imperialscum said:
moviefreakedmind said:
imperialscum said:
moviefreakedmind said:
I for one will never purchase any film unless I get a physical copy.
I hate to be Ric again but even if you download the digital content on your hard disk, you get a physical copy. The information is stored physically on your disk.
If I buy the movie Speed 2: Cruise Control on Itunes, I do not get a physical copy; I get a digital file of the film that I store on a hard drive that I already own. If I buy it on blu ray, then I get a physical copy of the film... not that I would ever spend money on Speed 2: Cruise Control.
Or at least that's how it works in my brain
But that is not how it works outside of you brain. Blu-ray or hard disk, both are physical devices that hold digital data.
Yeah, but you don't go to the store and buy a hard disk that already has a movie on it. That's what people mean when they talk about physical media vs digital downloads. Are you buying a specially made piece of physical media which has a piece of entertainment on it and is now read-only - or are you buying a storage device which can hold anything, and then also buying a file which you store on that device (along with, I might point out, many other files)?
Those are not the same.