derves their own privacy in gaming music and movies, something I don't think the internet has to offer period

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