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I think you underestimate how many frugal families still own large VHS movie collections, and use their VHS players to watch them
In 2024, that's actually a giga chad move that hurts the corpos feels.
These people is like the seed reason why they are working OT to kill physical media. Now they are coming for consoles...
If you support the slop, buy a physical copy otherwise arrr
If they don't sell it, that's a service issue and rather disrespectful to media enjoyers IMHO
Frugal families sold their tapes, sold their VCRs, and sought their fortunes on the high seas.
ehh while high seas are viable, some people just prefer that physical in similar way a smoker does not just like the smoking but also holding and play around the cigarette
Then burn your media onto DVD or Blu-Ray or M-Disc
This would work for me but not for the collector types IMHO
They want the physical release!
The Netflix-by-mail thing came in real handy for this
i have the tapes, lots of tapes. all recorded off of tv. vcr quit working years ago, though. but i do have another at the office. used like three times in the last 15 years to digitize old home movies for someone.