HBO is the broadcast channel while HBO Max is the streaming service. HBO Max includes HBO current broadcast content, HBO broadcast archive content, WB movies and TV shows, and HBO Max Originals which are exclusive to the streaming service.
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With the inevitable downfall of HBO Max being (probably) 24 hours away, have you begun to consider starting a physical media collection?
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HBO is the broadcast channel while HBO Max is the streaming service. HBO Max includes HBO current broadcast content, HBO broadcast archive content, WB movies and TV shows, and HBO Max Originals which are exclusive to the streaming service.
That is acceptable risk for me, as it haven't happened yet (or I just haven't noticed missing any titles) and I've been buying movies and series over 10 years from digital stores.
e. just verified, Fairy Tale season 101 from 2010 or so is still available in my library regardless that it's not available for purchase, see: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/season-101/8d6kgx0mk6kn
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I have to admit, I never understood people that collected movies.
All my favorite movies back in the day, I watched when they came on TV.
For new films cinema or rental sometimes.
Now I don't watch anything anymore. Lol. Cinema is to much of a hassle.
And having 3 subscriptions is just to overwhelming. Lol.
All my favorite movies back in the day, I watched when they came on TV.
For new films cinema or rental sometimes.
Now I don't watch anything anymore. Lol. Cinema is to much of a hassle.
And having 3 subscriptions is just to overwhelming. Lol.
I love buying Physical Games. When it comes to film, it has to be a very VERY special title to me to consider buying it physical.
I just don't have the space to support two big collections and I play far more than I watch.
I just don't have the space to support two big collections and I play far more than I watch.
Physical movies for me are a way to watch and hear it in almost archival quality. Very high bitrate video and lossless audio. If you have everything to take advantage of that home theater wise, it changes some movies for you. That's my favorite part of them. Digital is great for convenience but I just really like the art and act of the experience of the disc still.
Games are the same digital and physical, you aren't getting a different product if you choose one or the other on those. That's the big difference for me. It's definitely a case of you don't know what you're missing until you have all of the pieces together.
It makes a lot of sense to buy physical when you have a dedicated home theater set up, which I do and I assume the majority of 4K UHD physical owners do also.
Kind of, but it feels like up through the 360/PS3/Wii gen, the number of releases was limited enough that people noticed when something went missing or was about to be delisted, and sounded the alarm to at least make people aware. Now we get dozens upon dozens of new digital games on these marketplaces week in week out, it's simply impossible to keep up with what's going up, which will make it exponentially harder to make people care or even notice when they go down.