Also, Jobs article was called "Thoughts on Music" -- he was talking about DRM on music, not movies. He's said before that he thinks movies are a different beast, and I would actually agree with him. I want to own my music, but I'd prefer to rent my movies. Music is a different experience, and if an album is good, I want to listen to it over and over for many years to come. A movie, however, I will generally only watch once.
Particularly exceptional movies I will want to revisit as the years pass, but since technology advances so fast, it seems like a better idea to just rent the movie again later than to buy it now and see the format outdated in 5 or 10 years.
I don't think I own more than 30 DVDs, and about five of those came free with my first-gen DVD player. I just don't understand why you'd want to spend so much money for an item you're typically not going to use more than two or three times.
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Also, Jobs article was called "Thoughts on Music" -- he was talking about DRM on music, not movies. He's said before that he thinks movies are a different beast, and I would actually agree with him. I want to own my music, but I'd prefer to rent my movies. Music is a different experience, and if an album is good, I want to listen to it over and over for many years to come. A movie, however, I will generally only watch once.
Particularly exceptional movies I will want to revisit as the years pass, but since technology advances so fast, it seems like a better idea to just rent the movie again later than to buy it now and see the format outdated in 5 or 10 years.
I don't think I own more than 30 DVDs, and about five of those came free with my first-gen DVD player. I just don't understand why you'd want to spend so much money for an item you're typically not going to use more than two or three times.