Finally: Babylon 5 REMASTERED and Available for Streaming

[Umbran]

Or the DVD/Blu-Ray disks. Or, as is far more common these days, the digital files that you can actually own in perpetuity, and store on media that becomes ever more dense in storage capacity, virtually by the day.

Yeah. And hard drives never, and mean neverever crash and take your data with them. Or get stolen.

 

[Zardnaar]

There's also the fact that you own that game book and can come back to it 20 years later, if you like, whereas that streaming content is something that can be withdrawn at any moment. is it something that you want effectively in perpetuity, or is it just a thing of the fleeting moment? (Someone who was left with a sour taste in his mouth after the online 4e content that was supposed to be available "forever" was removed.)

True but you rarely get the option if using those books. Fun owning them.

I have a junk room and it's full of old D&D books, CDs, old Sega, Nintendo, Sony games etc.

Need to hire a skip.....

Mostly skipped blue ray still have a few dvds they mostly hang out with the CDs. They're having a party.

You have to go find the DVDs then you're missing a disk or it's hiding in another cover or the PS2....

 

[delericho]

In the UK we're still in the lucky position that there are only a handful of services needed to get "everything". Though I suspect that that is liable to change over the next couple of years as more and more providers want a slice of the streaming pie.

My inclination, if and when that happens, is to adopt a rotation - subscribe to one or two services for a couple of months, binge as many shows as possible, and then repeat with the next service(s). (Of course, I fully expect the services to start taking steps to stop that, too, but that's far enough away for me not to worry about it. )

 

[Zardnaar]

In the UK we're still in the lucky position that there are only a handful of services needed to get "everything". Though I suspect that that is liable to change over the next couple of years as more and more providers want a slice of the streaming pie.

My inclination, if and when that happens, is to adopt a rotation - subscribe to one or two services for a couple of months, binge as many shows as possible, and then repeat with the next service(s). (Of course, I fully expect the services to start taking steps to stop that, too, but that's far enough away for me not to worry about it. )

They've started doing that via weekly releases.

 

[delericho]

They've started doing that via weekly releases.

Sure, but I can counter that by just waiting a while. To be honest, for most shows I prefer to do that anyway - bank them up and then binge.

One of these days they may choose to build a timer into the account - once you've watched episode 1 you need to wait a week before you can watch episode 2. That will be annoying.

 

[Ryujin]

Yeah. And hard drives never, and mean neverever crash and take your data with them. Or get stolen.

RAID, multiple drives, Cloud backup

I have about hundred GB of video, mostly from Kickstarters

 

[Zardnaar]

Sure, but I can counter that by just waiting a while. To be honest, for most shows I prefer to do that anyway - bank them up and then binge.

One of these days they may choose to build a timer into the account - once you've watched episode 1 you need to wait a week before you can watch episode 2. That will be annoying.

Yeah it's kinda hard to avoid spoilers though. I suspect we'll end up with consolidated steaming as the smaller players get gobbled up.

 

[Umbran]

RAID, multiple drives, Cloud backup

Yeah, that's the technological base we should assume people have at home to assess what is reasonable in media consumption :/

 

[Ryujin]

Yeah, that's the technological base we should assume people have at home to assess what is reasonable in media consumption :/

Any or all. If you're consuming media by file, you've got at least 2 of them.

 

[payn]

I never noticed in previous viewings of B5 how many of the guest stars also did episodes of Star Trek.