In an era where many films and albums are stored in the cloud, "streaming anxiety" is making people buy more DVDs, records – and even cassette tapes.

Oppenheimer and the resurgence of Blu-ray and DVDs: How to stop your films and music from disappearing::In an era where many films and albums are stored in the cloud, “streaming anxiety” is making people buy more DVDs, records – and even cassette tapes.

  • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It would be pretty neat if streaming providers were mandated to provide a universal format that set top boxes could communicate with, in order to show content. Something like RSS, but for media.

    • Streaming services would be available on compatible boxes, even if they weren’t included by default
    • Gatekeeping wouldn’t happen as easily in either direction
    • Third parties could compete with the big guns