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Hollywood Keeps Reminding Us Why We Need Physical Media More Than Ever (www.ign.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

To be frank, any mention of "physical media" almost exclusively means DVDs/blu-rays/etc. But people really should talk more about hard drives as physical storage. It's essentially the same concept as those mediums anyhow. The only physical difference is storage size and the practical differences (no ads, locked content, quality limits, etc) are huge.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Except it doesn't though