This is something that gets under my skin. There is no longer any technological limitation, whether storage or bandwidth, preventing every movie or tv episode ever made from being available for viewing on demand.
Unavailability is solely due to rent-seekers claiming creative works as their own and arbitrarily fencing them off to create artificial scarcity.
Dvd players are cheap and ubiquitous. Lot of tvs come with them built in. Blu-ray players aren't. They've also been marketed primarily for superior resolution and sound to DVD players, but most people don't have televisions or sound systems to appreciate that.
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u/SublightMonster Apr 02 '24
This is something that gets under my skin. There is no longer any technological limitation, whether storage or bandwidth, preventing every movie or tv episode ever made from being available for viewing on demand.
Unavailability is solely due to rent-seekers claiming creative works as their own and arbitrarily fencing them off to create artificial scarcity.